... and one request for help! Opening wow activity?

Hi again.

Tips please!

I'm designing a flagship leadership development programme (all virtual of course) - 30 senior leaders, 2-3 sessions per week for 3-4 weeks and I'm looking for new ideas for a real WOW moment to kick things off with the whole gr

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Two Icebreaker Ideas...

Hi Lightbulbers.

Couple of things I've used as a high energy warm-up lately:

1. Using a whiteboard to design a virtual background that they then upload, e.g.:

• team effort in breakouts.  If they are working in the same teams throughout the programme, ask

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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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Designing online classroom learning

Hello!

I'm wondering if anyone in the community has a handout/article/resource that covers the top tips/best practices for designing online classroom training?

I'm being lazy and trying to avoid writing this myself - no point reinventing the wheel if s

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How to make our online sessions more neuro-inclusive?

Hi All.As the spectrum of people taking part in live online sessions is ever-broader, how to we design our sessions to help people who are "not neural typical" (have some degree of autism, dyspraxia etc), and what tips can we share for people who cou

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C0_Host Producer

Hi to all;

Rob Austin here.

I work for the American Job Center system, which is the national arm of the Dept of Labor.

They have decided to keep centers closed for 2021.

So all workshops need to be delivered via Zoom.

Many of the unemployed attending thes

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Adobe Connect - Controlling slides in breakout rooms from outside the room

Hi everyone and Happy New Year!

Does anyone know how to control slides in the breakout rooms from outside the rooms?  So the scenario is: you have the same slide deck in all breakout rooms and that slide deck has one slide per activity and you want to

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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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Time/Costs to Develop VILT

Hi everyone,

Has anyone ran across any current ratios for VILT development?

I'm found 2017 information from ATD, but that's the most recent I can find.

https://www.td.org/insights/how-long-does-it-take-to-develop-one-hour-of-training-updated-for-2017

Tha

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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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Online fatigue and how we should design our online programmes

We know that 'zoom fatigue' exists and maybe some ways individually how to avoid it:

1. Article in the National Geographic about why it happens
2. Article in the Harvard Business Review on how to avoid it

 

My question is:

Is there any research or empirical gui

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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

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