I receive lots of emails about Free Webinars. I'm going to start a list to keep track of all of them. This post will be the first of many that I probably will then pull out into it's own list. I'd love feedback on the quality of these Free Webinars.
KRM Information Services
On Demand Recording: "Pitfalls Marketing Non-Dues Revenue Webinars in This Economy"
Netspeed Learning Solutions
One every month: Live and very limited attendance, usually only 50 so logon early!
March 19, 2009 The New Blend: Effective Virtual Learning In and Out of the Classroom
February 10, 2009 The Virtual Facilitator: Creating Collaborative Learning Experiences Online
Two collegues reported to me that they could not logon even though they registered. Let me know if others had a problem.
iCohere Free Webinars
Live
Various Topics and Dates in February and March 2009
Online Conferences —Moving Beyond Webinars
Communities of Practice & Online Events — Tips for Success
Collaborative eLearning — Student Interactions Increase Learning
Web 2.0 for Beginners – An Introduction to the New Internet
Brandon Hall
2/25/09 Multi-Generational Learning in the Workforce: Overview and Instructional Design Considerations
Avenue Z Writing Solutions
Provides information about Free and Low Cost Tools for your Organization
Contains a list of seminars and maintains two great blogs
2/10/09 Seminar was good! A little clunky to join the meeting but the content was helpful.
iLinc
Various events and webinars both live and on-demand recordings available
2/17/2009 Marketing Sideways to Succeed at Social Media
GeoLearning
Various events and webinars as well as archives of all their webinars
To get to the archives go to events page and choose Free Tools, in the drop down you'll find Webinar Archives which will pull up a menu with all the names.
I receive a newsletter each month from them listing the live events.
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I plan on attending someof these seminars, I'll let you know how they are.
ReplyDeleteAfter a couple of tries, I snuck my way into the Virtual Facilitator seminar. I thought it was okay, but it inadvertently highlighted some of the problems faced in distanced learning.
ReplyDeleteThe main point of the seminar was to underscore that lecture + PPT is not enough. It covered the usual array of "interactivity tools" that ought to accompany virtual events. These included chat, polls, status icons, streaming video (yes, talking heads), voip, telco, whiteboard, embedded video, etc.
While I can't agree with the primary point of the seminar enough, it seemed to succumb to that fairly common pitfall of technology, overuse. It started with something like 5 or 6 polls on the very first slide, which up until the third or so was quite engaging, but after became tedious. The streaming video (of the speakers head) caused some bandwidth issues for me and when she uploaded a video clip, my browser nearly crashed. Nearly everyone may use broadband these days, but if you are going to play an embedded video, please hide it on an early slide so it can pre-load.
The seminar utilized Adobe's webcasting solution, which clearly has some benefits in being entirely flash based. The speaker pulled up multiple chat windows at one point to have half of us discuss one point, while the other half discussed another. She then picked a vocal member of each group to summarize the discussion for the other. It worked fairly well and was rather engaging.
All in all, the presentation mainly reiterated what we already know. Keep the audience active, open with a question or a poll, use personal anecdotes, icebreakers, case studies, get feedback, etc. and use the tools available. Continue moving in that direction, a few steps ahead of your audience, reassuringly waving them towards us.
Thanks for the feedback!
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