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Hi facilitator friends,?
I'm tasked with an online work party for 1 hour next week.?
It's a group that works together a lot though from different organizations (a network?group). We are about 8 people.?
Do you have ideas for a FUN and perhaps also 'learning at times' experience. We can drink during the zoom Or other platform but that is not the focus :-)?
I would love for it to be NEW and INSPIRING and FUN for the gang.
Thanks for ideas in advance!?
Best,? Michelle
-- Michelle Laurie michellelaurie.com
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I love this question, Michelle!
Two suggestions, but I admittedly have limited experience with both: - PowerPoint karaoke (for example, )
- Virtual Escape Rooms (a list )
Incredibly eager to hear what others suggest!
Sarah Facilitator, Trainer, Coach, Learner? |? Virtual & In-Person Support?? | ??
Ed.M.,?Learning?&?Teaching?Program |?Harvard Graduate School of Education Learning Travel Blogger ? | ??
Hi facilitator friends,?
I'm tasked with an online work party for 1 hour next week.?
It's a group that works together a lot though from different organizations (a network?group). We are about 8 people.?
Do you have ideas for a FUN and perhaps also 'learning at times' experience. We can drink during the zoom Or other platform but that is not the focus :-)?
I would love for it to be NEW and INSPIRING and FUN for the gang.
Thanks for ideas in advance!?
Best,? Michelle
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Michelle Laurie
Strategy-Assessment-Engagement-Faciltation
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I haven't played most of the games here - but the ones I have played have been really awesome!?
cheers, Karen
On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 11:20 AM Sarah Nehrling < sarah@...> wrote: I love this question, Michelle!
Two suggestions, but I admittedly have limited experience with both: - PowerPoint karaoke (for example, )
- Virtual Escape Rooms (a list )
Incredibly eager to hear what others suggest!
Sarah Facilitator, Trainer, Coach, Learner? |? Virtual & In-Person Support?? | ??
Ed.M.,?Learning?&?Teaching?Program |?Harvard Graduate School of Education Learning Travel Blogger ? | ??
Hi facilitator friends,?
I'm tasked with an online work party for 1 hour next week.?
It's a group that works together a lot though from different organizations (a network?group). We are about 8 people.?
Do you have ideas for a FUN and perhaps also 'learning at times' experience. We can drink during the zoom Or other platform but that is not the focus :-)?
I would love for it to be NEW and INSPIRING and FUN for the gang.
Thanks for ideas in advance!?
Best,? Michelle
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Michelle Laurie
Strategy-Assessment-Engagement-Faciltation
-- Karen Rayne, PhD, CSE
Executive Director
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Among Us is all the craze at the moment. ?It is like Mafia, but keeps everyone more engaged than mafia would. ?People would have to install an app on their phones to be able to play, but it¡¯s all free. Can only play up to 10 people.
Jackbox games can be nice. ?It¡¯s a suite of party packs with different games, that are usually funny or entertaining. I personally love patently stupid in party pack 5, as it can get people out of our their a box a bit. ?Max players is 8, but most of them can have audience members. It is paid for the host, and you will need to use Zoom to share the primary screen. ?As a participant only have to go to be on zoom to watch the main screen and use your browser to head to the Jackbox website and install.
Recently we¡¯ve tried playing Catchphrase on zoom together. ?Instead of the machine, you have a host who runs it. ?Essentially separate folks into two teams (I usually have them rename themselves to have their order number and team letter). ?Then the host can use the catchphrase machine recorded on YouTube and play it as audio only, while using a random word generator and sending it to whoever is it.
We¡¯ve done other stuff like creating a Spotify list together, and playing guess who put this song in the list. ?We also give people the chance to talk about why that song matters to them today.
More physically, besides touch blue, we¡¯ve tried a game where everyone, but one person, sits and stays down. ?The person who is standing must sit down, and one person from the group must stand up to keep one person standing at all times. ?We¡¯ve used this as a way to train folks to be aware and responsive to collective energy and nonverbal communication over zoom.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 10:20, Sarah Nehrling < sarah@...> wrote: I love this question, Michelle!
