Re: Courses, Trainings etc for Online Facilitation
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Re: Courses, Trainings etc for Online Facilitation
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March 20
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Re: Break out rooms in Teams
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Lucas Cioffi has a product he built around zoom that allows for self organizing breakouts -?
I'll ping him to come on over.?
Not the same thing as the teams issue, but another solution
-- Best wishes,
Steve McCann
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Re: Break out rooms in Teams
Lucas Cioffi has a product he built around zoom that allows for self organizing breakouts -?
I'll ping him to come on over.?
Not the same thing as the teams issue, but another solution
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Re: Break out rooms in Teams
you can only see 4 people in Teams? really? :(
Arwen
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Re: Break out rooms in Teams
...and in Teams you can only see 4 people, which is really not OK if you want engagement.?
Steve
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 11:25, Steve McCann via Groups.Io <steve= [email protected]> wrote: Yes it is the workaround....not elegant but possible Or just use the zoom plugin??
Steve On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 11:00, Arwen Bailey (Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT) < a.bailey@...> wrote: Thinking laterally¡ could you not create as many Team rooms as you need for breakouts ??
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- Meet in the Team room from the invitation
- Explain the breakouts
- Post the links in Notes ¨C you could even maybe? assign people by name
- You can¡¯t move the people physically but they click on the link
- Agree to come back to the original room (from the invitation) at a certain time
- You can click on the links and go listen in to the conversations.
?
We did something similar when we did a workshop with about 90 people a couple of years ago, using GoToMeeting rooms. I told people if they got lost in internetspace to come back to the main room and I would help them. There were some technical issues that I put on a slide. I think the main thing was that you had to close the main room before you could open the breakout so you had to cut the link, close the main room then paste the link to go to the breakout.
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We lost surprisingly few people. The groups were all the way round the world, different levels of techsavvy and different bandwidths.
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I sat in an empty room with GoToMeeing app, and just went from room to room.
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I think we lost less time than getting physical people into physical break out rooms, with their toilet stops, coffee stops, interesting corridor conversations and ¡®just popping to see Aman in admin¡¯
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Anyway, do you think it would work?
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Arwen
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Best wishes,
Steve McCann
m: +44 7793 821476
-- Best wishes,
Steve McCann
m: +44 7793 821476
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Re: Break out rooms in Teams
Yes it is the workaround....not elegant but possible Or just use the zoom plugin??
Steve
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 11:00, Arwen Bailey (Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT) < a.bailey@...> wrote: Thinking laterally¡ could you not create as many Team rooms as you need for breakouts ??
?
- Meet in the Team room from the invitation
- Explain the breakouts
- Post the links in Notes ¨C you could even maybe? assign people by name
- You can¡¯t move the people physically but they click on the link
- Agree to come back to the original room (from the invitation) at a certain time
- You can click on the links and go listen in to the conversations.
?
We did something similar when we did a workshop with about 90 people a couple of years ago, using GoToMeeting rooms. I told people if they got lost in internetspace to come back to the main room and I would help them. There were some technical issues that I put on a slide. I think the main thing was that you had to close the main room before you could open the breakout so you had to cut the link, close the main room then paste the link to go to the breakout.
?
We lost surprisingly few people. The groups were all the way round the world, different levels of techsavvy and different bandwidths.
?
I sat in an empty room with GoToMeeing app, and just went from room to room.
?
I think we lost less time than getting physical people into physical break out rooms, with their toilet stops, coffee stops, interesting corridor conversations and ¡®just popping to see Aman in admin¡¯
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Anyway, do you think it would work?
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Arwen
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-- Best wishes,
Steve McCann
m: +44 7793 821476
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Re: Break out rooms in Teams
We just did something like this for a conference that needed an online version quickly as a result of covid-19
We used zoom but without the breakout feature - so similar to what you are describing above. ?We created a conference like experience with just a google slide (or ppt slide) that had links to the various meetings. ?For the breakouts, people ended one meeting and joined another with just a click. ?It was a simple solution and was very effective. ?Day 2 of the conference is today.
