Good Morning fellow NCDD members, Open Space List members, Art of Hosting list members, and F4C-Response list members.
This is an invitation for my American friends and colleagues.? I'm sharing it on these international lists, because there are probably efforts in other countries that are far ahead of us, and I hope that we can learn from each other.
INVITATION
In the next few weeks American leaders?are going to made?decisions that either increase risk for health or for our economy.? Much of the national "conversation" will be on TV with the American public as passive bystanders; they will be left without a voice on what happens to our health and to our economy.
I believe that we -- yes the people on these email lists -- have an unprecedented opportunity to actually help the public change the conversation.? As facilitators, we do not have scientific expertise (and neither does the average resident or citizen) but WE do have expertise in how to include scientific experts in our processes.
What is possible now?? What can we do together that rises to this tremendous challenge facing literally all of us right now?
I don't know what's possible, but I believe we can co-create something truly inspiring.? We don't need to use one method or tool; instead we need coordinate and align all of our diverse efforts to have greater impact.
To start some initial conversations among all of us,?.??
All are welcome! Let's see what we can do!
Lucas Cioffi
Founder,?
Scarsdale, NY
917-528-1831
Re: ¡®Zoombombing¡¯: When Video Conferences Go Wrong - The New York Times
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 8:06 AM Amy Lenzo <amy@...> wrote:
Just saying, some of these ¡°recommended¡± privacy settings seriously disrupt the opportunity to be together online and really connect with each other (see below).?
?
What can I do to protect my privacy during sessions?
You may choose to keep your video camera turned off
Consider using a pseudonym for your virtual user id
Use a nondescript photo for your profile picture
On Mar 24, 2020, at 1:23 PM, Pouezevara, Sarah <spouez@...> wrote:
Yes, happened yesterday on the first day of an academic conference that went live at the 11th?hour.? It was not pretty¡ Here is the guidance they sent out just afterwards. As background, the conference organizers basically asked participants and participating organizations (Universities and NGOs) to sign up to host sessions with their institutional accounts that would allow unlimited participants for unlimited blocks of time. A living spreadsheet was placed on the conference website in lieu of the traditional conference schedule with times and links to the session.? Zoom was not required¡ªsome people used bluejeans or other platforms. But this happened to someone using bluejeans.
?
--?
?
Sarah Pouezevara?|?Sr. Education Analyst & ?eLearning Specialist
International Education Division?|?Technology for Education and Training Team?
RTI International
?
?
?
Dear? Community,? ? It has come to our attention that internet trolls have disrupted one of our?Zoom sessions. With everyone¡¯s safety and security in mind, we are sharing these guidelines with you and ask that you carefully monitor your sessions.? ? What do I need to do immediately? ? If you are a chair who generated any session links, please follow these steps:
?so people can¡¯t cause trouble before you arrive.
?for the presenters or others to help moderate.
?so there¡¯s no digital virus sharing.
?so booted attendees can¡¯t enter back in.
?in your Zoom settings to prevent people from writing all over the screens.
If someone from the conference team generated a link for you, these steps have already been taken. Someone from the team will join your meeting to hand over hosting duties to you at the start. ? The host does not need to grant screen share access for another participant to share their screen. However, hosts can disable this option in their settings or the Admin controls of a call. You can either change this in your pre-meeting ¡°Settings¡± or in the in-call admin settings for ¡°Share Screen¡±?¡ú?¡°Advanced Sharing Settings.¡±? ? What can I do to protect my privacy during sessions?
You may choose to keep your video camera turned off
Mute your microphone
Consider using a pseudonym for your virtual user id
Use a nondescript photo for your profile picture
The??contains helpful guidelines and additional information. For more information about preventing Zoom ¡°party crashers,¡±? please read.? ? Thank you for your collaboration as we learn together in this virtual conference experiment.? ?
EXTERNAL:? This email originated from outside of the organization.? Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
?
Yeesh! Has anyone experienced this??
?
Peggy
?
¡®Zoombombing¡¯: When Video Conferences Go Wrong
By
Updated March 22, 2020
As its user base rapidly expands, the videoconference app Zoom is seeing a rise in trolling and graphic content.
Photo illustration by Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Zoom??for millions of people looking to connect with friends, family, students and colleagues while practicing??during the?.
But the trolls of the internet are under quarantine, too, and they¡¯re looking for Zooms to disrupt.
They are jumping into public Zoom calls and using the platform¡¯s screen-sharing feature to project graphic content to unwitting conference participants, forcing hosts to shut down their events.
On Tuesday, Chipotle was forced to end a public Zoom chat that the brand had co-hosted with the musician Lauv after one participant began broadcasting pornography to hundreds of attendees.
¡°The Zoom meeting app felt like an appropriate place to host Chipotle Together, our new virtual hangout series,¡± Tressie Lieberman, the vice president of digital at Chipotle, wrote in an email. ¡°We did encounter an unwanted ¡®Zoombomb¡¯ during one of our sessions so we moved our latest performances to a different platform.¡±
?
?
Earlier this week,??that the venture capitalist Hunter Walk and the journalist Casey Newton were forced to shut down their ¡°work from home happy hour¡± twice this week after getting ¡°Zoombombed,¡± as these disruptive screen-shares are called.
¡°Clearly Zoom is being used in ways it was never intended to be, so people are finding ways to make mischief,¡± said Mr. Newton, who reports on technology for The Verge.
On Friday, the journalists Kara Swisher (a contributing writer for the Opinion section of The New York Times) and Jessica Lessin hosted a Zoom event focused on the challenges women tech founders face. They were forced to abruptly end the event after just 15 minutes of conversation because a participant began broadcasting the shock video ¡°2 Girls 1 Cup.¡±
¡°Our video call was just attacked by someone who kept sharing pornography + switching between different user accounts so we could not block them,¡± Ms. Lessin?, adding that she and Ms. Swisher would reschedule an audio-only version of the event.
On Zoom, there is a default setting that allows any meeting participant to share their screen without permission from an event¡¯s host. Anyone who has a link to a public meeting can join. Links to public Zooms are traded in Facebook Groups and Discord chats, and are easily discoverable on Twitter and public event pages.
¡°We have been deeply upset to hear about the incidents involving this type of attack. For those hosting large, public group meetings, we strongly encourage hosts to change their settings so that only they can share their screen. For those hosting private meetings, password protections are on by default and we recommend that users keep those protections on to prevent uninvited users from joining,¡± said a spokesperson for Zoom Video Communications in a statement.
The post included tips for users seeking to ¡°keep the party crashers¡± out of their videoconferences, including limiting screen-sharing to certain participants and making events invitation-only.
Zoom has seen a sharp rise in use over the past few weeks. On Sunday nearly 600,000 people downloaded the app, its biggest day ever, according to Apptopia, which tracks mobile apps. The company is currently valued at $29 billion.
But the platform was built as an enterprise technology tool, not a consumer social tool. As such, the company was not prepared to moderate user behavior as other social networks do.
¡°With much broader adoption, abuse and misuse will follow, so Zoom should be getting ready to handle reports and complaints,¡± Jules Polonetsky, the chief executive of the Future of Privacy Forum,??The Times.
