Creating a community via remote learning

A colleague recently sent me a clip of trainees doing an activity during a  pre-Covid  training course; a packed room with around 20 young journalists based in Delhi, in pairs, discussing a thorny editorial problem. The energy in the room was fantast

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Asking the audience questions in webinars

In Jo's recent blog bemoaning the lack of interactivity in webinars, it shocked me to see that 'Asking the audience questions' during the webinar wasn't even an area that was measured https://lightbulbmoment.info/2020/12/10/dont-waste-your-live-onlin

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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

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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’

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Producer documents to assist in delivery

When I work as a producer for Lightbulb Moment I always have some documents to help assist me whilst live and in the flow.

1. Producer document
2. Common questions document

Producer document

I always have this open on my second screen or if I only have o

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Online apps for games

I am converting a real game I used to play with trainers and facilitators into an online version but need two tools:

• A score board for up to 4 teams
• A customisable spinner to hep move their tokens around the board

Anybody used any (ad free) tools like t

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What causes anxiety live online?

Really interesting report from PowerPoint presentation design agency Buffalo 7, about what causes anxiety live online. 

They focused on what they call "Zoom Anxiety" and what caused it, thought it can be easily applied to any video meeting tool and b

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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

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The state of virtual training 2020 - Cindy's latest report

Cindy Huggett does a fabulous job every year asking people about how they use virtual training, and her latest research report has been released!

Highlights include that the most popular platform used by the 870 global responses was Zoom, no shock th

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Annotation tools (workaround) on MS Teams

HI Lightbulbers !

 

I need to try and run an activity asking people to annotate a slide.  MS Teams doesnt have this (to my knowledge!) and wondered if anyone has a nifty workaround?  I am pretty good at most MS Teams Hacks - but this one is escaping me

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Pre Workshop Instructions

Morning I will be starting a series of Virtual Workshops next month on MS Teams. I would like to send a pre event message to help with the etiquettes and expectations of the attendees. Can anybody advise on the best practise in this communication or

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