Posts Tagged ‘webinar’
Understanding SOG Webinars
Posted by: Joel Galbraith in Best Practice, Distance Learning, Tools, Try it! on May 5th, 2009
We’ve written a couple posts now on webinars at SOG (here and here), but today’s event wins the prize. For those unable to attend today’s webinar, you missed out! I hope you will take the time to watch the archive. It is well-worth a lunch time viewing…but not as good as the live event!
The goals of the webinar were to:
- give all attendees a first-hand look at what SOG webinars look–and act–like
- demonstrate a range of activities available in an SOG webinar (hint: you can do more than PowerPoint)
- Help you see ways a webinar might be useful to your courses, conferences and programs.
While viewing the archive, you’ll hear from numerous SOG colleagues: Donna Warner, Jen Lobenhofer, Joel Galbraith, Nancy Kiplinger, Shadi Eskaf, Cindy Lee. You’ll also hear and read responses to a number of questions from your peers.
The webinar covers: using PowerPoints, playing videos, using multiple presenters, using remote presenters, conducting audience polls (ala TurningPoint and clickers), online group discussions, question moderating, shared web browsing, annotation, session breaks, and much more 
Webinar archive link: http://breeze.unc.edu/p25529382/
Thank you to all those that helped with *and* participated in the event. What did YOU think of it? Did you gain any new insights? What challenges/benefits do you foresee? Please share your comments with us below!
-TLS team
Webinars: Currently More Than One Flavor Served
Posted by: Joel Galbraith in Did you Know?, Distance Learning on April 24th, 2009
Elsewhere in this blog, I’ve discussed webinars generally in the context of being one of the distance learning options we support at the SOG, but I’ve not adequately described them in terms of ice-cream flavors. We’ve now created a few of these interactive events with great success and positive feedback from delighted clients. More recently, a new webinar flavor has emerged from the kitchen for trials–with a third intriguing, likely-to-please flavor still in the works. Note that all SOG webinar flavors are inherently interactive, and at a minimum, allow our clients to ask questions during the event.
Vanilla (an enduring favorite)
- Presenter(s) present with slides and audio (video) from an SOG computer to clients around the State seated at their computers.
- Jen Lobenhofer, Donna Warner, Gail Wilkins and Karl Smith might be cornered for their thoughts on this flavor.
Rocky Road (aptly named for it’s increased complexity, but likely to gaining a steady following)
- The distinguishing ingredient of a Rocky Road webinar is that it simultaneously addresses both a live, face-to-face audience and an online remote audience. This webinar flavor is also known as a “Simulcast” event.
- Janet Mason and Jessica O’Sullivan have enjoyed a generous serving of this flavor and should be consulted for recommendations. Meredith Murray and John Rubin have submitted an order and are already feeling the rocky road part–but looking forward to the tasty payoff.
Goo Goo cluster (it’s all about the goo and clusters–but it’s still in the kitchen labs)
- Goo Goo cluster is a webinar flavor that clusters clients together around single computers (connected to projectors) at select sites around the state to enjoy the online event with each other rather than individually at their own computers. The networking (goo) running throughout this flavor, helps clients stay regionally connected, and also allows for group learning activities.
- Eileen Youens is our chief flavorologist on this one, but don’t bug her yet, this one’s not yet on the menu.
Join us May 5th for a lunchtime, brownbag, *virtual* webinar smorgasborg — an online webinar experience that will tickle your taste buds and have you lining up for more. TLS and other SOG colleagues will cover the why, who, when, where, whats of webinars, and showcase a variety of activities that can be included in webinars. (details to follow in the coming week)
-Joel G.
Faculty Spotlight
Posted by: Joel Galbraith in Best Practice, Distance Learning, Faculty Spotlight, TLS Projects on February 28th, 2009
DSS Attorney’s Conference Webinar
Faculty: Janet Mason- Program Manager: Jessica O’ Sullivan
- Event: 2009 Winter Conference for Social Services Attorneys
- Type: Webinar (Adobe Connect Pro)
- Date: February, 26, 27 (1.5 days)
- Clients: 24 online; 75? local
- Link (view sample): Day 1–Morning Session
Objective:
Make DSS attorney conference available in a satisfactory format to remote clients unable to travel to Chapel Hill .
Challenges:
- Simultaneously present to local (SOG) and remote audiences.
- Give remote participants equal ability to interact with local audience (ask questions and share comments).
- Allow remote participants to hear local audience comments and questions.
Description:
click to view sample
Janet Mason received inquiries from several clients requesting a means to attend the 2009 Winter Conference for Social Services Attorneys remotely. Travel budget restrictions would have otherwise not allowed them to attend. Janet and Jessica contacted TLS mid-December 2008 (i.e. not last minute) to start discussing what options would be available for the February event. Videoconferencing and simple video recordings were eventually ruled out for various reasons, and it was decided to attempt a live simultaneous event with the face-to-face (f2f) conference. The online event received a unique course code, and course marketing, pricing and registration was identical to the f2f event.
Expectations for live interaction were set sufficiently low for online participants in the event interaction from remote audience would not be supported. The IT division was able to devise and test a solution which would both share conference presentations, and permit remote audience participation… Read the rest of this entry »
Distance Learning Preferences Poll: To listen or Read?
Posted by: Joel Galbraith in Best Practice, Distance Learning, How To, SOG, Tools on February 9th, 2009
There’s often a difference between what we prefer, and what we really do. This issue is seen in distance learning preference as well. Most people generally prefer face-to-face instruction, but we’re all capable of learning in different ways, and do so on a regular basis (informally) while listening to the radio, reading an article etc. We wouldn’t want all our learning to be classroom delivered.
In the distance learning world, instruction and knowledge is technologically mediated (delivered), and can generally take the form of temporal or time-based media (audio, video, presentations, lectures), or non-temporal media (text, images, slides only). When we’re in a hurry, or are only marginally interested, we often prefer text which is easily skimmed. There are times when we want to hear a good lecture, or casually listen while doing other things…and selectively pay attention when we get to the good (interesting) parts. Each has its merits. One is not “better” for learning than the other…at least not on those grounds)
But I’m curious, Which do you prefer? To read or to listen?, and perhaps more importantly, if your online SOG training were to be presented in this way, which do you think you’re more likely to sit down and actually “do”?! Take the Poll (omit your name if you wish)
Distance Learning options at the SOG
Posted by: Joel Galbraith in Distance Learning, Presentations on January 29th, 2009
Here are my slides on distance learning options at the SOG. Press the [cc] button on the player controls to display the slide “notes” for additional info, and note the button for watching the presentation full screen. Some example links may no longer work.
I hope this helps make the options a little more understandable.
-Joel G.