Jennifer St Sume, a Ph.D. student in Washington, D.C., said a book club she attended on Thursday night only lasted 30 minutes before someone began blasting graphic content on the screen.
¡°It makes us all feel pretty helpless in an already unstable time,¡± she said. ¡°It¡¯s hard to manage how to communicate with other people knowing something like this could happen.¡±
Zoom has become integral to Ms. St Sume¡¯s school and social life, and she doesn¡¯t think she¡¯ll stop attending classes or happy hours there. But ¡°as we move our physical lives to a digital world,¡± she said, she hopes the company can crack down on Zoombombers fast.
¡°If I¡¯m going to be asked to live in Zoom University or Zoom Tavern, then I want to know that it¡¯s secure for everyone,¡± she said.
Taylor Lorenz is a New York-based technology reporter covering internet culture. Before joining The Times she was a technology and culture writer at The Atlantic and The Daily Beast.???
Just saying, some of these ¡°recommended¡± privacy settings seriously disrupt the opportunity to be together online and really connect with each other (see below).?
What can I do to protect my privacy during sessions?
You may choose to keep your video camera turned off
Consider using a pseudonym for your virtual user id
Use a nondescript photo for your profile picture
On Mar 24, 2020, at 1:23 PM, Pouezevara, Sarah <spouez@...> wrote:
Yes, happened yesterday on the first day of an academic conference that went live at the 11th?hour. ?It was not pretty¡ Here is the guidance they sent out just afterwards. As background, the conference organizers basically asked participants and participating organizations (Universities and NGOs) to sign up to host sessions with their institutional accounts that would allow unlimited participants for unlimited blocks of time. A living spreadsheet was placed on the conference website in lieu of the traditional conference schedule with times and links to the session. ?Zoom was not required¡ªsome people used bluejeans or other platforms. But this happened to someone using bluejeans.
?
--?
?
Sarah Pouezevara?|?Sr. Education Analyst & ?eLearning Specialist
International Education Division?|?Technology for Education and Training Team?
RTI International
?
?
?
Dear? Community,? ? It has come to our attention that internet trolls have disrupted one of our?Zoom sessions. With everyone¡¯s safety and security in mind, we are sharing these guidelines with you and ask that you carefully monitor your sessions.? ? What do I need to do immediately? ? If you are a chair who generated any session links, please follow these steps:
?so people can¡¯t cause trouble before you arrive.
?for the presenters or others to help moderate.
?so there¡¯s no digital virus sharing.
?so booted attendees can¡¯t enter back in.
?in your Zoom settings to prevent people from writing all over the screens.
If someone from the conference team generated a link for you, these steps have already been taken. Someone from the team will join your meeting to hand over hosting duties to you at the start. ? The host does not need to grant screen share access for another participant to share their screen. However, hosts can disable this option in their settings or the Admin controls of a call. You can either change this in your pre-meeting ¡°Settings¡± or in the in-call admin settings for ¡°Share Screen¡±?¡ú?¡°Advanced Sharing Settings.¡±? ? What can I do to protect my privacy during sessions?
You may choose to keep your video camera turned off
Mute your microphone
Consider using a pseudonym for your virtual user id
Use a nondescript photo for your profile picture
The??contains helpful guidelines and additional information. For more information about preventing Zoom ¡°party crashers,¡±? please read.? ? Thank you for your collaboration as we learn together in this virtual conference experiment.? ?
EXTERNAL:? This email originated from outside of the organization.? Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
?
Yeesh! Has anyone experienced this??
?
Peggy
?
¡®Zoombombing¡¯: When Video Conferences Go Wrong
By
Updated March 22, 2020
As its user base rapidly expands, the videoconference app Zoom is seeing a rise in trolling and graphic content.
Photo illustration by Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Zoom??for millions of people looking to connect with friends, family, students and colleagues while practicing??during the?.
But the trolls of the internet are under quarantine, too, and they¡¯re looking for Zooms to disrupt.
They are jumping into public Zoom calls and using the platform¡¯s screen-sharing feature to project graphic content to unwitting conference participants, forcing hosts to shut down their events.
On Tuesday, Chipotle was forced to end a public Zoom chat that the brand had co-hosted with the musician Lauv after one participant began broadcasting pornography to hundreds of attendees.
¡°The Zoom meeting app felt like an appropriate place to host Chipotle Together, our new virtual hangout series,¡± Tressie Lieberman, the vice president of digital at Chipotle, wrote in an email. ¡°We did encounter an unwanted ¡®Zoombomb¡¯ during one of our sessions so we moved our latest performances to a different platform.¡±
?
?
Earlier this week,??that the venture capitalist Hunter Walk and the journalist Casey Newton were forced to shut down their ¡°work from home happy hour¡± twice this week after getting ¡°Zoombombed,¡± as these disruptive screen-shares are called.
¡°Clearly Zoom is being used in ways it was never intended to be, so people are finding ways to make mischief,¡± said Mr. Newton, who reports on technology for The Verge.
On Friday, the journalists Kara Swisher (a contributing writer for the Opinion section of The New York Times) and Jessica Lessin hosted a Zoom event focused on the challenges women tech founders face. They were forced to abruptly end the event after just 15 minutes of conversation because a participant began broadcasting the shock video ¡°2 Girls 1 Cup.¡±
¡°Our video call was just attacked by someone who kept sharing pornography + switching between different user accounts so we could not block them,¡± Ms. Lessin?, adding that she and Ms. Swisher would reschedule an audio-only version of the event.
On Zoom, there is a default setting that allows any meeting participant to share their screen without permission from an event¡¯s host. Anyone who has a link to a public meeting can join. Links to public Zooms are traded in Facebook Groups and Discord chats, and are easily discoverable on Twitter and public event pages.
¡°We have been deeply upset to hear about the incidents involving this type of attack. For those hosting large, public group meetings, we strongly encourage hosts to change their settings so that only they can share their screen. For those hosting private meetings, password protections are on by default and we recommend that users keep those protections on to prevent uninvited users from joining,¡± said a spokesperson for Zoom Video Communications in a statement.
The post included tips for users seeking to ¡°keep the party crashers¡± out of their videoconferences, including limiting screen-sharing to certain participants and making events invitation-only.
Zoom has seen a sharp rise in use over the past few weeks. On Sunday nearly 600,000 people downloaded the app, its biggest day ever, according to Apptopia, which tracks mobile apps. The company is currently valued at $29 billion.
But the platform was built as an enterprise technology tool, not a consumer social tool. As such, the company was not prepared to moderate user behavior as other social networks do.
¡°With much broader adoption, abuse and misuse will follow, so Zoom should be getting ready to handle reports and complaints,¡± Jules Polonetsky, the chief executive of the Future of Privacy Forum,??The Times.
Jennifer St Sume, a Ph.D. student in Washington, D.C., said a book club she attended on Thursday night only lasted 30 minutes before someone began blasting graphic content on the screen.
¡°It makes us all feel pretty helpless in an already unstable time,¡± she said. ¡°It¡¯s hard to manage how to communicate with other people knowing something like this could happen.¡±
Zoom has become integral to Ms. St Sume¡¯s school and social life, and she doesn¡¯t think she¡¯ll stop attending classes or happy hours there. But ¡°as we move our physical lives to a digital world,¡± she said, she hopes the company can crack down on Zoombombers fast.
