tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182237962024-03-17T07:53:28.498+01:00The learning & technology blogIn my blog I share about learning design with technology, blended learning & knowmad learning. I started with a focus on communities of practice. I share personal experiences, articles and cases. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger698125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-69391543676894124612022-10-11T18:01:00.003+02:002022-10-11T18:04:39.434+02:00Scaling up: working with large groups online<p>Can we scale up online to reach a large numbers of participants in an learning experience? When and when not? That's the topic of this blogpost and I hope to convince you into scaling up :). </p><p>Sibrenne and I work with many organizations that have started training online via Teams or Zoom because of COVID. When I ask what the training looks like, I often get the answer: “<i>I organize online training with a maximum of 12 participants</i>”. When I ask for the reason, the answer is often: "<i>with more participants I can't give a good session because I can't give everyone attention". </i>The assumption is that nobody learns without the teacher being present and without a synchronous session. </p><p>Unfortunately! Because there is so much possible online, with large numbers of participants. You have to be bold and creative with your design. Even with large groups, participants can still learn deeply. </p><p>So where does the idea of working with 12 originate? The assumption is that real learning cannot be achieved online with large groups, over 12- 15 participants. The idea has its basis in our class- and trainingsrooms, often fit for 12-20 people. But not only that: the trainer has the idea that all 12 need attention and feedback and everyone needs to practice under the trainers eye. We also want to provide a safe environment. Incidentally, this principle is not applied at all at the university: we always have lectures there with 200-250 students. And certainly not at conferences....</p><p>We sometimes have certain assumptions in our head that have worked fine for a long time, but we need to revisit them regularly. I myself thought for a long time that I was not a podcast listener, because I am easily distracted when I have to listen alone and ears tickle in my ear. Until I once went for a walk with a podcast.. Now I regularly listen to podcasts and collect entire lists. Let's take a closer look at some examples of larger scale online learning. </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Some examples</h3><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjO1Xu_DES8WNJC4pYl4ttJk3B3o7b3y1K4W4Ai5njkN7Mm59y4yl52k24Y5RcRZDBwPtGq7sWtt6ZslPcZcUo012MG0n__N_oRDUS0109aCf5xotICb7LYJ8FBs9Pq9SoXGX41zOYpqF0NEaylMLjr0SS7L8kUaUwsalKgfB5J9GUtr63MVg/s1200/large-scale-online-events.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1200" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjO1Xu_DES8WNJC4pYl4ttJk3B3o7b3y1K4W4Ai5njkN7Mm59y4yl52k24Y5RcRZDBwPtGq7sWtt6ZslPcZcUo012MG0n__N_oRDUS0109aCf5xotICb7LYJ8FBs9Pq9SoXGX41zOYpqF0NEaylMLjr0SS7L8kUaUwsalKgfB5J9GUtr63MVg/s320/large-scale-online-events.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;">The Food systems e-course</h4><div>A 4-week online course with one week to catch up for 500 participants from many different countries. The platform (headstream LXP) is attractive and uses gamification. There are weekly themes, attractive short resources and there is an expert meeting every week. The course has a focus on collaborative learning. People sign up for group challenges. This results in 20 groups of 10 people working towards the ultimate assignment to write a blog. The best blogs are judged by an expert jury and published. This collaborative assignment was an important factor in keeping people active and has been highly valued. Some 60-70% of participants remained involved throughout. because it is a social course, with a focus on a lot of exchange of experiences. Want to read more about this online course? click <a href="https://joitskehulsebosch.blogspot.com/2021/08/large-scale-online-course-design-use.html" target="_blank">here.</a></div></div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>MOOC on social learning</b></h4><div>About 500 Dutch learning professionals took part in a social MOOC on Social Learning. I chose this MOOC because it is described so well in <a href="https://repository.han.nl/han/bitstream/handle/20.500.12470/629/Online_leren_en_werken_6.pdf?sequence=1" target="_blank">this article by Petra Peeters and Marlo Kengen</a>.</div><div>A number of important principles they mention are care for clear goals and structure. But it is also very important to welcome people and appreciates contributions. This online MOOC was concluded with a live meetup.</div></div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIMI5k25a0C5vAYvolB1MUh_sFKlJ10u2A3r56ch5Qk80DK4yaFfLSbPnQOD0nZzb8E0Vi-0IWego_2raEqojYPabyXYdGHetxEvvhvxrHFudf_0pGKP-m8_jMxw1tgRLLTiut4fkecgxNl7Kh4Xw5Mj2URwgreXyAlk0Ta_zzoWIi9koZweE/s668/beer.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="668" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIMI5k25a0C5vAYvolB1MUh_sFKlJ10u2A3r56ch5Qk80DK4yaFfLSbPnQOD0nZzb8E0Vi-0IWego_2raEqojYPabyXYdGHetxEvvhvxrHFudf_0pGKP-m8_jMxw1tgRLLTiut4fkecgxNl7Kh4Xw5Mj2URwgreXyAlk0Ta_zzoWIi9koZweE/s320/beer.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;">The science of beer</h4><div>There are large-scale MOOCs with up to 150,000 participants. People often think that large-scale MOOCs are superficial. Take a look at <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/beer-the-science-of-brewing" target="_blank">the science of beer</a> on Edx. Ulrike Wild "<i>Massive means scaling up. You minimize the dependence on a teacher. It is important that there is interaction, it is not e-learning that you walk through alone. also include collaborative learning. Think the line carefully because every mistake is avenged</i>." This MOOC the science of beer was developed by the students themselves!</div></div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong><br /></strong></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong>The writeshop by Perspectivity</strong></h4><p>The 'writeshop' is a two-day writing workshop. Because of corona is taking place online. There was a lot of variation between working in plenary, individually and in pairs. Few lectures, but a lot of writing, reading to each other and giving feedback. The online return session, in which the participants read their stories by the crackling fire, was magical. This set-up created an intimacy online in no time between people who had never met each other before, from the Netherlands, the Middle East and Asia. There is more information <a href="https://perspectivity.org/nl/another-magic-writeshop-experience/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">her</a>e. </p><p><br /></p><p></p><blockquote><h4 style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #45818e;">Design exercise: think big<br /></span></i><i><span style="color: #45818e;">A fun exercise: imagine what your design for 12 would look like with 50/500 participants. Is there a session you can do with a larger group? In our own course we have a maximum of 16 participants. But we do organize a webinar series in which other participants can also participate. There are 10 in the course, but 30 in the webinar. This way you can think of small steps in open up to a larger group.</span></i></h4></blockquote><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">Tips for scaling up</h3><p>A few tips if you want to work with large numbers of participants and with a focus on deep learning, learning which is meaningful and applied in practice. What is needed for this is space for feedback and practice.</p><p><b>Work in smaller groups</b></p><p>Split the large group into smaller learning groups and name someone in the lead (or let them choose someone themselves). You can keep in touch with the lead persons yourself. Make sure that the groups can run freely independently, through clear assignments, and perhaps also online tools that are already ready.</p><p><b>Make use of mentors</b></p><p>If you work with large groups and you still want to provide sufficient feedback, you can make use of learning coaches or mentors. Be clear about their role, is their support logistical or mainly substantive? How much time does it take? I myself have experienced that the role was conceived in terms of content, but the coaches still received many practical questions. You can prevent this by having a helpdesk that is visible.</p><p><b>Use peer review</b></p><p>In addition to using mentors, you can also use peer review for feedback. Well-known tools for this are Feedbackfruits or Eduflow. What works well with peer review is sharing assessment questions, by means of a checklist or rubric.</p><p><b>Pay attention to self-direction</b></p><p>A danger of large groups is that you do not see who is falling and you do not reach your potential dropouts. To prevent dropping out, you can support self-management, think of a clear program, tips to monitor your time such as discussing it with your manager, etc. Incidentally, many platforms also have ways to send specific groups a message, for example the group who hasn't logged in after a week.</p><p><b>Reduce the transactional distance</b></p><p>Transactional distance is the distance that an online participant feels because he/she participates from his own environment. A great distance makes a person feel less involved. Online can feel aloof but that depends on your design. You can use social learning and collaborative learning, or make it personal. </p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-35856296489317675772022-06-13T13:19:00.007+02:002022-06-13T13:25:35.465+02:00The science of expertise: how to help professionals peak with your blended learning design<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/score.png.webp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="295" height="400" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/score.png.webp" width="184" /></a></div><br />I am hooked by the Wordblitz game app - making words. I play it 2-3 times per day. I can see if I'm getting better by the scores I gain on the daily challenge. When I started playing I was simply making words. Then I suddenly discovered the 2x and 3x values and tried to make words with the higher valued letters first. This improved my score enormously. Later I discovered that you can see the complete list of possible words. Going through the list made me aware of what is possible and I shifted to larger words. Can anybody get better at Wordblitz? I think so! <p></p><p>How do you make people experts and ensure they will peak? How can you make a good blended design so that people become top of the bill in their area of expertise? I read <a href="https://managementboek.nl/boek/9780544947221/peak-anders-ericsson" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"> Peak by Anders Ericsson en Robert Pool.</a> </p><p>It is a fantastic book which gave me many new ideas and insights. I knew the word 'deliberate practice' but now I understand it much better. The authors have done a lot of research on top athletes, people who play the violin and experts who have reached the top of their field. They call it "the science of expertise". How does one become an expert? This provides a lot of insight into the elements of a strongly blended trajectory when the goal is to let your participants excel. When you want to bring their craftsmanship to a high level. </p>
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<h1><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />A few of my eye-openers</h1><div><br /></div>
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<p>Talent is over-rated. Research among violin players shows this very clearly. We think the top violinists are all naturals. Born with a violin in their hand. However, a survey of musicians shows something completely different! Intermediate level violin players under the age of 18 have practiced for 3420 hours. But the more interesting finding: the better violin players 5301 hours and the best 7410 hours! This shows that practice is much more important than innate talent. I should have continued with mandolin lessons :). However, just doing doesn't make you better at your profession.</p>
<h4>Purposeful practice: consciously doing more difficult things</h4></div>
I like to learn in practise - the reason why I never sign up for training or courses. I was convinced that practice makes perfect. An experienced driver is better than a starter and a doctor who has been practising for 20 years is better than a youngster. But that's not true. By practising, you do reach the level of 'average performance' and develop routines. However, after this level you don't automatically get better by doing. A doctor who has been in the profession for 20 years can perform worse than a doctor with 5 years of experience. If you do want to get better, you need deliberate practice and purposeful practice: conscious and purposeful practice. <div><br /></div><div>In one of the studies, a student had to remember more and more numbers. If it goes well, he gets longer strings of numbers to remember. If he makes a mistake, he gets fewer numbers. The core of this is that you gradually stretch what someone is already able to do. In learning this is called scaffolding. </div><div><br /></div><div>What I found super interesting is that the student sometimes encountered a barrier and thought he was at the max of the total numbers he could recall. But then he found a new way to apply a logic to the numbers and he could continue, yet remember more numbers. Peak explains “you develop new mental models” - new ways of looking. This is I think a clue to higher performance- higher performance comes with new mental models. <div>
<h4>Learn from the best and define good performance</h4>
<p>With Wordblitz and memorizing a high amount of numbers it is easy to measure a performance. With leadership, for example, this is much more difficult. What is a top performance? In deliberate practice you know what a good standard is and you work towards it. The standard is set by the top performers in the field. It then helps to have a trainer or coach who knows the standard and can help you. How do you achieve this in a field where top performance is less visible? You can find out who the experts are by asking people. You may approach the experts and interview them. Have them think out loud while they work. You can even copy experts to understand them. I have once painted a painting by Marlene Dumas and have indeed learned quite a lot from it in terms of color choice.</p><p>You need feedback while practicing. Are you doing well? When are you on a plateau? It helps if you have a coach who can observe you and give you feedback.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: left;">How do you translate this into a good blended design?</h1>
<p>Important tips from Peak are:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Find the experts and set the standard</li><li>Make sure people practice consciously (purposeful and deliberate practice)</li><li>Ensure they get feedback on their performance</li><li>Help develop mental representations</li></ol><p></p><p>What the latter looks like is illustrated by an example of a chemistry lesson at a school. In the past, facts were mainly taught by telling the students. Now students get questions and tasks. When answering, they have to think out loud and mistakes were corrected, sometimes by student assistants, sometimes by the teacher. The main advantage is that they are immediately corrected in thinking errors. </p>
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<h4>Find the experts</h4><div style="text-align: left;">Technology offers new possibilities to invite experts.</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>You can do a lot with video and audio. Think of the success of the YouTube teachers. Not only students can learn from this, but other teachers could also copy it. Ask for the experts in their field. Don't make the usual talking head video, but let the expert respond to 3 practical situations. How do you handle this? In developing the mission safety module for defense I asked what commanders do who do well. We re-enacted 3 situations in an audio conversation. </li><li><a href="https://www.workingoutloud.com/circle-guides" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Working Outloud</a> is an interesting approach. Can you invite people to think out loud? I remember the video of a teacher who had won a prize. Other teachers really enjoyed seeing how they approach it in class</li><li>Organize (online) masterclasses. Focus on a case or participant.</li></ul>
<h4>Make sure people practice consciously (purposeful and deliberate practice<strong>)</strong></h4>
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</ul></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The advantage of a blended trajectory is that the total time is often longer than a live trajectory and you can therefore build in much more practice. A new idea to include purposeful practice is that you can form groups of people that want to practice a certain skill. Can you give them a standard?</li><li>With collaborative learning in projects, you can pay more attention to what people want to practice. In the course, participants do this during the facilitation assignment. Some groups manage to do this better than others by organizing the assignment in such a way that everyone can practice.</li><li>You can also let people practice online (against the myth). Eg recording a video via Traintool or Flipgrid reacting to a difficult situation. Or think of virtual reality.</li></ul><div>
<h4><strong>Feedback </strong></h4><ul><li>Can you organize that participants receive individual feedback online? Deploy coaches? In our series of online courses for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the feedback from a civil servant was indeed very useful. However, the coaches always said it is very time consuming (though fun). Can you also work with a standard answer made by the experts?</li><li>You can also use peer assists for feedback. It is even more important to develop a standard. In our course participants make a blended design and receive peer feedback and from us as supervisors/ experts.</li></ul>
<h4><strong>Help develop 'mental representations' </strong></h4>I find this the most difficult one to translate into blended learning design. I think it's about teaching fewer tricks, but helping to think for yourself. Can you help me with this one? </div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Instead of organizing a Microsoft Teams course, invite a colleague who is handy to explain how he / she learns works with Teams.</li><li>You can also think of visualizations, let people draw how they approach it. This can be done on paper but also online using <a href="http://www.miro.com">Miro</a> of <a href="http://mural.com">Mural </a></li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-68054994130009813132022-05-30T15:12:00.001+02:002022-05-30T15:12:19.521+02:00Five competences to develop to facilitate hybrid sessions<p style="text-align: left;">I get quite a few invitations for workshops on facilitating hybrid sessions. Hybrid sessions are with a group in the room and a few (or many!) online. During our blended learning course in collaboration with Kessels and Smit Belgium we experimented quite a bit: with methods do I use in a hybrid session? engaging participants in different ways and different setups from everyone online on the beamer to 'heads on a laptop'. It is really not easy. I think I have 3 sessions I felt good about, all the others left me really puzzled. What do you need to successfully guide a hybrid session? In this blog I will discuss the competencies of the hybrid trainer or process facilitator.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Don't underestimate the challenge of hybrid</b></h4><p style="text-align: left;">
After several hybrid sessions, I have learned that you should certainly not underestimate what hybrid demand from the facilitator. However, not only the facilitator is challenged: it demands a lot from everyone: the online participants and the participants in the room. At one of the first sessions I started out hopeful with the following quote:
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"A good hybrid session combines the best of both world: online and live"</em></p>
</blockquote>After 4-5 meeting I my perception changed. Live and online have their advantages from the point of view of the facilitator. In a live session you can focus on the room and the energy in the room. During an online session, you can conveniently use the chat or other online tools. With hybrid sessions, however, you can't use either benefit. It is a new form that demands that the facilitator is a sort of centipede. The facililtator must divide attention across the room and online. This feels like you should have eyes in your back. You are also highly dependent on technology. In one hybrid session, I was so busy getting everything right that I couldn't chat informally with the participants before the start of the session. This felt like a real loss because I like to start building connections before the session. <p style="text-align: center;"><em>"For some in the room it is quite demanding to be a buddy with an online person. You have to pay more attention to the chat and the screen and multitasking. Others find it very easy and have fun"</em></p>
Hybrid sessions demand a lot from participants and you have to manage that as a facilitator. A hybrid session is exhausting for the people who participate online. Perhaps the sound not 100%. You often don't know whether or not you can break in to ask a question. But discussion may also feel less spontaneous for people in the room. When you agree to raise your hand, it feels like school. People online may request that people in the room don't touch papers or coffee cups for the noise. All this may cause the fun to wear off, and you as the facilitator have to deal with all these deceptions. <h3><span style="font-size: 18.72px;">Competencies of the hybrid facilitator</span></h3>Not every facilitator and teacher is looking forward to hybrid... With the pandemic they learned to work online, and they are happy with another new thing. And they are right! It's not easy. However, I do think hybrid is here to stay. So sooner or later you will have to embrace hybrid. You better start getting good at it. <div><br /></div><div>There are many tips and tricks for a hybrid meeting on the internet, but which competencies do you need to develop? (Competences are a combination of knowledge, skills, attitude and/or personal characteristics/personal qualities). The following five competencies are important from my experience:</div><div><br /></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Choose the right technical set-up</li><li>Organize collaboration</li><li>Design your session with hybrid methods (and elaborating it in a script)</li><li>Facilitate with an eye for the needs of the room and online</li><li>Improvise</li>
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<strong>1. </strong>Choose the right technical set-up</h3><p style="padding-left: 40px;">There are different ways of organizing the technical set up. Do you work with your own equipment, for example speakerphones or a meeting owl? Then you probably already know how it works. Sometimes you have to work with the (unfamiliar to you) technical set-up in a room. Are you satisfied with the equipment? Do you have enough time to test it or test it beforehand? </p><p style="padding-left: 40px;">We distinguish three different main setups: </p><p style="padding-left: 40px;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>onliners on the beamer</li><li>laptop heads (see photo)</li><li>everyone behind the laptop and log in. </li></ul>Only through experience with these different forms you will get comfortable and be able to make the best choice that suits the session. Are you not that experienced yet? Then start with a simple setup, for example the equipment that is already present, or a laptop head. And don't forget to test! Or even better: make sure you organize help. <p></p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong>2. </strong>Organize collaboration</h3><p style="padding-left: 40px;">I regularly facilitate hybrid meetings with a facilitator. An online and a live facilitator. In the collaboration with Belgium, participants had the choice to participate in Antwerp, Utrecht or online. We even had 3 facilitators. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“A hybrid session requires multiple roles”</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">In a hybrid session there are extra tasks compared to a 'normal' live session. Think of monitoring the online group, making sure there are breakouts, walking around with laptops. It is nice if you can divide these tasks amongst various persons. If you do not have the luxury to have a co-facililtator, you can appoint an online contact person. Or work with buddies between people in the room and online. In universities there is sometimes a student assistant who helps with the online group.</p><p style="padding-left: 40px;">Do you have the luxury of having a co-facilitator? If one is online and one in the room it works perfect. It is even nicer if the online facilitator is at a location close by, for example a room adjacent to the group. It allows you to set up the room together and quickly tune in during the break. Also think about how you will work together during the session. Do you call each other during the break or do you text each other?</p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong>3. </strong>Design your session with hybrid methods</h3><p style="padding-left: 40px;">Facilitators and trainers are very strong in methods. You can translate almost any method into a hybrids version. However, you need to keep an eye at the overall balance of working separately (the onliners together and the people in the room together) and joint. </p><p style="padding-left: 40px;">Questions to consider are: if you are going to work in groups, are you going to mix? And if so, how do you ensure that there are no annoying loud beeps (tip: create breakout groups)? This also requires experience. </p><p style="padding-left: 40px;">Are you a starter? Work in two different groups: the people in the room and the onliners. It is easier for both groups because they can ignore the others. You have to make a very detailled scripts. An example of a detail: who will mute the online group if they start working together? What do we do during the breaks? Pay attention to the nitty gritty.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong>4. </strong>Facilitate with an eye for the needs of the room and online</h3><p style="padding-left: 40px;">You have your session script. Now the day itself. You are probably in the room. Always keep the people in the room and online in mind. It helps if the onliners are also clearly visible. If you work with an online facilitator you can occasionally switch to your co-facilitator. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"If you participate online, it's nice if you have an overview of the room"</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">Make sure the technical setup and etiquette are clear at the start. Do you want onliners to raise their hands? Can they break in the discussions if they want to say something? Where do you position yourself? Regularly check everyone. Is the sound still good? Do you need an extra break?</p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong>5. Improvise</strong></h3><p style="padding-left: 40px;">Sometimes everything is set... and something interferes with your solid plan. Your co-facilitator has COVID and now you have to set things up alone. You want to use the chat but that produces a ping sound, annoying people. You have so much experience with your own speakerphones but the bluetooth is on and they connect to two computers. You instruct people to raise hands, but the participants don't like this and get rebellious... There is a birthday cake in the room and the people who are present don't care for the people online. This requires a lot of improvisation. It helps to see hybrid as a great new challenge. Go for it! </p>
