{"id":1675,"date":"2026-01-08T15:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/activelearning\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:53:34","slug":"how-to-organise-an-online-meeting-with-free-range-and-serendipity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/activelearning\/2026\/01\/08\/how-to-organise-an-online-meeting-with-free-range-and-serendipity\/","title":{"rendered":"How to organise an online meeting with free range and serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guide linked below will help you organise an online educational meet-up on Microsoft Teams with participants internal and\/or external to the university. It may be useful to you if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>your community wants to meet sometimes in a way that minimises costs, time and travel emissions;<\/li>\n<li>you&#8217;d like some speed meeting &#8211; perhaps participants want to match-make for a specific project or purpose and you want to make sure that when they eventually do meet in person it\u2019s not from a standing start and they can extract the maximum benefit from that meeting.<\/li>\n<li>you want give participants a chance to chat with people they haven&#8217;t met before (easy in person &#8211; possible but often neglected online);<\/li>\n<li>you want to give your participants the free range to gather in groups by interest and move themselves into new breakout rooms whenever they want.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These kinds of meetings are possible on Microsoft Teams and some other web meeting platforms. With planning and a practice run for facilitation, ours went very smoothly indeed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1fx7CqnojlWLnhR-raf3xrwQaWxpfLpR5\/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=110017395998557147874&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here is a guide<\/a> for anyone who would like to organise a meeting like this, incorporating our own example of the meetup for UK Education for Sustainability leaders in November 2025. Feel free to contact me (Mira Vogel) if you&#8217;d like to chat about it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to King&#8217;s Academy, King&#8217;s Digital and LSE Eden Centre colleagues for getting involved with testing the meeting sessions and breakout room facilitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The guide linked below will help you organise an online educational meet-up on Microsoft Teams with participants internal and\/or external to the university. It may be useful to you if: your community wants to meet <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/activelearning\/2026\/01\/08\/how-to-organise-an-online-meeting-with-free-range-and-serendipity\/\" title=\"How to organise an online meeting with free range and serendipity\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1342,"featured_media":1678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,22,74,45,46,61,56,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-break-out-groups","category-discussion","category-education-for-sustainability","category-large-group","category-medium-group","category-online","category-over-an-hour","category-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/activelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/activelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/activelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/activelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/activelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/activelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/activelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/activelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/activelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/activelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/activelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}