Anjali
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Thinking laterally¡ could you not create as many Team rooms as you need for breakouts ??
?
- Meet in the Team room from the invitation
- Explain the breakouts
- Post the links in Notes ¨C you could even maybe? assign people by name
- You can¡¯t move the people physically but they click on the link
- Agree to come back to the original room (from the invitation) at a certain time
- You can click on the links and go listen in to the conversations.
?
We did something similar when we did a workshop with about 90 people a couple of years ago, using GoToMeeting rooms. I told people if they got lost in internetspace to come back to the main room and I would help them. There were some technical issues that I put on a slide. I think the main thing was that you had to close the main room before you could open the breakout so you had to cut the link, close the main room then paste the link to go to the breakout.
?
We lost surprisingly few people. The groups were all the way round the world, different levels of techsavvy and different bandwidths.
?
I sat in an empty room with GoToMeeing app, and just went from room to room.
?
I think we lost less time than getting physical people into physical break out rooms, with their toilet stops, coffee stops, interesting corridor conversations and ¡®just popping to see Aman in admin¡¯
?
Anyway, do you think it would work?
?
Arwen
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Re: Technology Stewardship or "What Tool Should I use to do X?"
Thanks Steve and others for the feedback -- disappointed the breakout rooms can't be done natively in Teams (since we don't have Zoom integrated as an option on our campus), but similarly to Alice we'll probably be giving more focus to the asynchronous participation, and not worry too much about supporting the online breakout groups for most faculty. The exception may be for more tech-savvy faculty: perhaps we can work with that sub-group on using other tools (not officially supported by campus IT) to make breakout rooms happen.
Jeff
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On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 19:05, Steve McCann < steve@...> wrote: I hope I am replying correctly, protocol wise?
Jeff you cannot get breakout room in Teams¡ Well you can, but not native to Teams. There is a Zoom plug-in for Teams, and when people put the meeting in the Outlook calendar if you¡¯ve got a Zoom plug-in you get the choice of joining via Teams or the Zoom plug-in. If you go in via the Zoom plug-in then Teams can have breakout rooms
Steve On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 17:43, < jgima@...> wrote: Thanks for starting this thread, Nancy! I'm one of several people trying to help faculty and staff at my university move academic activities online during this period of COVID-19, and our institution is Microsoft campus so we've got Teams, for example, for synchronous meetings and class sessions. I'm particularly interested in helping faculty use good practices for engagement of meeting participants (students in this case), for example facilitating pair and small group discussion by using things like breakout rooms.?
I was therefore excited to hear you mention in ?that it's apparently possible to create breakout rooms with Teams. Unfortunately I searched around and was unable to find anything confirming or explaining how to do this. Can you -- or anyone else -- point me to something that explains how to do breakout rooms in Teams?
Alternatively, can anyone point to good explanations of other *easy* ways for relatively less tech-savvy faculty to use Teams to get students engaged in synchronous small-group discussions?
Sorry if this is a dumb question -- I'm new to Teams (though experienced in online collaborative work).?
Jeff
Best wishes,
Steve McCann
m: +44 7793 821476
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Thanks for sharing the doc, Lawrie. It seems like it would be useful to have something similar for other circumstances. Just today someone asked me for a short "best practices" for moving meetings online as they did not have time to wade through the myriad of resources. Thanks!
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Re: Technology Stewardship or "What Tool Should I use to do X?"
I hope I am replying correctly, protocol wise?