¡°If I¡¯m going to be asked to live in Zoom University or Zoom Tavern, then I want to know that it¡¯s secure for everyone,¡± she said.
Taylor Lorenz is a New York-based technology reporter covering internet culture. Before joining The Times she was a technology and culture writer at The Atlantic and The Daily Beast.???
Subscribe for $1 a week.
Thanks for reading The Times.
?
________________________________
Peggy Holman Co-founder Journalism That Matters 15347 SE 49th Place Bellevue, WA ?98006 206-948-0432
Although not everyone is on WhatsApp, this is a great tool to send information to the public and ask them to share. You can or may send your information to the local radio and strike a deal with them not to charge but take it as public awareness creation.
Re: ¡®Zoombombing¡¯: When Video Conferences Go Wrong - The New York Times
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:02 PM Peggy Holman <peggy@...> wrote:
Yeesh! Has anyone experienced this?
Peggy
¡®Zoombombing¡¯: When Video Conferences Go Wrong
By
Updated March 22, 2020
As its user base rapidly expands, the videoconference app Zoom is seeing a rise in trolling and graphic content.
Photo illustration by Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Zoom for millions of people looking to connect with friends, family, students and colleagues while practicing during the .
But the trolls of the internet are under quarantine, too, and they¡¯re looking for Zooms to disrupt.
They are jumping into public Zoom calls and using the platform¡¯s screen-sharing feature to project graphic content to unwitting conference participants, forcing hosts to shut down their events.
On Tuesday, Chipotle was forced to end a public Zoom chat that the brand had co-hosted with the musician Lauv after one participant began broadcasting pornography to hundreds of attendees.
¡°The Zoom meeting app felt like an appropriate place to host Chipotle Together, our new virtual hangout series,¡± Tressie Lieberman, the vice president of digital at Chipotle, wrote in an email. ¡°We did encounter an unwanted ¡®Zoombomb¡¯ during one of our sessions so we moved our latest performances to a different platform.¡±
Earlier this week, that the venture capitalist Hunter Walk and the journalist Casey Newton were forced to shut down their ¡°work from home happy hour¡± twice this week after getting ¡°Zoombombed,¡± as these disruptive screen-shares are called.
¡°Clearly Zoom is being used in ways it was never intended to be, so people are finding ways to make mischief,¡± said Mr. Newton, who reports on technology for The Verge.
On Friday, the journalists Kara Swisher (a contributing writer for the Opinion section of The New York Times) and Jessica Lessin hosted a Zoom event focused on the challenges women tech founders face. They were forced to abruptly end the event after just 15 minutes of conversation because a participant began broadcasting the shock video ¡°2 Girls 1 Cup.¡±
¡°Our video call was just attacked by someone who kept sharing pornography + switching between different user accounts so we could not block them,¡± Ms. Lessin , adding that she and Ms. Swisher would reschedule an audio-only version of the event.
On Zoom, there is a default setting that allows any meeting participant to share their screen without permission from an event¡¯s host. Anyone who has a link to a public meeting can join. Links to public Zooms are traded in Facebook Groups and Discord chats, and are easily discoverable on Twitter and public event pages.
¡°We have been deeply upset to hear about the incidents involving this type of attack. For those hosting large, public group meetings, we strongly encourage hosts to change their settings so that only they can share their screen. For those hosting private meetings, password protections are on by default and we recommend that users keep those protections on to prevent uninvited users from joining,¡± said a spokesperson for Zoom Video Communications in a statement.
The post included tips for users seeking to ¡°keep the party crashers¡± out of their videoconferences, including limiting screen-sharing to certain participants and making events invitation-only.
Zoom has seen a sharp rise in use over the past few weeks. On Sunday nearly 600,000 people downloaded the app, its biggest day ever, according to Apptopia, which tracks mobile apps. The company is currently valued at $29 billion.
But the platform was built as an enterprise technology tool, not a consumer social tool. As such, the company was not prepared to moderate user behavior as other social networks do.
¡°With much broader adoption, abuse and misuse will follow, so Zoom should be getting ready to handle reports and complaints,¡± Jules Polonetsky, the chief executive of the Future of Privacy Forum, The Times.
Jennifer St Sume, a Ph.D. student in Washington, D.C., said a book club she attended on Thursday night only lasted 30 minutes before someone began blasting graphic content on the screen.
¡°It makes us all feel pretty helpless in an already unstable time,¡± she said. ¡°It¡¯s hard to manage how to communicate with other people knowing something like this could happen.¡±
Zoom has become integral to Ms. St Sume¡¯s school and social life, and she doesn¡¯t think she¡¯ll stop attending classes or happy hours there. But ¡°as we move our physical lives to a digital world,¡± she said, she hopes the company can crack down on Zoombombers fast.
¡°If I¡¯m going to be asked to live in Zoom University or Zoom Tavern, then I want to know that it¡¯s secure for everyone,¡± she said.
Taylor Lorenz is a New York-based technology reporter covering internet culture. Before joining The Times she was a technology and culture writer at The Atlantic and The Daily Beast.??
Subscribe for $1 a week.
Thanks for reading The Times.
________________________________
Peggy Holman Co-founder Journalism That Matters 15347 SE 49th Place Bellevue, WA ?98006 206-948-0432
Hello everyone, I'm looking for any tips folks might have for engaging in robust, accessible public involvement remotely. For example, how could one conduct a virtual open house about a potential development project in a rural area? What if there's not reliable internet? Or very low-tech participants (e.g., farmers considering whether to use their lands for solar development). What about ongoing back-and-forth post-open house?
Appreciate any tips! Sarah
Re: ¡®Zoombombing¡¯: When Video Conferences Go Wrong - The New York Times
Yes, happened yesterday on the first day of an academic conference that went live at the 11th hour. ?It was not pretty¡ Here is the guidance they sent out just afterwards. As background, the conference organizers basically asked
participants and participating organizations (Universities and NGOs) to sign up to host sessions with their institutional accounts that would allow unlimited participants for unlimited blocks of time. A living spreadsheet was placed on the conference website
in lieu of the traditional conference schedule with times and links to the session. ?Zoom was not required¡ªsome people used bluejeans or other platforms. But this happened to someone using bluejeans.
?
--?
?
Sarah Pouezevara |
Sr. Education Analyst & ?eLearning Specialist
International Education Division |
Technology for Education and Training Team?
RTI International
?
?
?
Dear? Community,?
?
It has come to our attention that internet trolls have disrupted one of our?Zoom sessions. With everyone¡¯s safety and security in mind, we are sharing these guidelines with you and ask that you carefully monitor your sessions.?
? What do I need to do immediately?
?
If you are a chair who generated any session links, please follow these steps:
?so people can¡¯t cause trouble before you arrive.
?for the presenters or
others to help moderate.
?so there¡¯s no digital
virus sharing.
?so booted attendees can¡¯t enter back in.
?in your Zoom settings
to prevent people from writing all over the screens.