<blockquote><br /></blockquote></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-88958938961080056732022-05-02T15:39:00.002+02:002022-05-02T15:39:22.373+02:0050 ideas for humour in your online sessions<p><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">This humour product is a collaboration of <span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasja-van-schaik-035486/" style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: left; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Natasja van Schaik</a><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">,</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenvanluipen/" style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: left; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Steven van Luipen</a><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">,</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/itesmit/" style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: left; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Ite Smit</a><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"> </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">en</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joitskehulsebosch/" style="border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: medium; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-align: left; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Joitske Hulsebosch</a>. In 2020, we started working and learning online a lot. We asked people whether they laughed as much online as they did when we all went to the office together. This was not the case, even though you can still have fun with each other online.</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Everything went wrong online with children coming into the picture and connection or sound that didn’t work. Just by choosing to see the humour in that, you can laugh together online. We gathered many situations, and then we organised a number of sessions about humour online, including at the <a href="https://oeb.global/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;">OEB Conference</a> in Berlin. One thing led to another, resulting in 50 working methods for online sessions with humour.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Why is humour important?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Research shows that humour not only influences the way you feel but also influences how others see you, the dynamics in a group and the innovation within an organization. This results from 15 positive effects of humour – eight psychological consequences and seven physiological:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><div class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify;"><figure class="aligncenter size-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" href="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-table.png" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-11631" height="251" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px" src="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-table.png" srcset="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-table.png 902w, https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-table-300x83.png 300w, https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-table-768x214.png 768w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 830px;" width="902" /></a></figure></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">If you use humour, you are even seen as more competent, according to research. A story told with humour will be remembered better, and so will the narrator. Laughter triggers the release of oxytocin – the ‘trust hormone’, so people in the group feel safer when they laugh together. They can open up and show vulnerability. People who have laughed together experience their relationship as more satisfying. This has a positive influence on the performance of a group. Just think of the teams you like best to work with, they will probably laugh together on a regular basis. As we age, our brains become ‘functionally fixated’, and humour expands the brain. This, in combination with increasing trust (fear is the killer of creativity), increases creativity within an organisation and with it – innovation.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">In short, using humour has many advantages. That is why we have collected 50 methods that you can use to bring humour into an online session. They are divided into four sections based on two criteria: how much time it takes (easy–difficult) and whether or not it’s linked to the content – the learning objective of the session, in four quadrants. The latter is important because humour linked to the content has more learning effect if used in the right way. ‘Loose’ humour can improve the atmosphere.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">A. Easy and linked to the content</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">B. Difficult and linked to the content</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">C. Easy and not linked to the content</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">D. Difficult and not linked to the content<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Easy – linked to the content<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></h2><div class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify;"><figure class="aligncenter size-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" href="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-1.png" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-11635" height="430" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 988px) 100vw, 988px" src="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-1.png" srcset="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-1.png 988w, https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-1-300x131.png 300w, https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-1-768x334.png 768w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 830px;" width="988" /></a></figure></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">1. There’s a weird question in my quiz</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In a quiz, you can add humour, via funny questions or answers. For example, in a lesson about Aristotle, ask about his favourite food or add weird answers that are clearly wrong but can bring a smile. This can be done in an online quiz with tools such as <a href="https://kahoot.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Kahoot</a> or <a href="http://mentimeter.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Mentimeter</a>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">2. Say it with cartoons</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">A cartoon expresses an opinion in a funny way. Have participants express their ideas through cartoons; you can let participants choose a cartoon and collect the cartoons on an online brainstorming wall. You can also show some cartoons that you have chosen and let people choose one. You could also collect the cartoons for yourself on Pinterest. <a href="https://nl.pinterest.com/joitske/cartoons-technology/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;">See our collection on online technology</a>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">3. Your point of view through a drawing</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Cartoons also work to express points of view. To get participants to take their point of view, for example, you hang three different cartoons on a whiteboard or brainstorm wall that provoke an opinion. Participants can put their name to the cartoon that best fits their point of view, as a fun starting point for a dialogue.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">4. Extreme errors</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Things go wrong for all of us, but there are always examples where things went much worse. Find an example online of something that went very wrong such as a video, photo or short story related to the topic your session is about and show it to the participants. You can also ask the participants to find an example themselves as a warm-up exercise.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">5. Puzzle with a rebus</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Rebuses are great fun to make and solve. Try making a rebus for an assignment in training or a topic on an agenda. You can make a rebus by cutting out pictures and letters and you can also work with emoticons. If you want to make it easy for yourself, you can make the rebus via the <a href="https://rebus.club/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Rebus Club website</a>, so you’re ready in just a minute.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">6. Share a funny story as a stand-up comedian</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">You can learn to be funny. In addition to spontaneous jokes, you can also collect anecdotes and tell them in your lesson. This takes some guts and practice.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Daily practice offers many humorous situations. All you have to do is look through ‘the lens of humour’. Are you in a Zoom meeting and is your child in the picture? You can be ashamed of it, but you can also laugh about it. Go through your own experiences in your mind. Are there situations that you can make a funny story out of? You don’t have to violate the truth, but a little exaggeration makes it even funnier. You can use these around the topic of your lesson. Of course, you can also share a funny story that is not about the content. Funny stories bring light to the group, which promotes creativity. For example, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEtiaE_Oxsg&t=336s" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">listen to the start of the presentation by Fons Trompenaar</a>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">7. Another picture</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Pictures can be used in many ways; in a presentation, in an email, in the chat. You can surprise people by using a funny picture, or one that deviates from the context. You can google a picture, but there are also other free options online to take a picture. If you are creative, you can create a picture with <a href="https://www.canva.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Canva</a>, but you can also make it easy on yourself and use <a href="https://tenor.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Tenor</a>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">8. Say it with your own speech bubbles</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Have participants complete a cartoon with empty speech bubbles with their own texts. This stimulates their creativity while allowing them to raise sensitive topics. Choose a cartoon that triggers people to come up with something, see for example this cartoon in which a woman takes a chainsaw to a meeting (by Tom Fishburne):<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><div class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify;"><figure class="aligncenter size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" href="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/HUmour-article-image-2.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-11678" height="752" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/HUmour-article-image-2-1024x752.jpg" srcset="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/HUmour-article-image-2-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/HUmour-article-image-2-300x220.jpg 300w, https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/HUmour-article-image-2-768x564.jpg 768w, https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/HUmour-article-image-2-80x60.jpg 80w, https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/HUmour-article-image-2.jpg 1200w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 830px;" width="1024" /></a></figure></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">8. Share your opinion via gif</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">A gif is a moving picture. In Teams, you can choose and share a gif via chat, and in Zoom, you can find all kinds of emojis via the chat. Ask participants to express their opinion with a gif or emoji in the chat. You can use this as a check-in, but also as an evaluation. An alternative way is to put some gifs on a brainstorming wall and let people choose their gifs there.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">9. PowerPoint karaoke</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">PowerPoint karaoke is a combination of PowerPoint with karaoke. Instead of singing you now give a presentation based on a slide deck that you have never seen before. You can do this with serious slides, but you can also add crazy slides to it. A variant of the PowerPoint karaoke is the Edtech conference title generator. You can invite people to give a brief explanation of an unexpected conference title.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">11. The funniest YouTube clips</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Sometimes a video says exactly what you want to say. There are existing funny videos that you can put to good use. Think of the videos of the office for leadership trajectories. For example, are you trying to make it clear that self-direction is important in your training? For example, start with the video: ‘Man stuck on escalator’.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Tip: Make a playlist with funny videos for yourself on YouTube, which you can easily draw from. A fun way to make such a playlist is to collect funny videos with your team every Friday.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">12. Sprinkle with fun facts</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Do you have a heavy subject? It can bring some air into a session on a difficult topic if you have some fun facts ready. Think about facts such as: Did you know it’s illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland? Or Did you know that there are more CEOs named Peter than female CEOs?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">13. Play serious bingo</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">You might know the song festival bingo, the virtual meeting bingo or the meeting hell bingo. You might cross bingo square if the items appear on your card. You can make your own bingo card, e.g., with some experiences related to your topic. With blended learning, think of: ‘someone who has ever made a podcast’. The participants will talk to each other in 3-4 rounds in breakouts and try to fill their cards. Whoever has bingo first goes back to the main room. <a href="https://bingobaker.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Here</a> you can make free virtual bingo cards online.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Difficult – linked to the content<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></h2><div class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify;"><figure class="aligncenter size-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" href="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-3.png" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-11680" height="570" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px" src="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-3.png" srcset="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-3.png 958w, https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-3-300x178.png 300w, https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-3-768x457.png 768w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 830px;" width="958" /></a></figure></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">14. Making a LuckyTV</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">You probably know LuckyTV – Sander van der Pavert re-records a video fragment with his own texts. You can do this yourself. Take, for example, a video of a famous person related to your topic. Think of Rutte or Obama when you talk about leadership. A variant of this is choosing a video in a foreign language and making your own subtitles for it. For example, see this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7CXMC9-Rh4&ab_channel=Left%2CRight%26Satire" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">video by Kim Jong Un on YouTube</a>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">15. Making Lip Dub video together</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">A ‘lip dub’ is a video clip, consisting of a single recording, in which you act out a song with a group of people. That is immediately the best challenge: making a video clip in a non-stop shot without stopping filming. Choose a song that fits your subject. A variant is a lip dub where you make new lyrics to an existing song. An example of this is ‘<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK2Qztu9S0c&t=83s" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">50 years Wulverhorst Lipdub Brand new day</a>’.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">16. Play Pictionary with concepts</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Pictionary can be played in teams. You let someone sign you and the team has to guess what it is. Each correct answer within the time is a point. You can do this on a whiteboard or, for example, a Google Jamboard. Make your own cards with topics that you pass on to the artist via chat or WhatsApp. For example, you can take important concepts from your lesson or training. A variant here is you can also play <a href="https://www.jackboxgames.com/drawful-two/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Drawful</a>, where you draw and come up with titles at the same time.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">17. Find the errors in the text</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">You can hide errors in a text or quiz that participants or students have to find. Share an article written by you and include three mistakes in it, and ask the readers what mistakes they find. You can also choose not to tell and see who discovers the mistakes. Example: Ionica Smeets sometimes asks students in a footnote of a lesson assignment or test to send a photo of a pet.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">18. Make knowledge clips with humour</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">We tend to take knowledge clips very seriously. You can make videos that contain humour, for example, a recurring joke. A good example is the historical comedy ‘Welcome to the Middle Ages’. That is a professional production, but of course, you can also do it yourself.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">19. Organise a scavenger hunt</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">With a treasure hunt with substantive questions, you combine the game with content. With apps like Seppo or Goosechase you can plan a walk for your students or participants along with specific points. You can ask them multiple-choice questions, but you can also ask them to take pictures. For example, have participants interview a passer-by about online learning and share the results (with a photo) via the app.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">20. From A to B on Wikipedia, Milk reminds you of…</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Milk reminds you of cow, baby, white, dairy. What does Wikipedia think about your topic? Ask participants to look up the topic in Wikipedia and then click on something 15 times. Write down the 15 ‘click words’. Show each other the association chain and learn from it. A variant can be to get from one article to another in the fewest steps, for example from milk to flooding in Bangladesh.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">21. Say it with a background</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">In a video call on Zoom or Teams, participants can customise their background. Use this within a training session and have everyone post a picture of their opinion. You can also apply it in a proposal round where you first ask everyone to choose a background of their favourite holiday destination.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Tip: Keep in mind that switching backgrounds can take some time, especially if participants have to find the backgrounds themselves. You can also put three different wallpapers in one place that they can download themselves, or warn them in advance.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">22. Blog with humour</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Blogs are a great way to bring humour to work. You can write a blog from a fictional character that describes the situations you experience at work from a different perspective. Another way is to create a section on the internet where you invite people to share anecdotes, and let them write as ‘I’, like the section in the NRC.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">23. Online goose boards</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">You can make your own goose board in an online brainstorming tool such as Miro or Mural. You can link serious questions to a goose board box, but of course, you also put funny questions in between. You put the questions and answers on post-its one above the other, with a post-it with a number on top. Success assured!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">24. Create an animation</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">There are several programs with which you can easily create a short animation yourself. You choose the figures, and you can record a text. For example, you can use <a href="https://www.powtoon.com/creators/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=2021_04_brand_uk&cq_plac=&cq_net=g&cq_pos=&cq_med=&ad_id=528014777695&ad_group_id=75206358147&keyword=powtoon&gclid=CjwKCAjwu_mSBhAYEiwA5BBmf2YS23LrXwuSMgJV561aiFcM0kgE6Y8xIV6oU5Tp449ZXXt7H5bX6xoCK40QAvD_BwE" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Powtoon</a> or <a href="https://www.vyond.com/plans/?creative=434085985877&keyword=vyond&matchtype=e&network=g&device=c&gclid=CjwKCAjwu_mSBhAYEiwA5BBmf4eDIUVxPXbbWdNjZcZ3660L6hwZnMV80XK-I_ytlhYdq1Az4bXAHhoCMlgQAvD_BwE" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Vyond</a>. It is immediately a funny effect, especially if you use a doll that resembles yourself.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">25. Spotify song list on topic</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Do you really want to surprise your participants? Make a Spotify playlist with songs that say something about your subject. Alternatively, make sure that the first words of the titles together form a sentence that they must remember well.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">26. A simple song on a complicated subject in one minute</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">In the program <a href="https://www.bnnvara.nl/eventothier" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Even tot hier</a>, the part “a very simple song about a rather complicated subject” is in one minute. This one is good, but it requires some preparation; you have to make a pretty complicated song yourself. <a href="https://chordify.net/chords/even-tot-hier-simpel-liedje-mondkapjesplicht-even-tot-hier" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Here</a> you will find the chords and a karaoke version <a href="https://www.edityouraudio.com/nl/karaoke-maker/even-tot-hier-simpel-liedje-voor-poetin-or-even-tot-hier-or-seizoen-5" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.edityouraudio.com/nl/karaoke-maker/even-tot-hier-simpel-liedje-zelftest-or-even-tot-hier-or-seizoen-5" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>. View the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qwvuIc5c5Q&ab_channel=EvenTotHier" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">AZCs in one minute</a> for inspiration.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Easy – not linked to the content<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></h2><div class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify;"><figure class="aligncenter size-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" href="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-4.png" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-11682" height="386" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px" src="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-4.png" srcset="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-4.png 318w, https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-4-247x300.png 247w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 830px;" width="318" /></a></figure></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">27. What did you laugh about?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">You can pay attention to funny situations. Ask participants about funny experiences from the past week, or around a particular topic. Suppose you have a session for online trainers, you can start with the funniest moment during online training. For example, during the pandemic, a teacher started the lesson with the students exchanging funny moments online. A student once had to abort an online exam because the teacher locked herself out while letting the cat in.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">28. Break the ice with a bad joke</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">The inconvenience of training where participants don’t know each other well can be overcome by starting with a really bad joke. Preferably you keep your face straight afterwards, before you make it clear that this was planned.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">29. Guess what the blurry photo is about</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">In preparation for a session, collect a few photos or fragments of photos, for example from previous sessions with the participant group or from the topic of your training. Decrease the resolution of the photo sharply or zoom in a little, making recognition difficult. Use some of these blurry pictures as a warm-up exercise, having the participants say what they think it is. Don’t forget to have the original photos on hand to show if a photo is guessed – or not.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">30. Hide a gorilla in your presentation</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">When you give a presentation, especially if you instruct them to pay close attention to one part or aspect, people get ‘selective attention’, and they will not notice certain, actually very striking things. You can see this clearly in the famous ‘gorilla experiment’, in which people focus on the throwing of a ball, while they miss the gorilla in the picture. A fun experiment is to incorporate such a striking element in a few places in your presentation. If no one notices during your presentation, you can ask at the end: did you notice anything?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">31. Find things at home</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">A fun starting exercise and intermediate energiser in an online session is about finding objects in the home of the participants. Ask who finds something blue or two objects that start with an M the fastest and keep them in view. Of course, you check it if it is not immediately clear: does everyone agree that a ‘Beautiful pen’ starts with a B? If you want to take it one step further, place nine objects in a three-by-three grid on the screen. It is up to the participants to find the objects in one row, whether this is horizontal, vertical or diagonal.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">32. Rock-paper-scissors</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">You can also play the well-known game rock-paper-scissors online. The scissors beat paper, paper beats rock, and rock beats the scissors. Have two people play against each other while others watch, or have everyone play in breakouts. Extra fun: sending a real pen, paper and scissors to the participants in advance by post.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">33. Host a dress-up party</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">If your target audience is up for it, you can also play dress up games online. For example, you can ask three people to choose someone they will resemble by dressing up. The others then have to guess who they are dressed as. Example assignment: look at someone else for two minutes. Then turn off your video and dress like the other in two minutes, and then you come back and laugh.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">A possible variant is to instruct people in advance to dress in a certain style, for example all in orange. Alternatively, ask people to choose an outfit and share a detailed photo of it beforehand. Everyone can cast their vote in a quiz about this, and then the unveiling follows.