A successful webinar presentation needs attention to certain significant details for it to succeed. This ensures that learners have a meaningful learning encounter; you facilitate rapid conversations and encourage experience-sharing to achieve the eventual goal of spurring learning and better job performance. These are some important items to prepare before a webinar.
- Prepare primary and secondary exercises or questions to allow "what if" situations.
- Run a survey to get more background information about your participants.
- Determine prior experience of the participants on a given topic.
- Prepare your examples and illustrations based on the participant profiles.
- Provide online access to advance readings and materials, videos and lessons.
- Have participants test their video and Internet speeds.
- Find a way through a group portal or social learning site or others like Sharepoint and LMs or Wiki to allow participants to introduce themselves and get to meet their co-participants online.
- Notify participants of very specific instructions on how to access session, schedule, and other reminders.
- Have a technology backup plan or emergency plan when issues like lost connectivity, frozen keyboards, etc happen.
- Keep a positive outlook and do your best but be prepared for the worst and psych yourself up that you are helping others gain value from your session.
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- Extending the power of webinars
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