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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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’

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!!!

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

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

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

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

Webex Meeting Questions From a Novice Webex User

Hi everyone,

Webex isn't as popular over here in Germany as it is in other countries, esp. the USA. Thus, I haven't had to familiarize myself with that software until now. Now a new client wants me to do trainings in Webex Meeting, and I have tested a

Problems with Adobe Connect Standard View

Hi all

We are having problems today with AC Standard view - ie browser view.  With animated slide Adobe is loading the first animation and then skipping the rest and showing the next slide. To get to see the full slide we had to backtrack from this ov

Training in Microsoft Teams

I am a trainer that instructs the same couple of classes but my audience is always different. I am used to using Adobe Connect. Materials I find are about environments where the students say the same. Is there a way to set up a space that has my trai

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

Recent Adobe Connection PowerPoint animation issues?

Hi all,

I ran a session last week, piloting our new CPD Series, and I noticed that a lot of the basic, standard animations I used in my uploaded PowerPoint slides weren't working properly. Some of these are slide decks I've used for a while, so I kno