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">34. Six degrees of s</strong>ep<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">aration: which comedian are you like?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Six degrees of separation assumes that every person on Earth is a maximum of six ‘steps’ away from being like another person. In an introductory exercise in training where people don’t know each other yet, you give pairs time to find out which people they are connected to, as opposed to the training itself. A variant can be the challenging of finding who is linked to a comedian or famous person in the fewest steps possible? Use social media such as LinkedIn to find out.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">35. Accidentism</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Accidentism is based on chance. Paintings of unknown persons can look very much like your colleague. Collect a series of portraits of unknown people and ask who the participants think they are, or if they know anyone who looks like them. And prove it with a photo.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">36. Theme session in style</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">In a session on a specific theme, you ask the (online) participants to prepare for that theme with their clothing, attributes and – if you want to go a step further – the food. If it’s about social media, have participants dress as influencers, including a selfie stick, have them find a safety helmet when it comes to construction, etc. Hilarity is guaranteed when the participants see each other for the first time.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">37.</strong> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Create and imitate cool dance moves</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Ask participants to stand in front of the webcam and turn on some music. Meanwhile, someone gets to do a cool dance move that everyone else imitates. Alternatively, you can take a short online dance class together, or choose a number of TikTok videos in advance that participants will imitate.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">38. A joint playlist with favourite songs</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Music generally creates a good atmosphere, and it can be fun to discover the music taste of your fellow students. For example, in an international course there turned out to be an extremely large number of gospel enthusiasts. Ask participants to share their favourite song and make it your own YouTube playlist. Play songs at the start of an online session and encourage people to play the playlist while working.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">39. Who’s on Padlet?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Provide a brainstorming wall (e.g. Padlet) full of baby photos. Which baby from then is your colleague now? How can you see that? Whoever gets the most right wins an enlargement of his own most beautiful baby photo.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">40. Sit somewhere else</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Do you have an online meeting or training? Surprise the other participants by sitting in a different place. Then you can sit in a different place in the house or simply sit or lie on the floor. But you can also look for another place outside the home; as long as they also have Wi-Fi.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">41. Come up with a break command for much-needed relaxation</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">An online session can be exhausting, so you should take frequent breaks. During a break, you can come up with a funny assignment that requires people to move around. Think of an online boot camp.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Tip: You can also ask who can get the most people on a webcam. This way you immediately get to know the family and neighbours.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">42. Online hints</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">You can play hints online. You probably know it. In turn, someone has to act out a word without speaking. The game consists of the categories of television, music, books, movies and proverbs and sayings. You can make your own cards, but there is a very handy site – <a href="http://www.hintsonline.nl/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;">hintsonline</a> – where you can find ready-made cards for free. <a href="http://www.hintsonline.nl/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Check out their site</a> for a detailed explanation.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">43. Use spontaneous humour</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Experiment with the use of spontaneous humour during a session. If you’re unsure whether it’s appropriate in a certain setting, such as a formal one, don’t go all the way, but make a few jokes during your presentation. Choose a way that suits you, for example about awkward situations you once experienced. You will see that you don’t have to be a stand-up comedian to be able to make jokes.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">44. Play online tag</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">You can play tag online in the breakout rooms. You, in turn, open up the possibility for participants to ‘run’ from breakout room to breakout room themselves. This can be done in Zoom, for example. Make one or two participants tag, and get the others to run to a break-out room of your choice. When entering a break-out room, the tagger first counts to three and then calls out the name of a participant who is still in the break-out room. This person is then the new tagger. The joke is that at some point you don’t know who the tagger is. This is a good exercise if you want to teach people to switch breakouts themselves.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">45. Playing with hands, hats and avatars</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">If you meet online, you can use all kinds of tools to cheer up the meeting. You can use the possibilities of Zoom or Teams by raising hands or scattering confetti. You can give yourself a different name in the online meeting, a hat or a moustache.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">You can also use external tools for this. A good example of this is Snapchat. For example, you can use Snapchat’s filters and join as an avatar or appear with a cat on your head. Make sure you can also turn it off, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/style/cat-lawyer-zoom.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;">which this lawyer</a> was unable to do during an online hearing.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Difficult – not linked to the content<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></h2><div class="wp-block-image" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: justify;"><figure class="aligncenter size-full" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px auto;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" href="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-5.png" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-11720" height="324" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px" src="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-5.png" srcset="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-5.png 696w, https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Humour-article-image-5-300x140.png 300w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: 830px;" width="696" /></a></figure></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">46. Organise a free space with humour</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Maybe you knew that your immediate colleague is good at model drawing, but did you also know that your director is a yoga instructor, and the head of the finance department who writes short stories? In preparation for a free space, you make an inventory of the hobbies of the participants and what they need to teach their colleagues in a short workshop. You can do more workshop rounds in a free space, so that the instructors can also follow workshops themselves.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">47. Drinking in Wonder</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">There are new online tools where participants have the freedom to walk around. Think <a href="https://wonder.me/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;">Wonder</a>, <a href="https://remo.co/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;">Remo.co</a> or <a href="https://spatial.chat/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;">Spatial.chat</a>. After a substantive session, you can ask people to grab their own drinks and switch to a platform such as <a href="https://wonder.me/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;">Wonder</a>. They can walk around there and talk to whoever they want.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">48. Morph your colleagues</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Morphen is to let one face pass into the other, which results in hilarious faces. You can morph familiar faces and make it a game of who sees which face it will be first. Put photos of all your team members in the app, and start morphing. Who can guess who will be the fastest? Or do this with famous Dutch people. An app that allows you to do this is <a href="https://facefilm-blend-and-morph-face-photos-for-slideshow-effects--ios.soft112.com/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;">Facefilm</a>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">49. Run your rotten</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Who doesn’t know it <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_je_Rot" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;">Run your rotten</a> with Martin Brozius? A multiple-choice quiz where participants run to answer one, two or three to the loud: RUN… YOUR…. ROTTEN. Online you can do this by looking for objects instead of running for 1, 2 or 3. Who has worked the longest with the organization? Give three options. If you choose the first answer, you have to find an orange, the second an apple, the third a banana. Run you rotten!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Tip: If people don’t have everything they need, they will probably get creative, and it will lead to funny situations.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">50. Ranking your team</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #191919; font-family: Museo500, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;">Get to know your colleagues in a different way with ‘Ranking your team’, based on the concept of ‘<a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranking_the_Stars_(Nederland)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;">Ranking the stars</a>‘. You ask everyone the same questions along the lines of ‘Who would survive the Ice Age best?’ People must individually rank the team members from highest to lowest: who survives the best, who survives the least, etc. You collect the answers and in the session you ask people to explain their list with reasons. You can also calculate and announce the total score, of course, just like in the television program, provided that it is not too shocking for the team members. <a href="https://www.feesy.nl/ranking-the-stars-organiseren/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: #7e4067; text-decoration-line: none;">Here</a> you will find help with organising.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p>First published on<a href="https://oeb.global/oeb-insights/50-humour-ideas-for-online-sessions/" target="_blank"> the OEB site</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-34004930416884377182022-02-24T16:36:00.002+01:002022-02-24T16:46:17.353+01:00Comparison of 4 habit tracking apps for yourself or use in learningSince January I have been testing four habit tracker apps - apps that help you develop habits. Do you you firm resolutions to lose less time on your phone, loose your corona kilos? Or intend to run three times a week instead of barely once? These four these apps can help you build your new routines. The apps work for a variety range of habits. You may think that these apps mainly help with healthier living, such as exercising more or losing weight. That is certainly not the case. They can help with new habits such as learning more, reading, more active networking of playing guitar. Besides the fact that these apps can help you yourself, they are also great to use in a training or trajectory in which you help participants with new routines.<div><br /></div><div><h3><b>1. Streaks </b></h3></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqJ18HXa1zXCW6s56CUQmka_wQ_Pwd3oJIouZRbcE_7cNnbOExEmuwgojos_VwxN276RYiecurz9zsu3_LF4Vj3hleDIro9jatAqWFN81SmWNzAA_Syl3o7lowiOyko90f2M63q6NgqxgFXTzO8t97IQozasUW03sszlbUAd__tnhorvRkado=s300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqJ18HXa1zXCW6s56CUQmka_wQ_Pwd3oJIouZRbcE_7cNnbOExEmuwgojos_VwxN276RYiecurz9zsu3_LF4Vj3hleDIro9jatAqWFN81SmWNzAA_Syl3o7lowiOyko90f2M63q6NgqxgFXTzO8t97IQozasUW03sszlbUAd__tnhorvRkado" width="300" /></a></div><br /></b></h3><div><a href="https://streaksapp.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Streaks</a> is a free downloadable app, for <a href="https://streaksapp.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Apple</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pilanites.streaks&hl=en&gl=US" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Android</a>. The great thing about Streaks is that it's super simple: you download the app, click on the big plus to add a habit and you choose a frequency. After this you have to record your habit by clicking the circle each time you've performed. What's great is that you can link Streaks directly to your pedometer so it automatically keeps track of your steps. The app is called Streaks because it encourages you to stick with it and get a streak. You have to persevere every day or you will break the streak. I have to admit I have gone out for a second short walk to get my extra 500 steps :). <div>
<img alt="" class="wp-image-12064 alignnone" height="75" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ster-150x150.jpg" width="75" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-12064 alignnone" height="75" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ster-150x150.jpg" width="75" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-12064 alignnone" height="75" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ster-150x150.jpg" width="75" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-12064 alignnone" height="75" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ster-150x150.jpg" width="75" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-12064 alignnone" height="75" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ster-150x150.jpg" width="75" /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><h3><b>2. HabitShare </b></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcng-3E8J8hECmAmxFL8UuX8sU9_ChDzApd-YIVO6TFP965OmRFon5qlsq71JBgC3zBzBrMLP-z4MMxcEdbaDuDKhIZAYtA8mtl_Y04Shq1xLEVLhxS2Vy_r-TdPiikxNDTgFuJwgBBs_qFAVNp2NWV1uLy1Watz9qTH4G9j0hU8WtWjaUAgQ=s300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcng-3E8J8hECmAmxFL8UuX8sU9_ChDzApd-YIVO6TFP965OmRFon5qlsq71JBgC3zBzBrMLP-z4MMxcEdbaDuDKhIZAYtA8mtl_Y04Shq1xLEVLhxS2Vy_r-TdPiikxNDTgFuJwgBBs_qFAVNp2NWV1uLy1Watz9qTH4G9j0hU8WtWjaUAgQ" width="300" /></a></div></h3></div>
<a href="https://habitshareapp.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Habitshare</a> is also free and very easy to use. You can write down your activities and how often you want to do this activity, daily or weekly and which days per week. The advantage over Streaks is that you can add friends and invite them to follow a habit. You can also chat with your friends. It does work as a stimulus if you get notifications from your friends. Their slogan is therefore "habit tracking just went social". The app is available for both Apple and Android. <a href="https://www.dailyhabits.xyz/habit-tracker-app/habitshare">Here</a> you will find more info and reviews. Four stars and not five because Habitshare does not look as attractive as Streaks.<div>
<img alt="" class="wp-image-12064 alignnone" height="75" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ster-150x150.jpg" width="75" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-12064 alignnone" height="75" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ster-150x150.jpg" width="75" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-12064 alignnone" height="75" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ster-150x150.jpg" width="75" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-12064 alignnone" height="75" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ster-150x150.jpg" width="75" /></div><div><br /></div><div><h3><b>3. Fabulous</b></h3></div><div><h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3WsxKJbuLqcCCQpPgoYw8ge5S_B8SvgiocR8nWtVGNYGIBGIsyiOcaQw-LEdtM2V3Gh3KLSkID07KJ9Dc4vDykRnW0pYpHiwat2DgHKZ5-EKoNYNyCUn1yDwRlq2oIEwlD8aIX6XL3j3D3ip-IJrgGQEfwuKlpscDD_un8Jo3B3EfB67vJL4=s300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3WsxKJbuLqcCCQpPgoYw8ge5S_B8SvgiocR8nWtVGNYGIBGIsyiOcaQw-LEdtM2V3Gh3KLSkID07KJ9Dc4vDykRnW0pYpHiwat2DgHKZ5-EKoNYNyCUn1yDwRlq2oIEwlD8aIX6XL3j3D3ip-IJrgGQEfwuKlpscDD_un8Jo3B3EfB67vJL4" width="300" /></a></div></h3><a href="https://www.thefabulous.co/">Fabulous</a> is an app with beautiful design. This app is not free. It costs $39 a year. You can try it for free for 7 days and after that I got another month for free. The app is based on behavioral science - from Duke University's Behavioral Economics Lab by Dan Ariely. It works slightly differently than Habitshare and Streaks. You indicate which areas you want to work on, eg your health or study habits and then you receive tips for habits. For instance, I choose health and had to drink 3 glasses of water in the morning. You can also participate in all kinds of challenges. It is a nice app if you dive right into it, there are stories that you can listen to, explanations and a community. Three stars because it is so beautiful but quite complicated and not free.</div><div>
<img alt="" class="wp-image-12064 alignnone" height="75" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ster-150x150.jpg" width="75" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-12064 alignnone" height="75" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ster-150x150.jpg" width="75" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-12064 alignnone" height="75" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ster-150x150.jpg" width="75" /></div><div><h3><b>4. Habitica</b></h3></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisHPl7KBynRYiFj_16c-RckP2Tu8Pz6t5iZg6Er1KY3HHJIJcjGm2q3ZcwtuUsGmqqbH0GMXOAzV0JpMbSoAEGj87ZrlFb6lm4u_N9tDVVDO8_ffvUjMD-SGUMFUHAkt9FQmk-aq3lnjoKN3EOSryAj5wF4hkfeSRKTvLviV9bbhdaC6wEIjQ=s300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisHPl7KBynRYiFj_16c-RckP2Tu8Pz6t5iZg6Er1KY3HHJIJcjGm2q3ZcwtuUsGmqqbH0GMXOAzV0JpMbSoAEGj87ZrlFb6lm4u_N9tDVVDO8_ffvUjMD-SGUMFUHAkt9FQmk-aq3lnjoKN3EOSryAj5wF4hkfeSRKTvLviV9bbhdaC6wEIjQ" width="300" /></a></div><h3><br /></h3></div>
<a href="https://habitica.com/static/home">Habitica</a> is an app which is gamified. Their slogan is therefore "Gamify your life". You can create an avatar of yourself. I unlocked a sword, chocolate and candy. Unfortunately it didn't work for me. I didn't quite figure out how to put my tasks in the app. But if you like gamification it might be a nice app. One star but as far as I'm concerned because I didn't get into the Habitica mood. Freely available for<a href="https://habitica.com/static/home" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> Apple and Android</a>.<div>
<img alt="" class="wp-image-12064 alignnone" height="75" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ster-150x150.jpg" width="75" /></div><div><br /></div><div><h3>More, more! </h3></div>There are many more habit tracker apps:<ul>
<li><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.energyplatform&hl=en&gl=US">MyEP</a> - with videos andd coaches</li>
<li><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jamesmorrisstudios.com.randremind&hl=en&gl=US">Randomly remind me</a> (only for android)- good in reminders and motivational quotes </li>
<li><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yapp-reminders/id1437096658">Yapp reminder</a> - like Randomly remind me but for Apple</li>
<li><a href="https://wayoflifeapp.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Way of life</a> - looks good and with the promise to motive you :)</li>
<li><a href="https://zombiesrungame.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Zombies run</a> - I think this one is great for running, because you have to make sure you stay ahead of the zombies!</li>
<li><a class="link" href="http://coach.me/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Coach.me</a> - habit tracker app is free and for 25 dollar per month you can get a coach </li>
<li><a href="https://productiveapp.io/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Productive</a> - free, easy and high ratings</li>
<li><a href="https://www.superbetter.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Superbetter</a>- a game based on research. I am currently trying this one</li>
<li><a href="https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/epicwin/id372927221" rel="noopener" target="_blank">EpicWin</a>- helps accomplish tasks</li>
<li><a href="https://nukshuk.com/about-us/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Nukshuk</a> - has a nice story. The name comes from the Inuit who use stones to help each other remember</li>
<li><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hydratestudios.moments_todo_habits&hl=en&gl=US" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Moments</a> - both for habits and to-do lists. I tried it once and abandoned it. </li>
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A special mention is for <a href="https://www.theconqueror.events/greatwall/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Conqueror</a>, an app that allows you to virtually walk the Great Wall of China! (not for free)<div><br /></div><div><h3>My experiences with the habit trackers</h3><div><br /></div><div>I tested the four apps for a month. My intentions were to read blogs via <a href="http://feedlly.com" target="_blank">Feedly</a>, walk 5000 steps a day and play guitar. What struck me is that the apps don't motivate you. You must already be motivated yourself :). For example, I had to get used to the idea that I was finally going to play guitar, and I found it quite easy to ignore a reminder from the app. I already have the habit to read Feedly, I wanted to do that more regularly and that made me more prone to respond to a reminder. Besides, you have to get into the habit of using the app. </div><div><br /></div><div>If you are self-motivated, the apps can help you by:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Formulating your intentions and setting the bar. It helps to make your intentions concrete and to choose how often you want to do something. Streaks also suggests to reduce the frequency if you don't comply. For instance, I've reduced the frequency of playing guitar from daily to 1-2 times a week.</li><li>The apps send you reminders at a time of the day that you choose. It helps not to forget.</li><li>You can feel peer pressure which may help you perform. Habitshare and Fabulous do this. In Habitshare you can share your intentions with friends, and if they also share their intentions, you will receive notifications. When I saw that my friend Karin was learning Spanish, I felt guilty about skipping guitar. In Fabulous there are challenges and a community that you can join.</li><li>You get insight into the numbers. In Streaks you get notifications when you struggle with a task and the suggestion to adjust the frequency. You also see how many steps are still missing in a day. In Streaks you will see great statistics. </li></ul></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-79629454104921201822022-01-24T18:42:00.002+01:002022-01-24T18:42:28.216+01:00Is introducing technology hard? Don't blame the technophobes!<div class="separator"><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHjbuLTQpOc84nBYuk0Y8RKFaslVB5-NHR_fAS_J0upSPU5-IpPPf8K2_9IrqymHyX0ndBiutVbUR20Cu7DGowFCuMoTql2nLIknqnrsiZqu8HR0HNZm_MYxaJOeTY9Y-jWM2ydXgyUf5LF0jg-4KaAn2dmz9Y9n3iE9IANLcTHG7HtvRGGIo=s3050" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1900" data-original-width="3050" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHjbuLTQpOc84nBYuk0Y8RKFaslVB5-NHR_fAS_J0upSPU5-IpPPf8K2_9IrqymHyX0ndBiutVbUR20Cu7DGowFCuMoTql2nLIknqnrsiZqu8HR0HNZm_MYxaJOeTY9Y-jWM2ydXgyUf5LF0jg-4KaAn2dmz9Y9n3iE9IANLcTHG7HtvRGGIo=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p>Are you getting started or are you fully engaged in introducing new social technology in your organization? It is not an easy task is it? It's tempting to blame the technophobes and people who are not tech-savy. The BUILD framework helps you look deeper into what makes it hard. By the way, when I talk about social technology, I think of:</p><ul><li>a Learning platform (LMS type), <a href="https://moodle.org/">Moodle</a> with courses or <a href="https://www.goodhabitz.com/">Goodhabitz</a></li><li>a Learning Experiences platform <a href="https://learningpool.com/solutions/learning-experience-platform-stream/">Stream LXP</a> or <a href="https://get.degreed.com/">Degreed</a></li><li>a new system supporting hybrid meetings like <a href="https://www.logitech.com/en-us/education/hybrid-learning-solutions.html">Logitech sets</a> or <a href="https://www.onedirect.co.nl/audio-en-video-conferencing/meeting-owl-pro?___store=nl&gclid=CjwKCAiA24SPBhB0EiwAjBgkhmk0qomDWwIKZcADfbAF3BAjl7ljCXsp28tgS6cmEflI9-xloNHWzhoCCjgQAvD_BwE">Meeting owls</a></li><li>a social intranet or community software like <a href="https://winkwaves.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiA24SPBhB0EiwAjBgkhmY7mQZEJlkONAlroj68qpNB6g6pJyuxgEao8tfpISDrmLwipVp9ixoCsOYQAvD_BwE">Winkwaves Harmonics</a> or <a href="https://www.jivesoftware.com/">Jive</a></li></ul><p>You are probably convinced how important the new tech is, and how social & agile & effective the organization can be.. if only everyone would follow the online courses, share knowledge in online communities, work out loud .. and of course embrace the new technology. Getting everyone involved and enthousiast to use the new tech is quite difficult. Colleagues are often not waiting for something new in their busy lives. </p><p>I have seen how NOT to do it at an organization that had set up a room for live streaming. This way people outside the room could join in with interesting session and meetings. However, no one knew how it technically worked. It was also quite complex to operate the system with two cameras and a recorder. The support technician was difficult to reach. There was no talk or brainstorming done about the usefulness of live streams. The room was mainly booked because the chairs and tables were attractive :). I suspect that the technology in this organization no longer exists and that it has cost a lot of money.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong>Don't blame the technophobes</strong></h4><p><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BJVwN_tsQS0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p>This is a funny video with the current king of the Netherlands setting up a videocall with his mom. It is quite recognizable for anyone with older parents or grandparrents... She acts quite technophobe. </p><p>A technophobe is someone who has difficulty or is unable to deal with technology. It doesn't mean they don't like any social technology. They are often using, for example, social media because their friends are using those media. </p><p>If introducing the technology is difficult, it is easy to think that it is due to the digital skills of your colleagues in the organization. AARGH. <i>"If only everyone was a little more tech savy..</i>". The challenge, however, is not technophobia. It is much more complex.