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- JayGeL44
Hey! This was my first time sitting in and participating in an office hour! Not sure how they normally are ran but I just some first timer feedback.
You can try a more structured approach to facilitate community discussions. Have the office hour facilitator give permission to each participant to start speaking and keep track of time. Have everyone talk for 2-3 minutes in a round-table fashion. (example: "JayGeL44 you have the floor for 2 minutes, I'll keep track of the time." and let everyone say their piece.)
Then at the end of the question allow 5 or so minutes for an open forum discussion on the topic. This time can be used for participants to feed off each others inputs and the facilitator can lead this portion to a degree by bringing up note worthy points made in the individual comments. This would allow for both collective brainstorming and elaborating on points that are of particular interest to the developme...