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ATDChi Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Webinar Recap
Recap provided by Joie Marshall, ATDChi, Training Today Editor
Organization: ATDChi
Event: How to Effectively Select, Organize, and Evaluate Webinar Content
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Patti Schutte provided an interactive and robust webinar for attendees on Wednesday, April 29th. Schutte’s webinar “How to Effectively Select, Organize and Evaluate Webinar Content” highlighted tips and techniques for transferring live training content to a webinar.
Prior to the start of the webinar, attendees received an email with a link to download a helpful handout that would be referenced during the webinar. I downloaded and printed the handout but had low expectations for “using” it during the webinar. When Schutte started the webinar, she connected the audience to the handout and pointedly stated that we would use the handout during the session. She was right! To my delight, I continually scribbled notes and ideas all over my three-page handout. You can see my handout in the image.
The success of the handout was due to Schutte’s direction and continual redirection to the handout. The bigger impact, in my opinion, was the way the handout was formatted. Schutte took traditional guided notetaking techniques and structured the handout as a road map for the content that was shared. Throughout the webinar, I collected nuggets of information as I completed sentences and filled in blanks with key terms and concepts that were shared. This all spurred me to continue my notes by jotting down ideas that I plan to use in the future.
Outside of the handout, Schutte shared helpful details for generating and collecting ideas, narrowing content, and organizing and structuring topics. She even shared criteria for how to effectively use slides and handouts, and the purpose of each.
All in all, this webinar was one of the most interactive virtual sessions I have participated in quite some time. I am certain I will use the concepts and ideas generated when I deliver a webinar in the future.
