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19 Tips for Effective Online Conferences

Tony Karrer

We’ve used Elluminate as our webinar system. Pictures of speakers make the event more real. Have pictures on session descriptions and on the first slide of each speaker. Thanks to Scott Skibell , we recorded the sessions directly off the web, i.e., outside of Elluminate and he produced great recordings.

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My Workflow with Synergy

Experiencing eLearning

When I liveblogged the TCC 2008 conference , I always had the Elluminate presentation up on my primary screen (my desktop computer) and my blog on my laptop. Synergy lets me easily switch focus back to the Elluminate screen to join the backchannel chat or answer a poll; you just move your mouse over to the other screen and type away.

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Five tools for global educators

Learning with e's

I regularly present live (synchronous) webinars or web seminars, and other teaching sessions from my home office, or from a hotel room, and conceivably just about anywhere else there is connectivity to the internet. But what tools do we use to enable us to connect with these communities, resources, audiences around the globe?

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Thoughts following April Learntrends

Jay Cross

Pictures of speakers make an event more real. We recorded the sessions directly off the web, i.e. outside of Elluminate. Multi-tasking doesn’t work well on something this ambitious. Speakers on a common topic should get to know one another and swap ideas on their approach in advance of the session.

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Top 70 eLearning Posts for June and Hot Topics including iPad and Mobile Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

He basically flipped quickly through the pages and stopped occasionally on a pretty picture and usually started flipping again. Tomi Ahonen: Mobile in Learning: lessons from around the world - Ignatia Webs , June 15, 2010 First key speaker at mLearncon Tuesday 15 june 2010. At one point he stopped and seemed to read a bit.

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O Collaboration - Where Art Thou?

The Learning Circuits

To me Real Time Collaboration (RTC) solutions like Macromedia Breeze , Centra , WebEx , Elluminate etc replicate oh so many of the problems we face in the traditional face-to-face model. If you don't engage me then I'll vote with my web browser and go elsewhere. Keep that in mind when doing your live web cast. sit and listen).

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Top 70 eLearning Articles - Hot Topics: iPad Adobe Captivate - July 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Cross is a champion of informal learning, Web 2.0, They are currently refining informal/web 2.0 Role Shift - Learning and Working on the Web , July 5, 2010 The last time I looked at roles in education I was inspired by Anil Mammen to create a table based on his definitions. Steve takes a three-fold view of web development: 1.0=linking,