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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

So do everything you can to recognize the attendees as they join: say their names, ask them to share where they’re from, have an interesting icebreaker , play music—whatever makes them feel welcomed and human, not just a square box there to receive a lecture. . Launch a poll, ask for feedback, switch speakers, turn off the slides.

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

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Smithsonian Associates (SA) , which annually presents 700+ classes and other educational and entertaining programs, made a hard fast pivot in June 2020, when it began to present all of its lectures and art courses as livestreamed programs on Zoom. Interestingly, a follow up poll gave the event relatively low marks.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. The point is to keep the lecturing or “push” content to the limits of the human attention span and look for opportunities for sharing and interaction. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar. Medium: Up to 50 people.

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Social Media Measurement and Learning Analytics: How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I came across the term “Learning Analytics” in an NPR story about the effectiveness of college lectures and ways to make learning more interactive. There are different definitions. Confusion: I don’t know what or how to measure social media. Delight: Check out these charts and graphs! Learning Analytics.

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7 Tips for Combating Virtual Event Fatigue

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Consider adding trivia contests, virtual scavenger hunts, escape rooms, polls, and even traditional board games to your event agenda. No matter how informed and well respected your speakers are, an audience will struggle to focus if your event consists of back to back lectures.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, I do a little real-time assessment in the room by doing “raise your hand” polls or in a webinar by using the polling feature. This can help you adjust in real-time to the audience needs or what I call a real-time pivot. I might audit their Facebook best practices and other social media channels.

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Extension 2.0 in Ten Easy Steps

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I The group will be between 50-125, so it will be more of lecture, although I will definitely use the back-channel and instant poll features. I'm glad I put my first draft thoughts out there because I got some helpful clarifying comments.