The Webinar Blog: Web Conferencing Tips, News, and Opinions

Ken Molay's webinar blog has lots of useful advice. Use the search function to find specific topics of interest. This is a good one to subscribe to.

http://wsuccess.typepad.com/webinarblog/

His website www.wsuccess.com also has excellent resources available despite its marketing function. The "Recording and ownloads" page is the place to go.

10 Best Webinar Practices

Worth a look.

http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/2391/10-Best-Practices-for-Webinars-or-Webcasts.aspx

How To Give A Killer Presentation

Check out this BNET advice on giving presentations:

http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1584

Comment #6 gives some great PowerPoint pointers as well!

The eLearning Guild

You might consider joining the eLearning Guild. They appear to have numerous resources relevant to developing and conducting webinars and self-paced trainings.

I joined as an Associate which is free. Much more is available if you become a full member

http://www.elearningguild.com/

e-Learning With an Edge

This is a 17 minute podcast from the LearningTimes Network. Click on the "Listen in" link below and you should be able to hear the podcast.

"In this episode, Susan and Dan explore the notion that a lot of e-learning courses lack an effective, catching beginning. This premise is one of the main points in an article entitled "Edge and Emotion – What e-Learning Programs Are Missing" which the LT Green Room hosts discuss in this episode. Listen in, and then share your related openers, questions, ideas or feedback."

I put the referenced article on the T-drive. T:\e-Learning Resources\Edge and Emotion.

Ten Core Principles for Designing Effective Learning Environments: Insights from Brain Research and Pedagogical Theory by Judith V. Boettcher

Research findings into how our brains work (Bransford, Brown, and Cocking 2000; Damasio 1999; Pinker 1997) are stimulating a re-examination of traditional principles of designing teaching and learning experiences. Insights from this research are not only helping to deepen our understanding of traditional core learning principles, but they are also providing practical guidance on how to design learning experiences for our new high technology environments.

Accessing this excellent article requires you to sign up for a free membership to: Innovate: The Journal of Online Education. Its easy and takes a minute.

Link to the article: Ten Core Principles for Designing Effective Learning