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong>BUILDS- Watch</strong> the influence of the technology on the users<strong> </strong></h4><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class=" wp-image-11869 alignleft" height="215" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/buillds-300x239.png" width="270" /></p><p></p><p><br />But if you don't have to focus on the digital skills - what should you focus on? The BUILDS framework says: look closely at the influence of technology on work and the 'business'? What do you gain and lose as a user?</p><p>The book <a href="https://www.td.org/books/the-shock-of-the-new">Shock of the New</a> is written by Chad Udell and Gary Woodill and explains their BUILDS framework as a lens to look at digital transformation. The framework helps you take a good look at the intended and unintended consequences of a new technology. If you understand this, you can guide the introduction much better with smart actions. Often there are quite a few consequences. The <a href="https://eefjenienhuis.nl/.cm4all/uproc.php/0/RWS%20van%20a%20naar%20beter.pdf?_=16a8979ad70&cdp=a">introduction of Yammer </a>in an organization shifted the communication hierarchy. Middle managers lost their control over the information flows. If you don't pay enough attention to these consequences and give the middle managers a role, you can get stuck.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Put yourself in the shoes of your users</h4><p>The U from BUILDS- is the U of user experience. You have to really empathize with the users for the change to succeed. It seems like an open door, yet we sometimes overlook this step. You know your colleagues, right? Especially the technophobes :). After all, you've been working there for 2/5/10 years.</p><p>One pitfall is that we think we know the users, another pitfall is to start thinking about users very late in the process. A change process in which tech plays a key role often starts with selling the idea to management so that there is budget, then comes the selection and purchase of the technology. If the tech has been set up, the project already appears to have been successful and ends. But then it starts.</p><p>The plea of BUILDS is to answer the following questions much earlier in the process. This can be done through interviews, group discussions or workshops.</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>What new ways of learning and working does the technology offer? What does it offer the users? What will make them happy and what not?</li><li>To what extent does the technology provide a user-friendly experience compared to what they also use and like privately?</li><li>In which ways will users deploy the technology? What changes are necessary? It is great if you can observe what people are doing now so that you know the biggest changes</li><li>Develop one and preferably multiple use cases. What is the use case of a colleague? What are the different types of users?</li><li>Can the users use the technology in their own way, does it offer this flexibility?</li><li>How will you test and set up together with users? How do you keep collecting feedback to improve it?</li></ol><p></p><p>Make sure you do all this analysis at the beginning before purchasing the tech. Then you know which different groups of users there are. Make sure you involve these people in the vision development. But also when making choices regarding technology, testing and design.</p><p>Suppose you want to introduce a social intranet, you could invite a few people (both management and different types of employees) to test three different platforms. This way you can immediately observe how they use it and you can discuss the benefits for everyone, but also the obstacles. </p><p>An example: they may find logging in with different passwords very difficult. In that case you can work on single-sign on, so that employees can log in with one password. In this way you ensure that you do not see your colleagues as simple technophobes, but that you understand their hurdles and remove those. The aforementioned middle managers were extensively trained in 'servant leadership' so that their role changes and they can become enthusiastic about Yammer. The don't see it as a loss of control anymore but as an opportunity for new leadership styles. </p><p>Even after the launch of the tech, you continue to involve users. At Rijkswaterstaat, for example, managers and employees were offered a platform to share experiences via blogs and Yammer. The board then entered into discussions with them via Yammer in so-called YamJams. Keep an eye on the users and adjust if necessary so that the technology supports their work and does not make it more difficult.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-48400277192945401152021-12-08T18:34:00.004+01:002021-12-08T18:41:55.752+01:00Learning cultures and gamification at #oeb21 in Berlin I was really looking forward to the <a href="https://oeb.global/">#oeb21 conference</a> in Berlin. I gave a workshop about humor, learned a lot about learning culture and got inspiration and pratical tips for gamification and... we went out dining!! (while that was no longer possible in the Netherlands because of the evening lockdown). Before travelling I could hardly believe I would travel. The Netherlands was in evening lockdown and I would attend a conference with 1000 people? It wasn't until we got on the train that I dared to look for museums on Tripadvisor :). There were fewer participants at OEB due to corona. There were about 650 people and normally more than 2000. There were quite a few COVID measures: you could enter the conference space only if you were vaccinated or cured and you also had to take a daily corona test. Fortunately, that was just around the corner. Together with <a href="https://nl.linkedin.com/in/stevenvanluipen">Steven van Luipen</a> and<a href="https://nl.linkedin.com/in/itesmit"> Ite Smit</a> I gave a pre-conference workshop on '<a href="https://oeb.global/programme/agenda/oeb-21/sessions/13704">Stimulating social learning by humour and playful design</a>', I will write a separate blog about our workshop. <div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiJPBWyqBTKzhxazEeiB2mhHlSa-kyXoPxjcCkqvM7DXBx-lLpyRwjETLISNTnIC1eLScEkGavMKa8oSqMobmUk0moAbZmYrUnn9MebDDNj6tJ7z-PcseRRcf8Xd65v7AfSY2YGQ5AoiVdfDNK_0qdUP-NoAGHq-HhyZhQglarhpG3Tho1oRg=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiJPBWyqBTKzhxazEeiB2mhHlSa-kyXoPxjcCkqvM7DXBx-lLpyRwjETLISNTnIC1eLScEkGavMKa8oSqMobmUk0moAbZmYrUnn9MebDDNj6tJ7z-PcseRRcf8Xd65v7AfSY2YGQ5AoiVdfDNK_0qdUP-NoAGHq-HhyZhQglarhpG3Tho1oRg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /><div><br /><h3><strong>What was hot?</strong></h3>The theme of the conference was resilience. Corona clearly influenced the content: there were many sessions with lessons learned from COVID-19, and a lot about proctoring in education. And equipment for hybrid classrooms. The debate on Thursday also focused on COVID with the statement:<br /><blockquote><em>This house believes education failed to learn the lessons from covid-19</em></blockquote>It was a very interesting debate and in the end I agreed with the statement. Furthermore, many sessions focussed on learning culture, gamification, use of video in online learning. What I did miss was some visionary contributions and trendwatchers. Something about new developments & trends, the role of L&D around fake news or the Metaverse? I am not a visionary myself so I like to be inspired by other visionaries. </div><br /><h3><strong>Learning culture & workplace learning</strong></h3>I find this topic very interesting, hence attended many sessions related to workplace learning. Stimulating a learning culture means supporting employees to learn and develop themselves, but also collectively as teams and organizations. It is more about guiding change and informal learning than designing learning experiences. <div><br /></div><div>I was lucky that this was the theme of the opening on day 2 with Sina Fackeler from AXA in Paris and Isabelle Mancel from Thales. The interesting thing about Isabelle's story was that she managed to get a decision that all teams set aside half a day a week for team learning. Great to know that there are organizations bold enough to do this! I always hear from people that they don't have time for informal learning and reflecting. An organization that dares to invest in this is wonderful news. How does it work? Each team looks their learning backlog - I interpreted this as a definition of what they can improve and defines learning questions. They call their half days 'learning moments'. Resources are offered, but you can also do a retrospective, for instance visit another team. You can do it individually or with your team. An important success factor is support from higher management. </div><div><br /></div><div>Sina had designed some sort of trajectory. She is working on a coalition of changemakers - based on the idea that you can change the norm when 25% are convinced but above all show the 'new' behaviour. To get that 25% there was a trajectory “Be the change” and another trajectory for leaders with “Lead the change”. Unfortunately, it was not entirely clear to me how they describe this change, although they did talk about a new definition of learning: learning happens anywhere and anytime. </div><div><br /></div><div>What I missed in the presentation was technology, you could certainly use an LXP platform supporting a change towards workplace learning. What was also funny was that a survey at Thales showed that 77% of employees mainly learned outside the organization, which shocked them. I was think: great - outward looking professionals! </div><div><br /></div><div>Laura Overton facilitated a World Café based on lessons learned from a <a href="https://www.cipd.co.uk/Images/learning-skills-work-report-2021-1_tcm18-95433.pdf">CIPD report</a> titled 'Learning and skills at work survey 2021'. The aim of the café was to looking for effective post-pandemic L&D practice as input for a manifesto. The report consistently distinguishes between organizations with a separate L&D department, organizations where L&D is the task of the HR department, L&D as the task of managers and organizations without an L&D department. The latter appeared to do better on learning culture and workplace learning :).</div><div> (source: <a href="https://www.cipd.co.uk/Images/learning-skills-work-report-2021-1_tcm18-95433.pdf">CIPD report</a>) </div><div><br /></div><div><h3 style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-11784 size-large" height="309" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Schermafbeelding-2021-12-07-om-18.51.33-1024x621.png" width="508" /></h3>Another shock for the L&D staff in the room. My simple solution to abolish L&D is of course too simplistic. How can you ensure that L&D is relevant to the core business? In the World Café, solutions were presented such as internships, making sure that managers and employees are always co-owners when designing learning. How do you develop skills? By developing all kinds of training courses or by stimulating employees to remain curious and to learn continuously?</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></div><h3><strong>Be in groove with your talents</strong></h3>
<div class="separator"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-11787 alignleft" height="300" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/oeb7-225x300.jpg" width="225" /></div></div><div class="separator">This is where Jef Staes comes on stage. Many teachers still work from a 2D mindset: from before the internet. We now live in a 3D world where information is abundant. Jef sees learning like this: you have to find your passion. Your own passion activates your talents. Passionate people start to look for information and take action. At that point, you get dopamine. You learn and experience that learning is fun. </div><div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator">Many students have never experienced this and that is a shame. Education should focus more on getting that dopamine experience, because after experiencing this you want to continue learning. Jef believes less in changing people and teacher than in looking for a new type of employee. As a metaphor, he uses the world of silent movies that transitioned to spoken films. New actors were found for this, the silent actors were not automatically good for the art of talking & acting. In the same way, not every 2D teacher is capable of making the transition to 3D education. And they are not to blame for it. That is such a great thing to hear I think of you have a hard time coping. </div><div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator">I'm a fan of Jef's ideas, although he could develop in more detail on how to do this practically. Jef talks a lot about talents, although he also sees that the word talent is subject to inflation, because KFC already advertises with 'We are looking for your talents'. A tip of the veil is: start working earlier, and at the end of your career do what you enjoy, the rest can be done by young people. Waiting until you are 23 to start work is not good, that's not how you discover your own passions.</div></div><div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator"><h3><strong>Gamification en challenges</strong></h3></div><div class="separator">I missed the pre-conference workshop about online escape rooms, but luckily I did have a conversation with Willi Bernard. That's how I learned he uses Mozilla Hubs to build the escapes. He invites students to built the escapes. On average they spend 30 hours building a 1 hour escape with about 6 puzzles. Want to know more? Download <a href="https://padlet.com/gamebook/escapeoeb">his slides</a></div><div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-11776 alignleft" height="300" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/oeb3-240x300.jpg" width="240" /></div>I did participate in the game about challenge-based learning. In challenge-based learning, students work on complex, social problems from the real world. There is a high degree of self-regulation and people from different disciplines work together. From the examples I liked the example in which students worked intensively for 2 weeks and during these weeks skills workshops were offered, eg learning to pitch. However, they are optional, students choose whether they want to follow these workshops or not. Finally, they present the result to the challenge owners. </div><div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator">We were asked in groups to design a challenge for students to come up with CO2 neutral transport for 2040. The challenge runs for 10 weeks and requires 250 hours from students. This was done by means of a game. We won, yeah! However, it was an example of a game where competition got in the way of the learning objective. The aim was to design challenge-based learning together and to discuss which teaching methods you offer. We played against each other for Lego blocks. We became so fanatical about collecting Lego blocks that we stopped discussing the best working methods at all :). Which would have been very interesting to do because from the cards I could see that they have thought very carefully about this, such as stakeholder analyses, learning to pitch, etc. I will try to get the full list from them. </div><div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator">My biggest lesson is that with a game you have to reward the learning dynamics you want to see, so if you want participants to discuss well and choose the best learning activities, give points for the best design, or best fit of methods, instead of random points. This reminds me that I once gave an online workshop in which my breakouts failed and I had the impression participants learned even more than when they had succeeded :). </div><div class="separator"><br /><h3><strong>More OEB?</strong></h3>If you read Dutch read Wilfred Rubens:<a href="https://www.te-learning.nl/blog/mijn-terugblik-op-editie-2021-van-de-online-educa-in-berlijn-oeb21/"> his reflections</a>, choosing between <a href="https://www.te-learning.nl/blog/kiezen-tussen-face-to-face-asynchroon-online-en-synchroon-online-leren-oeb21/">face-to-face, asychroon and synchroon learn</a>ing , <a href="https://www.te-learning.nl/blog/dos-and-donts-van-hybride-virtuele-klassen-oeb21/">do's en don'ts van hybride sessies</a>. </div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-22749318016730128122021-11-29T16:05:00.004+01:002021-11-29T16:06:55.043+01:00Build a simple escape room for learning Is it Catalonia or Spain? Oh yes Spain! 3 more minutes.... Yes, Spain is good! I hear how everyone is engaged in the game during the mini online escape room. We organized a meetup about online escape rooms for learning and the 45 participants of the meetup start with experiencing an escape. <div>A great gateway into escapes for learning. For example, you immediately experience how smart it is to build up the information, always small bits of new information. And how important clear instructions are. For example, the first sentence is: 'choose someone from your group who will read the story aloud'. This immediately helps to maintain the group's attention. Tip: do you also want to try this escape room in Dutch built by <a href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/medewerkers/monika-theron#tab-1">Monika Theron van het Centre for Innovation at Leiden University</a>. Click <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXc0pkj2UcRSykhy0fYiWvyklALsa4RZHvzth5fpTEOXDj3w/viewform">here</a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uEkoZVrVuq0/YaTsSsuwR7I/AAAAAAAAFRY/8IXbc1RPlVgy0YpR1G72esAHctrCQq0jwCLcBGAsYHQ/s795/online%2Bescape%2Broom.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="795" height="147" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uEkoZVrVuq0/YaTsSsuwR7I/AAAAAAAAFRY/8IXbc1RPlVgy0YpR1G72esAHctrCQq0jwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/online%2Bescape%2Broom.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h3>Escape rooms are hot, also within L&D</h3><div><div><br /></div><div>Escape rooms have been popular for years, in the Netherlands the DOME from Bunschoten is now number 1 . Only 35% escape from it within an hour. Relatively new are digital escape rooms, with a learning goal. A digital escape room is perfect for more experiential, game-based learning. They can be played individually or in a group. In this blog I'll focus on simple escape rooms. There is of course a difference between extensive flashy designs and escapes that you can build yourself in an afternoon. </div><div><br /></div><div>But are escape rooms a powerful learning tool or hype? From a white paper <a href="https://www.ijsfontein.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/escape-paper.pdf" target="_blank">by Ijsfontein</a>:</div><div><blockquote>"Several pilot studies have shown that an escape room offers opportunities for assessments and can positively contribute to learning or introducing new knowledge/skills and to repeating or putting teaching material into practice. It ties in with an active learning and working environment in which the emphasis is on experience, application and collaboration"</blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>Escape rooms fit in with the new trends of playful learning, homo ludens and serious gaming, and of course in the old, trusted tradition of active learning.</div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b><b>An example: Mondrian Escapes</b></h3><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://learningrocks.nl/author/karinwinters/">Karin Winters of LearningRocks</a> has made an escape about media literacy:the <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/mondriaanescapes/homepage">Mondriaan Escapes</a>. The aim is to make teachers media literate in a playful way. The story is that the education inspectorate has been abolished, instead a media literacy inspectorate has been set up. Participants are challenged to decipher an email address of the inspection. To this end, every day a new assignment was placed online. The incentive is that you can win a free workshop. The escape was well received, but it is important to be available during the escape period and/or to give hints and tips. Not everyone interprets the assignments in the same way and you have to avoid that participants get stuck. </div><div><br /></div><div>The aim is to learn about media literacy. Incidentally, Escape the silence was an example of an online group escape, the Mondriaan escapes an individual escape. Both are possible, depending on your goal. Hybrid forms are also possible: where participants are at the same location, but also get started online via keys with QR codes, for example.</div></div><div><strong><br /></strong></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong>Tools to build a simpel escape room</strong></h3><div><br /></div><div>You can already get started with the tools in your own organization. The two examples use van <a href="https://www.google.com/forms/about/">Google forms</a> en <a href="https://sites.google.com/new">Google sites</a>. These are simple tools which already serve the purpose. There was a question about a platform like LearningStone. Actually you can build an escape room in any platform if there is a function to assess contributions by participants. If you can enter text and questions where you only proceed to the next assignment with a correct answer, you can use it. You can also embed Google forms and sites in your LMS or site. Other tools:</div><ul>
<li>A hotspot image <a href="https://h5p.org/">H5P</a>, <a href="http://canva.com">Canva</a> or <a href="https://www.thinglink.com/">Thinglink</a>. </li>
<li><a href="https://hubs.mozilla.com/">Mozilla hubs for a virtual experience</a></li>
<li>New: audio escape rooms</li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/maps">Google maps</a> is great to hide information</li>
<li>Or you may use authoring tools like <a href="https://articulate.com/360/rise">Articulate Rise</a></li></ul><br /><ul>
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<h3>Tips to get started with a simple online escape room</h3><div><br /></div><div>Monika and Karin share their tips to get started. First of all, it is important to get to know your target audience well. It gives you a clue to how complicated/easy it must be. It is not the intention that you first have to be very digitally skilled before you can participate. If necessary, you can come up with something with well-known tools (eg a Microsoft Teams session) and pen and paper. Check out the 10 steps you can take.</div><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-11724 size-full" height="225" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/slide-10.jpg" width="400" /> </div><div><div>Seven more tips:</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Start with the goal and come up with a story - your storyline</li><li>Be very clear in your instructions</li><li>Test the escape room, people can interpret puzzles differently</li><li>You can assign roles, for example the role of reading the text aloud</li><li>Choose to run the escape with or without a moderator. If there is no moderator, you have to be clear where hints can be found to prevent people from getting stuck. Moderating takes more time, but has the advantage that you can give valuable feedback and help with reflection.</li><li>You can also use existing games or modify existing formats. This saves a lot of (thinking) work!</li><li>Designing an escape room is a creative process - this is fun to do with a team in a brainstorm</li></ol></div><ul>
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More in the<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JlKKuGqE2xPN522KsaAJoPNvSo0sLtZU/view?usp=sharing"> presentation by Monika Theron</a>.</div><div>
<h3><strong>How to start building an escape room?</strong></h3><div><br /></div><div>The first step is to formulate the learning objective and to consider the difference between 'need to know' and 'nice to know'. Then make up the story. In addition, you can also google what already exists and you can use without developing it yourself.</div><div>. </div><h3>How labor intensive is it to develop an escape? And how do you make it more than a gimmick?</h3><div><br /></div>It doesn't have to be labor intensive - it actually involves turning your learning materials into puzzle form. Instead of flat questions and quizzes, it becomes a puzzle. This of course takes time, but it is a lot of fun to do. You can use the escape room for multiple groups / years. Another tip is to have students build the escape room. The next group of students can then play the game. </div><div><br /><h3>How digitally skilled do you have to be as participant? When to use it for learning or use an alternative?</h3><div><br /></div>You have to take the level of digital skills of your participants into account and the goal. If the online tools get in the way of the learning process, it is better not to do it, or to simplify your tools. Suppose the goal is to get to know each other, then you can perhaps get to know each other in a different way in a game. You can also opt for simple tools, such as using pen and paper.</div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /><strong>Read about escape rooms </strong></h3><div><ul>
<li><em>Play a</em><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiItDN6h6xLMDqqksG84p5PnPp9XtEmgeHcToY44S7LoNzMQ/viewform"><em> digital escape room by Mirjam Boer for nurses</em></a><em> (Dutch, 5 min)</em></li>
<li><em>Read how this escape room was built: scroll</em><a href="https://www.deleerpoli.nl/downloads"><em> down</em></a></li>
<li><em>Another example is the </em><a href="https://xerte.deltion.nl/play.php?template_id=2541#page1"><em>Deltion experience escape room</em></a><a href="https://xerte.deltion.nl/play.php?template_id=2541#page1"> </a><em> (Dutch)</em></li>
<li><a href="https://www.leerlijnict.nl/courses/maak-je-eigen-escaperoom/lessons/google-site-bouwen/"><em>Een escape room bouwen</em></a>. <i>Basic explanation in Dutch by LearningRocks </i></li>
<li><em>Todaysteachingtools explains how to build an </em><a href="https://www.todaysteachingtools.com/online-escaperoom.html"><em>escape rooms</em></a> <i>(English)</i></li>
<li><a href="https://www.skillsdojo.nl/debaasopinternet/bouw-een-escape-room/"><em>Bouw een escape room</em></a><em> door de Baas op Internet</em></li>
</ul></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-56908607781774880692021-09-17T12:07:00.006+02:002021-09-21T15:19:16.153+02:00Tool of the month: Flipgrid app for video sharingThe tool of the month is <a href="http://flipgrid.com">Flipgrid</a>, a handy app for sharing videos within a blended training or online event. It wasn't love at first sight between me and Flipgrid. The first time I tested Flipgrid I couldn't figure out how to easily invite people without the videos being public. I added everyone one by one by email and found that quite a hassle. Only later did I discover that you have to create a group and create multiple topics (to which people respond with a video) within the group. If you set up a group you can invite people very easily with a simple code. Further on in this blog post you will find an example of what such an invitation looks like. But the love has grown! I now use it regularly. A very simple way of using Flipgrid is to ask participants to introduce themselves via the app with a short video. Super easy and fun to see everyone before a meeting o workshop! <div><br /></div><div>So it takes some effort to know how Flipgrid works, but if you have mastered the tool you can do very nice things with it.<div><strong><br /></strong></div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">What is Flipgrid?</span></h4><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>Flipgrid is an app in which participants can easily record and share a video message right from their smartphone. They click on a big blue button with "Add response", which gives access to the camera and microphone and off they go. What makes Flipgrid fantastic for me is that you can set how long the answer can be, eg 1 or 1.5 minutes. What's also nice is that you can comment on the videos by text. <a href="https://youtu.be/5wYYniOAaiE">Here</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9kMlyvCK3Q&ab_channel=Flipgrid" target="_blank">here</a> you will find two great explanatory video's. One by Richard Byrne, the other by Flipgrid. <h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Flipgrid-InterACTIVE-Class-Encouraging-Elementary/dp/1735204617" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Az2W9CF6tg0/YURj3eXuxnI/AAAAAAAAFLU/pTKbMwvY9IotoVwsTG31tkBVvia12CwoACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/flipgrid%2Bin%2Bthe%2Binteractive%2Bclass.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><strong><br /></strong></h3><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Three ways of using Flipgrid</span></h4><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>
