Challenges facilitating virtual workshops by Soha Ramadan

Building a Community of Learners in the First 30 Minutes

soha37 — 2024-11-09 13:58:34 UTC

using ice breaking activities that encourge participants to know each other or just having fun examples:

-Check the overall energy in the room by running a rating poll such as: “On a scale of 1-7, how are you feeling today?” Or, “What’s your energy level today?” (I am using this website to create quick polls https://www.polleverywhere.com/)

-Would you rather…?A would you rather virtual icebreaker question an spark discussions at the begining of the session and help with breaking the ice.

-start with a little guessing game

-Where are you joining from? so participants can post their locations in a wordcloud activity (I am using this link also to create wordclouds activities https://www.polleverywhere.com/ )

-in the chat box Say it with an emojiWhich emoji best describes your current state of mind?Which emoji do you use most frequently?

-Draw your mood using shared zoom white board

Use breakoutrooms to allow small groups to introduce themselves and find common things and represent their discussions in a visual representations using sand box

Identifying and Building on Participants' Prior Knowledge Throughout the Workshop

soha37 — 2024-11-09 14:10:34 UTC

identifying the prior knowledge will be done in the pre workshop survey, by sending a short survey through google form to gauge participants exisiting knowledge and interests

-Using polls and live Q &A during the session (nearpod include implemented polls and open ended questions to check or build on participants prior knowledge )

Check-ins and reflection prompts that will be done after the major parts of the session and I will ask participants to connect with their previous experiences.(this can be done in the chatbox )

Ensuring Balance Between Facilitator- and Participant-Led Inquiries

soha37 — 2024-11-09 14:20:35 UTC

-Structured breakoutrooms discussions where each participant will have a role in completing a task like discussion leader, note taker, presenter and make other rooms to give constructive feedback to encourge peer reflection , participants will lead parts of the session.

-Guided inquiries : so WSL will share guiding questions or topics or reading activities in advance and allow time for participants to explore them then the facilitator will lead participants discussions

-Shared Zoom whiteboard where participants can add questions and comments as the workshop progressed this can creates a space where they can guide part of the discussion.

Find at least two other challenges that resonate with you and comment on how you could extend the use of the strategies presented .

soha37 — 2024-11-09 15:35:11 UTC

How will you incorporate opportunites for feedback?
Miro this tools can create a shared reflection board, where participants can post sticky notes about the takeaways from the session , use glow and grow wriiten feedback, ladder of feedback startegy and star and stair feedback all these strategies can be done either using chat box, shared google slides (there is a room for peer feedback), padlet board for contionous reflection, set up columns for different stages of the workshop where participants can add takeaways, questionsm reflections, also mentimeter can be used as well for reflective polls or openended questions. using realtime feedback tool like (Slido)
Leveraging the IB PowerPoint within the Virtual Medium

incorporating interactive elements rather than presenting slides passively and this what I did in knowledge artifact 2 I changed one of the direct teaching slides to interactive discussion , also I could include polls , quick discussion prompts , I can use annotation tools to draw attention to specific points and I can break down lengthy slides to present content in shorter segments , pausing for reflection after every few slides.