Transcript Mastering Online Facilitation: Leading Engaging Meetings and Webinars Facilitated by Paul Signorelli Writer/Trainer/Consultant Paul Signorelli & Associates [email protected] Twitter: @paulsignorelli July 30, 2014

Mastering Online Facilitation:
Leading Engaging Meetings and Webinars
Facilitated by
Paul Signorelli
Writer/Trainer/Consultant
Paul Signorelli & Associates
[email protected]
Twitter: @paulsignorelli
July 30, 2014
Discussion #1:
Engagement vs. Disengagement
Please briefly describe one memorable onsite or online meeting or class you have
attended, and describe what made it memorable.
Discussion #1:
Engagement vs. Disengagement
Please briefly describe one terrible onsite or online meeting or class you have
attended, and describe what made you wish you had stayed home and read a
book.
Focus:
People and Communication
Building Upon What We Know
Blended: The Future That Is With Us Now
Myth-busting:
Is Face-to-Face Better Than Online?
http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/changingcourse.pdf
Myth-busting:
Is Face-to-Face Better Than Online?
“…most chief academic officers rate
the learning outcomes for online
education ‘as good as or better than’
those for face-to-face instruction.”
--I. Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman, 2013
http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/changingcourse.pdf
Myth-busting:
Is Face-to-Face Better Than Online?
http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2009/01/virtual_meetings_will_erase_face_to_face.html
Personal Experience:
Online Meetings
Personal Experience:
After the Online Meetings
Personal Experience:
Meetings as Learning Opportunities
Personal Experience:
Webinars That Engage
Discussion #2:
What Holds (Y)our Interest?
Please name at least one thing you have noticed in this session that you could
immediately use in your own online meetings or webinars.
Becoming Comfortable Online:
Essential Elements
Becoming Comfortable Online:
Synchronous Trainer’s Survival Guide
Becoming Comfortable Online:
Building Online Learning Communities
Becoming Comfortable Online:
First Webinar/Nine Lessons
http://michelemartin.typepad.
com/thebambooprojectblog/2
008/01/what-i-learned.html
Basic Tips/Reminders:
Practice, Experiment, & Embrace Failure
Basic Tips/Reminders:
Practice, Experiment, & Embrace Failure
Basic Tips/Reminders:
Practice, Experiment, & Embrace Failure
Discussion #3:
Fear
What (if any) fears do you want to overcome as a result of your participation in
these webinars?
The Audience You Cannot See:
Picturing Your Audience
The Audience You Cannot See:
Addressing and Responding
Discussion #3:
Applying What We’ve Learned
What is one thing you will do in the next week to improve your online
presentation skills?
In Summary
In Summary
In Summary
In Summary
Resources (1)
“Hanging Out With the Tech Crowd,” by Paul Signorelli
American Libraries blog, January 25, 2014
http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blog/hanging-out-tech-crowd
Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the
United States, by I. Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman
Babson Survey Research Group and Quahog Research Group, LLC,
2013
http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/changingcourse.pdf
Resources (2)
http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog/2008/01/what-i-learned.html
Resources (3)
For more on web conferencing and online presentation skills:
http://paulsignorelli.com/PDFs/Bibliography--Webconferencing_Resources.pdf
Going Under the Hood
Questions & Comments
For More Information
Paul Signorelli & Associates
1032 Irving St., #514
San Francisco, CA 94122
415.681.5224
[email protected]
http://paulsignorelli.com
Twitter: @paulsignorelli
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Credits & Acknowledgments
(Images taken from flickr.com unless otherwise noted):
Herding Cats: Screenshot from EDS Company’s video on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE
Teacher and Students in Classroom: From www.audio-luci-store.it’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/mqtlnyg
Empty Steas: From Eric James Sarmiento’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/mprkguu
Communication: From Paul Shanks’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/mqk899c
Cisco Telepresence: Photo from DolanH’s photostream at https://www.flickr.com/photos/reneeanddolan/654865749
ALA LITA (Library Information and Technology Association) Members With Google Glass:
Photo by Paul Signorelli, at ALA Midwinter Meeting (Philadelphia), January 2014
Practice: From WoodleyWonderworks’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/oath2rt
Experiment: From JD Hancock’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/qegyre8
Edsel: From Ron Cogswell’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/q896k7u
Invisible Man: From Robert Huffstutter’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/o6yh2wo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/6136653327/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Question Marks: From Valerie Everett’s photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/3006348550/sizes/m/in/photostream/