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Pre-sales open for my new book Design to Engage
I am thrilled to announce that pre-sales for my book, Design to Engage: How to Create and Facilitate a Great Learning Experience for Any Group, are now open. Purchase your copy on my shop site by October 4 to be guaranteed to be in the first order round! I hope this...
What are we going to do with the word “webinar”?
I did it again a couple of days ago, I registered for an organization's webinar with no intention of actually going. Although I really did want to attend the event, I had looked at my calendar and had a conflict. But I signed up anyway. I knew I'd be sent the...
12 things you may still not know about Zoom
I sat in on a webinar hosted by the Zoom company the other day, learning a few more tips about using Zoom. Add this to the fact that I continue to be in Zoom a dozen or more times a week, sometimes up to six times a day. This is almost always as the meeting host and...
Five Zoom features you might not have discovered yet
I've been in dozens and dozens of Zoom meetings since the end of March, mostly on the facilitator side of things leading a meeting or a learning event. I've learned a few Zoom tricks along the way - even after I have been using Zoom for a few years - and I thought I'd...
The importance of mindset when working with technology
For today's post I made a short (3 min) video to tell you about an email I received from someone who is considering taking one of my upcoming courses, with a question about whether I think their apprehension to technology might be an issue that would affect their...
Join me for an upcoming course in online facilitation
If you're looking to learn about how to facilitate online learning events you may wish to consider joining me for an upcoming online course I'm offering starting May 25. The course is called Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) Synchronous (FLO Synchronous for short)...
Developing self-study e-learning courses
This is the fourth and final post on the basics of creating online learning. In earlier posts I overviewed the different modes under the umbrella of "online learning", gave some tips around facilitating learning in synchronous web conferencing sessions, and talked...
Creating multi-week facilitated online learning
This is the third post of a four post series on the basics of creating online learning. The first post focused on the different types of online learning and some of the decisions you need to make when setting out to create online learning. The second post centred...
Facilitating learning over web conferencing
In Part 1 of this four post series on creating online learning, I gave a very brief overview of the different types of online learning that exist as well as decisions you need to make when you first set out to create online learning. In this Part 2 post I'll talk...
If you’re thinking about creating online learning…
There's no two ways about it, right now is a great time to think about creating online learning. Whether you're an organization that is trying to educate your staff or volunteers or a consultant attempting to reach your clients, you may be thinking about creating...
