This website offers tutorials, tips and tricks for creating engaging, interactive webinars, along with the design of webinar formats that support active learning.
Type of Material:
Tutorial
Recommended Uses:
This would be useful for any individual who is planning a webinar. It would be a great tool to use in a classroom where students create their own webinars as an assignment. Online instructors could also gain from the information presented here when planning video lectures for their courses.
Technical Requirements:
A browser with an internet connection.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
The site provides support and design expertise for those who are creating webinars. The goals are to help users plan, design, execute, and assess webinars. It includes vocabulary, references, and opportunities to interact with the creator of the site.
Target Student Population:
High school-Adult webinar presenters
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
None.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Every aspect of the webinar planning and execution is addressed. As well, there is a section on assessment after the webinar is created. The site provides the opportunity to move seamlessly from one aspect of building the webinar to the next. The site presents valid concepts with the emphasis on models and skills. The information developed is grounded in educational theory. It is a site that anybody developing a webinar should access.
Concerns:
None.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
The thoroughness of the the site is key. Each step of the process is clearly explained; users can feel supported in creating an effective webinar. The site highlights the fact that developing a good webinar requires multiple steps: before, during, and after the webinar. This is a well-structured material grounded in educational theory. Users will be better able to plan, deliver and evaluate their webinar presentations.
Concerns:
The site was created in 2012 so there may be more recent resources that are not included in that section.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
Easy to use with navigation bar across the top and a menu on the right side of the site. There is a printable check list to guide the user in the webinar design and implementation. The text and images are in black and white, which means that it is accessible for color blind. Graphics contribute to the user's understanding and each section has helpful hints and resources for the user.
Concerns:
None.
Creative Commons:
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