We have tried laptops in breakout groups several times in Estonia. The reports are detailed and in details there is often the essence of discussion, which otherwise might get lost.
But I suggest the conveners to keep record also on flipcharts, just to get these posted in marketplace. The proceedings will have first the record from flipchart and thenafter the laptop record. The laptop record is used just for proceedings, the flipchart record for newsroom and immediate voting at the end of day. The voting is very simple, but works pretty well. Everyone gets 10 stickers and places these to topics or proposals, which they find to be most urgent for them. The method is pretty rough, but most important result is, that all participants read through all reports. The second important result is the first insight about the urgence of issues. This makes possible to get proceedings with voted issues printed within one day. Mikk Sarv, Estonia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Weatherhead" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:59 PM Subject: Re: Wireless and Wiki > Lisa, > > As a high tech person, I thoroughly appreciate being able to move away from > my dependence on computers in my day-to-day life :). I do agree with > Harrison that it would, indeed, change the energy of an OST to have laptops > and wireless computers in breakout circles and it is another 'tool' to hide > behind should one choose to do so... and... if you were to use laptops, it > might be suggested that only one person be the note taker as in OST and > perhaps an invitation to capture essence rather than details? I would still > suggest having a marketplace to post the topics, etc. Beyond that...? I'm > interested to hear what others may have to say in this regard. > > Thanks, > Nancy > > * > * > ========================================================== > [email protected] > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of [email protected]: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