If someone from the conference team generated a link for you, these steps have already been taken. Someone from the team will
join your meeting to hand over hosting duties to you at the start.
?
The host does not need to grant screen share access for another participant to share their screen. However, hosts can disable this option in their settings or the Admin controls of a call. You can either change this in your pre-meeting ¡°Settings¡± or in the
in-call admin settings for ¡°Share Screen¡± ¡ú ¡°Advanced Sharing Settings.¡±?
? What can I do to protect my privacy during sessions?
You may choose to keep your video camera turned off
Mute your microphone
Consider using a pseudonym for your virtual user id
Use a nondescript photo for your profile picture
The??contains helpful guidelines and additional information. For more information about preventing Zoom ¡°party crashers,¡±? please read.?
?
Thank you for your collaboration as we learn together in this virtual conference experiment.?
?
EXTERNAL:? This email originated from outside of the organization.? Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content
is safe.
?
Yeesh! Has anyone experienced this?
?
Peggy
?
¡®Zoombombing¡¯: When Video Conferences Go Wrong
By
Updated March 22, 2020
As its user base rapidly expands, the videoconference app Zoom is seeing a rise in trolling and graphic content.
Photo illustration by Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Zoom for millions of people looking to connect with friends, family, students and colleagues while practicing
during the .
But the trolls of the internet are under quarantine, too, and they¡¯re looking for Zooms to disrupt.
They are jumping into public Zoom calls and using the platform¡¯s screen-sharing feature to project graphic content to unwitting conference participants, forcing hosts to shut down their events.
On Tuesday, Chipotle was forced to end a public Zoom chat that the brand had co-hosted with the musician Lauv after one participant began broadcasting pornography to hundreds of attendees.
¡°The Zoom meeting app felt like an appropriate place to host Chipotle Together, our new virtual hangout series,¡± Tressie Lieberman, the vice president of digital at Chipotle, wrote in an
email. ¡°We did encounter an unwanted ¡®Zoombomb¡¯ during one of our sessions so we moved our latest performances to a different platform.¡±
?
?
Earlier this week,
that the venture capitalist Hunter Walk and the journalist Casey Newton were forced to shut down their ¡°work from home happy
hour¡± twice this week after getting ¡°Zoombombed,¡± as these disruptive screen-shares are called.
¡°Clearly Zoom is being used in ways it was never intended to be, so people are finding ways to make mischief,¡± said Mr. Newton, who reports on technology for The Verge.
On Friday, the journalists Kara Swisher (a contributing writer for the Opinion section of The New York Times) and Jessica Lessin hosted a Zoom event focused on the challenges women tech founders
face. They were forced to abruptly end the event after just 15 minutes of conversation because a participant began broadcasting the shock video ¡°2 Girls 1 Cup.¡±
¡°Our video call was just attacked by someone who kept sharing pornography + switching between different user accounts so we could not block them,¡± Ms. Lessin
, adding that she and Ms. Swisher would reschedule an audio-only version of the event.
On Zoom, there is a default setting that allows any meeting participant to share their screen without permission from an event¡¯s host. Anyone who has a link to a public meeting can join.
Links to public Zooms are traded in Facebook Groups and Discord chats, and are easily discoverable on Twitter and public event pages.
¡°We have been deeply upset to hear about the incidents involving this type of attack. For those hosting large, public group meetings, we strongly encourage hosts to change their settings
so that only they can share their screen. For those hosting private meetings, password protections are on by default and we recommend that users keep those protections on to prevent uninvited users from joining,¡± said a spokesperson for Zoom Video Communications
in a statement.
The post included tips for users seeking to ¡°keep the party crashers¡± out of their videoconferences, including limiting screen-sharing to certain participants and making events invitation-only.
Zoom has seen a sharp rise in use over the past few weeks. On Sunday nearly 600,000 people downloaded the app, its biggest day ever, according to Apptopia, which tracks mobile apps. The company
is currently valued at $29 billion.
But the platform was built as an enterprise technology tool, not a consumer social tool. As such, the company was not prepared to moderate user behavior as other social networks do.
¡°With much broader adoption, abuse and misuse will follow, so Zoom should be getting ready to handle reports and complaints,¡± Jules Polonetsky, the chief executive of the Future of Privacy
Forum, The Times.
Jennifer St Sume, a Ph.D. student in Washington, D.C., said a book club she attended on Thursday night only lasted 30 minutes before someone began blasting graphic content on the screen.
¡°It makes us all feel pretty helpless in an already unstable time,¡± she said. ¡°It¡¯s hard to manage how to communicate with other people knowing something like this could happen.¡±
Zoom has become integral to Ms. St Sume¡¯s school and social life, and she doesn¡¯t think she¡¯ll stop attending classes or happy hours there. But ¡°as we move our physical lives to a digital
world,¡± she said, she hopes the company can crack down on Zoombombers fast.
¡°If I¡¯m going to be asked to live in Zoom University or Zoom Tavern, then I want to know that it¡¯s secure for everyone,¡± she said.
Taylor Lorenz is a New York-based technology reporter covering internet culture. Before joining The Times she was a technology and culture writer at The Atlantic and The Daily Beast.??
Subscribe for $1 a week.
Thanks for reading The Times.
?
________________________________
Peggy Holman
Co-founder
Journalism That Matters
15347 SE 49th Place
Bellevue, WA ?98006
206-948-0432
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:16 PM Sherry Johnson <sherry@...> wrote:
This has taught me to be careful with whom I share my Personal Meeting ID. Only friends and family on that one now! Everything else will be one-off links for large public gatherings.
It's sad, because I've been wanting local officials to see Zoom as a technology for making public meetings more inclusive. Now I'm not so sure. Having to have "guest lists" and password protection can really impact participation.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 3:17 PM Mark Levison <mark@...> wrote:
Just got this invite from zoom that might well be relevant:
Become an IT Hero: Admin Best Practices
Thursday,?March 26th ? 1PM?PT | 4PM ET
?
?
IT admins have an important responsibility to facilitate communication and collaboration across your entire organization. Here at Zoom, we want to be your partner in making your deployment as seamless as possible and help make your end users happy!
In this webinar, Zoom expert Vincent Escamilla will take a deep dive into the Zoom admin portal. He will cover:
User and role management
Account settings
IM Management
Security
Can¡¯t attend? Register anyway and we will send you the recording.
Cheers
Mark
--
Sherry P. Johnson, she/her
Facilitator, Engagement Consultant, and Complexity Coach
651.776.3060
To-do every day: 1.?sustain what works ?2.?nurture good patterns ?3.?stimulate growth ?4.?intervene with integrity
Re: ¡®Zoombombing¡¯: When Video Conferences Go Wrong - The New York Times
This has taught me to be careful with whom I share my Personal Meeting ID. Only friends and family on that one now! Everything else will be one-off links for large public gatherings.
It's sad, because I've been wanting local officials to see Zoom as a technology for making public meetings more inclusive. Now I'm not so sure. Having to have "guest lists" and password protection can really impact participation.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 3:17 PM Mark Levison <mark@...> wrote:
Just got this invite from zoom that might well be relevant:
Become an IT Hero: Admin Best Practices
Thursday,?March 26th ? 1PM?PT | 4PM ET
?