Two suggestions, but I admittedly have limited experience with both: - PowerPoint karaoke (for example, )
- Virtual Escape Rooms (a list )
Incredibly eager to hear what others suggest!
Sarah Facilitator, Trainer, Coach, Learner? |? Virtual & In-Person Support?? | ??
Ed.M.,?Learning?&?Teaching?Program |?Harvard Graduate School of Education Learning Travel Blogger ? | ??
Hi facilitator friends,?
I'm tasked with an online work party for 1 hour next week.?
It's a group that works together a lot though from different organizations (a network?group). We are about 8 people.?
Do you have ideas for a FUN and perhaps also 'learning at times' experience. We can drink during the zoom Or other platform but that is not the focus :-)?
I would love for it to be NEW and INSPIRING and FUN for the gang.
Thanks for ideas in advance!?
Best,? Michelle
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Michelle Laurie
Strategy-Assessment-Engagement-Faciltation
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Hi Michelle, That sounds like fun! We wrote a post about online party activities (for Zoom, but probably works in other places):?. I just ran a set of "Celebration Moments" for a virtual team where we spent 40 minutes on three of the five workshop days to have some fun and celebrate the team and their work. The game "An Amazing Group of People" works really well as a quiz (collect little known facts about people in private chat and make a quiz that you administer, and have fun getting people to tell some background stories about themselves.) We made a Jamboard Going away card for someone and surprised her with cake and candles (we had to get her family involved, but we all had the same on our end - we turned off our cameras and sound for a "reflection moment" and when we turned them back on the candles and cakes were there). We organized a "Walking" Tour of Scotland with a local there who told us about the place (where they had been scheduled to have the meeting) and then joined us with a whiskey shot at the end (we sent out a list of materials that people needed and a shot of whisky was on it!) We also crowdsourced a group music playlist that we used for all the breaks.? A lot of the energy comes from the facilitator as you know. Also, have people take themselves off mute the whole time, so you can hear their background noise and comments and laughter. Make it ok if the dog barks or the doorbell rings. Have fun!
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Sarah,?
The idea of an escape room is amazing and I was really excited for this.?
My first learning to share is they are popular. You must book in advance! Alas, I am now diving into ideas that require more prep given they seemed to be booked during our team meeting. Gillian - I will check out your blog post.?
I will share what I come up with. However, if someone has the luxury of planning for the future - escape room looks awesome!?
Wish me luck,?
Michelle
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michellelaurie.com
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Michelle, your question reminded me of a small group video conversation experience we created a couple years ago- and though timing may not work for you now, if you (or anyone else in this community) is exploring options for unique. virtual holiday gatherings, here's what we produced (note: this is meant for illustration only- if folks are interested, we can update/refresh and potentially offer some basic customization for a handful of individual members of the f4c community).?
During the holidays a couple years ago, we created a short (~30 minutes), fun, "get to know each other", choose your own journey-type, small group video conversations. The stated purpose (when we originally shared it) was to?connect with others during the holiday season?through interesting questions posed via our platform - and we invited people to bring friends they want to connect more deeply with, or come meet new people from our?community.
We also offered to create complimentary, private versions for folks if there was a group you¡¯d like to connect with e.g. for a?virtual family reunion, class reunion, or virtual industry group meetup.?
If you'd like to see what it originally looked like, here's the link to the experience ?(anyone can jump in at any time either solo or with others by clicking on that link).
Again, that link is currently only meant to illustrate the concept- our plan is to dust it off and refresh the conversation for this year's holiday season, and once it's updated, we'd offer it to different communities (or if you'd like to customize it, we can offer some custom, private versions for the f4c community members).??
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COO/Marketing Director @???
COO/Co-Founder @?
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Thank you, Julian! That is very generous.
I have to say that what you are doing with the new MaestroConference roll-out is amazing (I know the VoiceVoice experience you¡¯re talking about isn¡¯t exactly the same and?I don¡¯t know if VoiceVoice is part of it or not, but?it seems like there may be some overlaps with the ability to pre-design a process for breakouts in the new MaestroConference platform? or is it entirely different?).?
