Blast from the past!
This will give you a laugh about the types of things we were doing back in the early 2000’s for synchronous online interaction. This is a conversational snippet from the now defunct CPSquare community (a community about communities of practice.) Skype allowed us global teleconferencing, but no video at the time. I love that dredging this up reminded me I learned the technique from Fernanda Ibarra! The image referred to in the conversation is below. Ah, the days of clipart. More from 2010.
- Just used this today with a group of people most of whom had not used Skype for teleconferencing before. I posted the slide (modified to arrange the chairs in clock mode as you talked about in the FCoP telecon the other day) as a google presentation. Names were ready in the center and to open I asked people to “take a seat” by moving their names — demonstrating by moving mine. Then we used the result for the speaking order (group was small — only 8 people) — it worked like a charm — Fernanda Ibarra and Nancy White — you are geniuses! As you said in your guest appearance at FCoP earlier this week, small things do indeed make a big difference. One person mentioned the “chair thing” as an example of “what worked” at the end of the call when we did a round robin of what worked, what didn’t, what would you do differently — so I had the opportunity to mention that I learned about the circle of chairs from you!
best,
Ann Braun
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:00 PM, < Help_in_Real_Time@conversations.cpsquare.org> wrote:
- Excellent Webinars Reply #10
- Posted onSat Feb 07 2009 19:19:00 GMT-0100 (PST)
- Nancy White-
- One Small Interactive Exercise per Webinar
- I learned this small trick from Fernanda Ibarra, who I think is a Foundations alumna as well, so maybe we can lure her here. She showed me the value of doing some small, easy interactive exercise at the start of a webinar which stealthily increases people’s familiarity with the tool and adds something to the meeting.
- Fernanda taught me about the chairs. She puts up a slide (I’ve attached my version) at the start and asks everyone to use the text tool to put their name under a chair. This sets the sense of group/circle/conversation, acquaints people with the whiteboard tools and is an easy, non-intimidating task.
- Attachment: chairs.ppt
I remember this slide and doing this activity with you, although I had forgotten the rest of the presentation. I looked through my own blog archives and found a mention of the activity from your session for CCK08. That was quite the blast from the past! Thanks!
My notes from your CCK08 session: https://www.christytuckerlearning.com/cck08-iterative-appreciative-change/