{"id":7193,"date":"2020-06-30T11:18:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T10:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/?p=7193"},"modified":"2020-06-30T13:03:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T12:03:46","slug":"a-zoom-break-out-room-workshop-how-quaint-it-all-looks-in-hindsight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/type\/featured-articles\/a-zoom-break-out-room-workshop-how-quaint-it-all-looks-in-hindsight\/","title":{"rendered":"A Zoom Break-Out Room workshop; how quaint it all looks in hindsight!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In January, long before the Covid lock-down, my\nInholland colleague Tom Visscher and I submitted a proposal to the Media and\nLearning Conference. Looking back on the proposal gives insight into just how\nmuch has happened in the last few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pre-Covid, Tom and I were proposing to run a\nworkshop in June about how to use Zoom Break-Out rooms. With a live\ndemonstration on site. Both of us had used Zoom breakout rooms to good effect\nduring presentations and classes. And we strongly felt, the world needed a demonsration\nof this Video Wizardry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we informed the conference organisers; \u2018Video Communication Technology makes it possible to interact with students at different locations and opens up many new pedagogical opportunities.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If only we knew what was coming!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A month after submitting our proposal, on March\n12th<\/sup>, the Dutch Government informed us that 100% of higher education\nwould immediately move online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our proposal stated; \u2018As students demand\nmore flexibility in when and where they study, and organisations experiment\nwith these new approaches, shared practices are emerging that can lead to new\nforms of education.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little could we have imagined that the \u2018shared\npractices\u2019 would not \u2018emerge\u2019, but instead would explode at an inconceivable\nrate. A complete, overnight transformation of higher education. The likes of\nwhich has never  been seen before. Emergency remote teaching was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The questions to be addressed in our workshop were relevant: \u2018How are teachers using live video communication to teach and interact with students? What possibilities does this offer the lecturer and the learners?’<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Higher Education, now 100% online, has been busy answering these questions over the last few months. Our session promised to address another key question: \u2018What technical, didactic and practical aspects need to be taken into account when planning, running and implementing these formats in an educational context?’ <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If only there had been time to discuss these\nkey questions. Since March, we\u2019ve all been working like crazy to support\ncolleagues and students in trying to address these issues. To make online\neducation work. It is complicated and there is no one-to-one transfer of the\nphysical to the online classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final question we planned to address was: \u2018And\nhow can we learn from each other as we develop new approaches to learning?\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This question turned out be part of the focus of day 1 of the online conference run in June. The supercharging of online education has provided many creative and original approaches to teaching and learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our workshop participants were promised that\nthey would experience for themselves the Zoom Break-Out room: \u2018In these\nbreak-out rooms, participants will experiment with different functionality\n(e.g., raising a hand, typing an open and private chat message, inviting the\nmoderator).\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back on it now, it all seems rather quaint. At the time we wrote the proposal, both Tom and I strongly believed that everyone should at least experience the break-out rooms once. Having tried it, we believed the format could be developed by lecturers to create interaction online within groups. Well, you know what happened next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We informed our participants that: \u2018The\nsession will use the Zoom video conferencing software that is free to install.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our session did not cover \u2018Zoom Friday Drinks\u2019, \u2018Zoom Pub Quizzes\u2019, \u2018Zoom Family Reunions\u2019, \u2018Zoom Conferences\u2019, \u2018Zoom Exhaustion\u2019 or tips on how to prevent \u2018Zoom Bombers\u2019. But we still think it could have been a valuable session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our modest conference workshop has been\nconsigned to the graveyard of great conference ideas. Born before its time,\noverwhelmed by an inconceivable reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we wrote the proposal in January, the stock price for Zoom was around 70 USD. Five months later, the price hit around 260 USD. Tom\u2026 I told you we should have invested!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zac Woolfitt <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In January, long before the Covid lock-down, my Inholland colleague Tom Visscher and I submitted a proposal to the Media and Learning Conference. Looking back on the proposal gives insight into just how much has happened in the last few months. Pre-Covid, Tom and I were proposing to run a workshop in June about how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-articles","category-higher-education"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2020\/06\/bigstock-Woman-Working-From-Home-Having-359018608.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Sally Reynolds","author_link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/author\/sally-reynolds\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7193"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7223,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions\/7223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}