?
IT admins have an important responsibility to facilitate communication and collaboration across your entire organization. Here at Zoom, we want to be your partner in making your deployment as seamless as possible and help make your end users happy!
In this webinar, Zoom expert Vincent Escamilla will take a deep dive into the Zoom admin portal. He will cover:
User and role management
Account settings
IM Management
Security
Can¡¯t attend? Register anyway and we will send you the recording.
Cheers
Mark
--
Sherry P. Johnson, she/her
Facilitator, Engagement Consultant, and Complexity Coach
651.776.3060
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The room was already full when I tried to join... and I'm wondering if you shared some content afterwards... and gathered feedbacks and best practices regarding Virtual Open Spaces !?
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Thank you for your kind invitation !?
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Re: ¡®Zoombombing¡¯: When Video Conferences Go Wrong - The New York Times
Just got this invite from zoom that might well be relevant:
Become an IT Hero: Admin Best Practices
Thursday,?March 26th ? 1PM?PT | 4PM ET
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IT admins have an important responsibility to facilitate communication and collaboration across your entire organization. Here at Zoom, we want to be your partner in making your deployment as seamless as possible and help make your end users happy!
In this webinar, Zoom expert Vincent Escamilla will take a deep dive into the Zoom admin portal. He will cover:
User and role management
Account settings
IM Management
Security
Can¡¯t attend? Register anyway and we will send you the recording.
Cheers
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Re: ¡®Zoombombing¡¯: When Video Conferences Go Wrong - The New York Times
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 4:12 PM Steve McCann <steve@...> wrote:
Not yet
I wonder in whose interests it is to publish and publicise this? ..... Qui bono?
In many years, never yet is the answer, but it pays to be careful for sure.
Steve
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 20:02, Peggy Holman <peggy@...> wrote:
Yeesh! Has anyone experienced this?
Peggy
¡®Zoombombing¡¯: When Video Conferences Go Wrong
By
Updated March 22, 2020
As its user base rapidly expands, the videoconference app Zoom is seeing a rise in trolling and graphic content.
Photo illustration by Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Zoom for millions of people looking to connect with friends, family, students and colleagues while practicing during the .
But the trolls of the internet are under quarantine, too, and they¡¯re looking for Zooms to disrupt.
They are jumping into public Zoom calls and using the platform¡¯s screen-sharing feature to project graphic content to unwitting conference participants, forcing hosts to shut down their events.
On Tuesday, Chipotle was forced to end a public Zoom chat that the brand had co-hosted with the musician Lauv after one participant began broadcasting pornography to hundreds of attendees.
¡°The Zoom meeting app felt like an appropriate place to host Chipotle Together, our new virtual hangout series,¡± Tressie Lieberman, the vice president of digital at Chipotle, wrote in an email. ¡°We did encounter an unwanted ¡®Zoombomb¡¯ during one of our sessions so we moved our latest performances to a different platform.¡±
Earlier this week, that the venture capitalist Hunter Walk and the journalist Casey Newton were forced to shut down their ¡°work from home happy hour¡± twice this week after getting ¡°Zoombombed,¡± as these disruptive screen-shares are called.
¡°Clearly Zoom is being used in ways it was never intended to be, so people are finding ways to make mischief,¡± said Mr. Newton, who reports on technology for The Verge.
On Friday, the journalists Kara Swisher (a contributing writer for the Opinion section of The New York Times) and Jessica Lessin hosted a Zoom event focused on the challenges women tech founders face. They were forced to abruptly end the event after just 15 minutes of conversation because a participant began broadcasting the shock video ¡°2 Girls 1 Cup.¡±
¡°Our video call was just attacked by someone who kept sharing pornography + switching between different user accounts so we could not block them,¡± Ms. Lessin , adding that she and Ms. Swisher would reschedule an audio-only version of the event.
On Zoom, there is a default setting that allows any meeting participant to share their screen without permission from an event¡¯s host. Anyone who has a link to a public meeting can join. Links to public Zooms are traded in Facebook Groups and Discord chats, and are easily discoverable on Twitter and public event pages.
¡°We have been deeply upset to hear about the incidents involving this type of attack. For those hosting large, public group meetings, we strongly encourage hosts to change their settings so that only they can share their screen. For those hosting private meetings, password protections are on by default and we recommend that users keep those protections on to prevent uninvited users from joining,¡± said a spokesperson for Zoom Video Communications in a statement.
The post included tips for users seeking to ¡°keep the party crashers¡± out of their videoconferences, including limiting screen-sharing to certain participants and making events invitation-only.
Zoom has seen a sharp rise in use over the past few weeks. On Sunday nearly 600,000 people downloaded the app, its biggest day ever, according to Apptopia, which tracks mobile apps. The company is currently valued at $29 billion.
But the platform was built as an enterprise technology tool, not a consumer social tool. As such, the company was not prepared to moderate user behavior as other social networks do.
¡°With much broader adoption, abuse and misuse will follow, so Zoom should be getting ready to handle reports and complaints,¡± Jules Polonetsky, the chief executive of the Future of Privacy Forum, The Times.
Jennifer St Sume, a Ph.D. student in Washington, D.C., said a book club she attended on Thursday night only lasted 30 minutes before someone began blasting graphic content on the screen.
¡°It makes us all feel pretty helpless in an already unstable time,¡± she said. ¡°It¡¯s hard to manage how to communicate with other people knowing something like this could happen.¡±
Zoom has become integral to Ms. St Sume¡¯s school and social life, and she doesn¡¯t think she¡¯ll stop attending classes or happy hours there. But ¡°as we move our physical lives to a digital world,¡± she said, she hopes the company can crack down on Zoombombers fast.
¡°If I¡¯m going to be asked to live in Zoom University or Zoom Tavern, then I want to know that it¡¯s secure for everyone,¡± she said.
Taylor Lorenz is a New York-based technology reporter covering internet culture. Before joining The Times she was a technology and culture writer at The Atlantic and The Daily Beast.??
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 20:02, Peggy Holman <peggy@...> wrote:
Yeesh! Has anyone experienced this?
Peggy
¡®Zoombombing¡¯: When Video Conferences Go Wrong
By
Updated March 22, 2020
As its user base rapidly expands, the videoconference app Zoom is seeing a rise in trolling and graphic content.
Photo illustration by Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Zoom for millions of people looking to connect with friends, family, students and colleagues while practicing during the .
But the trolls of the internet are under quarantine, too, and they¡¯re looking for Zooms to disrupt.
They are jumping into public Zoom calls and using the platform¡¯s screen-sharing feature to project graphic content to unwitting conference participants, forcing hosts to shut down their events.
On Tuesday, Chipotle was forced to end a public Zoom chat that the brand had co-hosted with the musician Lauv after one participant began broadcasting pornography to hundreds of attendees.
¡°The Zoom meeting app felt like an appropriate place to host Chipotle Together, our new virtual hangout series,¡± Tressie Lieberman, the vice president of digital at Chipotle, wrote in an email. ¡°We did encounter an unwanted ¡®Zoombomb¡¯ during one of our sessions so we moved our latest performances to a different platform.¡±
Earlier this week, that the venture capitalist Hunter Walk and the journalist Casey Newton were forced to shut down their ¡°work from home happy hour¡± twice this week after getting ¡°Zoombombed,¡± as these disruptive screen-shares are called.
