*Use Miro on a computer rather than a mobile device. If you use Miro on a mobile device (phone, iPad/tablet), you won't be able to copy and paste images to a new location on the board (in order to select them and look at all the ones you've selected at once). Because Miro doesn't currently support pasting on mobile devices, you can only have a view-only experience of browsing through the pictures if you use a mobile device.
**Miro can be used in a web browser, either Chrome version 1.8614.0 or higher or Firefox is what is recommended. There is also a Miro desktop app that you can download and install.

*Watch the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0olcwCD9-GM Miro Navigation Basics 3-minute Video].
**Besides this Navigation Basics Video, windows might pop up and suggest that you do other Miro tutorials or learn about other Miro features. For the purposes of Pick a Picture, these other things aren't relevant, as we'll only need to know how to do what's listed here below plus what's covered in the Navigation Basics Video.

*Now, you're ready to practice. For the rest of the items on this page, you'll be using a Miro board that has been set up for people to experiment with (so don't worry about keeping it exactly the way it was before you began). Here's the link for it: [https://meaningfulaction.org/sandbox meaningfulaction.org/sandbox]
**If [https://meaningfulaction.org/sandbox meaningfulaction.org/sandbox] doesn't take you straight to the pictures, here are login credentials that you can use to log in, Email address: miro@pickapicture.org Password: 4corners4sides

*Choosing pictures - Make a copy of the images you choose rather than moving the images you choose. (One reason for this is so that the original image won't get separated from its attribution.) Copy and paste the images to a different part of the board where you will be collecting the images that you've chosen. This way you'll be able to look at all of the images you've chosen at once.
**Select a picture - The arrow icon at the top of the toolbar (on the left hand side of the screen) toggles between select mode and pan mode. In pan mode, your cursor will look like a hand and you will be able to pan around the board to navigate around it. In select mode, your cursor will look like an arrow. In this mode, you point at things with the arrow and click on them to select them.
**Copy and paste the picture to a new location - Select a picture. Then, use Ctrl+C/Ctrl + V for Windows or Cmd + C/Cmd + V for Mac.

*Rearranging pictures - Some people gain a lot from spending time repositioning the images while they reflect on them.
**Drag a picture to a different location - Select and hold while you move your cursor to drag a picture.

*Hide or show collaborators' cursors - Collaborators' cursors allow you to see what regions of the board other people are looking at. Clicking the icon shown in the picture below allows you to toggle between hiding and showing your collaborators' cursors.

[[File:HideCollaboratorsCursors.png|border|center|850px]]

Practice using Miro

2022-05-02T16:30:23Z

Leeann:

*Use Miro on a computer rather than a mobile device. If you use Miro on a mobile device (phone, iPad/tablet), you won't be able to copy and paste images to a new location on the board (in order to select them and look at all the ones you've selected at once). Because Miro doesn't currently support pasting on mobile devices, you can only have a view-only experience of browsing through the pictures if you use a mobile device.

**Miro can be used in a web browser, either Chrome version 1.8614.0 or higher or Firefox is what is recommended. There is also a Miro desktop app that you can download and install.

*Watch the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0olcwCD9-GM Miro Navigation Basics 3-minute Video].
**Besides this Navigation Basics Video, windows might pop up and suggest that you do other Miro tutorials or learn about other Miro features. For the purposes of Pick a Picture, these other things aren't relevant, as we'll only need to know how to do what's listed here below plus what's covered in the Navigation Basics Video.

*Now, you're ready to practice. For the rest of the items on this page, you'll be using a Miro board that has been set up for people to experiment with (so don't worry about keeping it exactly the way it was before you began). Here's the link for it: [https://meaningfulaction.org/sandbox meaningfulaction.org/sandbox]
**If [https://meaningfulaction.org/sandbox meaningfulaction.org/sandbox] doesn't take you straight to the pictures, here are login credentials that you can use to log in, Email address: miro@pickapicture.org Password: 4corners4sides

*Choosing pictures - Make a copy of the images you choose rather than moving the images you choose. (One reason for this is so that the original image won't get separated from its attribution.) Copy and paste the images to a different part of the board where you will be collecting the images that you've chosen. This way you'll be able to look at all of the images you've chosen at once.
**Select a picture - The arrow icon at the top of the toolbar (on the left hand side of the screen) toggles between select mode and pan mode. In pan mode, your cursor will look like a hand and you will be able to pan around the board to navigate around it. In select mode, your cursor will look like an arrow. In this mode, you point at things with the arrow and click on them to select them.
**Copy and paste the picture to a new location - Select a picture. Then, use Ctrl+C/Ctrl + V for Windows or Cmd + C/Cmd + V for Mac.

