1. The document provides best practices and tips for teaching online webinars, including planning, design, and interactive elements. It recommends planning topics and time, marketing promotion, using visuals to support key points, testing audio options, and dividing content into segments. 2. For interaction, it suggests using polling, chat, breakout groups, and other online tools to engage participants every 5 minutes. Tips for online teaching engagement include standing up while lecturing, varying locations and outfits, sharing personal experiences, and finding intersections between content and real examples. 3. The document concludes by suggesting experimenting with video recording tools and having participants try recording a short trial lecture from their desk to learn the technology.

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Teaching Online:
Webinar Best
Practices & Online
Teaching Tips
from the Field
Jamie Seger
Morgan Domokos
Brian Raison
OSU Extension
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2. Webinars as Teaching Tools:
Best Practices &
Recommendations
Planning
Design
Interactive Elements

3. Planning

4. Who is
your
target?

5. Topics: zoomed in, focused + objectives

6. Time: webinar = 45 minutes
video = 2-5 minutes

7. Market & Promote:
• use channels and methods your audience
is using
• shared more than 7 days prior = +36%

8. Design

9. Show pictures that tell a story and
support the key point of each slide.

10. Copyright and branding are actually
important. So… do you think this
watermark is allowed to
be included on this slide?Here’s an example of an OSU social
media cover image featured on the OSU
Branding Guidelines website.

11. NO
Always ask, never assume.
And ask more than once.

12. Audio options should be decided upon and tested
thoroughly before each webinar.

13. Do not include animations.

14. Dividing content into 5-10 minute segments allows
participants to refocus their attention…
…or stir a pot of spaghetti.

15. Prepare a Gannt Chart when planning the webinar to use time wisely
and make sure you are including enough interactive activities to keep
participants engaged.

16. Interaction

17. Interact – Within Zoom
• Interaction every 5 minutes
• Activities – Chat, Google search, Whiteboard, poll,
• Split into discussion groups (Zoom meetings)
• Have learners do something
• Demonstrate – hands-on opportunities after
• Add recordings, YouTube videos
• Polls
• Raise Hand Feature
• Chat box question
• Q&A Feature
• Evaluation: One way I can use what I’ve learned today
• Give time to respond
• Whiteboard – e.g. make a pros and cons and check something off
• Interact with other speakers

18. Interact – other tools
• Popplet.com
• Kahoot [GetKahoot.com]
• PollEverywhere.com
• Twitter Poll
• Qualtrics
• Others?

19. Let’s Try:
Zoom Breakout Rooms
(small group discussion)

20. Let’s Try:
Online Search
(a.k.a. Google Scavenger Hunt)
Prompt: Search for “GMO” and put in
the chat box the # entry for the first
university-produced link in the search
results.

21. Teaching Tips
Online for
Engagement

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Two questions:
1. Have you ever had a deadly boring
professor? (torturous monotone lecture,
etc.)

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Two questions:
1. Have you ever had a deadly boring
professor? (torturous monotone lecture, etc.)
2. Is that professor you?
Or is it me?
I’m asking myself these same questions.

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• Distance learning options are growing.
• Flipped classrooms provide more in-
depth learning opportunities.
• MediaSite & other tools are available.
Brian’s premise:
• Some online lectures are like slow poison…
killing our students as we talk.
(e.g., filming a “talking head” sitting behind a desk)

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1. Go outside.
You don’t need fancy cameras,
lighting kits, and tri-pods to
record a good video lecture (in the
field or in a classroom).
[You can simply use your laptop.]
2. Whatever you do, STAND UP!
Remedy:

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Best Ways to Keep Students
Awake and Enhance Learning
Whether you’re teaching
online or in person…

27. 27Vary your teaching locations

28. 28Vary your outfits (fit the topic)

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Take photos when you’re on
tours at conferences, etc.
This is so easy… but we don’t
always do it! Relating theory to
practice is key. Real examples!

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Provide a
road map to
help your
students see
where you’re
going.

31. 3131Source: TED.com
Use YouTube and
TED talks
“People don’t buy what
you do. They buy why
you do it.”
-- Simon Sinek

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 Share your
experiences!
• Our stories add
great value to
classroom
instruction.
• They make it real.
Source: http://spacecoastdaily.com/showme/space-coast-history/
#1 way to improve lectures:
Find Teaching Intersections

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Homework:
 Go online to mediasite.osu.edu
 Experiment with filming a short trial at
your desk.
 Learn how it works!
 Play around.
 Have fun.

34. CHAT BOX
QUESTIONS ?

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