1. Facilitated by Paul Signorelli Writer/Trainer/Consultant Paul Signorelli & Associates paul@paulsignorelli.com Twitter: @paulsignorelli July 30, 2014 paul@paulsignorelli.com Mastering Online Facilitation: Leading Engaging Meetings and Webinars

2. Discussion #1: Engagement vs. Disengagement Please briefly describe one memorable onsite or online meeting or class you have attended, and describe what made it memorable.

3. Discussion #1: Engagement vs. Disengagement Please briefly describe one terrible onsite or online meeting or class you have attended, and describe what made you wish you had stayed home and read a book.

4. Focus: People and Communication

5. Building Upon What We Know

6. Blended: The Future That Is With Us Now

7. Myth-busting: Is Face-to-Face Better Than Online? http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/changingcourse.pdf

8. Myth-busting: Is Face-to-Face Better Than Online? “…most chief academic officers rate the learning outcomes for online education ‘as good as or better than’ those for face-to- face instruction.” --I. Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman, 2013 http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/changingcourse.pdf

9. Myth-busting: Is Face-to-Face Better Than Online? http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2009/01/virtual_meetings_will_erase_face_to_f ace.html

10. Personal Experience: Online Meetings

11. Personal Experience: After the Online Meetings

12. Personal Experience: Meetings as Learning Opportunities

13. Personal Experience: Webinars That Engage

14. Discussion #2: What Holds (Y)our Interest? Please name at least one thing you have noticed in this session that you could immediately use in your own online meetings or webinars.

15. Becoming Comfortable Online: Essential Elements

16. Becoming Comfortable Online: Synchronous Trainer’s Survival Guide

17. Becoming Comfortable Online: Building Online Learning Communities

18. Becoming Comfortable Online: First Webinar/Nine Lessons http://michelemartin.typep ad.com/thebambooproject blog/2008/01/what-i- learned.html

19. Basic Tips/Reminders: Practice, Experiment, & Embrace Failure

22. Discussion #3: Fear What (if any) fears do you want to overcome as a result of your participation in these webinars?

23. The Audience You Cannot See: Picturing Your Audience

24. The Audience You Cannot See: Addressing and Responding

25. Discussion #3: Applying What We’ve Learned What is one thing you will do in the next week to improve your online presentation skills?

26. In Summary

30. Resources (1) “Hanging Out With the Tech Crowd,” by Paul Signorelli American Libraries blog, January 25, 2014 http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blog/hanging-out-tech-crowd Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States, by I. Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman Babson Survey Research Group and Quahog Research Group, LLC, 2013 http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/changingcourse. pdf

31. Resources (2) http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog/2008/01/what-i- learned.html

32. Resources (3) For more on web conferencing and online presentation skills: http://paulsignorelli.com/PDFs/Bibliography--Webconferencing_Resources.pdf

33. Going Under the Hood

34. Questions & Comments

35. For More Information Paul Signorelli & Associates 1032 Irving St., #514 San Francisco, CA 94122 415.681.5224 paul@paulsignorelli.com http://paulsignorelli.com Twitter: @paulsignorelli http://buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com

36. Credits & Acknowledgments (Images taken from flickr.com unless otherwise noted): Herding Cats: Screenshot from EDS Company’s video on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE Teacher and Students in Classroom: From www.audio-luci-store.it’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/mqtlnyg Empty Steas: From Eric James Sarmiento’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/mprkguu Communication: From Paul Shanks’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/mqk899c Cisco Telepresence: Photo from DolanH’s photostream at https://www.flickr.com/photos/reneeanddolan/654865749 ALA LITA (Library Information and Technology Association) Members With Google Glass: Photo by Paul Signorelli, at ALA Midwinter Meeting (Philadelphia), January 2014 Practice: From WoodleyWonderworks’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/oath2rt Experiment: From JD Hancock’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/qegyre8 Edsel: From Ron Cogswell’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/q896k7u Invisible Man: From Robert Huffstutter’s photostream at http://tinyurl.com/o6yh2wo http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/6136653327/sizes/m/in/photostream/ Question Marks: From Valerie Everett’s photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/3006348550/sizes/m/in/photostream/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNEhttp://tinyurl.com/mqtlnyghttp://tinyurl.com/mprkguuhttp://tinyurl.com/mqk899chttps://www.flickr.com/photos/reneeanddolan/654865749http://tinyurl.com/oath2rthttp://tinyurl.com/qegyre8http://tinyurl.com/q896k7uhttp://tinyurl.com/o6yh2wo http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/6136653327/sizes/m/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/3006348550/sizes/m/in/photostream/