{"id":636,"date":"2021-05-05T13:30:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/?p=636"},"modified":"2021-05-05T13:30:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:30:44","slug":"zoom-breakout-room-based-online-poster-session-how-did-the-second-trial-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/2021\/05\/05\/zoom-breakout-room-based-online-poster-session-how-did-the-second-trial-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoom-breakout-room-based online poster session: how did the second trial go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/2021\/05\/05\/zoom-breakout-room-based-online-poster-session-how-did-the-first-trial-go\/\">previous post<\/a>, I reported on the feedback that we received for the first-ever online poster session that we organized, using Zoom and the breakout rooms as basis. This was in November 2020 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aalto.fi\/en\/events\/2020-november-networking-ald-at-aalto-university\">2020 November Networking &#8211; ALD at Aalto University<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Feedback from the November 2020 online poster session was encouraging: clearly the concept can be repeated, and also improved. Soon, (as an already-experienced person,) I was requested to organize another online poster session: in April 2021 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/fysfc2021\/\">Finnish Young Scientist Forum on Catalysis (FYSFC 2021)<\/a>. With help from my group, we tweaked the earlier instructions and organization a little. Main change was that we gave more time for the presentations: instead of starting a new presentation every 5 min like in the first event, we started with a new presentation every 10 min.<\/p>\n<p>Again, we collected feedback of the online poster event; this feedback is shared below. I interpret that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zoom breakout rooms are a meaningful way to organize an online poster session<\/li>\n<li>10 min for poster presentation slot can be ok. The feeling was less hasty than from 5 min presentations, and this is also seen from the feedback (absence of complaints of too short slots &#8212; even a request to have still longer time reserved).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Would I be willing to organize a Zoom-breakout-room-based online poster session again in the future? Sure!<\/strong> Two rounds of practice has taught how to organize one (good pre-planning is a must!). Also, I have seen how this type of an online poster session can be a meaningful way network remotely, when we cannot meet in person. A further benefit is that as university teaching staff, we have this tool at hand, and we don&#8217;t need to spend time (or money) on learning new systems. <strong>We can use the tools we are used to &#8212; just in a bit a new way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>The poster session was really good<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(Question: How well did we manage with Zoom?)<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Everything was organised very well.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Great!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>It was a very nice experience. Freedom to jump between rooms and interact with people works really well.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Smooth, just continue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>very well<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>I think the use of Zoom was good overall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>good<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Very well<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>excellent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>I did not notice any problems.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Great<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Technical arrangements were very successful<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>very good<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Great job, no complains<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Was simple and efficient.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>&#8230; Poster session was well planned and conducted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>poster session is great<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Question: What could be improved next time?)<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>It would be great if one could go through the online posters before &#8220;presentation&#8221;. Then it would be easier to follow and ask questions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5 min puffer between online poster session<\/p>\n<p>avoid directly following time slots in poster session<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(Question: other feedback?)<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>all in all it was a well organized event. There didn&#8217;t occur technical problems like in other online events previously. The whole event had a comfortable duration.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nicely prepared event<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"author vcard\">Posted by Riikka Puurunen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous post, I reported on the feedback that we received for the first-ever online poster session that we organized, using Zoom and the breakout rooms as basis. This was in November 2020 (2020 November Networking &#8211; ALD at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/2021\/05\/05\/zoom-breakout-room-based-online-poster-session-how-did-the-second-trial-go\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3045,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-online-poster-session"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/catprofopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}