Virtual classrooms in numbers
How long should a virtual classroom session be? Half an hour, all day? How many people, six? 15? It’s a challenge to know what is right. Often people ask me how many people should be in a virtual classroom. I…
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…
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 classroom session structure
A lot of us know about how to plan, design and deliver a face to face training session. But what about a virtual classroom session? Here’s a quick overview that might give you some ideas: Always teach the basic tools…
What is digital body language?
I’m interested in how people communicate and connect when they aren’t face to face or even communicating in real time, perhaps through an asynchronous forum or community such as Slack or Yammer. Lori Niles-Hoffman, who is a Data Driven…
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…
Delivery virtual classroom training – baby steps to confident strides
“Would you be interested in delivering virtuals?” I shuddered. I wanted to do something different and here was a relatively new client offering something. Virtuals? I was concerned about me vs technology and thought it might be boring, talking to…
Rev Up for Virtual Delivery
When I was first asked if I wanted to deliver virtually, I thought about how we prepare for face-to-face work; excellent materials, check your technology, have pens, flipcharts, post-its, props all ready, get a good ambience in the room. And,…
Conference/Unconference | Design | Facilitation | Learning Technologies Conference | Live Online Learning/Virtual Classroom | Webinar
Tweets covering the LTSF17 live online learning conference session
“Making the most of your live online session” was the presentation I delivered at Learning Technologies Conference Summer Forum 2017. These are the tweets that covered my session about webinars and the virtual classroom. An experiment!? In #T4S3 at #LTSF17 all…
Chat | Design | Facilitation | Webinar
Eight reasons to remove chat from your webinar
Removing the chat to all function is something a lot of marketing webinars do – should you?
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