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Screen sharing PowerPoint in a window (Zoom and Teams)

A few people have asked about good ways to share their PowerPoint slides when facilitating in Zoom so that they can still use the chat and participant panels without them overlapping their slides.

I do this by having PowerPoint run in a window, rath

Started by Jo Cook in Technology & platforms, Beginner, and Intermediate

16 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook Jun 1

Will AI help virtual classrooms?

There’s a LOT of discussion at the moment about artificial intelligence, from clever text chat with ChatGPT, images with Midjourney and much more.

Can AI help with the virtual classroom? I asked ChatGPT, and this is what it said:

Here are some ways t

Started by Jo Cook in Technology & platforms

6 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook May 24

Teams for very very large webinars

Hello everyone,

One of my clients wants to use Teams for a very large event (around 5,000 or more people). It's a short webinar, but with a lot of people, and I've been asked for support. However I'm not knowledgable on producing for very large Teams

Started by Bettie Tibbles in Delivery and Technology & platforms

4 Replies · Reply by Bettie Tibbles May 2

Virtual design in a post-pandemic world

Hi all!

Jo and I recently chatted a whole ton about how we changed our content during covid and especially now going forward. We identified that the whole virtual learning landscape had shifted with many learners in different positions.

This got me t

Started by Michael Cook in Design

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Microsoft Teams - big updates!

There have been some big Teams updates announced by Microsoft this week!

A lot of tehcnical under the hood changes to improve speed, new design for making the interface easier to use, easier to work across different accounts and Meetings will have a

Started by Jo Cook in Technology & platforms

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Best practice for getting someone to answer a question?

hi everyone,

what is the best practice when you want a learner to get involved in a virtual session more? I want to ask them to unmute to answer a question or get them using chat a bit more. But i don't want to put them off!!

Any advice please?

Started by Angela Green in Delivery

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Welcome!

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the new open discussion forum, all about webinars, virtual classrooms and learning.

We encourage you to click the Add Discussion button to start discussions, add questions, share successes and learning points! If you can't

Started by Lightbulb Moment

68 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook Feb 24

Using AI to 'maintain' eye contact on a video conference or webcam recording - with Nvidia Broadcast

A common question we get is one about maintaining eye contact with the webcam when facilitating live online learning. Now Nvidia have their application that uses artificial intelligence in order to do that for you. Yes, you can look away, but the sof

Started by Jo Cook in Technology & platforms

2 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook Feb 9

What if people refuse to use video?

I was on a great chat today, the Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee webcast! The topic was starting with virtual classrooms, and Andrew Jacobs asked this question that we didn't get around to answering on the session:

What if 8/10 peo

Started by Jo Cook in Delivery and Technology & platforms

4 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook Jan 9

Google Meet

HI Lightbulbers - Happy New Year!

Having very happily been using Zoom as a trainer for the last two years I am being thrown into the world of Google Meet. From what I can tell, it's not as interactive - there's no annotate function, for example, and

Started by Cath Addis in Technology & platforms

2 Replies · Reply by Cath Addis Jan 4

Tips to Get Yourself Motivated to Study - Even When You're Not Motivated to Study

If you're looking for a little motivation to get you through those long hours of studying, you've come to the right place. There are some tricks of the trade to help you stay focused, so you'll be able to complete your tasks and keep your grades up.

Started by Irene Mitchell in Learning

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make counting exercise applicable for online meeting

Hello everyone,

Hope you can help?

I have to deliver a wokshop online, which was originally designed as face-to-face workshop. So I have to change the method of delivery. In the face-to-face format I started with a counting exercise. This exercise goes

Started by Joost Brouwer in Delivery

4 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook Dec 19, 2022

Early participation in online learning activities is significantly correlated with student final performance

Hi everyone

Found this research article - Does the early bird catch the worm? A large-scale examination of the effects of early participation in online learning

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01587919.2022.2088476?journalCode=cdie20

It's m

Started by Angela Green in Design and Learning

1 Reply · Reply by Jo Cook Dec 15, 2022

Case study: rethinking hybrid conferences

What do you think about hybrid events? Avoid them at all costs, or they are the way of the future?

Laura Overton and I had to decide our stance last year when we were asked to desgin and host a hybrid conference together. Some of the hybrid events we

Started by Jo Cook in Design, Delivery, and Technology & platforms

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Virtual classroom and hybrid learning research report from Lightbulb Moment and PeopleStar

I'm very excited to tell you that we are launching a research report!

We teamed up with research and behavioural expert Jane Daly at PeopleStar to find out more from learners and L&D professionals about their virtual and hybrid learning experiences.

Started by Jo Cook in Design, Delivery, and Technology & platforms

2 Replies · Reply by Bettie Tibbles Dec 1, 2022

Anonymous Feedback on Zoom Webinars

Hi there, Margaret McCabe here from 3D Development,does anyone know how to get some anonymous feedback from participants during a live Webinar on

Zoom please?

Started by Margaret McCabe in Technology & platforms

4 Replies · Reply by Susanne Plaumann Nov 4, 2022

Does virtual reduce creativity? Research link.

Hello everyone,

I get emails from Learning Science Weekly which always has something relevant and interesting.

This week it was about creativity and virtual communication. The finding was that pairs of people coming up with ideas virtually generated le

Started by Bettie Tibbles in Design and Technology & platforms

1 Reply · Reply by Kevin Maye Oct 27, 2022

What can drive you crazy when on a webinar!?!?

Hey everyone! I’m writing our next podcast and want to include a section about what can turn you off from a webinar! So what drives you crazy on them!? Drop a message below and let me also know if it is ok for us to quote you in the episode.

Started by Michael Cook in Delivery

7 Replies · Reply by Michael Cook Oct 27, 2022

Coming soon to a computer near you... Adobe Connect 12

Exciting times in virtual platforms!

I've just seen this on LinkedIn:

Obviously there will be updates in video and audio and a lot of the tech stuff. I'm looking forward to the video updates as Adobe really are the master of the virtual classroom pl

Started by Jo Cook in Technology & platforms

5 Replies · Reply by Jo Cook Sep 5, 2022

What makes you think about ID?

What did you experience this weekend or this week that made you think about instructional design?

I thought this was a great question from Brent Schlenker on his American community The Learn Train and made me think about this:

I played a game (Wester

Started by Jo Cook in Learning

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Screen sharing PowerPoint in a window (Zoom and Teams)

Will AI help virtual classrooms?

Teams for very very large webinars

Virtual design in a post-pandemic world

Microsoft Teams - big updates!

Best practice for getting someone to answer a question?

Welcome!

Using AI to 'maintain' eye contact on a video conference or webcam recording - with Nvidia Broadcast

What if people refuse to use video?

Google Meet

Tips to Get Yourself Motivated to Study - Even When You're Not Motivated to Study

make counting exercise applicable for online meeting

Early participation in online learning activities is significantly correlated with student final performance

Case study: rethinking hybrid conferences

Virtual classroom and hybrid learning research report from Lightbulb Moment and PeopleStar

Anonymous Feedback on Zoom Webinars

Does virtual reduce creativity? Research link.

What can drive you crazy when on a webinar!?!?

Coming soon to a computer near you... Adobe Connect 12

What makes you think about ID?

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Screen sharing PowerPoint in a window (Zoom and Teams)

Teams for very very large webinars

Article: 'Best Practices for Reducing Zoom Fatigue'

Google Meet

make counting exercise applicable for online meeting

Adding Interactivity to Lobby Times in Adobe Connect

Note: this page contains paid content.

Webinars and events with Jo

The Lightbulb Moment Podcast

The Lightbulb Moment blog

Course hubs for virtual classroom training resources