Contribute to the 2021 State of Virtual Training report!

Hi everyone!!

It's time to update my State of Virtual Training report for 2021. Would you please take 5-min to answer this short (17-Q) survey?

https://bit.ly/3iixVn9

 

Would you also share it with colleagues who are doing virtual training?

 

For context,

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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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"Presence" when facilitating live online

We ran a session about presence in the virtual space. These are some of the answers from the group about what presence was live online:

 

- holding the space

- paying attention

- being attentive

- the learning you enable

- emanating energy

- paying a

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Zoom virtual backgrounds

I love the virtual background option on zoom meetings desktop app. I found these you can download and thought i'd share: https://www.shutterstock.com/discover/free-virtual-backgrounds And this link explains how to set it up: https://www.shutterstock.

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Here's some of my favourite conversation openers. What are yours?

You know the thing...need to get people engaged as soon as they join your session.  Speaking up, using chat, sharing a little about themselves.

Heard a good one yesterday:

"What would you do if you woke up one morning and everyone else in the world had

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Article: 'Best Practices for Reducing Zoom Fatigue'

I'm sure this community won't be surprised by the findings of this recent research, reported in I/O At Work 

Where it may be useful is when discussing and scoping out a virtual programme with stakeholders and clients.

For example, I'll be sending it to

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Pre- or post-course work

Just watched a great webinar by Michelle Parish from the Learning Performance Institute:  

Webinar: The End or The Blend? Using Lockdown's Lessons to Perfect your Learning Strategy (Thursday 20th May 2021 @ 13.00 BST UK Time)

 

She talked about using yo

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Zoom emoticons and reactions now together

If you've kept up to date with your Zoom desktop application, you'll know that the emoticons (green tick/check, red X, hand up etc) have moved! 

Instead of being on the participant panel, they've now moved to the bottom of the Zoom application, where

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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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Practical session- your ideas

Hi everyone,

I need some help.

I am developing a train the trainer programme for a group of learners. We are taking a blended approach with a mix of online resources, practical activities and virtual classrooms.

I am just scoping out the final session w

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Nightmare Adobe Connect Sessions for the last two days.... any ideas

Can anyone help? I have been producing for a client and this was the scenario today and yesterday: Adobe 11, 16 participants all with webcams on and all in via the App in standard view. I am in the App via Chrome. Adobe crashed a total of 16 times, 1

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Adobe Connect HTML

Hi

Im an experienced Adobe producer, during past 8 weeks or so, in multiple sessions, random PowerPoint slide decks suddenly revert back to slide one? Has anyone else experienced this? Causing huge issue now in our sessions.  Adobe unable to provide a

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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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Missing Zoom Recording

I recorded a meeting in the cloud and it's missing- no sign of it in the recordings tab. Any idea what may have happened or where it could be?

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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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Zoom- browser v app limitations?

Hi there,

If i allow meeting participants to join a meeting through a browser and not download the app, are there many limitations? Can users still use reactions, annotation tools, etc?

 

Thank you!!!

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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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Technical Induction on Teams

HI Everyone

I am running a programme on Teams and quite excited about it even.... I have my own email so can organise the meetings, folders resources etc.

The first session is the Technical Induction wheer I want to make sure people can:

• See everything

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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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Teams notification settings for training

Hi all!

We have been having coversations with our attendees where they are finding issues with Teams for training and notification popups going over the chat section. Some attendees have dealt with this by running Teams in a window but it is not as a

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