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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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?

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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

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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.

 

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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

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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

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What tech are you using?

As virtual technology progresses so much more quickly now, what are you using and finding good?

Could be a platform, such as Adobe Connect is having a lot of great updates recently and some more to come soon. Could be the 'zapps', or Zoom Apps for th

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Teams vs Webex

Hi everyone,I've got a client that are moving from webex to Teams. Any advice? Any comparisons to be aware of?Thanks!!

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Best Practice for Breakout Rooms with Guests in Teams

Hi,

Does anyone have some excellent advice or links for best practice when having to use breakout rooms in Teams with guests? I have a new challenge up my sleeve ...

So far, I have found out that participants disconnect from the chat in the main room,

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Adding Interactivity to Lobby Times in Adobe Connect

Hi everyone,

In last week's Adobe Connect Office Hour, we discussed various ideas for lobby layouts. Using the new InFrame Pod for Adobe Connect, you can now add interactivity to either waiting times before a session starts or to breaks.

I offered to w

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How to engage attendees in a Teams Live Event?

Hi All.

A colleague of mine is delivering an event using Teams Live Event. I've never used it, but seems it's purely a broadcast with Q&A.

Other than the usual tips of creating an engaging presentation (eye contact, voice, visuals, multiple presenters,

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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

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