Course Content Overview: The following are topics that will be covered in this two-day workshop. This seminar will allow you to experience, analyze, and apply information that you learn through the modules below.

Module One: Designing Webinars

ü       Examine the synchronous classroom

ü       Acquire instructional design principles for webinars

ü       Draft a webinar project plan incorporating C.O.R.E.

·         Develop knowledge of webinar jargon

·         Identify strategies to use lateral logic in training

·         Discuss 10 deadly sins of webinars

·         Apply tips to setting objectives

·         Examine nine key design tips

·         Apply key design tips to content

·         Determine the tests of effective web-based openers and closers

·         Differentiate benefits of different design templates

·         Utilize skills to design effective PowerPoint™ presentations for online use

·         Design effective evaluations for webinars

Module Two: Creating Engagement in Webinars

ü       Distinguish between motivating and de-motivating behavior online

ü       Evaluate how well you teach and engage…before, during and after a webinar

ü       Examine characteristics of a participant-centered training

·         Contrast how to motivate instead of de-motivate learners

·         List strategies to engage learners before, during and after webinars

·         Identify action steps to take before, during and after a webinar

·         Analyze the role of the trainer in participant-centered webinar

Module Three: Webinar Collaboration

ü       Discuss tips to encourage collaboration during a webinar

ü       Recognize strategies for asking and answering questions effectively

ü       Explain techniques that engage learners and add variety to a webinar

·         Discuss how to prepare for webinar collaboration

·         Analyze how to maintain effective group dynamics

·         Examine the purpose and timing of questions online

·         Identify 14 virtual engagement techniques effective for webinars

·         Apply 58 innovative ways to add variety into your virtual training

Module Four: Tools

ü       Examine applications of various online collaboration tools

ü       Experience tools and their users

ü       Choose tools to use in your next webinar

·         Discover the benefits and caution of using chat areas

·         Identify application for tools within the webinar platform