Ice breakers

HI I am looking for suggestions for some ice breaker for a large group of zoom attendees that do not know one another. We will be discussing mental health so it needs to be light. Intro and break ideas please or ones you have already found successful

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

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

Zoom calls causing stress and fatigue

I read this article from the BBC today and thought I must share it here! - https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200421-why-zoom-video-chats-are-so-exhausting

I thought I was the only one who gets tired and stressed dealing with all these video calls

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

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

Design: how to decide about your interactions

It can be challenging to know what type of interaction to design into your session, and which tool to use. 

We teamed up with Breeio to bring you this hand swipe advisor to aid your decision making:

Let us know what you think!

How to deal with Zoom bombing and unwanted attendees

Hi all,

Jo and I were presenting a webinar for the eLN and it was Zoom bombed!

Zoom bombing has unfortunately started to get attention as more and more organisations and individuals look for live online virtual solutions.

*EDIT Help links in posts be

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

Marketing webinars infographic

Here's an infographic about using webinars for business to business marketing:

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/how-b2b-marketers-make-webinars-work-up-down-and-beyond-the-sales-funnel/581011/

Do you run marketing webinars? What works for you?

Using MS Teams as platform for delivery of training and learning

Hi, we are using MS Teams as the platform for delivering IT training to users of up to 8 at a time.  Does anyone have advice on what Apps are good to use as there seems to be a wealth and it's easy to get lost down the rabbit hole so to speak once yo

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

F2F to Virtual

I am seeing lots of people wanting to transition F2F learning to virtual in the current climate. What are your top tips to do this successfully?

Virtual classroom live Q&A - June 2nd

The next Q&A webinar will be on the 2nd of June 12:00 noon UK time.

REGISTER HERE

You can see the first Q&A we ran HERE

Drop your questions down below to make sure they get answered first in the live session.

The recording will be uploaded to Youtube

Contribute to Cindy Huggett's research

For the last few years Cindy Huggett has conducted and shared research about virtual training. Click here to see the 2019 data. 

You can now contribute to the latest research Cindy is doing. Click here to complete the survey. 

On a much smaller lev

are you having particular problems with adobe connect?

hi

are any of you experiencing particular problems with adobe connect?

We are really challenged by it at the moment - it kicks people out regularly and the voice and sound are incredibly unstable.  Sometimes people can use their mics and sometimes they

Zoom security update - Article

Hi all,

As you likely know from our post about ZOOMBOMBING which has details about how we survived and some links to news articles with how Zoom were helping deal with them.

I found an article today that details how Zoom has acquired a new company to

Online facilitation advice and help - Ask your questions here!

Hi All!

On the 12th of May Jo and I will be running our next live Q&A which will be focusing on facilitation challenges and skills.

You can see the first Q&A we ran HERE and the last one we did HERE!

You can sign up for the next session here --> Sign

help! whiteboard content disappeared when we came out of a breakout in adobe

hi all,

we had a bit of a nightmare this morning when adobe connect broke down right at the start of our pilot programme for cybersecurity. 

by the afternoon it was back  but we had a problem with the breakout rooms.

when we came back out of them and tr