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<li><b>Flipgrid to get to know each other.</b> You can use Flipgrid before you give a training session or (online) workshop. Ask participants to share what they want to learn, or introduce themselves. As a facilitator, you have a richer feel of your participants: face, voice and learning questions. Add a light-hearted question if you like, such as '<i>what made you laugh out loud this week?</i>'</li><li><b>Flipgrid for groupwork harvesting.</b> I regularly use Flipgrid for group assignments, especially when the group is working together online for 1-3 weeks. I ask them to record a flipgrid video with their harvest in 1 minute. It helps the group condense their findings. I will show the videos during the (online) meeting. This way the presentations don't get boring and I know exactly how long it will take. You can make use of Flipgrid's mixtapes which is a feature which allows you to show a number of videos in a row via one link. </li><li><b>Flipgrid for presentation skills</b>. You can of course use Flipgrid to practice presentation skills. I used it to let participants practice a pitch. The advantage of Flipgrid is that participants can re-record as many times as they want. I showed the pitches during a live online session. All participants gave positive feedback and tips via the chat, but you can of course also ask to give feedback online in Flipgrid, or give feedback yourself as a trainer.</li>
</ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BJ9iakllbnQ/YURkLIXXuoI/AAAAAAAAFLc/Ml0X3A1iQT4LWQrumytRuK8X0h9KCVr8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/tool%2Bvan%2Bde%2Bmaand%2Bflipgrid.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1200" height="187" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BJ9iakllbnQ/YURkLIXXuoI/AAAAAAAAFLc/Ml0X3A1iQT4LWQrumytRuK8X0h9KCVr8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/tool%2Bvan%2Bde%2Bmaand%2Bflipgrid.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Example Flipgrid instruction</span></h4><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>
<div>How can you share your story?</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Download the Flipgrid app from the app store: Android or Apple You will be asked for a flip code. The code is: 34xx5z</li><li>Follow the steps to record your video. Click on Add response, log in with a Microsoft or Google account and start your video.</li><li>Your contribution is approved by me. So don't worry if you don't see your own video right away, I'll approve it as soon as possible. If you have any questions, you can email me.</li></ol></div><ul>
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<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">What can go wrong?</span></h4><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>It happened to me twice that Flipgrid didn't work properly, or better said: my exercise didn't work properly. I used it once with a group that didn't know each other well and I asked a quite complicated question. There were only two responses. With another group I was eagerly looking every day at the Flipgrid app on my smartphone, but no videos appeared. What happened? Flipgrid had changed the default settings to moderation. There were contributions, but as an 'educator' I had to approve them first via the website. Unfortunately you can't turn it off. Oh yes there was a third exercise with few responses! I was depend on other to send the invitation and they sent on the day of the live session, hence we had few responses. So the lesson is to use it only when there is space and energy to invest in downloading the app and record. </div><div><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Making a clip</span></h4><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div>There is a new possibility to make a screen recording in Flipgrid: a recording of your screen as a video. You can use this feature to make a knowledge clip showing, for example, a powerpoint on your computer screen. This feature is a bit hidden but in the video below Richard Byrne explains exactly where to find it.</div><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FvvFj8pWzLo" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>
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contextmenu:Nqw7Te,QP7LD; mouseout:Nqw7Te; mouseover:qtZ4nf,c2aHje" jsname="W297wb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">What about Flipgrid and privacy?</span></span> <span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="nl" data-phrase-index="1" jsaction="agoMJf:PFBcW;usxOmf:aWLT7;jhKsnd:P7O7bd,F8DmGf;Q4AGo:Gm7gYd,qAKMYb;uFUCPb:pvnm0e,pfE8Hb,PFBcW;f56efd:dJXsye;EnoYf:KNzws,ZJsZZ,JgVSJc;zdMJQc:cCQNKb,ZJsZZ,zchEXc;Ytrrj:JJDvdc;tNR8yc:GeFvjb;oFN6Ye:hij5Wb" jscontroller="Zl5N8" jsdata="uqLsIf;_;$174" jsmodel="SsMkhd" jsname="txFAF" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;"><span jsaction="click:qtZ4nf,GFf3ac,tMZCfe; contextmenu:Nqw7Te,QP7LD; mouseout:Nqw7Te; mouseover:qtZ4nf,c2aHje" jsname="W297wb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">You can choose settings to guarantee privacy.</span></span> <span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="nl" data-phrase-index="3" jsaction="agoMJf:PFBcW;usxOmf:aWLT7;jhKsnd:P7O7bd,F8DmGf;Q4AGo:Gm7gYd,qAKMYb;uFUCPb:pvnm0e,pfE8Hb,PFBcW;f56efd:dJXsye;EnoYf:KNzws,ZJsZZ,JgVSJc;zdMJQc:cCQNKb,ZJsZZ,zchEXc;Ytrrj:JJDvdc;tNR8yc:GeFvjb;oFN6Ye:hij5Wb" jscontroller="Zl5N8" jsdata="uqLsIf;_;$176" jsmodel="SsMkhd" jsname="txFAF" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;"><span jsaction="click:qtZ4nf,GFf3ac,tMZCfe; contextmenu:Nqw7Te,QP7LD; mouseout:Nqw7Te; mouseover:qtZ4nf,c2aHje" jsname="W297wb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">For example, you can choose that only you see the videos.</span></span> GDPR wise i<span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="nl" data-phrase-index="6" jsaction="agoMJf:PFBcW;usxOmf:aWLT7;jhKsnd:P7O7bd,F8DmGf;Q4AGo:Gm7gYd,qAKMYb;uFUCPb:pvnm0e,pfE8Hb,PFBcW;f56efd:dJXsye;EnoYf:KNzws,ZJsZZ,JgVSJc;zdMJQc:cCQNKb,ZJsZZ,zchEXc;Ytrrj:JJDvdc;tNR8yc:GeFvjb;oFN6Ye:hij5Wb" jscontroller="Zl5N8" jsdata="uqLsIf;_;$179" jsmodel="SsMkhd" jsname="txFAF" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;"><span jsaction="click:qtZ4nf,GFf3ac,tMZCfe; contextmenu:Nqw7Te,QP7LD; mouseout:Nqw7Te; mouseover:qtZ4nf,c2aHje" jsname="W297wb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">t must be clear who can see the videos and what the purpose is.</span></span> <span class="JLqJ4b ChMk0b" data-language-for-alternatives="en" data-language-to-translate-into="nl" data-phrase-index="7" jsaction="agoMJf:PFBcW;usxOmf:aWLT7;jhKsnd:P7O7bd,F8DmGf;Q4AGo:Gm7gYd,qAKMYb;uFUCPb:pvnm0e,pfE8Hb,PFBcW;f56efd:dJXsye;EnoYf:KNzws,ZJsZZ,JgVSJc;zdMJQc:cCQNKb,ZJsZZ,zchEXc;Ytrrj:JJDvdc;tNR8yc:GeFvjb;oFN6Ye:hij5Wb" jscontroller="Zl5N8" jsdata="uqLsIf;_;$180" jsmodel="SsMkhd" jsname="txFAF" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: pointer;"><span jsaction="click:qtZ4nf,GFf3ac,tMZCfe; contextmenu:Nqw7Te,QP7LD; mouseout:Nqw7Te; mouseover:qtZ4nf,c2aHje" jsname="W297wb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">It is good to delete the videos after a certain time. Personally I think it is better to use Flipgrid than Whatsapp for sharing videos. First, because you can set the time and subjects. Secondly, because with Whatsapp you cannot prevent people from receiving continuous notifications. With Flipgrid people are more in control when they watch new additions and it is not mixed with private messages. </span></span></span></div></div></div></c-wiz></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">More on Flipgrid</span></h4><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>
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<li>The book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Flipgrid-InterACTIVE-Class-Encouraging-Elementary/dp/1735204617">Flipgrid in the interactive class door Joe and Kristin Merill</a></li>
<li>New! <a href="https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2021/08/flipgrid-virtual-backgrounds-how-and-why.html"> Use of backgrounds in Flipgrid</a> (backdrops)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/05/seven-ideas-for-flipgrid-activities.html">Seven ideas for Flipgrid activities</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.edutopia.org/article/9-new-ways-use-flipgrid-classroom">Nine new ways to use Flipgrid in the classroom</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wYYniOAaiE&list=PLtx-qUNKJwDz7BVsRHpjWzug1PCq24qDP&index=3&ab_channel=RichardByrne">Playlist van Flipgrid tutorials</a></li>
<li>An alternative for Flipgrid is <a href="https://www.threadit.area120.com/">Threadit</a> by Google</li>
</ul><h4 style="text-align: left;">Tip</h4></div></div><div>You can also add Flipgrid as app in Microsoft Teams</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-79916893170369263112021-08-16T13:38:00.013+02:002021-09-03T09:06:53.347+02:00Large-scale online course design? Use collaborative learning for high engagementThe big challenge with large-scale online courses (100+ participants) is to keep people engaged. It is easy for people to drop out: due to urgent matters on their to-do list, due to learning assignments that do not exactly match their learning goals, due to not understanding the platform…. Offering the course for free does not help either: the threshold for participants to register is very low, but equally low to give up. Collaborative learning can help keep people engaged and motivated online. In this blog I motivate my experiences with the food system e-course. <div><br /></div><div>In May I was asked to design and facilitate the free food systems e-course together with <a href="https://www.wur.nl/" target="_blank">Wageningen University</a> and the <a href="https://www.nlfoodpartnership.com/" target="_blank">Netherlands Food Partnership</a> for 500 participants from all over the world. I immediately thought this was a super fun assignment. Such a large and diverse group! I saw it as my personal challenge to ensure that the 500 people would remain active, and that they would also apply the food systems thinking in practice. It was a 5 week trajectory: 4 week with a food systems theme like 'Why does a food systems approach matter?'. Halfway through there was a catch-up week. The time investment was 16 hours. </div><div><br /></div><div>I have chosen to focus strongly on collaborative learning. This consisted of group assignments with the ultimate assignment to write a joint blog. An expert jury selected the best blogs and the three best were published. This collaborative assignment was an important factor in keeping people active and has been highly valued. Some spontaneous reactions online: </div><blockquote><div> “Here we go Group 17- the “Food Ambassadors”! I am delighted with the dedication and respect of our members, thanks to our team leader” </div></blockquote><blockquote><div>“My Group 1 colleagues: it is good working together with everyone. Thank you Yvonne for expertly leading the group. Let's keep up the good spirit” </div></blockquote><blockquote><div>“Group 8: It was a great trip!”
</div></blockquote><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>My own experience as drop-out </b></h4><p>I participated in the <a href="https://www.novoed.com/resources/learning-experience-design-course/" target="_blank">Learning Experience through Design</a> workshop of NovoEd before the holidays. I really wanted to finish this one. I really looked forward to it, had quite some time and a good motivation: I wanted to work on my own case: a new learning experience. Yet I gave up. I had to get used to the platform. I wanted feedback on my case and signed up for a group with the idea of getting feedback, but there were 100 people in this group so I did not gain connections. I was deeply ashamed when I saw a month later that I did have a comment! I didn't see this because I didn't get a notification. I had a positive boost when my work was shown as an example during a Zoom session. Then I went on vacation and dropped out. So you see that there can be a lot of drop-out moments. Could I do that better through collaborative learning? </p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Did we succeed to keep people engaged in the Food systems course? </h4><p>Not 100% but 54%! The course had a total of 558 participants who were selected to participate in the course. Of these participants, 299 completed the e-course and obtained their certificate (54%). I am very proud and satisfied. This is a high percentage compared to other large scale online courses. Research by <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249994962_MOOC_completion_rates_The_data" target="_blank">Katy Jordan</a> shows that in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), the completion rate can approach 20%, but most MOOCs have a percentage of less than 10%. Some MOOCs are larger and scale up to 50,000 participants, I can imagine that lowers the completion rate. </p><p>Is the glass half full, or half empty? Maybe you also think 54% is low? I regularly work with people who have less experience with this type of online trajectory and find 54% very low. They compare it with face-to-face training where completion is almost 100%. Online offers much more flexibility, maybe someone will learn a lot by participating in two of the four modules and only following the resources that are relevant. In other words: in doesn't mean the 46% did not learn anything. </p><h4 style="text-align: left;">How to measure success?</h4><p>Success can be measured in several ways: by observations and measurements- and measurements can be clicks or surveys. We had a weekly barometer - a short survey to get feedback. When interpreting your findings it helps if you can compare it with other online courses.</p><p>1. Observations. People reacted super enthusiastically, gradually there was more and more reaction to each other.</p><p></p><blockquote><p>“During this course, expectations were exceeded. I am very grateful to be part of this community of scientists and mentors. The facilitators were great and very rich in knowledge sharing. Thanks again WCDI!”</p><p>“Thank you very much to our supervisors. You guys were amazing to share with us so much knowledge that you bridged my knowledge gap. I am eternally grateful to WCDI for this free, customized training. To my fellow participants, thank you for connecting and hopefully we'll keep in touch. Karibu Tanzania”</p><p>“I enjoyed the modules and how they were designed. I have learned and make good use of the knowledge gained. A great appreciation to all supervisors and WCDI. I look forward to collaboration between some of the resource persons and myself in the field of food safety and biotechnology. Thank you very much!"</p></blockquote><p>2. Measurements. Engagement can also be measured quantitatively. The first week there were 3,800 responses, but the other weeks there were even more – above 4,000. There were between 180 and 280 participants in the plenary sessions with guest speakers, while the recordings were also viewed an average of 150 times.</p><p>46% are dropouts. These were mainly people who did not start, or people who dropped out after the first week. 25% never started the course despite the fact that we emailed them separately a week after the start that they are taking the place of other people who also wanted to join and were rejected. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/uitstroom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="752" height="132" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/uitstroom.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>If you would like to support these people, you may need more personal attention, which takes a lot of time. 22 people who did not start have responded to our survey and this shows that being too busy with work was the most important factor followed by the internet connection. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Schermafbeelding-2021-08-10-om-17.15.19.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="800" height="140" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Schermafbeelding-2021-08-10-om-17.15.19.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>So what were the main success factors?</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>An important precondition for involving people: good content – practice-oriented</b></h4><p>It may seem obvious, but the content of the food systems course was relevant and practical. The topic of food systems is relevant because of the great challenge: <a href="https://www.wur.nl/nl/Onderzoek-Resultaten/Themas/Van-honger-naar-voedselzekerheid.html" target="_blank">how do we feed 9-10 billion mouths in 2050?</a> An <a href="https://www.un.org/en/food-systems-summit" target="_blank">important UN food summit </a>will take place in September. This was the second edition of the food systems e-course. The content of the first edition was developed in collaboration with experts from Wageningen University and an external consultant, all with extensive field experience. Hence, the content was good and relevant. Lots of short, relevant videos and cases and interesting speakers in the synchronous Zoom sessions. The advantage of a second edition was also that the core team was well attuned to each other. In this case, the experts were really practice-oriented, which was a big advantage. My role was to refine the questions and to organize collaborative learning.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Collaborative learning as part of a broader vision of social learning</h4><p>Collaborative learning was part of social learning. Other components were forming a group feeling, building trust, and learning from each other. We have used <a href="https://learningpool.com/solutions/learning-experience-platform-stream/" target="_blank">the Curatr platform within StreamLXP</a>. This platform is developed for social learning which facilitates online exchange. There was a network café where people introduced themselves and placed themselves on a worldmap.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/large-scale-online-events-1200x640.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/large-scale-online-events-1200x640.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>“This map is so cool! It's nice to see three others from my country on the course."</p></blockquote><p> The network café was also open to people with a call for collaborations or advice. For instance:</p><p></p><blockquote>“I am working on a book proposal focused on the intersection of urban agriculture and forced displacement/humanitarian crisis. It will largely focus on case studies from the field. Given the wealth of expertise in this e-course, I was wondering if you have come across any projects in your work focusing on gardening/agriculture for refugees or internally displaced persons (IDPs)?”</blockquote><p></p><p>Another way of social learning was through the open space. After the catch-up week, we started an open space area online with important themes that emerged from the discussions by participants. We also asked a number of participants in a Zoom session to present and discuss their case with an expert.</p><p>The facilitation was aimed at creating a group feeling. People with an interesting contribution were mentioned in the emails, the network was made visible by means of a map, but also by making a YouTube playlist of participants' favorite songs. When playing, you become aware again of the great diversity in the group. The playlist was certainly popular, new songs were contributed until the very end and had 1200 views. </p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLz0lRYyOi5VTQR33afZumAVYo0GyxzFZE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Gamification</h4><div><br /></div><div>Last but not least, there were elements of gamification. A leaderboard showed the most active participants- not only the people which reacted a lot but also those whose reactions are valued. At one point it became a race between three participants who started to post a lot of comments and documents with the aim of getting on top of the leaderboard. We wondered how to deal with this, but it didn't seem to interfere with the learning process and it was also funny. What we did though - is consciously reward other people, for example people with a special case or the first with a certificate.</div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Online collaborative learning for large numbers: use clear instructions and mentors</b></h4><div><br /></div><div>With 500 participants, guiding groups takes a lot of time. We tried to lower the number and upper the motivation by making it voluntary. During the intake, people could sign up for group work and we made it clear that this would take an extra 4 hours. We hoped for a maximum of 120 people (20 groups of 6), but this 370 signed up! A bit overwhelming but also fun. Many people who had not registered during the intake were very eager to participate when they saw the enthusiasm of the others. We have formed another new bonus group for these participants.</div><div><br /></div><div>To keep it manageable, we opted for (1) clear assignments and (2) the help of voluntary mentors. Each group had its own mentor – not for content guidance but mainly to help the group organize itsellf and see to it the groups did not get stuck. Each mentor has fulfilled this role differently.</div><div><br /></div><div>We have chosen to group people by region/language area, so for example French-speaking West Africa together, Spanish-speaking people together. The advantage was that they could collaborate in their own language and did not have to bother with large time zone differences. I personally think that this has been an important success factor, also in understanding each other's context. Especially for the Latin American groups. Once in a while, that didn't work out because a lady from Asia ended up as part of a French-speaking group.</div><div><br /></div><div>Last but not least, we had the groups work on a real life case of one of the group members. As a result, the first assignment was mainly filled with getting acquainted and choosing a case. This took a relatively high amount of group collaboration time, but ensured the groupwork was very practical and participants could go in depth.</div><div><br /></div><div>A number of ways in which we have tightly managed the group work:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Four short assignments of an hour with a tight deadline, all assignments were online and were explained again in the Zoom sessions. The assignments worked towards a clear final assignment: writing a blog. </li><li>There was guaranteed feedback from experts; but only after handing in the assignment before the deadline</li><li>The opportunity to work for an hour in your own group in Zoom every Wednesday after the guest speaker. Many groups have taken advantage of this. The groups were free to choose their own time, however this can be quite some hassle.</li><li>In the first assignment we stimulated the creation of a Whatsapp, Viber or Signal group for fast communication within the group. Some groups opted for email as a means of communication.</li><li>We asked for one contact person. This made it easy to get in touch.</li><li>In the first assignment we asked to choose a name for the group. These became names like “11 tomatoes”, “Simba”, “Asian Booster” and “los Andinos”.</li></ul></div><div>Volunteering for group work worked very well for motivation. Of the 38 groups, only 1 group has not started. There are 34 groups that submitted a good final assignment. However, only 4-6 people were active in each group. I wonder if that percentage would be higher if you formed groups of 4-5 people. The fact that you could win as a group also helped. The groups were motivated to submit a blog, and there was a respected jury and clear judging criteria.</div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Collaboration learning worked for course engagement: group members progressed further in the course</b></h4><p></p><div><br /></div><div>The beauty of the <a href="https://learningpool.com/solutions/learning-experience-platform-stream/" target="_blank">Curatr platform</a> is that you can form groups to monitor and compare the performance. For example, we compared participants with group work with the other non - group work participants. Progress is measured in points. The group people clearly got more points.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/f2XQTWXU2_O0fQwI8DbGY74L2na6cNadJ_jaCR1KIRLUpY_kW4V72qjb6YDmGm3v4NaY7HiDY7q3Cz9y9T_eOdbvXHUtm6xM6kG5etBPQr1r53UT0PexMSgNViqDZqbUROo_KYKw=s673" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="673" height="244" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/f2XQTWXU2_O0fQwI8DbGY74L2na6cNadJ_jaCR1KIRLUpY_kW4V72qjb6YDmGm3v4NaY7HiDY7q3Cz9y9T_eOdbvXHUtm6xM6kG5etBPQr1r53UT0PexMSgNViqDZqbUROo_KYKw=w400-h244" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div>The mean score of the participants with group work was: 317.3</div><div><br /></div><div>The average score of the participants without group work was: 219</div><div><br /></div><div>It is an indication that group work helps to keep up the engagement with an online course. This may be chicken and egg: the participants with higher motivation may be more likely to sign up for group work. </div><div><br /></div><div>Fortunately, there is also other research that shows that collaborative learning contributes to the capacity for self-directed learning online. Wang et al describe in ‘<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0260691721000071?via%3Dihub" target="_blank">How does group cooperation help improve self-directed learning ability in nursing students?</a> a trial of one semester online learning that nurses' group work contributes to self-direction and collaboration skills. This helps participants in online learning to plan their own learning activities. I personally think group work works as peer pressure and builds social capital. For instance, in one of my own groups someone became ill and received emotional messages wishing him strength and thanks for his efforts. Such a bond can also be formed in a short time. A second study confirms this '<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08832323.2021.1908941">Does collaborative learning improve student outcomes for underrepresented learner?</a>'. The study found that online collaborative learning compared to a course without led to better results, a feeling of community and less dropouts. </div></div><div><div><br /></div><div>We also asked which learning activities they learned the most from. The online resources, plenary sessions and online discussions score the highest, but there is also a group that puts group work first or second.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/LKj0lJsSwjL82NPLTwRS_8VVyz5iNaQs4DYpJBeBTvKoQ_G43WF4WMwqDbi4I6xU1pi3sbjz8sKNY3Gdap52_WjNY_6t--t3BB7Mt2veryXsdTe0tVREjc-ifDiPIBmPux-lGe9r=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="1600" height="174" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/LKj0lJsSwjL82NPLTwRS_8VVyz5iNaQs4DYpJBeBTvKoQ_G43WF4WMwqDbi4I6xU1pi3sbjz8sKNY3Gdap52_WjNY_6t--t3BB7Mt2veryXsdTe0tVREjc-ifDiPIBmPux-lGe9r=w400-h174" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Intake, feedback and a certificate also contributed</h4><div><br /></div><div>In addition to social learning and good content, I think there were a number of other factors that helped to keep people engaged. First of all, a good intake and selection. People were asked if they had time (some answered no and were therefore not selected :)) and what their motivation was. The 500 fortunate participants were selected from more than 900 applications. In addition, there was continuous feedback from the experts and some mentors on the contributions. This was highly appreciated and even more feedback was requested. In addition, there was a clear structure with a final weekly assignment: the gateway to the next week. When all gates were completed, people could download a certificate. This was certainly an incentive for many participants.</div><div></div><blockquote><div>“Yippeeeeee! On June 30, I obtained my certificate. After trying the last quiz several times, I finally crossed the line. I would like to say a big thank you to the organizers of this course, all our wonderful tutors, mentors at the plenary session and all participants for making the last 5 weeks unforgettable for me, having fun while learning. You are all much appreciated. Lots of hugs!"