In either case, I do think the new MaestroConference platform could be a major game-changer for our field, just like it was when the original platform was launched way back in what - 2008? 2009?
Thanks for being there.
Amy
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On Dec 9, 2020, at 5:05 PM, Julian Martinez < Julian@...> wrote:
Michelle, your question reminded me of a small group video conversation experience we created a couple years ago- and though timing may not work for you now, if you (or anyone else in this community) is exploring options for unique. virtual holiday gatherings, here's what we produced (note: this is meant for illustration only- if folks are interested, we can update/refresh and potentially offer some basic customization for a handful of individual members of the f4c community).?
During the holidays a couple years ago, we created a short (~30 minutes), fun, "get to know each other", choose your own journey-type, small group video conversations. The stated purpose (when we originally shared it) was to?connect with others during the holiday season?through interesting questions posed via our platform - and we invited people to bring friends they want to connect more deeply with, or come meet new people from our?community. We also offered to create complimentary, private versions for folks if there was a group you¡¯d like to connect with e.g. for a?virtual family reunion, class reunion, or virtual industry group meetup.?
If you'd like to see what it originally looked like, here's the link to the experience ?(anyone can jump in at any time either solo or with others by clicking on that link).
Again, that link is currently only meant to illustrate the concept- our plan is to dust it off and refresh the conversation for this year's holiday season, and once it's updated, we'd offer it to different communities (or if you'd like to customize it, we can offer some custom, private versions for the f4c community members).??
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Julian Martinez
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COO/Marketing Director @???
COO/Co-Founder @?
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-- .o0o. Amy Lenzo |?weDialogue
Virtual Space, Real?Engagement
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Hi everyone!? I wanted to update you on the online work party as it just ended and went really well. While I hoped to get out of 'thinking too hard' and using an escape room, as mentioned earlier, you need to book early and have at least 1.25 hours.? So, we had 1 hour and this is what we did:?
- Log on (people came on over the first 15 mins) - this gave time for chit chat and showing new features in zoom - video filters such as hats, masks, lipstick - these were new to almost the entire team (8 people); I also had music playing in the background (Sarah Harmer, upbeat music)
- The first activity was in Mural - I used the ice breaker template they have for drawing team mates. Everyone had to draw the person on their right in the zoom room. After 5 minutes, we all guessed who the person was using Chat (chatterfall). It was fun and funny. I then labelled all the people. Due to zoom not being the same across screens, we had duplicates (the person got to choose their favourite drawing to keep) and we all co-drew the missing people at the end.?
- Next, still in mural, everyone had to add one post-it note to each person and write a quality they liked or appreciated about the person (a bit corny but team building). I saved the image and sent it to everyone at the end.?
- The second activity was a 2 minute scavenger hunt. People had to bring back to the zoom their favourite mug, the book beside their bed (or last book read) and a third item determined by a random person. To get the random person I did a "spin the wheel (wheelofnames.com)" and randomly chose. The person on the spot chose an item and everyone went to get them. The wheel was fun and people liked the novelty.?
- Once back, we did rounds of lightening talks to share a story about your mug (why its your favourite), the book, etc. We used chat (chatterfall) to vote on the best of each item.?
- To close. we used the wheel to share a final thought. I removed names after each round.?
- A ?big group cheers and happy weekend. Happy holidays!?
It was a quick, energetic and fun 1 hour work party. I definitely recommend all the tools tested.? Hopefully this is somewhat helpful. Have a great weekend,? Michelle -- Michelle Laurie michellelaurie.com
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Great ideas, Michelle!
Here are a couple of others . . . - lots of them at
- also, try out
More fun for all!
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Hi everyone!? I wanted to update you on the online work party as it just ended and went really well. While I hoped to get out of 'thinking too hard' and using an escape room, as mentioned earlier, you need to book early and have at least 1.25 hours.? So, we had 1 hour and this is what we did:?
