This document provides tips and resources for conducting effective online training and webinars. It discusses how video conferencing can be more effective than in-person meetings when combined with screen sharing and collaboration tools. Common categories of video conferencing systems and key considerations for providers are outlined. The document then lists numerous web conferencing service providers and tools for webinars, screen sharing, audio/video conversion and capture, interactive presentations, and mobile videoconferencing. Tips are provided for preparing an agenda, time management, rehearsing materials, and engaging narration.

1. Navigating The Obstacles
of Online Training

2. Link to full graphic

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Frost & Sullivan
Leveraging the Power of Videoconferencing in Business
“By letting people see everything from facial expressions
to body language, video conferencing increases
understanding, even across language and cultural
boundaries. When combined with Web conferencing that
supports presentations, desktop sharing, mark up
capabilities and Q&A, video conferencing can be even
more effective than in-person meetings, allowing
participants to work on documents in real time and leave
the meeting with new knowledge an clear actions items.”

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Common Categories of Video
Conferencing
Installed room video
collaboration systems
Executive desktop video
collaboration systems
Desktop video
conferencing

6. Key Considerations of a
Video Conferencing
Provider
1. Reliability
2. System should build on comfort with
technology
3. Software features and flexibility

7. Web conference
Service Providers
ACT Conferencing
Adobe Acrobat Connect
Altadyn: owner of 3D-
VirtualEvents.com
AnyMeeting
BigBlueButton
Blackboard Inc.: Elluminate, Wimba
BrightTALK
Calliflower
Cisco WebEx
Citrix Online:
Netviewer, GoToMeeting, Dimdim
closed to new registration as of
Elluminate
Epiphan Systems
Fuze Meeting
Genesys Meeting Center
Glance
IBM Lotus Sametime LotusLive
IOCOM
InterCall
LogMeIn: provider of
join.me
MeetingZone
MegaMeeting
Microsoft Office Live
Meeting
Mikogo
MSN
Netviewer
Nefsis
OmNovia Technologies
Openmeetings
Oracle Beehive
ooVoo
PGi
RHUB Communications
Inc.
Saba Meeting: previously
known as Centra
ShowDocument
Skype
Starlight Networks
StarLive
TalkPoint
TeamViewer
TimeBridge
Tokbox
VenueGen
VeriShow
VIA3
Voxeet
VSee
WebTrain not
active
WiZiQ
Yuuguu
Zoho

9. Webinar
• A webinar is a newly coined term to describe a
specific type of web conference. It is typically
one-way,[1] from the speaker to the audience with
limited audience interaction, such as in a webcast.

10. A WAY TO CONNECT WITH HARD TO
REACH STAKEHOLDERS
Web conferencing

11. Web conferencing

12. Web conferencing is used to conduct live
meetings, training, or presentations via the
Internet.
In a web conference, each participant sits at
his or her own computer and is connected to
other participants via the Internet.
This can be either a downloaded application
on each of the attendees' computers or a
web-based application where the attendees
access the meeting by clicking on a link
distributed by e-mail (meeting invitation) to
enter the conference.

13. There are web conferencing technologies on the market
that have incorporated the use of VoIP audio technology, to
allow for a completely web-based communication.

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Tip Number One
Have an agenda for the
meeting and share it with
the participants well in
advance so they know
what to expect when they
accept the online meeting
invitation.

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Tip Number Two
Have an established time limit
and stick to it, make sure to take
into consideration time of day.

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Tip Number Three
Prepare your material in
advance of the
presentation and know
how it appears on the
participant’s screen. By
presenting your screen
you are in a position to
cover more information
in depth and to support
your ideas with
sound, text, images and
video.

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Tip Number Four
Rehearse the
presentation, make
the movement
through the
material with
smooth and
practiced
transitions.

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Tip Number Five
Remember to guide the participants with your
narration and keep it conversational.

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Link to short video on establishing a basic web
conference and webinar.
How to Start a Web Conference

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Link to a sample of an online lesson using free
website and Web 2.0 tools
Website = weebly.com
Online quiz= ProProfs
Assignment submission = DropBox
Video with ADA compliance - YouTube
Free Hosting for Online
Lessons/Courses
Link to sample
Additional Resource:
Free Learning Management System
(LMS), CourseSites by Blackboard-Link to
information

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RealPlayer Convertor-Link to information
“RealPlayer Converter is a video and audio file conversion program.
You can take files you created or downloaded from the internet, and
prepare them to go anywhere.”
Free Audio and Video Convertor
Screen share iPad, iPhone with Mac and PC
AirServer-Link to information
Screen share your iPhone or iPad with computer presenting
webinar. Use the camera to broadcast high quality video. Access all
the applications on your device and share with students.
Use the camera on an iPhone to broadcast during webinar - Video.
Use applications on iPhone to engage students during webinar -
Video

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Nearpod-Link to information
Overview of learning system for engaging
students using iPad and mobile devices in the
classroom. Watch the video!
Interactive Multimedia Presentations
Screen Capture and Markup Tool
Jing-Link to information
Screen capture and markup images for reuse.
LastPass-Link to information
Organize and manage all your passwords.
Password Manager
SlideShark-Link to information
Convert and broadcast presentations from
iPhone and iPad.
Present PowerPoint from Mobile Device

23. Mobile Videoconferencing - Tools
Bluetooth Speaker and
Microphone
Auvio-Link to information
iPole-Link to
information