Wireless and Wiki - laptops, flipcharts and instant voting

[Michael M Pannwitz]

To me the main point of having a group visualize their work publicly on 
  pinboards or flipchart paper in the breakout sessions is to have it 
transparent, stimulating others to add to the stuff they see,use colors, 
symbols, etc. and enable bumble bees and other critters coming by to get 
an impression of what is going on.
Recording and making a meaningful document out of all that is a 
different game that needs a different playground.
Greetings from Berlin
mmp


  Sarv wrote:
> We have tried laptops in breakout groups several times in Estonia. The
> reports are detailed and in details there is often the essence of
> discussion, which otherwise might get lost.
> 
> But I suggest the conveners to keep record also on flipcharts, just to get
> these posted in marketplace.
> 
> The proceedings will have first the record from flipchart and thenafter the
> laptop record. The laptop record is used just for proceedings, the flipchart
> record for newsroom and immediate voting at the end of day.
> 
> The voting is very simple, but works pretty well. Everyone gets 10 stickers
> and places these to topics or proposals, which they find to be most urgent
> for them.
> 
> The method is pretty rough, but most important result is, that all
> participants read through all reports. The second important result is the
> first insight about the urgence of issues.
> 
> This makes possible to get proceedings with voted issues printed within one
> day.
> 
> Mikk Sarv,
> Estonia
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nancy Weatherhead" <newresolve at eastlink.ca>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Wireless and Wiki
> 
> 
> 
>>Lisa,
>>
>>As a high tech person, I thoroughly appreciate being able to move away
> 
> from
> 
>>my dependence on computers in my day-to-day life :).  I do agree with
>>Harrison that it would, indeed, change the energy of an OST to have
> 
> laptops
> 
>>and wireless computers in breakout circles and it is another 'tool' to
> 
> hide
> 
>>behind should one choose to do so... and... if you were to use laptops, it
>>might be suggested that only one person be the note taker as in OST and
>>perhaps an invitation to capture essence rather than details?  I would
> 
> still
> 
>>suggest having a marketplace to post the topics, etc.  Beyond that...?
> 
> I'm
> 
>>interested to hear what others may have to say in this regard.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Nancy
>>
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