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How to Present a Webinar

Keri Cascio Director of Innovative Technologies and Library Resource Management

Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology

[email protected] @keribrary

mailto:[email protected]

Hosted by ALCTS, the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Hosted by ALCTS, the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services


Agenda

• What to cover

• How to present it

• Keeping them interested

• The good and the bad

• Wrap-up


Why webinars?

• Useful topics that can be implemented immediately

• Stretch travel and training dollars

– Many free webinar options out there

• Can attend during work or watch recording after hours

• Group interactions while watching or after


What to cover

• Choose learning objectives for your attendees

– Action oriented

– Measurable

– Learner focused

• Focus on the student

– What’s their “pain”?


Scope of content

• Focus on meaningful content

• Select something timely

• Know when to leave something out

• Find your focus point

– Too basic for some, too advanced for others

• Respect the time of the attendee


Timing

• Create sessions that last 60 to 90 minutes

• Break into 10-15 minute segments

• Add activity, poll, etc. at end of each segment

• Use agenda to stay on time and on track

Image by Flickr user

Dave Stokes


Slides

• Speak to the slides, don’t read them

• Plan 2 – 3 minutes per slide

• Add images or transitions

• Find out if you can share audio or videos

• Take a look at some best practices:

– http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/design/

– http://www.virtualsalt.com/powerpoint.htm

http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/design/



http://www.virtualsalt.com/powerpoint.htm


Sample webinar topics

• Workflows – Evaluating Print Book & E-Book Patron-Driven Acquisitions – Transitioning from Cataloging to Creating Metadata

• Standards – RDA in 10 Easy Steps – Archival Materials: Using RDA with DACS

• Tools – Using Open Refine to Update, Clean up, and Link Your

Metadata to the Wider World

• Theory – Challenges with Linked Data in Libraries – Get Ready to MOOC: Why Libraries Should Care


Image by Flickr user istolethetv


Presenting

• Practice by yourself or with others

• Find comfortable, private location

• Close other software

• Move around

• Modulate your voice

• Smile!

• Use your mute button


Know your software

• Headset or phone?

• Screen sharing

• Video camera

• Polls

• Chat options

• Question and answer


Keep them interested

• “Sell the sizzle”

– Why are they really there?

• Personal anecdotes

– Share your real-world experience

• Activities and polls

– Break up the session

• Twitter hashtags

– Keep the conversation going


Quotes

“I like the fact that I can work on certain kinds of other things simultaneously and still learn something.”

“I love the fact that I don't have to travel and can view webinars at home or work. This overcomes all I don't like about webinars.”


Audience wants

• Real time surveys

• Answer questions in real time

• Leave with pros and cons of a topic

• Hashtags for social media discussions

• Copies of slides (preferably before webinar)

• Chat transcripts

• Allows for multitasking


Quotes

“I'm not a fan, but I may just have attended really boring ones.”

“Gimme a link to your portfolio or credentials and say 1-2 sentences. I don't want to listen to a webinar about the *person*.”

“My RDA-specific webinar peeve is wasting time on history. Don't try to sell the change; just detail it.”


Audience pet peeves

• Too long on housekeeping

• Too much time on presenter bio(s)

• Too much time on introduction and/or history of topic

• Presenting something old as something new

• Being sold a product

• Hard to concentrate or focus


Resources

• Teach Beyond Your Reach by Robin Neidorf (Information Today: 2006)

• 6 Things You Should Never Do in a Webinar: http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeconnect/2013/11/6-things-you-should-never-do-in-a-webinar.html

• T is for Training: http://tisfortraining.wordpress.com/ (episode 129) or follow @tisfortraining

• Giving Your First Conference Presentation: https://webconference.syr.edu/p1rg7lrt1va/

• ALCTS webinars on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/alctsce/

• American Libraries Live: http://americanlibrarieslive.org/

http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeconnect/2013/11/6-things-you-should-never-do-in-a-webinar.html

















http://tisfortraining.wordpress.com/

https://webconference.syr.edu/p1rg7lrt1va/

http://www.youtube.com/user/alctsce/

http://americanlibrarieslive.org/


Wrap-up

• Focus on your topic

• Create an outline

• Practice, practice, practice

• Be authentic

• ALCTS Webinars

– Contact current Continuing Education Chair, Felicity Dykas [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


Smile

Pause

Breathe


Keri Cascio

[email protected]

@keribrary

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