Next → Webinar Superstar: How to Engage Your Audience During Your Online Presentation? When I first started giving webinars, Skype was the only option. needed to figure out how not to bore my audience  while they stared at my face for over an hour… Webinars today are so much more exciting than the webinars of the past. Though I often see that the presenters utilize same old strategies they did 10 years ago; and I find that there are just not as many “webinar superstars” out there yet. This will make you a “webinar superstar!” MORE >>

webinar titled "Doing more with Less". Webinar Series is UMBC’s ISD Graduate Program’s newest online platform to share ideas and information on topics related to business, organizational productivity and workplace learning and performance. We started off with a poll that asked us about the importance of informal learning and not surprisingly most people said it was important or very important. Convergence of Work and Learning But then we realise that Citrix was playing up, so back to a more visual webinar. All in all, interesting, engaging webinar! Hell, yeah! MORE >>

If I’m doing software application training, doing it as a webinar isn’t really my first choice. built these questions as a poll with multiple choice options. This meant I could show the scavenger hunt questions in a side panel at the same time as learners were viewing the content in the main window of the webinar. Last spring, I had a great discussion with Ellen Behrens on what kind of training works effectively in webinars. I disagreed; I think you can teach skills with webinars if you plan the interactions correctly. Tips for Effective Webinars. MORE >>

Check any online exercises, tests, or polling questions you have planned for the session. Tags: eLearning Design Development InstructionalDesign technology Training Webinars This article is a guest post by Mary Polley-Berte, Director of Customer Support & Training, SyberWorks, Inc. Thanks, Mary! Companies and organizations today use web conferencing in many aspects of their organizations-to conduct meetings, collaborate on projects, demonstrate products and services, and more. Use a large, bold, simple font like Arial. If possible, avoid complex animations (i.e. MORE >>

I'm currently using Webex for webinars, unfortunately we discovered (quite late!) The first webinar probably needs to be technically perfect, might be because of the mistrust they already have for technology? Because of the technical obstacles we've not tried out the polling and whiteboard features. So when I saw a free webinar by Gotomeeting on the topic of: 'making your webinar more engaging and interactive' I subscribed immediately. The presentor of the webinar was Ken Molay. asked a question about use of webcams in webinars. What did you see? MORE >>