- Log on (people came on over the first 15 mins) - this gave time for chit chat and showing new features in zoom - video filters such as hats, masks, lipstick - these were new to almost the entire team (8 people); I also had music playing in the background (Sarah Harmer, upbeat music)
- The first activity was in Mural - I used the ice breaker template they have for drawing team mates. Everyone had to draw the person on their right in the zoom room. After 5 minutes, we all guessed who the person was using Chat (chatterfall). It was fun and funny. I then labelled all the people. Due to zoom not being the same across screens, we had duplicates (the person got to choose their favourite drawing to keep) and we all co-drew the missing people at the end.?
- Next, still in mural, everyone had to add one post-it note to each person and write a quality they liked or appreciated about the person (a bit corny but team building). I saved the image and sent it to everyone at the end.?
- The second activity was a 2 minute scavenger hunt. People had to bring back to the zoom their favourite mug, the book beside their bed (or last book read) and a third item determined by a random person. To get the random person I did a "spin the wheel ()" and randomly chose. The person on the spot chose an item and everyone went to get them. The wheel was fun and people liked the novelty.?
- Once back, we did rounds of lightening talks to share a story about your mug (why its your favourite), the book, etc. We used chat (chatterfall) to vote on the best of each item.?
- To close. we used the wheel to share a final thought. I removed names after each round.?
- A ?big group cheers and happy weekend. Happy holidays!?
It was a quick, energetic and fun 1 hour work party. I definitely recommend all the tools tested.? Hopefully this is somewhat helpful. Have a great weekend,? Michelle -- Michelle Laurie
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Michele, this was so wonderful.? Will use for sure at our next online conference.? I had to fight for the inclusion of Zoom Room time last weekend in between too many short speeches, and next time I hope to get away with more play time.? We are novices, and this site is a life-line.
Hi everyone!?
I wanted to update you on the online work party as it just ended and went really well. While I hoped to get out of 'thinking too hard' and using an escape room, as mentioned earlier, you need to book early and have at least 1.25 hours.?
So, we had 1 hour and this is what we did:?
- Log on (people came on over the first 15 mins) - this gave time for chit chat and showing new features in zoom - video filters such as hats, masks, lipstick - these were new to almost the entire team (8 people); I also had music playing in the background (Sarah Harmer, upbeat music)
- The first activity was in Mural - I used the ice breaker template they have for drawing team mates. Everyone had to draw the person on their right in the zoom room. After 5 minutes, we all guessed who the person was using Chat (chatterfall). It was fun and funny. I then labelled all the people. Due to zoom not being the same across screens, we had duplicates (the person got to choose their favourite drawing to keep) and we all co-drew the missing people at the end.?
- Next, still in mural, everyone had to add one post-it note to each person and write a quality they liked or appreciated about the person (a bit corny but team building). I saved the image and sent it to everyone at the end.?
- The second activity was a 2 minute scavenger hunt. People had to bring back to the zoom their favourite mug, the book beside their bed (or last book read) and a third item determined by a random person. To get the random person I did a "spin the wheel ()" and randomly chose. The person on the spot chose an item and everyone went to get them. The wheel was fun and people liked the novelty.?
- Once back, we did rounds of lightening talks to share a story about your mug (why its your favourite), the book, etc. We used chat (chatterfall) to vote on the best of each item.?
- To close. we used the wheel to share a final thought. I removed names after each round.?
- A ?big group cheers and happy weekend. Happy holidays!?
It was a quick, energetic and fun 1 hour work party. I definitely recommend all the tools tested.?
Hopefully this is somewhat helpful.
Have a great weekend,?
Michelle
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Michelle Laurie
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-- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
Center for Emergent Diplomacy
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
mobile: ?(303) 859-5609
skype: ?merle.lelfkoff2
twitter: @merle110
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Thank you, all, for sharing your great ideas here, I might integrate some of those ideas at a future occasion. ? On an experimental basis I created an online festive season space for games and conversations on QiQoChat platform, , intended for larger groups or organisations. I was busy and so too late to get it done in time, but ¡ ? The emphasis is more on conversation than games, but I would imagine it should be possible to create a similar space with rooms for games, where people can move and choose the games they want to play.? This would mainly be relevant for larger groups of 50+. ? Happy Holidays!? Fran?ois ? ? ?
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