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Reflections on Webinar on Joy in Learning

November 2, 2010|Barbara Bray|Comments Off on 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

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.

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Barbara Bray

Barbara Bray is a Story Weaver capturing stories from inspirational people about insightful journeys to discover and grow their purpose. As a Creative Learning Strategist, Speaker, Coach, Mentor, and Change Maker, she has worked tirelessly for over 30 years to transform teaching so learning is personal, authentic, and meaningful. Barbara is the owner/founder of Computer Strategies, LLC with its division Rethinking Learning and My eCoach that has a new home at K12Leaders. She was the past co-founder of Personalize Learning, LLC, and co-authored two books: Make Learning Personal and How to Personalize Learning. In 2017, Barbara started the Rethinking Learning Podcast and the #rethink_learning Twitter chat. From the stories her guests shared and her own journey, she wrote "Define Your WHY: Own your story so you live and learn on purpose." She co-hosts the podcast, "Real Talk with Barbara and Nicole" with Nicole Biscotti about authenticity in a polarized society. Barbara is the author of "Grow Your Why... One Story at a Time" with inspirational stories from 23 amazing contributing authors that she self-published under a new division and publishing company, Why Press Publishing.