</div><div><br /></div><div>“I feel good, very good, because I got my certificate today. My appreciation goes out to all supervisors of the four modules. Mr Erik Slingerland, our mentor, thank you for your tireless efforts to ensure that we complete the group assignments on time. To the course organizers and the entire WCDI team, God bless you for giving us this opportunity. Fellow participants… Congratulations to all of you. WE DID IT!!"</div></blockquote><h4 style="text-align: left;">Conclusion</h4><div><br /></div><div>It is clear that collaborative and social learning have contributed to keeping participants engaged in the food systems e-course. The organization and supervision takes time, but you can minimize it through clear instructions and the use of voluntary mentors. Online you have to look redefine participation differently compared to face-to-face. You will never get 100% of participants doing all learning activities. Someone who does not fully participate but does participate in two online sessions can also learn something from this what he / she wants to learn, self-management and making choices become more important. It seems that a percentage of 50% is a good achievement for a large-scale online course.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-25754644496730220382021-05-04T17:57:00.007+02:002021-05-04T17:59:23.385+02:00Innovative learning design working with the 3P model <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KIEydRRT560/YJFscb8i9KI/AAAAAAAAFBE/p48MTiGAFzsb_CPgVpAmI-vNnbH_WGt0gCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/cover%2Bthumbnail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="566" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KIEydRRT560/YJFscb8i9KI/AAAAAAAAFBE/p48MTiGAFzsb_CPgVpAmI-vNnbH_WGt0gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/cover%2Bthumbnail.jpg" /></a></div><br />Sibrenne and I are looking forward to May 20, the day that our book '<a href="https://www.managementboek.nl/boek/9789462722958/blended-leren-ontwerpen-joitske-hulsebosch" target="_blank">Blended learning design</a>' (in Dutch) will be published. It was a happy writing process (18 days in all), but the proofreading was kind of tough. I read the whole book twice and had not really planned this intense kind of proofreading. But it looks wonderful! So I feel relieved that the book is currently at the printing press (ofcourse there will be an ebook too!). <p></p><p>The outline of the book is - organizing the start (with design approaches etc), design, innovative blends, from goal to tools, from infographic to interactive videos (on learning materials), online facilitation and online specials. </p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>The 3P model</b></h4><p>One of my favorite models is <a href="https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/55535986.pdf" target="_blank">the 3P model </a>by Chatti, Matthias Jarke and Marcus Specht. The model is developed in response to the changing world of online media and information. Trainers are now '<a href="https://ennuonline.com/2013/04/remember-you-are-competing-with-youtube/" target="_blank">competing with Youtube</a>' as Hans de Zwart said. Rather than competing, you should make good use of the available sources and use them for pull learning activities. In that way people learn more pro-actively plus you teach them how to network, find and judge resources. Please find my explanation of the 3P model using Squigl. </p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://app.squiglit.com/#/embedded-video/unqx1nV9hkGw4BGGx8fpew" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;">The 3P model in the water management and policy course</h4><div><br /></div><div>An example: with the 3P model we are developing a course for civil servants dealing with water management and policy, popularly known as the water course. Important principles for this course are:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>We focus on the learner, his needs and preferences.</li><li>We provide a varied program in which we actively involve participants in the design.</li><li>We choose a learning platform that they can continue to use after the process.</li><li>You learn with others. We want to focus on getting to know each other, learning from each other and expanding the network.</li></ul></div><div>The process takes three months. 120 participants participate and they are guided by three facilitators with knowledge of the business. The first week they get to know each other on the basis of statements. Participants are explicitly invited to share their own professional practice / experiences. (Participation) Questions are: what is your engagement with water management? Which challenges do you see? What questions do you have? We organize a live session to inventory and cluster these experiences. This clustering helps in the development of elective modules.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is followed by two months, during which everyone takes a module of their choice. (Personalization) Each module has an assignment in which something must be selected or designed that is useful in one's own practice. The groups themselves look for information. There is a list of experts they can interview (Pull). Each group is also asked to contact at least one company. The process is concluded with a presentation of the products of the groups. The participants also discuss how this group may wish to continue as a knowledge network and who can play a facilitating role in this. </div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Using Squigl to make animations</b></h4></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>I am a big fan of Squigl. Squigl works with text and you search images. There is a library of images you can use and this library is expanding, hence there is is already a wide choice. However, I still wish to draw my own images using my Wacom tablet. You can record your own voice or use an automated voice (which I did since I am not a native English speaker). Do you want to know more about how to use Squigl? Watch<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O_2iEzFtdM&ab_channel=Squigl" target="_blank"> this video</a>. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-43765221447652154732021-04-06T18:32:00.003+02:002021-04-06T18:32:58.643+02:00Tool of the month: online brainstorm wall Padlet
Often when I blog about tools I put a new tool in the spotlight. However, online learning can be rendered more effective by smart use of 'old' tools. That's why this time the tool of the month is good old <a href="http://padlet.com">Padlet</a>. You probably already know Padlet. Padlet is an online brainstorm wall on which you can stick post-its online. I've been using Padlet for quite a few years, from the time it was still called Wallwisher. In fact, I have a privileged position at Padlet. As an early user I am allowed to use the number of Padlets I created in the beginning (20+), while you can now only create three for free. The great thing about Padlet is that your participants don't have to create an account to brainstorm. I am also a big fan of the export function. You get a nice PDF that is also easy to read. Have a look at <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ehis result</a> from a brainstorm about online humor.
<p>You can use Padlet in many different ways. Below are a number of smart ways in which you can use our tool of the month. If you have one of your own, it would be nice if you add it in the comments to this blog post.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">The basics of Padlet</h4><div><br /></div><div>If you are not familiar with Padlet, this video by Richard Byrne is a good way to familiarize yourself with Padlet.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aH-YkzlqjwY" width="320" youtube-src-id="aH-YkzlqjwY"></iframe></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can find more instruction videos on <a href="https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2021/01/my-big-list-of-padlet-tutorials.html" target="_blank">Richard's website</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can use Padlet for all the same ways you would use post-its and a flipchart in a room. You can ask your participants a question and have them stick post-its on a wall or flip. You can do this in exactly the same way online. The twist online is that you can choose whether you want people to brainstorm together in a live online session, or invite people in advance to brainstorm on their own. Sending out a Padlet before the session is best when collecting questions or ideas. In the session you can then discuss or cluster on this. When you first want to explain something, and work on it later, it works to work on a Padlet during an online session.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On to more creative uses of Padlet!</div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />The three step brainstorm</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Schermafbeelding-2021-03-29-om-18.01.10-600x467.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="600" height="249" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Schermafbeelding-2021-03-29-om-18.01.10-600x467.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />With a three-step brainstorm you build your storm in three steps. Brainstorm first, then ask people to read and like, and then discuss the ratings. Padlet can be set in such a way that participants can also give comments and likes to contributions (go to settings -comments and reactions). An example: I invited participants to post a good blend of online and face-to-face activities. Then I asked participants to read the contributions and give likes. During the discussion I zoomed in on the highest ranked contributions asked for reasons. Together you can thus make a list of the working elements of a good blend. Another example of a three-step brainstorm is to invite participants to post difficult situations, then make suggestions to each other via the comments and finally discuss a number of cases. <div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">The world map </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Schermafbeelding-2021-03-31-om-14.11.40-600x384.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="600" height="205" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Schermafbeelding-2021-03-31-om-14.11.40-600x384.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>When you create a Padlet you choose a template. One of the template is 'map'. You can use the world map in Padlet to let participants introduce themselves by putting themselves on the map. This gives a nice overview of the group. You can also ask everyone to add specific information, such as their areas of expertise. You can also zoom in on one particular country - see the Netherlands in the image. You can also use the map in Padlet to present information linked to a geographical location. Suppose you want to offer information about climate change, you can add info and link that to the specific location.</div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Breakout groups</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Schermafbeelding-2021-03-29-om-18.15.22-600x364.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="600" height="194" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Schermafbeelding-2021-03-29-om-18.15.22-600x364.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>You can also use Padlet well as support for group work in breakouts. In Zoom it is always a struggle to clearly communicate the assignment to the groups, the groups can't take the slide to the chat. Sometimes I say 'just take a picture yourself'. One solution is to create a Padlet with columns (this template is called 'Shelf'. You can use a column for the assignment itself and give each group a column, where they take notes. This is a nice way for you as a facilitator to monitor the progress in the groups. If you see one group's column is still empty you may visit that group. <div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">The mini-course</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Schermafbeelding-2021-03-31-om-14.10.36-600x270.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="600" height="144" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Schermafbeelding-2021-03-31-om-14.10.36-600x270.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Microlearning is hot. You can use Padlet as the basis for a short course, for example a ten-day course on 'staying fit in times of corona'. You can use a column per day with a short assignment. You can add a video, podcast or article. Another way is to link multiple Padlets. Start a 'Mother Padlet' and link to the other Padlets. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA7NgNODLmU&ab_channel=Padlet">Here</a> you will find an explanation how to link them. Or make <a href="https://padlet.com/ernomijland1/escaperoom" target="_blank">an escape room</a> as a mini course. <div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Padlet in your own platform </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Schermafbeelding-2021-03-31-om-14.15.18-600x480.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="600" height="256" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Schermafbeelding-2021-03-31-om-14.15.18-600x480.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>There are several platforms where participants cannot interact easily. Or the comments are quite hidden (like in Moodle). You can often 'embed' = insert other content in your platform, like a video. If you can embed a video, you can also embed a Padlet. For the users the experience is seamless, it is as if they are responding in the platform. </div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Video and audio Padlets</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Schermafbeelding-2021-03-31-om-14.38.00-600x402.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="600" height="214" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Schermafbeelding-2021-03-31-om-14.38.00-600x402.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>A nice feature of Padlet is the option to record a short video via your webcam. Hence, you can use Padlet in the same way as the <a href="http://flipgrid.com" target="_blank">Flipgrid</a> app. For example, ask the participants to record a pitch of no more than 1 or 2 minutes and ask the other participants to give feedback via the comments. During a series of digital working visits, we keep each other informed via short video messages. During a project, the presentations were shared via a Padlet and we gave feedback via the audio. That makes it more personal.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ideas added by readers:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Use Padlet for evaluation: ask people to write down their ideas in different columns. One column per participant or per evaluation topic. </li><li>You can add your own image as background. You may use for instance a graph and ask people to add ideas concerning the elements of the graph. You need to use the canvas template for this, otherwise the posts can not be placed on an exact place on the wall. </li></ul></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-9781444780491387192021-03-05T11:33:00.007+01:002021-03-05T11:55:29.116+01:00Happy learners with an attractive platform<p>Do you facilitate an online or blended course? If it takes longer than let's say a day or week, you may be using an online platform. Maybe you are already content that you understand all feature or you may have someone 'doing' the platform stuff. That is a shame because a well-designed and attractive platform is important. So you should be bothered about the style and content of the platform, even if you think there is not that much that you can tweak (what you can tweak depends indeed). In this blog I explain why the attractiveness of your platform is important and will give a number of tips that you can get started with right away.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fNU0M2dG5h8" width="320" youtube-src-id="fNU0M2dG5h8"></iframe></div><div><br /></div>In this video you see the 'Rapping Flight Attendant David Holmes'. He explains the safety instructions via a rap. Not only musical and fun, but it also turns out to be effective. "<i>This is the first time I have listened to the instructions</i>" a passenger told him. Making fun can help capture attention ... How can you use this with your online platform?<div><br /></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>Happy or sad online? The importance of emotions</b></h3><div><br /></div><div>Donald Norman writes about the importance of emotion in design in an article called <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/202165712_Emotion_Design_Attractive_Things_Work_Better" target="_blank">Emotion & Design, Attractive things work better</a>. Two elements are important for a great platform supporting learning. First, the attrractiveness - the immediate atmosphere that you experience as a participant on a platform. And secondly, the convenience - the ease with which the participant can use the platform and move around and find their way. Most importantly, the first influences the second: appearance affects the ease of use. A study of ATMs in Japan and Israel shows that an attractive ATM with the same buttons is perceived as easier. Norman explains this on the basis of emotions: an attractive design makes you happier and hence you are more open to finding solutions, for example clicking a few times before you find what you are looking for. On the other hand, if you are in a bad mood, you can keep clicking on something and get annoyed. So you can get away with more problems if it looks nice. </div><div><br /></div><div>How to make your platform attractive? You can do something about the design, font, color photos. What atmosphere do you want to create in the platform? That probably depends on your target group. Business- like or informal? With hand-drawn images you get a different atmosphere than with photos of well-dressed employees. Blue gives a different feeling than orange. Also play with fonts. And test. Ask participants what they find attractive and what they don't.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Tips for an attractive platform</h3><div><br /></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Make use of illustrations, photos and drawings. Illustrations contribute to the attractiveness and atmosphere. If you have or can hire a graphic designer in-house, he or she can help you develop the style. If not, you can also ensure that you add images such as photos or cartoons. You can use sites with photos such as <a href="https://pixabay.com/">Pixabay</a> or <a href="https://unsplash.com/" target="_blank">Unsplash</a> for this. Or use icons such as <a href="https://thenounproject.com/" target="_blank">Nounproject</a> or <a href="https://iconduck.com/">Iconduck</a>. You may also search for images with use rights using Google images.</li><li>Provide a clear structure. A participant enters the platform and must be able to find his way. A good menu function helps with this. You may put a welcome message on the homepage in which you give people a brief explanation. Remember that not everything has to be visible from the start, maybe you can keep a few themes hidden for later? Or do you expand the platform based on the wishes of the participants?</li><li>Put the most important thing first. Online you work with lots of hyperlinks. How often does someone have to click to get to the information? This has a great influence on the number of responses to a question, for example. When a question and all answers are visible straight away, this produces many more responses than when you first have to click twice before entering a forum. </li><li>Use multimedia. You can work with text online. Such as exchanging ideas and experiences or answers to an assignment in a forum. It can be refreshing to work with other media such as video and audio. When you can "embed" videos (this is placing the video on your platform in such a way that the video plays there too) it is more attractive than a link.</li><li>Use appealing language. Language has a decisive role: use recognizable language, but also be creative. Calling a space for group a "bungalow" does something to the atmosphere. Or create a "garden" as a place to exchange ideas, which sounds different from "forum". Using a word like bungalow with a simple image can give the feeling that you are really sitting in a house together. </li><li>Make activity visible. Nothing is more annoying than going to an online environment and feeling that little is happening there. A main page that constantly looks the same does not make you curious. Make the activity visible on the main page: tweets, latest activities, a newly started discussion, a posted blog post, an added video, a new link to an article.</li></ul></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-40123983540508075712021-02-15T15:51:00.007+01:002021-02-16T08:56:10.149+01:00Experimenting with three network tools: Wonder Me, Spatialchat and Gather<div>In October I ran into Wonder at the online conference of facilitators and I got really excited about it. You can easily 'walk around' and talk to people. Then I discovered that there are <a href="http://joitskehulsebosch.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-new-generation-of-tools-for-meeting.html" target="_blank">many more such tools</a>. Time for a meetup with my Dutch network (called <a href="http://losmakers.nl" target="_blank">Losmakers</a>) to experiment with three different tools and brainstorm about ways to use them. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>1. <a href="http://wonder.me">Wonder me</a></div><div>
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<img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2087" height="195" src="https://losmakers.nl/nieuw/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Schermafbeelding-2021-02-02-om-11.59.06-300x195.png" width="300" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Gather has rooms, and you can even build a city. It reminds me of walking around in Habbo hotel (for those who still know Habbo). Hence, people thought it was old-fashioned. Also funny, playful and a possible substitute for breakouts, although some would use it mainly for friends and not for professional meetings.</div><div><br /></div><div><strong>What can we do with those tools?</strong> </div><div><br /></div><div>As a wrap up we discussed how to use it. They are all tools for informal meeting, so people are happy to meet informally or to chat after a session. A closing online drink, for example. But there are also other ideas:<ul><li><i>Brainstorming</i>. It is very suitable for brainstorming, because the tool automatically loosens you up through the freedom to walk around and mingle. </li><li><i>Breakout sessions.</i> You can use it as a replacement for breakout rooms. Instead of the breakout, you invite people to one of these tools. They will have to come back by themselves at an agreed upon time. In Wonder me you can stop all conversations and announce that you have to go back to eg your Zoom or Teams meeting. </li><li><i>Teambuilding</i>. Use it to strengthen informal contact in an online team. Walk around in Wonder me every Monday?</li><li><i>Innovation</i>. You could shake up a consultation that goes the same way every time by doing it like this.</li><li><i>Information markets, poster presentations or 'Share fairs'</i>. In Spatialchat you can give each organization its own corner, and people can walk around. Or make circles in Wonder.</li><li><i>Open space</i>. It lends itself to open space. The 'law of two feet' means that you can walk around and leave if the conversation is less interesting to you. This is best possible with the help of these tools. </li>
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If I had too compare it to a face-to-face experience I'd say it resembles the online version of a reception. Then I discovered that a number of nice new tools have been added. The common denominator seems to be that they are tools that change online networking: make it more visual and provide more freedom.</p><p><b>Wonder me</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Attachment-1-600x305.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="600" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Attachment-1-600x305.jpeg" /></a></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="Wonder.me">Wonder me</a> is currently free and you can sign up to get your own Wonder room. However, it will come with paid plan at the end of next year. You can invite people to your own room, and customize the room by changing the background. Your photo is show in the room and can walk around by using your mouse. When you are close to a person or group your videos and audios will work. You can recognize a group of people already talking by a circle. So you can choose how long you stay in a group or walk further. The main facilitator can send a message to anyone, then all conversations will be silenced. You can also 'close' a circle to have a private conversation. The impressive thing is that it works for up to 1000 people, with a maximum of 15 in a circle.</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><b>Remo</b><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Attachment-1-1-600x354.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="600" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Attachment-1-1-600x354.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div><a href="http://Remo.co">Remo.co</a> also gives a lot of control to the visitor to walk around. It is more structured than wonder.me due to its setup with tables with maximum 8 participants. You can choose which table you join, the people who sit at the table will hear a knock at the door. Full is full. You can also add a topic to the tables, so it lends itself well to a World Cafe format. You can try it for free for 14 days, after that it starts from 100 dollars per month.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Videofacilitator</b></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/videofacillitator-600x324.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="600" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/videofacillitator-600x324.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.videofacilitator.com/">Videofacilitator</a> works in a slightly different way. You can actually organize speeddating in an easy way, by having people switch to the next person. It therefore gives less control for the participants to choose themselves. However, the feeling is different than in subgroups because you can also see the other groups. You can create a free account to try it out, after that it's $ 30 a month. It may be that there a more possibilities to use it since I only experienced the speeddating process. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Spatial chat</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/spatialchat-1-600x393.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="600" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/spatialchat-1-600x393.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="Spatial.chat">Spatialchat</a> can be used perfectly for an open space session. You can create different sub-spaces like rooms, and also prepare material for a room, such as a video. The maximum number of participants is 100. It is free up to 25 participants and 3 rooms. Then it starts from $ 49.95 per month</div><div><p><b>Topia</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Schermafbeelding-2020-12-09-om-09.18.13-600x382.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="600" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Schermafbeelding-2020-12-09-om-09.18.13-600x382.png" /></a></div><br /><p>Another nice one is <a href="https://topia.io/" target="_blank">Topia</a>. You can add a picture to your own space. Personally, I was not able to try Topia because I had to set a hardware configuration in my Chrome browser and Firefox is not supported. Maybe more for the future? Topia is free for up to 25 people, then $ 29 per month.. Anybody with experiences?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Gather</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Schermafbeelding-2020-12-09-om-09.23.46-600x369.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="369" data-original-width="600" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Schermafbeelding-2020-12-09-om-09.23.46-600x369.png" /></a></div><p><a href="https://gather.town/" target="_blank">Gather</a> is also making the videocall experience more visual. However, the design is somewhat reminiscent of the (old) world of the pacman. Free for 25 people. Nice that you can start a town, city or metropolis.</p><p><b>Getmibo</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Schermafbeelding-2020-12-09-om-09.27.45-600x339.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="600" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Schermafbeelding-2020-12-09-om-09.27.45-600x339.jpg" /></a></div><p><a href="https://getmibo.com/" target="_blank">Getmibo</a> is more for fun. As they phrase it on their website “<i>for informal meetings, remote drinks, social mixers, networking events, or just hanging around</i>”. You can walk around an island and your head is the webcam. Free up to 12 people, then 49 euros per month. Until recently, Getmibo was called Borrel. They have changed the name because it can also be used for more than just drinks, for example as a network option at an online conference.</p><p>These tools are a great asset to me. What they have in common is you have more freedom to "walk around" and meet each other online. They are more visual than Zoom, Webex or Microsoft Teams. You don't need a login and you can start a room. They are not going to replace the existing webconferencing tools, but they do provide opportunities to come together online in a different way and thus new possibilities for the online facilitator.</p><p>Added: <a href="https://heyhubbub.com/" target="_blank">hubhub</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-49490265495805367312020-08-06T12:43:00.004+02:002020-09-18T09:13:05.218+02:00Hybrid sessions: the new norm?<span style="font-family: arial;">In July we completed the <a href="https://ennuonline.com/leergangen/ontwerpen-en-faciliteren-van-blended-leren/">Design and Facilitation of Blended Learning</a> course. As teachers, we are proud of the beautiful designs for online lessons, online workshops, interactive videos and coaching programs, which were already already implemented in many cases. It was an intensive course: interrupted by corona. The second live meeting was canceled and we went online. Although we were quite comfortable doing the program online, we missed something. Since the course is already blended, it shows that we really get energy from working with the group. In the live session in Utrecht, the theme (design, tools or facilitation) is put into context and the online experiences fall into place. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I notice that the course is already well balanced in its blend: each block has two weeks online and one morning in Utrecht. It gives a lot of energy to see each other. Without the live session you miss part of the group process. Fortunately, the last session could be a live session, although two people immediately wanted to participate online. At the last minute we received two more emails ... they prefered online too! We suddenly found ourselves in a real hybrid meeting: half online, half face-to-face.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X71wXjrAG_A/XyvXOCuwI1I/AAAAAAAAEqE/4c0Q6Ihmd5Y2frEQKhOOtH8THzLSFdhkwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/leergang-2-rotated.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X71wXjrAG_A/XyvXOCuwI1I/AAAAAAAAEqE/4c0Q6Ihmd5Y2frEQKhOOtH8THzLSFdhkwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/leergang-2-rotated.jpg" /></span></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
