Getting Ready
Technology & What to Expect
Red Flannel Workshops are delivered live online via Zoom, with interactive activities running through the entire session. Here’s what you’ll need — and what a session actually feels like.
What You’ll Need
Getting the Most Out of Your Experience
- A reliable internet connection. You’ll be on a live video call for two hours (with short breaks), participating in discussion and interactive activities in real time. If your connection regularly drops or buffers during video calls, it’s worth sorting that out before your session.
- A device — one or two, your choice. Either one desktop or laptop with a camera, microphone, and keyboard, so everything runs in one place — or two devices: one for Zoom (laptop, desktop, or tablet), and a second (your phone) for our interactive activities, joined by scanning a QR code at the start of the session.
- Your camera, on. For the full two hours (except during breaks). This isn’t a webinar — it’s a live, interactive workshop, and your classmates are a big part of what makes it work. None of that works if the room is full of black rectangles.
- A quiet space where you can concentrate. Two hours of live, interactive learning deserves your full attention — and so do your classmates. The kitchen table while the rest of the household is busy around you is not ideal.
- A willingness to participate. You may be put in a breakout group. You may be called on. You will definitely be expected to show up ready to engage. That’s what makes this fun rather than just another thing you sat through.
The Format
Not a Lecture
Red Flannel Workshops are not lectures. You will not spend two hours watching someone talk at you while you take notes and wonder if it’s over yet. That’s not what this is.
It moves. A session runs for two hours with two breaks, and the time is structured so there’s always something happening. Content blocks, interactive activities, discussion — the pace is brisk but not frantic. You’ll have room to think, but not room to zone out.
It’s interactive. We use Kahoot for real-time activities that make the learning stick without making you feel put on the spot. You’ll be in breakout groups working with classmates. You may be called on if the energy in the room needs a nudge. None of this is designed to embarrass anyone — it’s designed to keep things alive.
Your classmates are part of the experience. This is a small cohort — twelve people maximum — which means you’ll actually get to know the people in the room with you. The peer connection is intentional and it’s one of the things that makes this format work. Cameras on, voices heard, people present.
It ends with something fun. Every session closes with an open-ended segment that goes wherever the group takes it. Think of it as the part where the real conversations happen.
You’ll leave with something useful. Not just notes. Actual skills you can try out before the next session — and we’ll want to hear how it went.
Ready to skill up?