![]() (Here’s some ideas for different questions for virtual icebreakers for nonprofits) A simple technique is to put 2 or 3 people in a room and have share name, organization, and an icebreaker question. A more fun way to do a meeting icebreaker or check-in, is to use breakout rooms. If you have more than 10 people in a meeting, having everyone introduce themselves verbally and answer an icebreaker question can take up a lot of time and can be tedious. Designing Zoom Breakout Room Activities Icebreakers & Check-Ins It is a good idea to get a few people together on a call to practice doing it before you host your first meeting with zoom Breakout Rooms. This video will walk you through the steps of putting people in and out of breakout rooms. As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document. You’ll need to make sure you drop the google document link into the chat before you put people into small groups. If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. There is a limited number of characters, so this is best used to keep time for participants or share brief prompts. Another feature available for the meeting host, is “broadcast messages” that you can send to each room. This is can disruptive, so be sure to let folks know you will check-in before you send them off to the Breakout Rooms. The Breakout Rooms feature also allow the meeting host to visit each room to check-in on the activity. Sometimes you want to do some “social engineering” and put people together with similar experience or characteristics.įor other activities, random or automatic assignments work best. Which one you select depends on the activity and group dynamics. Participants can be placed into the rooms automatically (randomly) or you can manually assign people to different groups. (See the small group exercises timing charts in this document) As with face-to-face training, how many participants per breakout room depends on the task they will do together, how much time is needed to complete the task, and time for a full group report out. The maximum number of breakout rooms is 50. You can customize how many participants per room. The participants see the same familiar zoom interface, but instead of the whole group participating it is a smaller subset of participants. The Mechanics of Zoom Breakout Roomsīreakout Rooms are a feature on Zoom meetings (it has to be turned on in your zoom profile/account) that allows the meeting host to put people into small groups for more intimate discussions or activities. This can be accomplished with creative use of the Zoom Breakout Rooms for activities to support the meeting objectives. Or make the meetings less tedious and more engaging. You can also make your meetings shorter and fewer or leave space between meetings for breaks. How can you avoid Zoom Overload? A few tips include: use the phone instead, switch to asynchronous modes of working, or use a few camera tricks. It isn’t just the huge uptick in back-to-back virtual meetings we are hosting or attending, many times without breaks in between. There are number of reasons we feel exhausted from zoom meetings as Jeremy Bailenson, Virtual Human Interaction Lab points out. It has surfaced a new technology affliction: Zoom Overload. ![]() This means spending a big part of our day sitting in front of a screen that looks like the Brady Brunch. ![]() We are only about one month into the world’s largest work from home experiment.
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