mastering online facilitation: leading engaging meetings and webinars

Facilitated byPaul SignorelliWriter/Trainer/ConsultantPaul Signorelli & Associatespaul@paulsignorelli.com

Twitter: @paulsignorelli

July 30, 2014

Mastering Online Facilitation:Leading Engaging Meetings and Webinars

Discussion #1: Engagement vs. Disengagement

Please briefly describe one memorable onsite or online meeting or class you have attended, and describe what made it memorable.

Discussion #1: Engagement vs. Disengagement

Please briefly describe one terrible onsite or online meeting or class you have attended, and describe what made you wish you had stayed home and read a book.

Focus:People and Communication

Building Upon What We Know

Blended: The Future That Is With Us Now

Myth-busting:Is Face-to-Face Better Than

Online?

http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/changingcourse.pdf

Myth-busting:Is Face-to-Face Better Than

Online?

“…most chief academic officers rate the learning outcomes for online education ‘as good as or better than’ those for face-to-face instruction.”--I. Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman, 2013

http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/changingcourse.pdf

Myth-busting:Is Face-to-Face Better Than

Online?

http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2009/01/virtual_meetings_will_erase_face_to_face.html

Personal Experience:Online Meetings

Personal Experience:After the Online Meetings

Personal Experience:Meetings as Learning

Opportunities

Personal Experience:Webinars That Engage

Discussion #2: What Holds (Y)our Interest?

Please name at least one thing you have noticed in this session that you could immediately use in your own online meetings or webinars.

Becoming Comfortable Online:Essential Elements

Becoming Comfortable Online:Synchronous Trainer’s Survival

Guide

Becoming Comfortable Online:Building Online Learning

Communities

Becoming Comfortable Online:First Webinar/Nine Lessons

http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog/2008/01/what-i-learned.html

Basic Tips/Reminders:Practice, Experiment, & Embrace

Failure

Basic Tips/Reminders:Practice, Experiment, & Embrace

Failure

Basic Tips/Reminders:Practice, Experiment, & Embrace

Failure

Discussion #3: Fear

What (if any) fears do you want to overcome as a result of your participation in these webinars?

The Audience You Cannot See:Picturing Your Audience

The Audience You Cannot See:Addressing and Responding

Discussion #3:Applying What We’ve Learned

What is one thing you will do in the next week to improve your online presentation skills?

In Summary

In Summary

In Summary

In Summary

Resources (1)

“Hanging Out With the Tech Crowd,” by Paul SignorelliAmerican Libraries blog, January 25, 2014http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blog/hanging-out-tech-crowd

Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States, by I. Elaine Allen and Jeff SeamanBabson Survey Research Group and Quahog Research Group, LLC, 2013http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/changingcourse.pdf

Resources (2)

http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog/2008/01/what-i-learned.html

Resources (3)

For more on web conferencing and online presentation skills:http://paulsignorelli.com/PDFs/Bibliography--Webconferencing_Resources.pdf

Going Under the Hood

Questions & Comments

For More Information

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Credits & Acknowledgments (Images taken from flickr.com unless otherwise noted):

Herding Cats: Screenshot from EDS Company’s video on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE

Teacher and Students in Classroom: From www.audio-luci-store.it’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/mqtlnyg

Empty Steas: From Eric James Sarmiento’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/mprkguu Communication: From Paul Shanks’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/mqk899c

Cisco Telepresence: Photo from DolanH’s photostream at https://www.flickr.com/photos/reneeanddolan/654865749

ALA LITA (Library Information and Technology Association) Members With Google Glass: Photo by Paul Signorelli, at ALA Midwinter Meeting (Philadelphia), January 2014

Practice: From WoodleyWonderworks’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/oath2rtExperiment: From JD Hancock’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/qegyre8

Edsel: From Ron Cogswell’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/q896k7uInvisible Man: From Robert Huffstutter’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/o6yh2wo http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/6136653327/sizes/m/in/photostream/

Question Marks: From Valerie Everett’s photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/3006348550/sizes/m/in/photostream/