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Participants' reactions during meetings

  • February 16, 2021
  • 3 replies
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Vlad Ponomarenko
Mironeer

We would like to understand more about how non-verbal feedback from participants during meetings can help making meetings more engaging and allow to everyone in the meeting to express themselves.

What kind of non-verbal feedback you expect meetings participants to express during your online meetings?

So far, I noticed these things people do:

— React on content (“I like the idea on that sticker”, “I don’t get what’s written there”)

— React on events (“hey! glad you joined us”, “I support what you’re saying”, “I have a question”)

— Express current mood (a kind of “status” letting people know how I feel right now)

 

I feel that there’s a lot of unsupported scenarios in remote setup and I’d love to know:

❓ Do you have something to complete on the list above?

❓ What’s the most important of them all to make meeting engaging and feeling more like in-person one?

Thanks!

3 replies

Soumyadeep Mandal
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Hi @Vlad Ponomarenko 

❓ Do you have something to complete on the list above?

  • Stickers & Gifs

❓ What’s the most important of them all to make meeting engaging and feeling more like in-person one?

  • Voting & Quiz

 


mlanders
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  • Experienced Community Member
  • February 16, 2021

@Vlad Ponomarenko :

When I do online-lessons with classes it’s needed to get the attraction from my participants.

In the center of it all are always few questions:

  • What has my participant to do with the object I am talking about
  • What can I do to make it more interesting for my target-group
  • Should I use pictures, symbols, clips of films, sounds 
  • How can I add a discussion or a breakout-room with few members of the participants
  • What should / could they present in front of the whole group
  • What elements should they place onto the board 
  • Can I use a poll
  • What kind of interaction can / should I use

From an educational psychological and didactic research it says:

You always should change your method every 10 minutes … 

For me it is the challenge to put this into a miro-based-seminar so my participants don’t feel bored.

In classes where the participants have to be online the whole seminar-time it is also a challenge to tell them to turn on their camera …

So in generall there is one simple question:

How can I make my seminar / online-lesson attractive for my participants altough there are some of them who had to be in this seminar but they don’t like to be there …

One thing I do often that I ask them at the end:

In the beginning as I started where was your knowing about this or that on a scale from one to ten:

One is for “No knowing” 10 for “I know everything”.

So this interaction helps me and my participants to show what they have learned:

 

And it shows myself: Maybe there are some ways to get a higher score … maybe the next time ...

Michael

 


Kiron Bondale
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  • Volunteer Community Moderator
  • February 16, 2021

@Vlad Ponomarenko -

A variant on “Express current mood” is “Express current status” - for example “Back in 5 minutes”, “Have to take a quick call”, “Making a coffee”

Kiron