Jeff you cannot get breakout room in Teams¡ Well you can, but not native to Teams. There is a Zoom plug-in for Teams, and when people put the meeting in the Outlook calendar if you¡¯ve got a Zoom plug-in you get the choice of joining via Teams or the Zoom plug-in. If you go in via the Zoom plug-in then Teams can have breakout rooms
Steve
On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 17:43, < jgima@...> wrote: Thanks for starting this thread, Nancy! I'm one of several people trying to help faculty and staff at my university move academic activities online during this period of COVID-19, and our institution is Microsoft campus so we've got Teams, for example, for synchronous meetings and class sessions. I'm particularly interested in helping faculty use good practices for engagement of meeting participants (students in this case), for example facilitating pair and small group discussion by using things like breakout rooms.?
I was therefore excited to hear you mention in ?that it's apparently possible to create breakout rooms with Teams. Unfortunately I searched around and was unable to find anything confirming or explaining how to do this. Can you -- or anyone else -- point me to something that explains how to do breakout rooms in Teams?
Alternatively, can anyone point to good explanations of other *easy* ways for relatively less tech-savvy faculty to use Teams to get students engaged in synchronous small-group discussions?
Sorry if this is a dumb question -- I'm new to Teams (though experienced in online collaborative work).?
Jeff
-- Best wishes,
Steve McCann
m: +44 7793 821476
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Re: Technology Stewardship or "What Tool Should I use to do X?"
Thanks for raising this, Mike. Yesterday, I was traveling to schools across the Bay Area. Today, I am rapidly preparing resources for schools before they start temporary school dismissals for the next 2 weeks. They have definitely raised concerns about how much information is being sent to them. I was grateful for their framing, ¡°The most important thing is anxiety. People are feeling anxious. If we start from this as the most important thing, then we know we¡¯re not asking anyone to learn a new technology right now.¡±
Mike, I think you are getting to the heart of technology stewardship, versus just grabbing at tools. There are some worksheets on the Digital Habitat's site that suggests "start with purpose" and then define which activities?support that purpose. Then, only then, think about tools to support. We can easily overbuild.?
Today I'm co-facilitating a group of 60 F2F and 20 online - on the fly. I could not go because of family members with fevers and some of our group have health vulnerabilities. So we made it happen. We decided to JUST stick with Zoom and Google tools for documentation and shared visualization. For the post part it has been amazing. I think if we had introduced one more tool, we would have broken down.?
Simplicity is a great thing.??
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 8:06 AM Mike Pounsford < Mikep@...> wrote:
My strengths are in F2F facilitation but for obvious reasons I am trying to catch up on what others are doing in the online space.? Heard lots about Slido, Mentimeter for online votes and capturing sentiment,
Stormz and Mural for collaboration, - ?Klaxon, UMU, Mindmeister, PollEv etc I know I am just scratching the surface.?
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My question is that the rush for tools may blind us to the importance of emotional and human connection on line.? Just the simple step of breaking a large group in Zoom to small breakouts on structured and
relevant questions, and the judicious use of one or two tools to generate collaborative ideas ¨C these things are important and make a big difference to the engagement, memorability and impact of the learning online.
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My concern is that we balance finding one or two appropriate tools with designing online processes that engage people not because they are clicking responses but because they are talking to and learning from
each other.? I¡¯m a big fan of Liberating Structures but even when I have been to sessions where we experiment and learn I fear that too much emphasis is put on the technology of collaboration rather than the substance of what we are learning from the exchanges
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#flyless
I'm happy to experiment! Shall I start on this thread?
STOP having the person with the most power in the room waiting until last to contribute to a discussion, which serves to disempower everyone else who's spoken, and reinforces power dynamics. (One alternative could be for the person with the most power (or the person who called the meeting!) to establish the rules of decision making as it relates to the purpose of the meeting, and whether this is a "sell it to me / tell it to me / consult me / co-create with me" kind of situation.?
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Re: Technology Stewardship or "What Tool Should I use to do X?"
Apologies if this doesn¡¯t add new info; I¡¯ve been ¡°spot-reading.¡±
I work with students and student teams online a lot and there is more asynchronous work than synchronous. ?I realize this isn¡¯t possible for everyone, but it does raise the question of how well our rows-of-students-until-the-bell-rings model is suited to societal changes and online work.
