Disabling webinar chat – what your audience really thinks
A webinar catches your eye, you register, add it to the calendar and look forward to it. On the day you login, keen to hear from the speakers but also to learn from other people. Hey, you might even be…
Live online reflections
For the third year running I’ve hosted the live online presentations as part of the Learning Technologies Awards. It’s 60 presentations over two weeks, so that’s about 180 sessions I’ve hosted over the years. As I come to the end…
How not to sell a webinar platform
For reasons I won’t bore you with, a client needed a Cisco WebEx Training Centre licence really quickly, within a couple of days, so that I could deliver some training for them. I always joke that there’s no such thing…
Engaging virtual audiences – the need for focused skills development
When using webinars and virtual classrooms, a natural area to focus on is the technology platform. People need time to learn how to show slides and whiteboards, to unmute microphones and more. After that a facilitator can move on to…
What makes for effective use of webinars for learning? #LDinsight chat
Today the L&D Connect Twitter #LDinsight chat was about webinars. Sadly I missed it, but am catching up on the hashtag and thought I’d make some extra notes here to share too! The opening question was: #LDInsight Question this week…
5 tips for maintaining your skills and confidence in webinars and virtual classrooms
For many people delivering a webinar or virtual classroom is something not done on a regular basis. Therefore it can be hard to stay confident with the tools and your own delivery skills, especially if you are a subject matter…
Virtual classrooms are like aeroplanes…
The practice of facilitating in a virtual environment is unique in so many ways. When planning a piece of virtual learning, one of the key challenges is that it can appear incredibly abstract. If you’ve never designed a piece of…
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