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November 2, 2010 Posted by Barbara Bray in 21st Century Skills, Professional Development, Technology

Reflections on Webinar on Joy in Learning

On Saturday, October 30th, I presented a webinar for Classroom 2.0 on Joy in Learning. It was an honor to have three amazing moderators  Peggy George, Kim Caise, and Lorna Costatini and use Elluminate for my presentation. I learned alot. I do know that what you see on your screen as moderator may not be the same as the audience. I cached all the websites so they would load easily. However, the Classroom 2.0 server and G.Lam server was slow so some of my screens never showed up. What was great is that I worked with Peggy several days before setting up all the links using a Google planning doc.

Putting on a webinar is not just uploading your slides and presenting. It takes time to set up each slide, someone to upload all the links, one or more moderators who are watching and fielding questions from the chat, and a moderator to contact you if something isn’t working. I was so impressed with how effective Peggy, Lorna, and Kim were. Great job!

Go here to see the full recording from Elluminate: https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2010-10-30.0931.M.ACE02B5F35AA7E7975F015AAC6F794.vcr&sid=2008350

Tiny URL for recording: http://tinyurl.com/cr20live-BarbaraBray
Recording (chat): http://wiki.classroom20.com/CR20LIVE+OCT302010
Recording (audio):  http://www.humyo.com/FQxmsff/CLASSROOM%202.0%20LIVE%20joyinlearning.32K.mp3?a=08nXJgdOgPo

Classroom 2.0 LIVE – Joy in Learning from Kim Caise on Vimeo.

Recording (video):  http://vimeo.com/16377462
Topic: Joy in Learning

Recording (full): https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect
Gl.am Links for 10/30/2010: http://gl.am/De2Kp

Problem with the gl.am links – screen capture didn’t load but the links work.  As of today I see pictures of walnuts for most of my links.

Now that I watch the video after the presentation in Vimeo, I realize that to really see how the webinar worked you need to watch the archived recording in full. The moderators gave me a walk-through all of the tools in Elluminate.
So what I learned is that talking about Joy is fun. I ran out of time and tried to keep track of the action in the chat. What a great group who joined my webinar.
So anyone presenting a webinar needs at least one moderator, needs to practice, and then make sure your session is archived and watch and listen to yourself. This is how you learn and reflect what worked and what you would do different next time.  I tend to ramble when I’m excited. Need someone to poke me to get back on track. It’s like you need a coach when you present.
I plan to do this webinar again somewhere because I learned so much and love talking about joy in learning.
Tags: authentic assessment, Elluminate, joy, Learning, reflection, Webinar
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September 16, 2010 Posted by Barbara Bray in Events, Professional Development, Tips

Web 2.0 Smackdown

The Internet has so much to offer and now there are thousands of new Web 2.0 tools and apps that it is difficult for users to sift through them all to find what they need. I am lucky to be on the ISTE (International Society of Technology in Education) SigILT (Special Interest Group Innovative Learning Technologies) who presented a Web 2.0 Smackdown. I co-presented with Elizabeth Hubbell with the support of an amazing board running the backchannel: Katie Christo and Adam Wendt.

Elizabeth and I practiced our Webinar using Adobe Connect that had a limit of 100 spaces. We noticed on Twitter all the interest seemed like that would not be enough spaces so we moved to GoToMeeting. Elizabeth and I were both on Macs and found we couldn’t archive and I had no access to change screen sharing. I worked blind while Elizabeth walked through my presentation. So Peggy George who was in our audience did a screen capture and uploaded the video. How is that for thinking on your feet!

“Web 2.0 Tools We Can’t Live Without” from Peggy George on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/15014762

Tags: ISTE, SigILT, smackdown, web 2.0, web20, Webinar