Most students I work with are adult graduate students who are on campus at times, but more often online. ?Synchronous sessions are recorded so that people who cannot attend can view/hear them later. There are also forums in which teach members can brainstorm or ask each other questions, or pull me in as needed. ?We provide quite basic tools (mostly through Moodle and Collaborate). ?Although it was a tough transition for some faculty, we¡¯ve become really flexible with tools. ?We just need to see whatever we need to see at the end for assessments. ?Most students now are working asynchronously with tools of their choosing such as WhatsApp, Zoom, texting, Skype, and other tools for creation of products (infographics, presentations and so on). ?In probably 70% of cases, they are already familiar and comfortable with those tools and help each other when there are gaps. ?It works very well, but definitely could not if a bell was going off every hour or so. Reframing can be more powerful than tool choices.
Alice
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Jim, there are no dumb questions! I am reaching out to my network about the Teams breakout. I had a second verification yesterday and they said they would send instructions. I'll send a reminder today. Does anyone have a MSFT contact we can bring into this thread?? On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:43 AM < jgima@...> wrote: Thanks for starting this thread, Nancy! I'm one of several people trying to help faculty and staff at my university move academic activities online during this period of COVID-19, and our institution is Microsoft campus so we've got Teams, for example, for synchronous meetings and class sessions. I'm particularly interested in helping faculty use good practices for engagement of meeting participants (students in this case), for example facilitating pair and small group discussion by using things like breakout rooms.?
I was therefore excited to hear you mention in ?that it's apparently possible to create breakout rooms with Teams. Unfortunately I searched around and was unable to find anything confirming or explaining how to do this. Can you -- or anyone else -- point me to something that explains how to do breakout rooms in Teams?
Alternatively, can anyone point to good explanations of other *easy* ways for relatively less tech-savvy faculty to use Teams to get students engaged in synchronous small-group discussions?
Sorry if this is a dumb question -- I'm new to Teams (though experienced in online collaborative work).?
Jeff
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Re: Technology Stewardship or "What Tool Should I use to do X?"
Mike, I think you are getting to the heart of technology stewardship, versus just grabbing at tools. There are some worksheets on the Digital Habitat's site that suggests "start with purpose" and then define which activities?support that purpose. Then, only then, think about tools to support. We can easily overbuild.?
Today I'm co-facilitating a group of 60 F2F and 20 online - on the fly. I could not go because of family members with fevers and some of our group have health vulnerabilities. So we made it happen. We decided to JUST stick with Zoom and Google tools for documentation and shared visualization. For the post part it has been amazing. I think if we had introduced one more tool, we would have broken down.?
Simplicity is a great thing.??
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 8:06 AM Mike Pounsford < Mikep@...> wrote:
My strengths are in F2F facilitation but for obvious reasons I am trying to catch up on what others are doing in the online space.? Heard lots about Slido, Mentimeter for online votes and capturing sentiment,
Stormz and Mural for collaboration, - ?Klaxon, UMU, Mindmeister, PollEv etc I know I am just scratching the surface.?
?
My question is that the rush for tools may blind us to the importance of emotional and human connection on line.? Just the simple step of breaking a large group in Zoom to small breakouts on structured and
relevant questions, and the judicious use of one or two tools to generate collaborative ideas ¨C these things are important and make a big difference to the engagement, memorability and impact of the learning online.
?
My concern is that we balance finding one or two appropriate tools with designing online processes that engage people not because they are clicking responses but because they are talking to and learning from
each other.? I¡¯m a big fan of Liberating Structures but even when I have been to sessions where we experiment and learn I fear that too much emphasis is put on the technology of collaboration rather than the substance of what we are learning from the exchanges
?
Best wishes
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Mike
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+44 (0) 1732 371 252
+44 (0) 7860 196 343
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Re: Technology Stewardship or "What Tool Should I use to do X?"
