I'm attending, and have been attending, lots of live online virtual conferences and seminars this year, as so many others have. What I'm finding especially frustrating today is that so many speakers aren't adapting to what live online sessions offer. I'm in sessions where it's just listening to people, there's an empty, lonely chat window... Continue Reading →
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 Learning Strategist, has experienced "the seismic shift from classroom to digital" in her career and... Continue Reading →
Free online courses – actual content or blatant sales?
I recently signed up for a live online webinar-based free course. It’s delivered over twelve sessions and boasted plenty of interaction. It states that you would walk away an expert after finishing. I’m not going to name and shame here, but I do want to walk you through the experience I had and some of... Continue Reading →
Making the most of your live online session webinar recording
In case you missed the sold-out Learning Technologies Summer Forum Conference session from Jo Cook, this was a chance to get all the same information! Click here to watch the webinar recording. Click here to see tweets of the Learning Technologies Summer Forum 2017 session.
The very first Lightbulb Moment free public webinar!
Hurrah! We are so pleased! Today we ran our first ever free webinar from Lightbulb Moment. It was the launch of our free programme and we started with asking if the virtual classroom is a friend, or a foe! By the end of the session people wrote on the whiteboard "I just wanna have a... Continue Reading →
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. https://twitter.com/LightbulbJo/status/873176096585469952 Ady Howes had a 360 degree camera and recorded the session. I'll update this page when we have a video link!... Continue Reading →