Virtual Operations Ideas & Resources

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

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)

• Play Four Facts as icebreaker

Service Projects

• Neckerchief collection and distribution