The Comeback of Our [Virtual] Community Whiteboard!

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:11:15 -0400

TL;DR: The Women's Center is bringing back our whiteboard Question of the Week... but online!

If, in the past year, you were one of the lucky people who were able to hang out and call the Women's Center lounge your home, then you might remember one of our signature mainstays: the community whiteboard.

A humble hand-me-down from the Retriever Learning Center that stood on one leg and was supported by a milk crate on the other end, our community whiteboard was not only a place for us to take notes or doodle when we were bored. It was also one of the ways we built community. Every week, a new question or set of choose your own adventure scenarios or a ranking challenge or a "this or that" would be on the whiteboard. Women's Center community members would stop by to tell us whether or not they were a Coke or a Pepsi person, a Libra, or what sort of super power they would want to have. Every week, we were able to learn something new and fun about our community, and we had a way to easily begin conversations... so what's stopping us from bringing it back (other than a pandemic)?

Nothing! During this next semester, we are test driving a new virtual community whiteboard! It might not have the same charm as the lounge whiteboard, but we can still make this a space to build community and connect.

So, for our first question of the week...

What do you want to see and/or what questions do you want answered on our virtual community whiteboard?