Using emoticons to engage participants

Green Checkmark, Red X, and Hand Raise typically are used in response to a direct…question. You want to find out if your participants are with you, if they are…agreeing with what you're saying, or if they want to communicate directly.…If you'd like to get more subtle feedback during this session, you want…participants to give feedback at any time, teach them how to use the Emoticons Tool.…You can see the Emoticons here represented by a yellow smiley face icon.…And Greg, if you expand your Emoticons Palette we'll see it on the Macintosh.…

So if you expand the Emoticons Palette you'll see that there are 12 different…icons that represent what the participants might be thinking about at that time.…They might show applaud to tell you that they think what you just said was…funny or they liked the feature that they just saw, they might show that they…are satisfied, or coffee cup might mean that they feel like they need to take a break.…You'll see these other emoticons are very subtle differences. Maybe they feel…