The arrangement of chairs in a fish bowl session. Four concentric rings of chairs surround a smaller group of five chairs. An arrow indicates how any member of the audience may enter the middle section.
After reading through Act II of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, take some time to discuss the references to death in the play. For this fishbowl discussion, learners prepare questions, practice answering individually and with. How to Play Fishbowl: 1. Separate everyone into two equal teams (Team A and Team B). Have each person take three pieces of paper and write any word or familiar short phrase on each piece of paper. Have each person fold their pieces of paper in half and put them into the container. There are three rounds in Fishbowl: 1) Taboo 2) Password 3. Fishbowl is an online version of a party game for groups of any size and any age. Check out the game here at www.fishbowl-game.com Fish Bowl Rules.png. Want to learn how to play? If you donate £15 or more to the campaign, you will be invited to the exclusive Fish Bowl Fest Launch Party on Sunday, November 29th, hosted by our team.
A fishbowlconversation is a form of dialog that can be used when discussing topics within large groups. Fishbowl conversations are sometimes also used in participatory events such as unconferences. The advantage of fishbowl is that it allows the entire group to participate in a conversation. Several people can join the discussion.
Method[edit]
Four to five chairs are arranged in an inner circle. This is the fishbowl. The remaining chairs are arranged in concentric circles outside the fishbowl. A few participants are selected to fill the fishbowl, while the rest of the group sit on the chairs outside the fishbowl. In an open fishbowl, one chair is left empty. In a closed fishbowl, all chairs are filled. The moderator introduces the topic and the participants start discussing the topic. The audience outside the fishbowl listen in on the discussion.
In an open fishbowl, any member of the audience can, at any time, occupy the empty chair and join the fishbowl. When this happens, an existing member of the fishbowl must voluntarily leave the fishbowl and free a chair. The discussion continues with participants frequently entering and leaving the fishbowl. Depending on how large your audience is you can have many audience members spend some time in the fishbowl and take part in the discussion. When time runs out, the fishbowl is closed and the moderator summarizes the discussion.
An immediate variation of this is to have only two chairs in the central group. When someone in the audience wants to join the two-way conversation, they come forward and tap the shoulder of the person they want to replace, at some point when they are not talking. The tapped speaker must then return to the outer circles, being replaced by the new speaker, who carries on the conversation in their place.
In a closed fishbowl, the initial participants speak for some time. When time runs out, they leave the fishbowl and a new group from the audience enters the fishbowl. This continues until many audience members have spent some time in the fishbowl. Once the final group has concluded, the moderator closes the fishbowl and summarizes the discussion.
Advantages[edit]
An advantage of a fishbowl conversation is that it is suitable for large groups. It also lessens distinctions between the speakers and the audience. This has made fishbowls popular in participatory group meetings and conferences.
Issues[edit]
This is not a forum where introverted or shy people will be inclined to contribute. To include them, it is possible to break the dialog down into much smaller groups to make them feel comfortable to discuss a topic. Their opinions can be garnered upfront through a post-it gathering exercise or with live-voting on whose opinion they value/want replaced (via non-technical show of arms/clapping or a digital live-voting app).
Variations[edit]
The group can be split into two smaller and distinct sub-groups (such as men and women, or older and younger participants), who convene separately and come up with three to four questions for the other group, which are written on cards. The participants reconvene, exchange cards, and form two circles with one subgroup inside the other and both of them facing inwards. The inside group read a question and discuss it, while those in the outside circle listen but do not speak. Each question is discussed in this way, making sure everyone in the inner circle has a chance to speak. The circles are then reversed. The questions that the groups generate can be on the same subject or not, at the discretion of the organizer. This version is a good party game for groups of thirty to sixty people.[1]
Another derivative is to have the fishbowl run for a certain period of time - e.g., half an hour. The moderator stops the discussion in the fishbowl circle and invites those not in the inner circle to offer their thoughts and comments on what they are hearing in the inner circle.
Another variation is to use technology, such as CoverItLive,[2] to increase participation. This allows all the participants in the Outer Circle the opportunity to share their thinking in the public online forum without needing to wait turns. The online forum is also projected in the room for the Inner Circle to use as additional talking points or building ideas from. This variation allows for an environment that supports extroverts and introverts. ( Extroverts - speaking in front of the group, Introverts - sharing their thinking in the online public forum ). In this variation, a hot seat ( or open seat ) is also available for Outer Circle participants so they can at any time join the Fishbowl (Inner Circle) and share their thinking verbally if needed.
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References[edit]
^Taddeo, Jan E. (June 9, 2006). 'A Unitarian Universalist Approach to Youth Ministry'. uua.org. Archived from the original on 4 September 2009. Retrieved 25 February 2010.
^'Classroom Discussions: Fishbowl using Today's Meet'. Google Docs.
How To Play Fishbowl
Further reading[edit]
'Fishbowl: The art of active listening'(PDF). Office of the Commissioner, United Nations Human Rights. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
Hamlin, Kaliya (July 12, 2006). 'Unconference Methods: Fish Bowl Dialogue'. Blog post from a commercial enterprise.
Atlee, Tom. 'Closed Fishbowl'. The Co-intelligence Institute. Posting on the website of a non-profit organization.
'Using Fishbowl for class discussions'. Blog post, apparently unsigned.
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The Art of Hosting: How to Play “Fishbowl”
Here’s the scenario… you want to host your friends or family for a game night… but oh no, you don’t have any actual games! Fear not, our Content Strategist Scott is here to teach you a fun, crowd-pleasing and easy game.
What You’ll Need
Paper
Pens
Carry-All Pouch
Set Up the Game
Cut up scraps of paper so every player has 5-10 pieces each.
Each player writes down a different “person, place or thing” on each of their slips of paper.
Fold up everyone’s pieces and put them inside the carry-all pouch.
How to Play
Split up into two different teams (number of players per team doesn’t matter)
Round 1 – “Taboo” Rules
One person from Team A will be the caller and the rest of Team A will try to guess what’s written on each piece of paper.
Fishbowl Game
The caller will have 30 seconds (adjust based on amount of clues or ability of people playing) to get their team to guess as many clues as they can.
The caller removes one slip of paper and has to get their team to guess without saying the word or any portion of the word written on the paper.
After the 30 seconds is up, Team A tallies their correct guesses and play passes to Team B.
Repeat the steps above until all papers have been guessed. Rotate callers throughout.
Round 2 – “Charades” Rules
Place all the clues back in the carry-all pouch. (The trick here is to remember the clues from Round 1 to help guess in Round 2.)
Play operates exactly as above, the only difference being now the caller has to act out the answers without speaking.
Repeat until all papers have been guessed. Online casino real money app.
Round 3 – “One Word” Rules
Place all the clues back in the carry-all pouch. (Let’s hope you were paying very close attention for the first two rounds…)
Play operates exactly as above, only now the caller can only use one word as their clue. (Hint – use inside jokes, accents or voice inflection to help get your team to guess. Everyone should’ve heard these answers twice now!)
Repeat until all papers have been guessed.
The team with the most correct guesses after three rounds WINS!
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