*Rearranging pictures - Some people gain a lot from spending time repositioning the images while they reflect on them.
**Drag a picture to a different location - Select and hold while you move your cursor to drag a picture.

*Hide or show collaborators' cursors - Collaborators' cursors allow you to see what regions of the board other people are looking at. Clicking the icon shown in the picture below allows you to toggle between hiding and showing your collaborators' cursors.

[[File:HideCollaboratorsCursors.png|border|center|850px]]

*Note that pictures may disappear - One very unfortunate thing that is currently true about using Miro is that not all of the pictures will always be showing. As you zoom in and out and navigate around the board, some of the pictures will disappear. Zooming in and out can help them to reappear.
**This is a known bug for the Miro team. They are working on fixing it. In the meantime, here are their suggestions:
***Close all unused tabs with Miro boards in your browser;
***Open your browser settings and disable hardware acceleration (for convenience, please see [https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch002154.htm third-party instruction: how to enable or disable hardware acceleration in a browser] for a walkthrough on how to do this);
***Refresh the active tab with the Miro board in your browser;
***Make sure you are using Chrome version 1.8614.0 or higher.
***Some users also reported that the issue appeared less in the Firefox browser, so you may try that as well.

2022-04-11T15:50:26Z

Leeann:

==Status for when people are done picking pictures==
At the top of the board, it says "Type 'Done' as your status in 999 point font when you are done picking pictures." Fill out people's names before the session starts. During the session, ask participants to indicate when they are done selecting pictures by typing 'Done' for their status or 'Could be done' if that reflects their status better.

==Indicating when people are done sharing==
It can help to ask people to say something like "I'm complete" or "That's it for me" to indicate that they are done sharing.

==Would you like any reflections?==
Note that participants can choose to just share about the images they've selected without having others in the group respond. (Or, they can choose to have everyone participate in talking about the image they've shared and what they've said about it.) To make it easier for the sharer to choose to not have the group respond, one suggestion is to end each participant's sharing time by asking them, "Would you like any reflections?" (If they say no, then you move on to the next person whose turn it is to share.) You, as the facilitator, can be the one to ask this each time. Or, you can designate someone to do so.

With some groups, others in the group just naturally don't do any responding to what each person shares. So, you can gauge, in the first round, if this is the case for your group or not, before deciding whether or not you want to use the above suggestion.

==Pick a Picture session examples==
1. 4 adults. People had lots and lots of responses to what the sharers shared. 120 minutes. 2 prompts.

Prompt 1: Pick pictures that you were drawn to even if you don't know why.

Prompt 2: Each person chose or invented their own prompt to use

Two hours was a generous amount of time for this group of four people to do two rounds. Everyone knew each other, and having two hours provided time for there to be a large amount of interaction.

2. 3 adults and 2 children, ages 9 and 7. Dad and 2 kids shared one computer. 60 minutes. 1 prompt.

Instead of having each person share all their pictures at once, we took turns sharing one picture at a time. I plan on doing this every time I have young children in a session.

Prompt: Pick pictures that you would give to someone or send to someone. This could be several pictures that are all for one person, or you could be giving/sending the pictures to more than one person.

3. 3 adults. Almost no responses to what sharers shared. 75 minutes. 4 prompts

Prompt 1: Select images that make your nervous system say ahh, where ahh is the sound you make when relaxing

Prompt 2: Select images that remind you of someone important to you

Prompt 3: Each person chose or invented their own prompt to use

Prompt 4: Think about inserting yourself in the picture. You could be putting yourself in the picture by imagining that you are that thing/person. Or you could be adding yourself into the scene as a new thing/person. Pick pictures that you find interesting to do this with.