¡°Clearly Zoom is being used in ways it was never intended to be, so people are finding ways to make mischief,¡± said Mr. Newton, who reports on technology for The Verge.
On Friday, the journalists Kara Swisher (a contributing writer for the Opinion section of The New York Times) and Jessica Lessin hosted a Zoom event focused on the challenges women tech founders face. They were forced to abruptly end the event after just 15 minutes of conversation because a participant began broadcasting the shock video ¡°2 Girls 1 Cup.¡±
¡°Our video call was just attacked by someone who kept sharing pornography + switching between different user accounts so we could not block them,¡± Ms. Lessin , adding that she and Ms. Swisher would reschedule an audio-only version of the event.
On Zoom, there is a default setting that allows any meeting participant to share their screen without permission from an event¡¯s host. Anyone who has a link to a public meeting can join. Links to public Zooms are traded in Facebook Groups and Discord chats, and are easily discoverable on Twitter and public event pages.
¡°We have been deeply upset to hear about the incidents involving this type of attack. For those hosting large, public group meetings, we strongly encourage hosts to change their settings so that only they can share their screen. For those hosting private meetings, password protections are on by default and we recommend that users keep those protections on to prevent uninvited users from joining,¡± said a spokesperson for Zoom Video Communications in a statement.
The post included tips for users seeking to ¡°keep the party crashers¡± out of their videoconferences, including limiting screen-sharing to certain participants and making events invitation-only.
Zoom has seen a sharp rise in use over the past few weeks. On Sunday nearly 600,000 people downloaded the app, its biggest day ever, according to Apptopia, which tracks mobile apps. The company is currently valued at $29 billion.
But the platform was built as an enterprise technology tool, not a consumer social tool. As such, the company was not prepared to moderate user behavior as other social networks do.
¡°With much broader adoption, abuse and misuse will follow, so Zoom should be getting ready to handle reports and complaints,¡± Jules Polonetsky, the chief executive of the Future of Privacy Forum, The Times.
Jennifer St Sume, a Ph.D. student in Washington, D.C., said a book club she attended on Thursday night only lasted 30 minutes before someone began blasting graphic content on the screen.
¡°It makes us all feel pretty helpless in an already unstable time,¡± she said. ¡°It¡¯s hard to manage how to communicate with other people knowing something like this could happen.¡±
Zoom has become integral to Ms. St Sume¡¯s school and social life, and she doesn¡¯t think she¡¯ll stop attending classes or happy hours there. But ¡°as we move our physical lives to a digital world,¡± she said, she hopes the company can crack down on Zoombombers fast.
¡°If I¡¯m going to be asked to live in Zoom University or Zoom Tavern, then I want to know that it¡¯s secure for everyone,¡± she said.
Taylor Lorenz is a New York-based technology reporter covering internet culture. Before joining The Times she was a technology and culture writer at The Atlantic and The Daily Beast.??
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¡®Zoombombing¡¯: When Video Conferences Go Wrong - The New York Times
As its user base rapidly expands, the videoconference app Zoom is seeing a rise in trolling and graphic content.
Photo illustration by Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Zoom for millions of people looking to connect with friends, family, students and colleagues while practicing during the .
But the trolls of the internet are under quarantine, too, and they¡¯re looking for Zooms to disrupt.
They are jumping into public Zoom calls and using the platform¡¯s screen-sharing feature to project graphic content to unwitting conference participants, forcing hosts to shut down their events.
On Tuesday, Chipotle was forced to end a public Zoom chat that the brand had co-hosted with the musician Lauv after one participant began broadcasting pornography to hundreds of attendees.
¡°The Zoom meeting app felt like an appropriate place to host Chipotle Together, our new virtual hangout series,¡± Tressie Lieberman, the vice president of digital at Chipotle, wrote in an email. ¡°We did encounter an unwanted ¡®Zoombomb¡¯ during one of our sessions so we moved our latest performances to a different platform.¡±
Earlier this week, that the venture capitalist Hunter Walk and the journalist Casey Newton were forced to shut down their ¡°work from home happy hour¡± twice this week after getting ¡°Zoombombed,¡± as these disruptive screen-shares are called.
¡°Clearly Zoom is being used in ways it was never intended to be, so people are finding ways to make mischief,¡± said Mr. Newton, who reports on technology for The Verge.
On Friday, the journalists Kara Swisher (a contributing writer for the Opinion section of The New York Times) and Jessica Lessin hosted a Zoom event focused on the challenges women tech founders face. They were forced to abruptly end the event after just 15 minutes of conversation because a participant began broadcasting the shock video ¡°2 Girls 1 Cup.¡±
¡°Our video call was just attacked by someone who kept sharing pornography + switching between different user accounts so we could not block them,¡± Ms. Lessin , adding that she and Ms. Swisher would reschedule an audio-only version of the event.
On Zoom, there is a default setting that allows any meeting participant to share their screen without permission from an event¡¯s host. Anyone who has a link to a public meeting can join. Links to public Zooms are traded in Facebook Groups and Discord chats, and are easily discoverable on Twitter and public event pages.
¡°We have been deeply upset to hear about the incidents involving this type of attack. For those hosting large, public group meetings, we strongly encourage hosts to change their settings so that only they can share their screen. For those hosting private meetings, password protections are on by default and we recommend that users keep those protections on to prevent uninvited users from joining,¡± said a spokesperson for Zoom Video Communications in a statement.
The post included tips for users seeking to ¡°keep the party crashers¡± out of their videoconferences, including limiting screen-sharing to certain participants and making events invitation-only.
Zoom has seen a sharp rise in use over the past few weeks. On Sunday nearly 600,000 people downloaded the app, its biggest day ever, according to Apptopia, which tracks mobile apps. The company is currently valued at $29 billion.
But the platform was built as an enterprise technology tool, not a consumer social tool. As such, the company was not prepared to moderate user behavior as other social networks do.
¡°With much broader adoption, abuse and misuse will follow, so Zoom should be getting ready to handle reports and complaints,¡± Jules Polonetsky, the chief executive of the Future of Privacy Forum, The Times.
Jennifer St Sume, a Ph.D. student in Washington, D.C., said a book club she attended on Thursday night only lasted 30 minutes before someone began blasting graphic content on the screen.
¡°It makes us all feel pretty helpless in an already unstable time,¡± she said. ¡°It¡¯s hard to manage how to communicate with other people knowing something like this could happen.¡±
Zoom has become integral to Ms. St Sume¡¯s school and social life, and she doesn¡¯t think she¡¯ll stop attending classes or happy hours there. But ¡°as we move our physical lives to a digital world,¡± she said, she hopes the company can crack down on Zoombombers fast.
¡°If I¡¯m going to be asked to live in Zoom University or Zoom Tavern, then I want to know that it¡¯s secure for everyone,¡± she said.
Taylor Lorenz is a New York-based technology reporter covering internet culture. Before joining The Times she was a technology and culture writer at The Atlantic and The Daily Beast.??
