Dear Listers,
Apologies if this is a repeated theme but in my last OS hybrid meeting I was
challenged by the immense difficulty of having remote participants to
participate in the marketplace and then running the corresponding breakout
sessions. We managed great content production nevertheless with the support of
Google Hangouts and an Agile tool called Symphony adapted for 'marketplace' but
I would figure that there could be better tools out there.
I also have recently participated in a post WOSonOS with an audio
web-conference platform that allowed breakout groups and this worked well in
conjunction with a Google shared doc although the small group 'audio'
organization was not that smooth process I thought it should be.
I recently inquired in another forum about BlackBoard (BB) Collaborate and
bellow is an answer I have got. I figure that this platform could be well
suited for OS hybrid meetings, specially because it allows for flip-charts in
the breakout rooms.
Has someone experienced using BB Collaborate in OS? Any other experiences in
supporting OS hybrid meetings with remote participants?
Also if it is not asking too much... what would be the major advice in order to
keep OS as effective as it can be whilst having people attending remotely?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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Paul, if I can respond as well to your question about Blackboard Collaborate,
as I use it frequently:
Blackboard Collaborate has whiteboards and simple visual tools so that any
participant can draw or write in a choice of colours. Diagrams can be drawn on
the board, or made in PowerPoint and uploaded. The facilitator/moderator can
give anyone permission to upload. There are great breakout groups with their
own VOIP (and video, if wanted). The data from a breakout whiteboard can be
selected, copied, and pasted back on the main whiteboard by participants or the
facilitator. Whole whiteboards can be moved from the breakout group to the main
room. There is also chat, polling, the ability to share applications on
desktops, share documents, and tour websites. There are easily accessible
emoticons which blink by a participants name for a few seconds, which I
encourage people to use to share reactions (as I said in my post above).
I prefer it to Adobe Connect and other programs because it mimics the behaviour
of a whiteboard and face-to-face group, and thus requires fewer "work-arounds".
From my iPad
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