Jim, there are no dumb questions! I am reaching out to my network about the Teams breakout. I had a second verification yesterday and they said they would send instructions. I'll send a reminder today. Does anyone have a MSFT contact we can bring into this thread??
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:43 AM < jgima@...> wrote: Thanks for starting this thread, Nancy! I'm one of several people trying to help faculty and staff at my university move academic activities online during this period of COVID-19, and our institution is Microsoft campus so we've got Teams, for example, for synchronous meetings and class sessions. I'm particularly interested in helping faculty use good practices for engagement of meeting participants (students in this case), for example facilitating pair and small group discussion by using things like breakout rooms.?
I was therefore excited to hear you mention in ?that it's apparently possible to create breakout rooms with Teams. Unfortunately I searched around and was unable to find anything confirming or explaining how to do this. Can you -- or anyone else -- point me to something that explains how to do breakout rooms in Teams?
Alternatively, can anyone point to good explanations of other *easy* ways for relatively less tech-savvy faculty to use Teams to get students engaged in synchronous small-group discussions?
Sorry if this is a dumb question -- I'm new to Teams (though experienced in online collaborative work).?
Jeff
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Re: Technology Stewardship or "What Tool Should I use to do X?"
Thanks for starting this thread, Nancy! I'm one of several people trying to help faculty and staff at my university move academic activities online during this period of COVID-19, and our institution is Microsoft campus so we've got Teams, for example, for synchronous meetings and class sessions. I'm particularly interested in helping faculty use good practices for engagement of meeting participants (students in this case), for example facilitating pair and small group discussion by using things like breakout rooms.?
I was therefore excited to hear you mention in ?that it's apparently possible to create breakout rooms with Teams. Unfortunately I searched around and was unable to find anything confirming or explaining how to do this. Can you -- or anyone else -- point me to something that explains how to do breakout rooms in Teams?
Alternatively, can anyone point to good explanations of other *easy* ways for relatively less tech-savvy faculty to use Teams to get students engaged in synchronous small-group discussions?
Sorry if this is a dumb question -- I'm new to Teams (though experienced in online collaborative work).?
Jeff
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minimum viable product for online teaching and learning
Hi All
Myself, Peter Bryant and Donna Lanclos blogged some thoughts here
but the key thing is the rapid response that Peter Bryant had to develop (attached as a PDF) ¨C Peter is in the eye of the Storm in Sydney with
covid-19 impacting 6590 students just in his School (Business) and around 12000 across the University.
I hope the document he¡¯s written is useful.
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Re: Thread for people looking for consulting support to move meetings online
Hi Nancy! Your work so far is incredible, connecting people, organizing links and threads, poking our senses to stay alert and ready. Thanks for moving all this forward.
I believe that when together online, and rhythmically, in some way we will create more opportunities, deepen connections and get more resilient as individuals.
Happy to see faces and souls tomorrow...:) Fernando Murray Loureiro Mobile: +1 (250) 509 1167 To schedule a Meeting: Check our Events:
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On Mar 11, 2020, at 7:30 AM, Nancy White < nancy.white@...> wrote: Here is another thread that is coming alive in my world. There are some people with deep online facilitation expertise. Some technology stewards who have kept track of tool options as the field multiplies and morphed. Others with specific process expertise that have practice those processes online. Graphic recorders who digital and remote scribing. We have an initial spread sheet in the Liberating Structures community to make offers, but that is probably not enough.?
People need to find each other.
Smaller NGOs won't have financial capability to hire consultants, but could work and gain value in a coaching community or community of practice.
I also think we need a mechanism to learn with and from each other as we move quickly and deeply into this work.?
So this thread is to think about how to operationalize this. I'm personally thinking about a collaborative model where orgs get help and coaching in front of other orgs needing help so we can network the learning.
What are your ideas? Time to stop reading links and do things. Jump in!
Nancy W
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Steve McCann
Arwen Bailey (Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT)
Fernando Murray Loureiro