How to Present a Webinar

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How to Present a Webinar

Keri CascioDirector of Innovative Technologies and Library Resource Management

Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology

[email protected]@keribrary

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


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/


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]


Smile

Pause

Breathe


Keri [email protected]

@keribrary

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