Triple A Lecture - Global Team Meeting... NOT!!

Created by Susan Lister (NewMedia Educational Services) on November 27, 2005

Last night the Triple A Lecture Intervention team attempted our first online global meeting - Let me say, right off, it didn't work - HOWEVER, it was definitely worth the energy. We will try again!

I used the Meeting Planner at the Time and Date website here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html to figure out a suitable time for our team members who live in United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand and Newfoundland/Ontario/Manitoba Canada. The most suitable time seemed to 2am GMT (Luckily, we have no one on our team from Europe!).

We were planning to use an Elluminate meeting room. Here are a few things I will do the next time I organize such a meeting:

Provide the illuminate "first time user" link so that everyone can trouble shoot prior to the meeting date/time - (I believe some members may have experienced a Java plug-in problem).
Provide a "back up" chat area link so that if the meeting room doesn't work we can jump into the chat room and still 'talk' - ( Last night there were three people in the meeting room but we could not talk to each other... but hey, it was fun playing with the icons!).
Have ready a group email so that I can fire off an email to all attendees explaining what is going on.

Well, I'll chalk it up to experience, take a deep breath, follow my own advice and then, plan another global team meeting!

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		Triple A Lecture - Global Team Meeting... NOT!! Created by Susan Lister (NewMedia Educational Services) on November 27, 2005 Last night the Triple A Lecture Intervention team attempted our first online global meeting - Let me say, right off, it didn't work - HOWEVER, it was definitely worth the energy. We will try again! I used the Meeting Planner at the Time and Date website here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html to figure out a suitable time for our team members who live in United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand and Newfoundland/Ontario/Manitoba Canada. The most suitable time seemed to 2am GMT (Luckily, we have no one on our team from Europe!). We were planning to use an Elluminate meeting room. Here are a few things I will do the next time I organize such a meeting: Provide the illuminate "first time user" link so that everyone can trouble shoot prior to the meeting date/time - (I believe some members may have experienced a Java plug-in problem). Provide a "back up" chat area link so that if the meeting room doesn't work we can jump into the chat room and still 'talk' - ( Last night there were three people in the meeting room but we could not talk to each other... but hey, it was fun playing with the icons!). Have ready a group email so that I can fire off an email to all attendees explaining what is going on. Well, I'll chalk it up to experience, take a deep breath, follow my own advice and then, plan another global team meeting! Learning Objects \| lecture \| online meeting Susan's blog Login or register to post comments 2753 reads
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