Darlene Christopher

The Global Virtual Classroom: Five Keys to Success

February 12, 2011

Imagine yourself in a virtual classroom. The instructor puts an image of a game of cricket on the screen and says: “Sometimes dealing with pressures at work may feel like a game of 20/20 limited cricket where you are chasing a score of 220 and it’s the last over. You have the best fast bowler [...]

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How to Enhance Your Images in PowerPoint for a Web Conference

January 24, 2011

Last post I wrote about fundamental concepts regarding using PowerPoint slides in a web conference. This post covers ideas to enhance images to make your images and slides look professional. Note that these tips are written for PowerPoint 2007. For those who are visual, I recorded a 3-minute ScreenR demo of these tips. 1. Outline [...]

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Creating Great Slides for Web Conferences

January 13, 2011

Whether you are facilitating a web conference for a sales event, virtual classroom training or a knowledge sharing event, you will need PowerPoint slides to support your content. You don’t need to be an expert in PowerPoint to put together a good slide deck, but when developing your slides, keep these two concepts in mind: [...]

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“I See What You’re Saying” – Working with Visuals in Virtual Meetings

December 15, 2010

In this guest post, Michael Randel, Director of Randel Consulting Associates, shares a case study using a video conference and web-meeting tool to support a retreat with teams in Washington DC and DR Congo. Virtual meetings make it easy for people located in different places to interact with one another. There is a trade-off though [...]

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Going Cold Turkey – How Giving Up My Smart Phone Made Me Smarter

November 23, 2010

When I recently accepted a new position and learned that my employer would not issue me a Blackberry as my previous employer had done, my initial reaction was panic. I immediately started researching for a smartphone replacement. In the midst of panic, I saw an opportunity however. I decided to go “cold turkey” and experiment [...]

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Recipe for Success in a Web Conference

November 1, 2010

What does it take to put together a successful web conference where participants and facilitators exchange valuable knowledge, are energized and hungry for more? Whether you are using web conferencing to deliver training, hold a meeting, host a knowledge sharing session or other event, there are three ingredients to consider for a successful event: One [...]

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What You Need to Know About Adobe Connect Pro Mobile

September 10, 2010

Adobe offers one of the most sophisticated web conferencing tools in the industry, Adobe Connect Pro, so it’s not surprising that they were one of the first vendors to release an app to allow iPhone and iTouch users to participate in a web conference: Adobe Connect Pro Mobile. You probably know that Adobe Connect Pro [...]

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Mobile Web Conferencing: Do’s and Don’ts

September 10, 2010

Mobile learning is hot right now. So hot that the E-Learning Guild devoted an entire conference to mobile learning, mLearnCon, this year which attracted hundreds. This year, several web conferencing vendors like Adobe Connect, Cisco WebEx and Fuze have released mobile versions of their tools which allow users to participate a web conference from a mobile [...]

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e-Book Review: Getting Started with Synchronous e-Learning

September 10, 2010

The e-Learning Guild recently published an e-Book by Patti Shank entitled: Getting Started with Synchronous e-Learning. This 48-page research report is based on a survey conducted by the eLearning Guild with over 3,000 respondents. The report includes an interpretation of the survey data with a range of tables and charts. If you are trying to [...]

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