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Regarding Eco-cycle - I am comfortable with the tool and happy to help on that.?
As for doing it online or in Zoom - that is new so I could likely imagine my way through it with you...but others may have actual experience with that.?
Feel free to call on me if you need regarding the tool/ use / part :-)
Inspired by the useful collection of remote meeting resources kicked off, we thought it would be nice to have a crowdsourced list of remote meeting resources in German / Deutsch as well. We copied the general approach & framework. >> Macht mit << ?????
Wonderful fundamental questions, Christina. Far
bigger than the topic of moving from f2f to online. These are
systems questions. I see this time in our history as opening a
HUGE door to a future that doesn't have to look like the past.
Perhaps this is leading us to a time of rethinking such systems.
That would be quite exciting!
Thanks a lot for making time and responding in such detail. I
really appreciate it
As I can see you had lots of flexibility at college. We don't
have this here, our time and budget is a lot more constrained. I
still like the idea of treating learners individually. I think
your approach is what my learners would like to experience. What
I have been asking myself is - what if students have bad reading
skills (which in my case is often the case - millennials are not
used to reading a lot, in general - there are always exceptions,
of course), should we ignore this and serve them audio or
video-based information because we want them to understand the
materials?
I think this is my fundamental question - what skills should we
teach/build/develop in students to best prepare them for their
future (job) life. Is it relevant if they cannot read so well?
Is it relevant if their writing skills are not that good because
they might not need writing skills in their future job? What
society are we creating through our education?
Hm... not sure if my questions make sense to you; they are
fundamental questions, I think. I am struggling a bit because
here we need to grade people on their
writing/reading/listening/speaking skills in a balanced way. So
if you have weaker reading skills you can compensate that with
stronger speaking skills and still get a good enough grade.
However, many students do not see the point in having to read or
write. They say they will need speaking skills most in their
future job and our curriculum is not up to date. If it's about
their intention to learn, we should serve them the materials
they can digest. Because what I observe is that students get
frustrating when they have to read articles or papers and think
they understand but when you really test their comprehension
skills they get low scores.
Hm... I realise I still do not have an answer or solution.
Regards from Vienna,
Christina
Am 24.03.2020 um 01:50 schrieb Hildy
Gottlieb:
Christina:
Sorry about the delay in responding. It's hard to keep up
with all that is going on these days, and I am just now
looking through the emails from this group. I will attempt
to answer your questions in this email format, and will
confess up front that it's not a straight-line answer,
because we humans are not straight lines.
You asked how many people would take part in a
class: When I taught in a college setting, we had
approximately 20 students in the class. In our own classes
at Creating the Future, we have had as few as 6 and as many
as 75.
As to your questions re: assignments, I hope the
following is helpful: First, there is the assignment to absorb the content (in
a college setting, usually reading). Many people absorb
information better when they hear it vs. see it on a page.
Others absorb information better when they are applying it,
talking it through with others. Some think best in words,
others think best in numbers. Everyone's brain works a
little differently.
And so first, we have always used a flipped
classroom, where people can absorb the information at their
own pace before the class. Content is always provided both
in video (which can be pre-recorded for re-use over and
over) and in text, usually in a workbook format (not
just a script of the video, but explained as one would write
a book). Pretty much the same info is provided in both
formats, and students are assigned BOTH. What that means is
that they will read AND watch, and whichever sticks best for
them sticks best. There is some info in one and not the
other, but mostly it is the same content, presented in two
different formats.
Then handouts include question prompts to help
people reframe what they have read / watched in their own
words (for those who do best when talking things through).
Classroom time is for discussion of the material
- what stood out to you? What did you notice? What questions
arose? If they think best by drawing, they can either talk
us through something they are holding up to the screen, or
use Zoom's tools to do so. During the class, they are
encouraged to share their reflections from the handouts. We
have often asked students what would help them learn the
material. That simple step has always been enlightening, as
we learn how to help them learn.
Assignments between classes: Online
interaction... When teaching entirely online
classes at the university level, the requirement to engage
between classes is often ludicrous. People are often graded
on whether they wrote 3 sentences, 3 times per week. Which
really is coming at it from the POV of what people do vs.
how they learn.
And so we would start the class by having an
asynchronous conversation about what that engagement would
make possible for the students. In those text-based
conversations, they would discuss how participation between
classes could help them learn. We asked them what that would
look like, which led to them designing the structure for
participation that they would then abide by. We asked them
how they wanted us to grade that participation (their
answers would not surprise seasoned teachers - they were FAR
more strict than we ever would have been). But it also made
clear that the HOW for them was about however they best
communicated. For some it was numbers, for others audio or
video, for others art with a few words of explanation, etc.
I am recalling a time when the between-class
conversations via BlackBoard became so engaged, with so many
people sharing different types of examples (many of them
drawings or charts - some people think best in numbers and
columns), that we actually crashed BlackBoard for the whole
university! That was over a decade ago, and I still love the
image of people feeling they could express themselves as
made sense to them, and doing that so excitedly that they
overwhelmed the whole system.
As for assignments to be graded, that
would not include our classes at Creating the Future, just
our college experience. All those assignments were in
writing. BUT, that being said, if people were not great at
writing, and their papers might have gotten a C because of
that, we invited them to a phone call, giving them the
opportunity to show verbally that they actually understood.
It was a bit more work, but our goal has always been that
people learn. If someone is dyslexic but totally understands
the material, do we want to penalize them because they can't
write? So if we had to have 4 phone calls for a class of 20
students, and that led to those 4 students showing us that
yes, they did understand the material, then we saw that as
part of the job.
The bottom line is that none of this starts from
the doing, but from the intention. If the intention is that
students learn, then I've always seen it as my job as an
instructor to create the conditions for them to do so. What
that requires is understanding that not everyone is going to
learn in the way I happen to want to teach them, and that
that requires meeting people where they are, and not where I
think they should be.
I'm not sure I've answered your questions fully.
Like I said, it's not a simple answer, because we are
talking about humans, and we humans are certainly not simple
creatures!
Many thanks for your interest. And please let me
know if this has not answered your questions, and I'll do my
best to do so.
Hildy
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On 3/20/2020 9:55 AM, Christina
Merl wrote:
Hildy -
I very much enjoy the idea of encouraging everyone to
express themselves as makes sense to them. I am struggling a
bit with picturing what this looks like in the context of a
class. How many individuals would take part in this, how
would you make meaning, are all assignments (whatever the
definition of an assignment may be, I am just using this
word to express the idea of a shared task) suited to serve
the needs of these individuals? Or would assignments have to
be tailored to their needs, etc.
I would love to understand better what you are describing
as I find your ideas really fascinating. So if you have a
moment, I would very much appreciate it if you could give an
example (of a topic being dealt with in such mode).
Thanks!
Christina
Am 19.03.2020 um 16:50 schrieb
Hildy Gottlieb:
Christina, Bill, et al,
When we have taught online at the college
level, as well as in our own courses, we have encouraged
people to express themselves as makes sense to them. If
people are more comfortable recording their response in
video, awesome. If they could provide a YouTube link AND
summarize it briefly in writing, also awesome.
Slide-share is also a great way to capture essence, and
then video and/or text to explain more deeply.
