Live online learning, in music...

A bit of a fun post as I recently heard the song "Who's Zoomin' Who?" by Aretha Franklin.

What other virtual classroom or webinar songs are there?

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Virtual Live Training Platform- still haven't found what I'm looking for

I've searched high and low for a platform other than Zoom to better facilitate live virtual training for corporate clients.  I used to send physical training materials, then with the pandemic, we went to sending printable PDF training materials.  The

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Institute for Corporate Productivity virtual classroom research

Some research has been released by the Institute for Corporate Productivity in the US, about virtual classroom training.

A write up by Tom Stone (co-author of Interact & Engage!: 50 Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars) highlights

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2022 State of Virtual Training

Hi all,

Cindy Huggett's brilliant annual virtual training research has been released! You can read about it here and look at the infographic here. 

A couple of highlights:

1. Average design time for an hour of delivery is 12.5 hours. Are you getting th

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Would you rather activity in a hybrid world

Hi fellow lighbulbers

I am runnig a hybrid event (I know - I know) and the icebreaker is a "would you rather" where the in person group are going to be physically 'lining up'.  I am coming up with a blank on how to include the virtual attendees in th

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Teams: Tips for sharing screen?

Hi, 

I'm due to deliver a presentation in Teams that involves a PowerPoint presentation and a demo in the software. It seems fairly straight forward to share the screen but I'm curious if anyone has any best practice or tips for being able to view th

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Zoom pin and spotlight?

Hello,

I've been using the pin and spotlight options in a Zoom room today, testing it just on my own. I really can't see the difference and don't understand when I might use one over the other.

If anyone has any explanation or advice on how I can see t

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Can anyone here offer wider training on Teams?

Hi All.

Like many people in this forum, helping people to design and deliver better live online events is at the core of what I do. But I have one client who is looking for someone to run a 1 hour webinar on the wider aspects of Microsoft Teams and ho

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Best Kit for Hybrid Events

Hi All.

What do you advise in terms of hardware for effective hybrid events, i.e. where some people are in the conference room and some online? I'm guessing the tech has moved on a lot in the light of the pandemic. Any tips?

Thanks

Paul

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New platform integrations and apps!

The move to virtual classrooms and digital learning and working as a whole has meant that a lot of companies are really investing development time into platforms, applications and integrations. 

Rather than a new post every time I see something inter

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New Zoom whiteboard

Take a look at the new Zoom whiteboard! 

https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-whiteboard/

What are you looking forward to?

And if you aren't using Zoom, what do you do instead?

 

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Engagement fails!

Hi everyone,

Mike and I thought that our next podcast could be all about the engagement fails we've seen or experienced recently!

We were just chatting about a friend's four-hour virtual classroom this week that included:

• A boring 20+ minute ice bre

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