Online Classes

Hi Wendy,

(Jon Bek from the Support Team here, under the Admin account).

Great question. There are a number of possible strategies for this, depending on how “techie” you want to get, and what virtual meeting software you are using. For example, if you are using Zoom, you can send individual (private) chat messages to attendees in your Zoom meeting — a copy-and-paste typically means no more than 8 messages for a full class of 8 couples.  If you are running a hybrid class (some couples physically present, and some remote), you could use a mix of physical cards and some chat messages.

For some activities, you can adapt to a technology like the Kahoot game, though Kahoot does not perfectly align with this particular activity.

If you want to just send to the coaches, you could even do something like pull 8 cards, take a photo of each one, and text the image to each individual coach. I guess it depends on your comfort with the technology, and how fast your thumbs are! 🙂

If you are super tech-maven, this can be addressed through a shared Google worksheet, and a macro tied to a pushbutton on the worksheet that pulls the text from one of the cards at random.  There’s always the chance that two different couples end up with the same “card”, but that may actually be a great teaching moment — what did you especially like about how each coach addressed the assignment?  What did they do differently that demonstrates different effective techniques? What similarities suggest some common strategies?  Cool beans!