Whether IRL or online, the key for us has
always been to present people with as many options as
possible for the different ways that people learn.
Online almost helps do that even better than F2F. And as
Nancy pointed out, context is key - things will be
different if this is a one-time meeting, an ongoing
meeting, a class (and depending there on whether it is a
college class, an ongoing learning class, etc.).
The important thing is to let the context
and purpose guide the decision re: tools, rather than
focusing on the tools. When we move online, we have a
tendency to look at all the tools and wonder which to
use / how to use them. Having purpose guide that
decision helps immensely.
I hope that's helpful.
Hildy
Hildy
Gottlieb (she/her/hers) Creating
the Future Change the Questions, Change the World!
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organization
On 3/19/2020 8:40 AM, Christina
Merl wrote:
Dear Bill -
Very much to the point - the length of our traditional
writing. Especially the younger generations cannot
handle that. With discussion forums and threads we are
transferring this challenge online. Any thoughts on how
to solve this, anyone?
Regards from 22¡ãC spring-like, blue-skies Vienna and
everyone should stay indoors...
Christina
Am 19.03.2020 um 15:26
schrieb Bill Withers:
I love the idea of adding
asynchronous content, maybe even in the middle of a
live session. In the best f2f settings, we add time
to reflect. We are trained somewhat to use online
tools to quickly jump, file, delete, forward, share,
and keep moving. Getting everyone to take a breath
and think and return to the conversation at some set
time is golden.
?
I¡¯ll admit that when I saw the
length of the exchange below, I thought, ¡°I gotta
go. There¡¯s no time for this.¡± So glad that I slowed
down for all of 2 minutes to read and think about
this.
From:[email protected]<[email protected]>On Behalf Of Christina Merl via
Groups.Io Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 10:09 AM To:[email protected] Subject: Re: [f4c-response] The New/Old
Blend: Synchronous and Asynchronous
#facilitation #meetingdesign
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Dear Nancy,
Thank you for writing this. I find it refreshing
and a positive sign in all the current "covid-19
mania". I get the impression that "everyone" is
literally trying to redesign f2f settings and be
online to not miss out on anything or anyone. It's
paradox - while the virus forces us to slow down and
shut everything down, the craziness continues
online. We transform our structures and patterns to
a virtual world.
So I appreciate your thoughts very much. Mixing
asynchronous and synchronous as well as using
different media sounds like a very effective plan.
I am hosting a group of students this coming
Saturday. We would have met f2f. The university is
open-minded and encourages teachers to make the most
of the situation and continue with their sessions,
either via distance learning or live online.
So I have decided to do a blended format. I am
currently designing the agenda and I have realised
that all the tech craziness and the lack of crisis
management in some organisations prevent me (I can
only talk about myself here) from thinking
creatively. I need to really get rid of all the
noise and distraction created online and focus on my
group's needs, their learning goals, my goals, the
topics we are dealing with etc. While tech savviness
is super important - which is why I am so thankful
that you initiated this exchange and that so many
people share webinars, links, etc. - all of this is
so absolutely helpful and provides so much support
right now - I think the overall challenge for
everyone, for society, is to focus on what we really
need and want (to change).? I think that's the
challenge for society, no matter where.
So I'd be happy to learn along here with you. As
said, I am currently designing my agenda for my
group of students and I will use zoom for their
presentations, I have designed some quiz material
with moodle, and I have set up some materials that I
find helpful for them, plus some prompts that they
need to work out asynchronously but in collaborative
teams. For this, we use google docs, mentimeter, and
probably some 365 video presentations.
I deliberately want to keep it simple
technology-wise but make it complex challenge-wise.
And I am curious to get students' feedback. They are
currently also under pressure as everything has
changed. BTW, in that case these students all have a
job, they are learning workers.
Regards from Vienna,
Christina
Am 19.03.2020 um 14:48 schrieb
Nancy White:
This post is part "thinking out loud" and part
action/question. So if you are interested in both,
please read till the end.
One of the things that is showing up for me is
people writing/calling/texting asking "how do I
convert this F2F meeting to online?" (More on that
in a separate message.)?
Well, last night I made the mistake of looking at
FB before bed so I slept very poorly AND I had a
lot of ideas swirling around in my head. One was a
flashback of the online events many of us designed
and hosted back in the "olden days" when most
online events were primarily text based and
asynchronous. There would be discussion threads
rolled out over a period of days and people would
generally have a 24-48 time period to read, post,
and respond to others before we moved on to the
next "agenda item." When we got really fancy we
would add periodic telephone conference calls
(yes, telephone!) and things really broke open
when we could start to embed media like visuals,
audio and video.?
The ideas behind this work was that we could
include many more people than could fly to a
meeting, and when we had to support access to
local connectivity, it was very often FAR FAR FAR
more economical than bringing people to a physical
gathering. While those who were used to F2F
meetings pooh-poohed us, those who never got to go
to those meetings were deeply engaged,
appreciative and brilliant contributors.?
Arrival to March 19 (it is March 19th, isn't it?
How many days have we been quarantined in each of
our corners of the world??) After 10-14 days of
super intense Zoom meetings, my brain and body was
not happy. The intensity (yes, of course, jacked
up by the pandemic) was showing on our faces as we
stared into our cameras, still wearing the same
sweatshirt from ... how many days ago?
It hit me, we DO HAVE the ability to use
asynchronous tools with our lovely synchronous
tools. Many of us do it every day (yes, email,
basecamp, trello, teams, slack) but those uses
have been for tasking, small message exchange, and
not really deeper conversation. (Yes, JonL - the ?conversation!)
Set up a discussion board, parse out the things
that can go slower, that don't need video, that
focus on information exchange or slower, calmer
(and deeper) conversations. Let people figure out
how to take care of the kids and work by making
some of the meeting time a slower, asynchronous
time.?
Today I have two calls about meeting design and I
wondered, how would I convert those meetings? What
are some of those great approaches and techniques
that worked so well 15-20 years ago??
So what I'd love to discuss - yes asynchronously
for now on this email list - is our ideas for
rethinking F2F longer form meetings (3 day
strategic planning, 2 day training, 5 day intense
team consultation) into synch/asynch online
meetings. How do we rethink of time (believe me,
we aren't going to sustain all day online meetings
and raise the kids etc, folks. Get real quick!)
What rhythm works well? How does this enhance
cross time zone work.?
I have a lot of ideas, but they are all a-jumble.
Please join in this thread and think with me. I'd
like to bring together our best thinking over 3-5
days and then write it up (we can do that
collaboratively too if folks are interested.)
AND THEN, I propose we do a series of
redesign-shops where one org brings their old
meeting agenda, and we offer redesign ideas. What
do you think?
Chime in!
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One thing we may want to discuss as well is if Ecocycle is the best starting point. It¡¯s a wonderful tool, but not always the easiest Liberating Structure to start with~ We can see!
Thanks, Ed. The slides (with chat linked in the last slide) from Saturdays event on getting and giving help online with Liberating Structures are at?
We are starting a new series on "Deconstructing/Reconstructing" events from offline to online starting this Friday. Details at? The second one will be April 2 - details TBD
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