"Presence" when facilitating live online

We ran a session about presence in the virtual space. These are some of the answers from the group about what presence was live online:

- holding the space

- paying attention

- being attentive

- the learning you enable

- emanating energy

- paying a

Removal of a community member due to spam

Dear Community,

It's come to our attention that someone on this site has been contacting members with a spam message. Our apologies for this. The member has been removed. 

Please be aware of our code of conduct as spam messages and posts will not be

Connect 11.2 - Lessons from Learning Technologies Digital Experience

We used Adobe Connect 11.2 (the newest) version for the premium sessions of LTDX February 2021. 

I was lead producer for 30 sessions, with a mixed bag of content, presenter styles, presenter abilities and some other professional producers and others w

Learning Guild whitepaper: virtual classroom continuous improvement

I've contributed to a Learning Guild whitepaper about how to improve virtual classrooms! You can download it here (you need a free Learning Guild account). 

As I read the paper, this paragraph struck me as interesting:

Musings on the future

Sadly, I’

Adobe Connect-Connection Lost error messages

Hi,

Wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this same issue in the past few weeks.

I have been getting "Connection Lost" error messages in AC at random times. My computer freezes, until the connection is made again.It does seem to be an AC erro

2 little moments with Zoom to watch out for....

1 - is this webinar started, or not?
I started a webinar this morning on my PC... but my backup co-host login (connected by 4G hotspot from my phone, running in the zoom android app on a tablet) thought the webinar was still in practice mode and want

Adobe Connect 11!

It's here! Adobe Connect, the latest version has been launched, and it's packed full of new features and improved underlying technology. 

If you are a Connect user, or if you have found Connect to be a little clunky in the past, this upgrade is for y

Attendee thrown out of Break-out room

Hi!

I was producing for Adobe Connect, Session 2,  and had a participant who was immediately thrown out of his breakout room. Repeatedly, though he shut down his VPN and all other apps.

He had no issues for the  first session, nor the first breakout of

Live online learning and Emerald Works data

Recently I've been able to partner with Emerald Works (formerly Towards Maturity) to use some of their data to look at virtual classrooms and webinars in a different way. 

Here's the article I wrote: https://emeraldworks.com/resources/blog/l-d-resear

Running an (un)conference live online

In New Zealand an organisation ran an unconference (where the agenda isn't pre-set and is built by the attendees on the day). They shared a great amount of their learning about the organisation, communication and technology.

There's a big PDF (with l

70:20:10 Webinar Design - towards a 360* fishbowl discussion model

Hello fellow Webinerds - 

Please see my blended learning research at https://abasiel.wordpress.com

I have been doing R&D on webinar design with a focus on a Socratic discussion model. Please see:

https://abasiel.wordpress.com/elearning-r-d/

https://abasi

What do you do after a live online session?

I've just finished a learning webinar with about 60 people and, quite frankly, I feel pumped!

There was loads of interaction and conversation and great feedback on their learning points. I feel that I connected with the group as a whole and now it's

Zoom - screen setup

Hi all,

A lot of people are using Zoom for meetings and learning, and sometimes struggling to share their screen as well as see the participants and chat panel. 

This isn't the setup I use, but it's a great option if you have some kind of second scre

OLX – Rapidly put your learning online – MOOC from LearningPool

Hi everyone, 

There is a new, free MOOC (massive open online course) all about rapidly putting your learning online. It's great for the time we are currently in with Covid-19 changing our learning and working practices, but it's also been designed to

REAL learning in a virtual classroom? Of course it’s possible!

March 2020 has marked a sea change of how organisations and education have met, communicated, presented and taught/trained/facilitated. The lock down/ advice to stay at home, due to the risk of infection from Coronavirus, has meant live online platfo

Curated resources to help with your live online learning

This curated list was first created in April 2020 to help the huge amount of facilitators and designers that were shifting to live online solutions at the time.

As we create new free content it is included on this list and kept up to date to help con

Reducing background noise on a call - the Krisp app

Hi all,

I've just seen this on Twitter (via Mike Taylor) and it looks really interesting: 

https://krisp.ai/

It's an application to reduce background noise on your call... but also on the call from the other end. 

Definitely one to try - let us know

Managing your voice with a cold?

hi all,

I have a cold and a sore throat! I have to deliver some of my vilt training. Do you have any tips to help me? I do keep drinking water.

Thanks!

Virtual Facilitation Observation Form

Hi all,

Cindy Huggett has shared this form you can download for observing the virtual session of other people. You could also use it as a checklist or starting point for yourself too :D

https://www.cindyhuggett.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Virtual-

Organising your work space?

I had a really good question this week: "How do you organise your work space?"

I think that this relates to two main areas - the screen and the physical desk space and what you have when delivering any of your live online sessions. 

Also part of this