Design - when is it finished?

"Design is finished when there's nothing left to take out"

This quote is from Jane Bozarth's article on Instructional Design.

 

How does this apply to webinars, where you might be marketing to an audience?

What about the virtual classroom, does this

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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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Recent changes to Zoom - impact on virtual sessions

Hi, I'm looking to hear thoughts and ideas from anyone designing for / facilitating sessions with Zoom please. Following the new version rolled out towards end of December (5.4.7) there have been some changes to the 'Non-verbal feedback' and 'Reactio

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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!

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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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Any tips about Teams please? - for a Zoom user!

Hi Everyone,

Having got started with live virtual workshops earlier this year - thanks to Lightbulb Moment - I've just been informed that a programme starting in the New Year will be on Microsoft Teams. As Zoom has been the preferred platform for clie

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Producing webinars and virtual classroom sessions

Hi all,

I've got a document here about the different types of producer roles you might be involved with over the coming weeks:

Click here to download the one page expanation.

 

Michelle Ockers has a fantastic series in her podcast, all about handling

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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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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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Hardware considerations for your organisation

Hi all!

I recently sent an extremly long email to a client with tips on hardware setup for live online delivery at the organisation wide level.

Thought I would share most of it here also to help the Community :-)

 

• USB devices for facilitators and a

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Fees for virtual workshops???

Like many of us in this group, I'm making the transition from delivering all my training workshops face-to-face.

Safe to say I'm at the 'Conscious Incompetence' stage at the moment! But at least I'm getting some practice by doing a free session for ea

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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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