This document provides an overview of training tools for editors, including webinars, online courses, and screencasts. It discusses webinar platforms like GoToWebinar and Zoom, how to prepare and structure webinars, and using webinars for business opportunities. Online course platforms like Udemy, Thinkific and Teachable are presented, along with how to develop course content and modules. Screencasts are defined as video recordings of computer screens that can include audio narration, and tips are provided for creating and sharing them.

1. A training
toolbox for editors

2. True or false?

4. Outline
• Webinars
• Online courses
• Screencasts

5. Outcomes
• What you could train in
• Who you could train
• Where to start
• How to go further

6. What?

7. Webinars
Seminars conducted
online

8. Platform:
• GotoWebinar
• Zoom
Presenter
Moderator
Participants

9.  Format the content
 Learn the technology
 Practise
 Set up plan B, C and D!
Preparing for a webinar

10. Webinar on styles and
templates in Word
(for AMWA)

11. GotoWebinar
Presenter –
Hilary
(Bellingen)
Moderator –
L.E.
(Melbourne)
Participants –
(around
Australia)

12. Set up for interactive webinar
 2-hour webinar
 10-min break in the middle
 Mix of demonstrations and exercises
 Lots of activities:
Answer a question (by typing)
Show of hands
Polls
Physical exercise

14. Webinars as business opportunity?
 Difficult to market to individuals
 Difficult to get people to pay for webinars
 Perception that not as good as face to face

15. PerfectIt webinars

16. ClickWebinar
Presenter –
Hilary
(Bellingen)
Participants:
• Bellingen
• Melbourne
• Wisconsin
Practice session

17. Webinars – Editors Victoria
Introduction to PerfectIt
Advanced PerfectIt
 online training courses

18. Outline
• Webinars 
• Online courses
• Screencasts

19. Who?

20. Platform
Udemy
Thinkific
OptimizePress
(add-on for WordPress)

21. Online training – course content
Split content into modules:
course notes
videos (screencasts)
exercises and quizzes
comment function
FAQs

22. Online training – peripherals
Sales page
Payment system
Feedback form (SurveyMonkey)
Video hosting platform (Vimeo)
Quiz plug in (Fat Cat)

25. Abandon OptimizePress
 Teachable
Not user friendly (for me or
students)

27. Benefits of eLearning platforms
(e.g. Teachable, Thinkific)
User-friendly
Good support
Free for basic options
Templates (e.g. sales pages, FAQs,
trainer bio)
Deal with payments

28. Outline
• Webinars 
• Online courses 
• Screencasts

29. ‘… a digital recording of computer
screen output, also known as a
video screen capture, often
containing audio narration’
Screencast

32. Easy as 1, 2, 3
1. Download iSpring Free Cam
2. Record something
3. Upload to YouTube

34. Why?

35. To do or not to do?
Tips
Promoting your services
Making a blog more engaging
Creating e-courses

37. How to shine – do
Keep it short
Break it up
Repeat key points

38. How to shine – don’t
Ramble
Go too fast
Overdo the bells and whistles

40. Next stop Hollywood!
Invest in:
hardware – decent microphone
software – e.g. Camtasia
(TechSmith)

41. One I made earlier …

42. Give it a go!
In the next week:
make a short video (up to 1 min)
share it with other editors

43. Webinars as a promotional tool
 Use to:
promote your services
build an email list
 Make the webinars:
free
relatively short (30–60 mins)
not highly interactive