Trainers’ Toolkit – Sharing opinion on chat

	Exercise nr 20: Sharing opinion on chat
Duration	7-10 min
Type of activity	Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive
The goal of the exercise	Gathering opinions. Creating a space for participants to share opinions. Group engagement.
Group size	5 – 100+ participants
Hashtags	#summary #feedback #sharing opinion
Materials and tools necessary for the activities	No additional materials are needed.
Exercise agenda	This exercise is excellent for large groups. When there are many people in a meeting, it is not always possible for everyone to speak and say something on the forum. In such a situation, it is very convenient to use the chat option. Encourage participants to use this form of communication at the beginning of the workshop as a warm-up, i.e.: ask each person to write one sentence of greeting – hello, I’m from Warsaw, etc.  Later you can use this chat option to collect opinions on the discussed topic or feedback on the training. At the end of your workshop, ask each person to write in the chat window what was most important to them during the meeting and why it was important. Ask what they take with them after this meeting. The answers will give you an idea of what people have noticed, but most importantly, give participants the possibility for group closure and self-expression. Once everyone has written, read all the answers aloud, you can also ask one person or even a few people from the group to read everything that came up.
Possible modifications	Chat is an excellent option for engaging people who prefer to write rather than to speak. You can use this option at different stages in your workshops. Remember to start with something simple that everyone can write without long thinking. Possible questions you can ask on chat: – What do you want to learn in this workshop? – With what thought do you end the meeting? – How will you use the skills acquired during this training?  – What is the thought you are taking with you?  – What is the question that you are taking with you?…
Credits	Compiled by Fundacja Culture Shock for TRENDSS – Transnational Roadmap for Educators in Digital Soft Skills (https://trendss.eu/)Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Co-fonded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union