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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings fellow Federationists:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paul Sandoval and I are looking for people to host the individual breakout rooms that we are setting up for convention attendees to visit with individual exhibitors. The breakouts start at noon and will close at 1:00 or no later than 1:15. Any person managing the hosting of a breakout room would be given co-host privileges and would need to be comfortable hosting Zoom meetings. Ideally, this person will have experience hosting Zoom meetings with a computer and will have that computer available to host the breakout room.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you believe you have the time and the ability to host a Zoom breakout room from noon to 1:30 on Friday, October 30, please send an email to <a href="chong.curtis@gmail.com">chong.curtis@gmail.com</a> or call me on my landline at 303-745-0473 so that I can talk with you. Once we correspond via email or by phone, I will let potential candidates know if they will be on the Zoom Breakout Room Team.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here are some of the things breakout room hosts will be asked to do.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Be sure that everybody has a chance to ask questions of the exhibitor and that no one dominates the conversation.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>For individuals who show up as phone numbers, rename them so that their names show up instead.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Alert the exhibitor if hands are raised which are not being recognized.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Recognize when somebody is having trouble with Zoom (for example, a person doesn’t know how to leave the breakout room) and help them out as best you can.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Mute anybody who needs to be muted.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Get in touch with <a href="mailto:chong.curtis@gmail.com">me</a> or <a href="mailto:blindtechtraining@gmail.com">Paul Sandoval</a> if something comes up that you can’t handle.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Notify Paul Sandoval or me when everybody has left the breakout room so we can close it down.<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paul and I would be glad to receive help with this. The hosting of breakout rooms is probably the most demanding part of the convention in terms of the number of folks we need to help us out. Please get in touch with me one way or the other. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cordially,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Curtis Chong<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>