Will hybrid sessions be the new norm? </span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Is hybrid the future? I would not know. Maybe we will have more online learning trajectories than blended. It is interesting that one participant did not bother to travel because it would save her time. The standard could also become to organize hybrid session. Firstly, because we can accommodate fewer people or students in a room (we had to cope with a maximum of 9). Secondly, it gives participants the freedom to decide for themselves whether they are willing to travel and meet others. In any case, we thought it gave a lot of energy to be together like this, even for the online participants!</span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />How to organize a hybrid session</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial;">We have quite some experiences with one participant online. In this case we have her face embodied on the laptop via the webcam and carry her around. In this case we had four online participants. We asked in advance about the tool options (many are not allowed to zoom): the preferences were Skype and Zoom. We decided to put people on two laptops. Mainly, because having two laptops with each two people made the organization of the groupwork easier. In the session, it also proved to be fun to have two laptop groups, so that it is not 'us in the room' versus 'them online'. It is a challenge, however, to ensure that the online participant's experience runs smoothly. Some tips from our experience: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">It helps to experience it for yourself, so offer to join as an online participant at a live meeting or meeting.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Make sure the online participants are clearly visible. That can be on a big screen or as a 'laptop head'. This way you avoid to forget them. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">An external webcam can ensure that the room is clearly visible to the online participants. This is especially nice with an online speaker, as he / she also sees the reactions of the audience.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">It can be more difficult to break into a discussion online, but this can also apply to the live participants. Therefore, agree how to ask for the word, eg by raising your hand. As a facilitator you may structure the important more by giving turns, so everyone gets their change.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Work regularly in subgroups, mixing online participants with face-to-face (better with headset). Or create a group of two online participants who may exchange online together.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">The audio was not always optimal for the online participants. A speakerphone might improve that and is something I would like to try next time. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Divide the care for the online participants. Who is watching who? You can divide the tasks between facilitators or apply a buddy system whereby everybody who is present face-to-face is the buddy of an online person.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">With large groups both face-to-face and online, it is good to have a face-to-face and online facilitator who work together and occasionally work with their own group.</span></li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The group dynamics in this blended session</span></h3></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The group dynamics were fine after all, because they want to stay in touch! One person never met the others face-to-face but clearly felt comfortable. I felt there was no real difference between the online and life participants (except that we had our coffees together in the sun :).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><blockquote>A participant: "Never had such a steep learning curve. And today, I experienced firsthand how hybrid learning works. It went really well: beyond expectations!"</blockquote><br /></span><div><span color="" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">More tips? </span></span></h3><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tips for organizing a large event with a livestream</span><a aria-label="undefined (opent in een nieuwe tab)" href="https://www.evenementorganiseren.nl/artikel/tips-en-stappen-voor-het-organiseren-van-een-succesvol-hybride-event-235.html#" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; outline: 0px; transition-duration: 0.05s; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"> here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Experiences Betreat with hybrid workshops </span><a aria-label="undefined (opent in een nieuwe tab)" href="https://wenger-trayner.com/all/in-person-and-online-events" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; outline: 0px; transition-duration: 0.05s; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Experience with a Hybrid session in Mongolia with the trainer at a distance by Ben Ziegler <a href="http://collaborativejourneys.com/reflections-on-virtual-co-facilitation-of-merit-workshops-in-mongolia/" target="_blank">here</a></span></li><li>And fun: <a href="https://joitskehulsebosch.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-emerging-practices-for-trainers-and.html" target="_blank">my experiences training at the distance in Cambodia in 2011</a> using Zipcast and Skype </li></ul></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-10191127230070571512020-07-07T13:22:00.001+02:002020-07-07T13:22:24.592+02:00My dream: facilitating a whole week online<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well some of you may have different dreams, but one of my dreams was to facilitate a whole week online. I was interested to see how to make the program balanced and interesting, combine fun with work. Thanks to corona my dream came true :).<br />
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I facilitated the yearly exchange from an alliance active in 13 countries. From Guatemala to Indonesia. For a whole week. Yes that is super fun! What I liked the most was that I felt I got to know a number of people at the end of the week. However, not the whole group. Of course, the online week resulted from the corona crisis and we could have had more fun all together in the Netherlands, so this is definitely not a plea to do everything online. On the other hand, only 20 people would have come together in the Netherlands and we involved 40-45 people in our exchanges, even 80 in one meeting which was open to a wider group.<br />
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We had working sessions, fun sessions and knowledge sessions. We used google classroom, regional assignments and Flipgrid to weave all together. We did quite a good evaluation with <a href="http://mentimeter.com/">mentimeter</a> and I was particularly happy with the word cloud and the feelings of the participants regarding the balance.<br />
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It is of course paramount to do something like this as a team. I had a group of 3 colleagues to work with. We actually didn't talk that much about our division of tasks, but it surfaced kind of naturally. During the week had a Whatsapp group, which we mainly used to briefly tune who does what. We started every day at 9 a.m. with the facilitators team looking back and look ahead. At the end of the week it was quite impressive to see what grounds we had covered, from learning about food systems to developing communication plans and learning from communication experts to formulating an advocacy message for parliament.<br />
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How do you take care of yourself as a facilitator? Being locked in a room for a week is of course somewhat exaggerated. I had kept my calendar completely empty as much as possible, so it didn't feel like an extremely busy week. I regularly went out for walks or some shopping in between the sessions. I also had a lot of fun in the fun sessions like doing bootcamp exercises for the first time in my live.<br />
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Have you already discovered the breakout rooms in your webconferencing tools? Breakout rooms (also known as brainstorming rooms) allow participants of an online session to work in smaller groups. We often use this face-to-face. In smaller groups people are more active and can go deeper than in a plenary online group. You can also work in subgroups online. Breaking up in subgroups is possible in many web conferencing tools, such as Webex Training, Adobe Connect, Zoom, BigBlueButton etc. Breakout rooms are not for the starting online facilitator. During the breakout you lack have a view on your participants, you can get lost yourself, or you see people falling out of the breakout room. Not for the faint-hearted. Are the rooms dusting away with you? In this blog tips for smart use of your breakout rooms.<br />
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Let's start with a horror scene</h4>
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We were looking forward to our pop-up webinar. About 10 minutes before the start we were packed with 100 participants! We were super enthusiastic and everything went well. After a start a presentation of principles and examples, groups of 8-10 participants started working in breakout rooms. Each group received the same case and a chat space was available for each group. We knew that not everyone had audio connected, so we encouraged them to use the chat. Soon we were called upon to help various groups. The chat was delayed in a group. People thought that the technology did not work. Another group thought it was scary to work with strangers without seeing them. Another group could understand each other, but no one took the lead. We decided to bring the groups back.<br />
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This example illustrates that breakout rooms are not the easiest feature for the online facilitator. It helps if you have already mastered the basics of your webconferencing tools and have tested the breakout rooms. I did not share this story to discourage you, but rather to show that you sometimes need the guts to try something new. There are so many possibilities for the breakouts. </div>
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The breakout at its best</h3>
Last week I organized a brainstorm with a group of 20 persons about the content of an online conference. In an online brainstorming wall I put up 5 groups with different topics, such as start session, partner sessions, fun, etc. Before the coffee I invited people to sign up for 1 topic by adding their name on the wall. During the coffee break I put people into groups. During the breakout they used the same brainstorming wall to add ideas that allowed me to monitor progress without going to the groups myself. We achieved an important result in 30 minutes. This was because everyone could choose their own topic for which they had many ideas, people already knew each other and thus immediately started brainstorming. Last but not least the combination of the breakout and the brainstorm wall worked well.<br />
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Having people in a group exchange about a question is perhaps the most obvious application. Just like you would face-to-face. If you want to be more creative, you might consider one of the following learning activities and working methods:<br />
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<li>A short buzz in groups of 2 to get into the subject</li>
<li>Let participants dive into a topic in subgroups before you explain, so you can activate prior knowledge</li>
<li>Speed dating to get to know each other. After 3 minutes you put people in the next group</li>
<li>A brainstorm on a topic in combination with a whiteboard or a brainstorming wall</li>
<li>Organize a debate in which they first come up with arguments in two groups (for and against)</li>
<li>A translation of a presentation into practice </li>
<li>A role play in subgroups where the chat is used in different colors by the different roles</li>
<li>Make a drawing or collage together on the whiteboard</li>
<li>A case study</li>
<li>Discussion of a variety of topics. Participants choose their own topic that they want to work on (with some tools, people can choose which breakout they want to participate in or if that is not possible, you can inventory this)</li>
<li>Give them a puzzle, a challenge to crack</li>
<li>Or let participants prepare a (short) presentation themselves ...</li>
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Some practical tips</h4>
Above all, the mother of all advice is: don't be afraid to experiment with the breakouts. If necessary, you can invite your participants to experiment and reflect. Think about the context and how much support you need to provide for your participants. It is easier to work with breakouts when people already know each other. Then they will take the lead faster and get to work easily. If you expect that they sometimes hesitate to take the lead, you can appoint someone, eg the top one from the list of participants.<br />
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Here are some more practical tips if you want to get started.<br />
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<li>People fall out of the breakout (at least in Adobe this often happens!). Therefore, provide one person who can put these people back in their breakout group.</li>
<li>Make a slide with the instruction. Even if you explain the assignment orally it helps to be able to read it.</li>
<li>Plan a breakout after a break, so that it gives you time to prepare something.</li>
<li>With a number of tools, participants can see the time that is left. If this is not the case, as a facilitator you can, for example, send people a message 3 minutes in advance about the time remaining.</li>
<li>In most tools you can go to groups in between to listen / watch. This gives you an impression of what is going on.</li>
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Breakout rooms are not for the starting online facilitator. However, it is a fantastic invention! What are your favorite uses of the breakouts? What would you like to try?</div>
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The whole world is aiming at 'social distancing' As a facilitator, trainer are you going to cancel lessons and workshops or do you opt for online? It may sound challenging, but now is the time to try that online approach, or experiment more than you did before. We are all looking for ways to continue work and learning as well as possible. So take a stab!<br />
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The good thing: flipping your lesson or workshop is a creative process. Plus the flip can have advantages... Things that are difficult in a physical setting may work out better online. A good starting point is the question of what you want to do asynchronously online (each person in his/her own time) and synchronously online (together online at the same time). Brainstorm input, questions or experiences can be collected asynchronously in tools such as Flipgrid, Padlet, Answergarden or IdeaBoardz. You can offer theory through a video or short online lesson. Or you make a quiz with Quizzes or Mentimeter that each takes on its own time, which you then discuss at a synchronized moment. Tools for synchronous online are Zoom, Skype, Google Meet or a tool that is known within your organization. In addition, there are many tools that are less known with which you can create fun online lessons:<br />
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<li><a href="https://www.eduflow.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f36f2a; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Eduflow</a> is free the coming months</li>
<li><a href="https://classroom.google.com/u/0/h" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f36f2a; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google classroom</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> is the free tool of Google. You can do a lot. A downside is that everyone should have a Google account.</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.tes.com/lessons" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f36f2a; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Blendspace </a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> for online lessons</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.blackboard.com/teaching-learning/collaboration-web-conferencing/blackboard-collaborate" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f36f2a; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Blackboard collaborate</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> for schools already working with Blackboard </span></li>
<li><a href="http://edpuzzle.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f36f2a; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Edpuzzle</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> for video lessons with quizzes. </span><a href="https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2019/08/edpuzzle-live-mode-turn-video-lessons.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f36f2a; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Here</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> you will find an explanation</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Microsoft teams is also a good basic tool. <a href="https://microsoftteams.eventbuilder.com/TeamsEducation">Here</a> you can learn more. </span></li>
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Ofcourse there are many more options.... We often use <a href="http://ning.com/">Ning</a> because of the social features.<br />
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<li>Do I flip my activity to online or postpone? Is there urgency to do it? Will participants have time and energy to do it online?</li>
<li>What activities do you want to do online? Distinguish between activities with the whole group, subgroups and individually</li>
<li>What do you want to do synchronously, what asynchronously? Look for a good balance</li>
<li>Which toolset do you need? Think of a good synchronous tool (Skype, Zoom, Google meet etc) and good asynchronous tool (Ning, Microsoft Teams, Facebook for work etc)</li>
<li>How long will your program last? Synchronous sessions max 1.5 hours</li>
<li>What do you need to facilitate well? Think of help from others, scripts for the sessions, paid accounts, estimated time to prepare yourself</li>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here you find an example of a flipped work session with 10 organizations and about 5 participants per organization. The session was originally scheduled for an entire morning. The aim of the work session is to share experiences in work with disabled children. The idea is that people work on small products in groups. How is that possible online? We came up with the following form: The online work session lasts 2 to 3 hours and has a theme defined upfront. </span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white;">In the run-up to the session, we invite all participants to share an important experience with the theme on an online brainstorming wall like Padlet.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">When the session starts, we meet online in a webinar room (e.g. Adobe Connect).</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">We get to know each other (name on map of the Netherlands, answer some light-hearted poll questions and interaction in chat) and make a substantive start by discussing the results of the online brainstorm.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">Then all participants work on the theme in small groups for half an hour. Each group gets its own online workspace and the chat is open to questions in between.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">With "screen sharing" we view each other's result. We briefly place two groups together in an online "room" to exchange and give each other feedback.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">At the end we harvest. We do this by collecting important insights and immediately processing them in an infographic. A tangible product at the end of this session.</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-62615246049461303852020-02-21T12:03:00.002+01:002020-02-21T12:12:47.931+01:00Design thinking for blended learning<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I participated in the Masterclass Design thinking for learning designers by <a href="http://theelearningcoach.com/">Connie Malamed</a>, organized by Anewspring. It was a nice experience to go through all design thinking steps in a structured way for a chosen case study. I had already experienced <a href="https://joitskehulsebosch.blogspot.com/2019/02/using-personas-in-design-of-online-and.html">the value of working with personas</a> and prototypes, but not yet followed all design thinking steps in a structured manner. Our group made a design for managers of retail organizations to motivate employees to stay with the organization for longer (we made the objective smart ofcourse - 25% longer retention by the end of 2021 :).<br />
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<b>What is design thinking and why is it interesting for designing blended learning? </b></h4>
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Design thinking is an emerging trend to shape innovation in a creative way. Central is the experience of the customer / user. There are 5 steps: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test.<br />
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Design thinking has long been used to design products. However, it is quite new to use design thinking for the design of learning interventions. The differences with "regular" design processes in my eyes are:<br />
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<li>Design thinking is "human-centered". Hardly a not a new element, because when designing a training or course, needs assessment is fairly standard practice when designing. Or designing together with the target group and stakeholders. Design thinking, however, offers specific tools such as personas and empathy maps. </li>
<li>It is an iterative, creative process. Making a design in a day was great for a fast start, getting everyone on board and having the outline. After prototyping you will go back to the drawing table with the feedback on the prototype in your pocket. The iteration - refining, tweaking etc instead of sticking to decisions simply because they were made in the beginning is very appealing to me. </li>
<li>Prototyping! This is something I will start to use more often. It seems more difficult to prototype a training than eg a new teapot. What I learnt is that you can be creative in prototyping: think of a mock-up of a new learning environment, an infographic, a video in which you explain the set-up, a role play between trainer and participant etc. The rapid prototypes ensure that you visualize your ideas. As Connie shared: with one client she hadn't made a prototype, and as a result people said very late in the process: oooooh now I understand what you were talking about! Without prototype it is very easy to talk, agree and have different understanding. </li>
<li>There is a large toolkit with tools that you can apply. What makes me very happy is that it is not a blueprint approach, it is not prescriptive, you can choose the tools that fit your process.</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Innovating-People-Handbook-Human-Centered-Methods/dp/0985750901" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">Innovating for People</a> – Book by Luma Institute</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.designkit.org/methods/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">Design thinking toolkit</a> IDEO</li>
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My main take ways</h4>
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Currently I discuss with content experts and teachers whether we have to do interviews or whether they know the target group. Connie does insist on the interviews with the target group. Although content experts sometimes know the target audience very well, there are always judgments and impressions that may be incorrect. An example is a group that appears to be digitally skilled, but may not have a sound card in their computers at work. This still has some consequences for your choices. I'm going to be stricter when organizations say there's no need to do interviews.<br />
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In addition, my biggest eye-opener was to create prototypes. What can you do to show and request feedback? In the session we had built a prototype of an online platform, and in the feedback it became clear that safety is very important. Safety to be able to practice with coaching conversations with employees. Super useful for quickly sharing your design and getting responses.<br />
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Curious about our design?
