Audience Engagement Techniques
Sue MosbacherUCCE Central Sierra
What do you want to learn?
• Identify audience goals at beginning of class
• Address at end of class
Ultimate Audience Engagement: Workshops
• Instructors: answer with a question– Way to go, Michelle!
• Canning dress rehearsal• Skills checklist• Youth: Jr Jams & Jellies• County fair
Pre‐Class Q&A Slide show
• Engage the early birds• Think movie theater trivia questions• Basis for food safety
• On MFP Coordinator’s Collaborative Tools site
Pre‐Class Q&A Slide show – How’d she do that?
Pre‐Class Q&A Slide show – How’d she do that?
Pre‐Class Q&A Slide show – How’d she do that?
Learning through Play: Youth Events
• Colorful Jams & Jellies – Farm Day• Act out ingredients
Jeopardy
• Pressure canner cool‐down• Team play
• On MFP Coordinator’s Collaborative Tools site
“Survey says …”
• General processing classes• MFP CE
– Based on training manual problems & solutions
Is the Fruit Dry?
1.2.3.4.
No visible moisturePliable, like leather
20% moisture
XXXDoesn’t stick
Cause? White Scum on Sauerkraut
13
1.2.3.
Too hotNot enough salt
Not under brine
XXX
Bingo!
• ESL Activities.com – Picture BINGO Card Generator
• On MFP Coordinator’s Collaborative Tools site
Audience Q&A Plant
• Preset questions– New MFP reviews in
advance– Ask audience to help train
• Thanks, Joyce!
Did I cover everything?
• Audience goals check
How do you engage your audience?
• Got samples to share? – Got it! card
• Need templates?– Gimme card