Ideas for Early Ranks (AOL/Scout to 1st Class):- "Discussion" Breakouts:
- Cooking menus, techniques, descriptions
ASM Bill - Citizenship 8a, 8b, 8c, 8d
ASM Rich - Camping explanations, Outdoor Code (use OEG)
ASM Doc - Nature 10 plants, 10 animals
ASM Tom
New Scout Orientation- Virtual New Scout Orientation - LINK
- Mail (deliver) ahead neckerchief, shoulder tabs, Scout Handbook, and more
- Play Four Facts as icebreaker
Service Projects | Ideas and Tips for Routine Meetings
Program: - Photo album slide shows (narrated?)
- Videos of Scout skills or scout-related info
- Scouting around the world
- Virtual campfire (with assignments)
- "Flip the meeting" - patrol (or Scout) assignment doing work outside the meeting and presenting during the meeting. Take turns watching others' work product.
- Teach a skit, song, skill.
- Refresh skills
- Incorporate youth staff:
- Outdoor Code opening by OEG
- Opening by patrol leader; 12 points of Scout Law over 12 weeks LINK (scroll to "Single Point Focus")
- Survey boys on what's going well; what they'd like to see/do. How can we make this more engaging/interesting? What have you seen that's cool/useful?
- Present Tech policy and Cyber Chip pointers from time to time. Encourage Cyber completion.
- Digital rank board and movement.
- Virtual advancement tracker? What have Scouts accomplished while quarantined
- How do we track attendance (Att. Scribe)?
Contests:
- Goofy Hat Contest (Patrol Points)
- limited entries? sign up in advance.
- How do we judge/vote? Poll?
- Give us a 10 second intro; embellish (MC interview); play music?
- Funniest video contest
- send examples to Scouts
- ask them to sign up and send the link ahead of time LINK [from EJ]
- time limits; 1 minute max?
- sign up ahead of time
- "Guess where I am?"
- Games:
- Kahoot!
- Gimkit
- Zoom Polls
- Jeopardy Games
- Word search; work on them in breakout rooms; one patrol member uses Google doc (preassign link?) EXAMPLE
- Virtual Scavenger Hunt (in real time or get x minutes or days ahead of time)
Patrol breakouts- Hang out?
- Give a specific task (short or long-term, or both)
- Consider adult Moderators, particularly younger patrols
PLC/Leadership - Move PLC to a separate night (Sunday)
- Can there be 100% remote leadership positions (Aviv)? See Digital Concierge.
| Virtual Meetings Tech and Tips- Turn off chat. If you must have it limit between whom and have a moderator.
- Set full mute (no override) and waiting room
- Digital concierge
- Adult
- Youth (leadership role: look up what other troops/districts are doing and how)
- Enforce accurate names
- Enforce netiquette
Virtual Meeting Platforms - Zoom • Training
- Webex
- 8x8
- Google Hangouts
- Google Meet
- Skype
- Facebook Messenger Rooms
- GoToMeeting
- Jitsi
Other Units' Stuff- Troop 542 Trivia #1 #2
(4.27.20 • patrols breakout from main meeting, do trivia, return, repeat; scores via Google Docs and scorekeeper in main meeting)
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