Unfortunately I did not take a photo but it is a process where managers start with a study of the motivation factors by conversations with employees. Then there are face-to-face and online sessions. We conclude with gamification: prices for the branches with the longest-serving employees.<br />
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An interesting discussion in our group: would we have come up with something completely different if we had not gone through these steps? Maybe not. But now you know for sure that it is well thought out and I suspect that interviews give you a better sense of the learners' context. However, it also shows that the process does not guarantee a consistent design. It requires empathy for the design to fit reality well. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-59961042734868189642020-01-24T16:08:00.003+01:002020-01-24T16:19:44.666+01:00Do you morph? About professional identity and the importance of doing new things<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Judge Willem Korthals Altes (70 years old) is challenging his retirement. He gets an honorable pension because of his age but he doesn't want to stop at all. "My work is part of who I am," he says<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The Dutch singer Rob de Nijs (76 years old)</span><a href="https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/rob-de-nijs-lijdt-aan-parkinson-en-stopt-na-bijna-zestig-jaar-met-optreden~bc4605d5/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; outline: 0px; transition-duration: 0.05s; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has Parkinson but is determined to finish his tour</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">. After this a farewell tour, a CD and a farewell concert and then he intends to stop. Two examples of professionals who, in the words of Jef Staes, are "in sync with their talents". Working no longer feels like working. Suppose you have to give yourself a percentage between 0-100% for being in sync with your talents, what percentage would that be? And many of your colleagues?</span><br />
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Morphing is a gradual transformation into a new version of yourself (see morphing illustrated in the images). A colleague increasingly felt that her work was not important, got a burnout and decided to change the focus of her advisory work. During her burnout period, she has invested in a new direction by, among others. going to conferences. In this way she has found a different focus in her work and is currently capable of making more hours than before her burnout. Your focus and talent is not something you "know" at the end of your studies and work with until you retire. You must take steps in your professional development. Lynda Gratton, a professor of management practice at London Business School, analyzes the future of work. She calls for shaping your craftsmanship yourself: "<i style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">create the space which will enable you to write a personal career script that can bring you fulfillment and meaning</i><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">", but not only that: you have to move with the market and developments in your environment. She calls this “</span><i style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">sliding and morphing</i><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">.” The reason for morphing is two-fold: on the one hand the developments in the market, but also changes in your own interests.</span><b><br /></b><br />
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How to morph as a professional? The Dutch writer Peter Ros gave me a number of ideas with his book Warorde. According to Peter preparedness for change is a learnable skill. Don't wait for a crisis until you change. Stimulate yourself (or colleagues) with new things. Consider for instance:<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>
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<span style="color: #191e23; font-family: "noto" serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Last year I found myself again in a brainstorm, but this time to organize the celebration of the 10th anniversary of <a href="http://ennuonline.com/">Ennuonline</a>. The traffic jam idea was tweaked. Not starting on the train but in groups at a different location and then have them walk via assignments to the place of the celebration. <a href="http://seppo.io/">Seppo.io</a> turned out to be perfect for this purpose.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #191e23; font-family: "noto" serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">"Teach with a game. In a fun and easy way." That is the motto of Sepp.io. You can create a treasure hunt by adding assignments at locations on the map. You can create different types of assignments:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #191e23; font-family: "noto" serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In this case, our goal was an energetic start and participants getting to know each other in small groups. Both were achieved! The tool is certainly also suitable for other purposes. Suppose you start a scavenger hunt and then have a face-to-face session. During the hunt you can invite participants to exchange on a topic and share the results during the search, as in the example of convincing the director. You can aggregate and show this afterwards and further analyze it. Which arguments will convince the most and why? After this you could also do a role play in which people practice again. The value of Seppo is in the stimulation of creativity and spontaneity. Do you also see other applications? It's nice if you share it in the comments because I definitely want to do more with Seppo.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-75805664068161158562019-09-03T10:37:00.005+02:002019-09-03T10:45:49.877+02:00How to develop effective multimedia for learning? The 10 principles of Richard Mayer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Are you looking for principles for creating videos and other learning materials? Before the summer I organized a <a href="https://losmakers.nl/didactiek-en-tooling-van-interactieve-video/">meetup about interactive video</a> in the Netherlands (with interactive video the viewer can, for example, answer questions or choose what he / she will continue with). It was really an eye-opener for me. In any case, multimedia like video, animations and infographics are becoming increasingly important in online learning and you have to dive into it when you design online learning. But what is a really good video? I often get the question how long a video can be, but of course it's not about the length but about the content. Mayer has developed 10 principles for multimedia learning.</h3>
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<a href="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/richard-mayer-boek-200x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="size-medium wp-image-9651 alignright" height="320" src="https://ennuonline.com/site2017/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/richard-mayer-boek-200x300.jpg" width="213" /></a>I read the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Multimedia-Learning-Richard-Mayer/dp/0521735351">Multimedia Learni</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Multimedia-Learning-Richard-Mayer/dp/0521735351">ng van Richard E. Mayer</a>. The book is entirely based on research and therefore is a slightly boring read, but has a solid basis. I have the crazy habit of reading all books from cover to cover and have therefore read it all. I think you can summarize the practical lessons in one blog post, so you are lucky :). My advice is to read this blog post and not the entire book.<br />
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Mayer defines multimedia learning as presenting material in both word and image for the purpose of learning. What I liked a lot is the distinction between:<br />
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The goal is hence to facilitate meaningful learning by developing multimedia material. He highlights important principles, all supported by research. I will explain the principles here. After that I will explain that one principle does not work in the context of intercultural trajectories.<br />
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The 10 principles of Richard Mayer</h2>
<strong>Principle 1. The coherence principle</strong> The coherence principle states that people learn better when interesting but less relevant words or pictures are taken away from a presentation. Less is more actually. This also applies to background music.<br />
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<strong>Principle 2. The signaling principle</strong> People learn better from multimedia if you help guide the attention of the learner. This can be through the use of arrows, colors, or an element that will be placed under a magnifying glass. I immediately applied this principle to video interviews I was working on by adding the most important words here with text. In my opinion, this is not in contradiction to the following principle:<br />
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<strong>Principle 3. The redundancy principle</strong> This principle means that you should not offer the same text in words and audio: that would be redundant. There is evidence from research: participants who saw pictures and a heard an explanation scored better than participants who received the same pictures and story but also had the explanation written in text. For video this simply means that you should not subtitle with the same text as voice.<br />
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<strong>Principle 4. </strong><b>The spatial contiguity principle</b> People learn more easily when the accompanying words and images are close to each other. We are just lazy people and would prefer to be offered everything on a silver platter :). We don't like to search for the explanation.<br />
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<strong>Principle 5. </strong><b>The temporal contiguity principle </b>And this also applies to time. It is more convenient to see the pictures about the origin of a storm at the same time when a voice explains it, instead of first seeing the pictures and then the explanation (or vice versa). This explains the success of animation and other instructional videos.<br />
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<strong>Principle 6. The segmenting principle</strong> Multimedia learning is more effective when the material is divided into different segments and learners have control over following the steps. This is often the case with interactive video, but can also simply be done by dividing a 15-minute video into 3-4 videos which allows people to choose when they continue with the next one. Here, of course, we see the power of interactive video. Although you may also argue that a good question in a video has a signal function.<br />
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<strong>Principle 7: The pre-training principle</strong> People are better able to learn from multimedia when they already know the most important concepts. We applied this, for example, by ensuring that before a client SPOC (Small Private Online Course) starts, the participants can go through an e-learning with the basic knowledge. This means that everyone is aware of the most important concepts and we can go into depth during the SPOC.<br />
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<strong>Principle 8: The modality principle</strong> People learn deeper from images combined with spoken word than from images and written word. This means that spoken explanation with an animation works better than all text on the screen. Indeed I sometimes see animations with text only and I always have the feeling that it would be faster if I could simply read the text. This principle is actually just a little too logical for me: it says that you should use both eye and ear smartly, right?<br />
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<strong>Principle 9: The multimedia principle</strong> People learn better from word and image from from text only. Yes ... so visualizing helps! Fortunately but otherwise we would have to go back to uploading PDFs as online learning. Uhmmmm I really saw that once? An online course where you had to download and read around 20 different pdfs in Moodle ...<br />
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<strong>Principle 10: The personalization principe</strong> I find the personalizing principle the most sympathetic somehow. It says that people learn better when a conversational style is used instead of a formal style. This has always been a basic principle in our courses: make it personal and engage in an online conversation. Mayer translates it as: in spoken text in an animation use direct speech: you, your. Furthermore, a friendly voice helps. Good to know: research shows that the face of the speaker (eg with a screencast) does not automatically help for better understanding. This would help only if the face contains relevant information, for example due to facial expressions.<br />
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Yes, what do you think? It's the redundancy principle. I experienced an exception to this rule which makes sense to me. After reading the book, I immediately wanted to apply my knowledge to a video interview, so I had an argument not to subtitle the video in the same language as the interview (English). However, it is an intercultural context, with many non-native English speakers. It appears that in this case people really like literal subtitles, because the accents are not always easy to understand. After seeing the video with subtitles, I got more out of it myself, although I'm quite used to different accents in English. That brings me to the boundary conditions.
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In each chapter there is a discussion of the 'boundary conditions'. These are the circumstances in which the principle applies. For example, you can deduce from the examples in the book that a lot of research has been done using instructional materials. The example of explaining the occurrence of thunder and lightning is widely used. Many of the principles apply most strongly to inexperienced participants and complex material. I think this is something to keep in mind, for example, more experienced learners can handle more superfluous information.</div>
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So for instance, for the redundancy principle the condition is that this is especially true for groups who speak the same language, as mother tongue. Mayer has not investigated whether this also applies to non-native speakers. It is therefore important to realize that there are always exceptions. Don't apply the principles too rigidly. </div>
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What can you learn from Richard Mayer? You can benefit a lot from these principles if you develop learning materials on complex issues for starting learners. Provide a clear message, visualize where possible. Use voice. Avoid duplicating the same information. Make it personal and make sure learners have control over the speed to go through the material.</div>
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PS. Do you live in the Netherlands? Want to learn about multimedia? Participate in onze <a href="https://ennuonline.com/leergangen/ontwerpen-en-faciliteren-van-blended-leren/">eigen leergang over blended leren</a>.
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A participant during my master class on learning of the future shares: "<i>I was learning a lot through the online world and would be at the cutting-edge in my field, this learning was logical part of my work as recruiter. Now I have a new job and it is not a logical part of my function. I don't have the time anymore to be active online. I see that I am no longer aware of all the new developments in my field</i>". You will not get better proof of the power of online, informal learning. And at the same time it shows what the biggest bottleneck is: organizations do not have an eye for self-learning professionals and do not facilitate this type of learning either. The focus is still on courses.<br />
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The masterclass started with my definition of the knowmad: "<i>someone who learns continuously and thereby makes smart use of the online world</i>"</blockquote>
The first part of the masterclass I focussed on skills for knowmads, including developing (online) identity, networking, smart use of tools and technology and application in practice: translating the online world and applying learnings. The second part I discussed the organization as a learning environment for the knowmad. Although I do know that many organizations do not actively facilitate informal learning, it was quite shocking (but interesting of course!) to hear stories from the participants.<br />
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An interesting question from a participant: innovation seems to be a keyword for knowmads who learn continuously, but not everyone needs to focus on innovation? I think it's a good question and I am not sure about the answer. There is definitely a difference between functions in their focus on innovation. A high tech environment for instance will have an inherent need to innovate. Personally, I think that actually there is no single function in which innovation is not necessary. Contexts and technology are changing. The customer also wants something 'new'. What do you think?<br />
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The slides of this master class:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18223796.post-37163073305892121092019-04-04T18:24:00.003+02:002019-04-04T18:29:11.844+02:00Tool of the month: interactive video<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This time the tool of the month is not one but no fewer than five tools. I co-organized a meetup about interactive video in the Netherlands. My own experience with interactive video had been adding questions to videos with the help of Zaption (which no longer exists) and <a href="http://edpuzzle.com/">Edpuzzle</a>. I also experimented with <a href="http://vialogues.com/">Vialogues</a> to facilitate a conversation around a video source.<br />
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However, the meetup opened up a whole new world of interactive video. It is much more than just adding a question to a video. In this blog I share the 5 tools that were central to the meetup, with examples. The examples are in Dutch, but I think you can catch the interactions. It is very nice to see what is possible and it definitely opens up your creativity.<br />
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What is interactive video?</h3>
Interactive video is a video in which the viewer can take various actions. Hence it gives more room for engagement and personalization. The viewer can click for more information, answer a question or make a choice. With his action, he determines the course of the film: a different order, or a question appears to answer. What I learned during the meetup is that it is useful to distinguish between Three types of interaction:<br />
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<li>navigation - a viewer chooses the path him or herself</li>
<li>questions - speak for themselves</li>
<li>hotspots -you can add information in text or video</li>
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Tooling: een overzicht van 5 tools</h3>
We have looked at 5 different tools. Listed from simpel to more complex (or advanced) to work with:<br />
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<li><a href="https://h5p.org/interactive-video">H5P</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.hihaho.com/nl/">Hihaho</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.explorit.nl/">Explorit</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ivorystudio.net/">Ivory Studio</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.bluebillywig.com/nl/">Blue Billywig</a></li>
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Behalve H5P zijn het allemaal tools van Nederlandse grond!
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H5P</h4>
<a href="https://h5p.org/interactive-video">H5P</a> is an open source program that you can use for free. You can upload your own video and make it interactive. Create an account, choose ‘interactive video’ and upload your own video (max. 16 MB). You can add questions and polls, and additional information via hotspots. You can also use H5P directly from Moodle and Wordpress if you have installed the plug-in. Here you see an example video made by Göran Kattenberg from Kattenberg Learning Innovation Consulting and <a href="http://theblendedgroup.nl/">The Blended Group</a>.
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H5P is actually a 'suite' of tools with which you can create learning activities with and without interactions that you embed in a learning environment. The newest is 'branching scenario'. With that you glue videos together with interactive branches.<br />
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<li>Cost: Free</li>
<li>Difficulty: *</li>
<li>Basic layer: can be video from YouTube or your own upload</li>
<li>Hosting: Your video is on H5P (or on Moodle / Wordpress if you use the plug-in) but you can embed it on other sites</li>
<li>Interesting because: it is free and therefore a great way to start interactive video</li>
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Hihaho</h4>
<a href="https://www.hihaho.com/nl/">Hihaho</a> is a very simple program that you can get started with right away, you don't need any special video editing or other experience. You can create a free account and then click on + new Hihaho and then you can import a video from for example Youtube or Vimeo. Then, you can start to add your interactions via 'Enrich', for example a jump, a question or a break. As an example, an instructional video that was recorded with a smartphone. There are a number of questions. <style>.hihaho-video-container {position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; }.hihaho-video-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }</style>
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<li>Cost: 10 videos and 100 viewers for free. Then from 19 euros / month</li>
<li>Difficulty: *</li>
<li>Basic layer: from YouTube, Vimeo, JWPlayer or Kaltura but also Media site, Blue Billywig and own upload</li>
<li>Hosting: Your video remains hosted at the location of the base layer. You could see it as HiHaHo putting an interactive layer over your video. Both layers are merged into a link, embed code, Scorm package or xAPI. HiHaHo videos are used a lot in learning environments. By using SCORM or xAPI, results in the video also become visible in the LMS.</li>
<li>Interesting because: it is a very easy program. There is almost no learning curve, you can get started right away.</li>
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<a href="https://www.explorit.nl/">Explorit</a> allows you to add questions to your video and also provide feedback to the viewer. You can import from Youtube, Vimeo but also from Blue Billywig. You can export the edited video again via a full export, or you can also embed it on your own site or, for example, in Moodle. It is fairly intuitive to learn. Clients with an enterprise account receive 4 hours of training and can then get to work. View an example below about the provincial and water board elections. The Provincial election part is mainly based on interactive video, the Water Board election part is based on interactive images.<br />
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<li>Costs: Basic account 25 euros / month, Professional account 125 euros / month</li>
<li>Difficulty: **</li>
<li>Basic layer: not only a video, but also an image is possible as a base layer. Video must be on YouTube; soon a video from Vimeo can also be linked</li>
<li>Hosting: You can either export your video as html or use it directly from the site.</li>
<li>Interesting because: you can also add feedback to questions and you can also make interactive pictures</li>
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Ivory Studio</h4>
<a href="https://www.ivorystudio.net/">Ivory studio</a> describes itself as 'the online editor for interactive video' and that is actually a very good name. It is very similar to video editing programs such as Imovie or Windows Moviemaker. It is widely used by filmmakers. You can also do more with Ivory Studio than with the aforementioned tools, such as uploading your own media, adding different videos, choosing from 5 different interactions. Last but not least you can personalize by linking to databases. An example: a company that does DNA analysis for babies sends the parents a personalized result. Parents of babies with blue eyes receive a different video than parents of babies with brown eyes. View the example below to get an idea.<br />
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<li>Costs: 1 video for free, then flexible prices, eg 65 euros / month for 5 videos</li>
<li>Difficulty: ****</li>
<li>Basic layer: own video</li>
<li>Hosting: Your video runs on the Ivory Studio player</li>
<li>Interesting because: you have many options and can personalize using data sets</li>
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Blue BillyWig</h4>
<a href="https://www.bluebillywig.com/nl/">Blue Billywig</a> is also both a hosting platform and an editor for interactive videos with which you can do a lot and have a lot of options. It is used for marketing but also for e-learning modules. You can use 360-degree videos, personalize and ask questions.<iframe width="560" height="375" src="https://ahold-learning.bbvms.com/view/vakkenvultips/2896686.html" style="border: 0;" width="1088"><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span></iframe>
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<li>Costs: on request</li>
<li>Difficulty: ****</li>
<li>Basic layer: own video</li>
<li>Hosting: Blue Billywig is the hosting platform</li>
<li>Interesting because: you have many options, you can personalize and you can use 360-degree videos</li>
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Conclusion</h3>
There is a whole world of interactive video tools and toys to explore. You can use the easier tools yourself to get the viewer to think for a moment. At Ivory Studio and Blue Billywig you really have to dive into the tool, but then you can produce wonderful material. These tools are much more like an editing program. In addition, it can be an entire project to make an interactive video, devising the storyboard, filming the various scenarios and compiling. The options are endless.</div>
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