This document provides tips for hosting and presenting effective webinars. For hosting, it recommends testing equipment and software in advance, introducing presenters, encouraging audience interaction, and addressing any issues after the webinar. For presenting, it emphasizes testing equipment and platforms, using clear audio, accounting for bandwidth limitations, coordinating with co-presenters, and testing the presentation in advance. The document also covers designing slides to reinforce messages for adult learners by simplifying content, chunking material, relating to prior knowledge, and using visuals and formatting best practices to aid memory and learning.

1. What We've Learned:
Tips & Tricks for
Webinars That
Deliver The Goods
NCompass Live
15 April 2015

2. Presenting today
Christa Burns
Michael Sauers
Laura Johnson

3. HOSTING
• Before
• During
• After

4. Hosting

5. Before
Know your software

6. Before
Know your software
• Learn it! Practice! Test everything!
• PC, Mac, iOS, Android?
• Videos? Slides? Animation?
• Recordings?

7. Before
Tech Test with remote presenters
• Audio and video
• Desktop microphone? Headset?
Phone option?
• Practice presentation
• Questions

8. Before
Plan ahead for technical problems
• Learn how to fix basic problems –
sound, video, slides
• Know what you can and can’t fix
• System requirements
• Troubleshooting

9. During
Set up
• At least a half hour before start time
• Software, microphone, camera
• Second person for technical issues
• Remote speaker
• Recording

10. During
Intro slides

11. During
Host responsibilities
• Introduce webinar and presenter
• Take questions from the audience
• Encourage interaction
• Wrap up at the end

12. After
Recording/Slides/Links
• Process/convert/edit recording
• Post/share slides and links
• Let speaker and audience know
when it’s ready and where it is

13. After
Problems?
• Note any issues you encountered
• Fix/change in future webinars
• Learn from your mistakes!

14. Hosting
•Before
•During
•After

15. PRESENTING

16. Test in advance

17. Microphones

18. Platforms

19. Bandwidth

20. Multi-presenter issues

21. Live Chat & Q&A issues

22. Summary:
• Test
• Microphone quality is important
• Know the platform
• The more bandwidth the better
• Coordinate with your co-presenters
• Test!

23. Andragogy

24. It goes without saying
Content:
•Meaningful
•Relevant
•Organized

25. Adult Learners
1. internally motivated
and self-directed

26. Adult Learners
2. bring life experiences
and knowledge to
learning experiences

27. Adult Learners
3. are goal oriented

28. Adult Learners
4. are relevancy oriented

29. Adult Learners
5. are practical

30. Adult
Learners
6. like to be respected

31. Memory &
Learning

32. workingLong-term
auditory visual

33. The Goal
To help viewers
take in information
and
move it
from working memory
to long-term memory

34. 1. Simplify

35. 5 Things
2

36. 2. Chunk the material

38. 3. Relate to already known

40. Make the slides
work for you

41. Text emphasizes narration

42. Use:
• Common vocabulary
• Short phrases
• Short lists

43. The visual
trumps other senses

44. Use graphics to reinforce

46. Cedar Rapids Public Library
http://connect.crlibrary.org/2010/12/14/
cedar-rapids-public-library-west-is-second-in-circulation/

47. Typeface
and
Font Size

48. The Bigger the Better?
This is written in 18 point type.
This is written in 30 point type.
This is written in 44 point type.
This is written in 60
point type.

49. Bookman Old Style:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
dogs.
Garamond:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Times New Roman:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Do It With Serifs

50. Arial:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Calibri:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Century Gothic:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
dogs.
Sans Serif Compare

51. Brush Script:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Comic Sans:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Old English Text:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
Novelty Fonts
(Use sparingly--or not all)

52. Color

53. EconomicsPopular
Conventional
High
Contrastg
Dull
A Little
Softer
Hip
Businesslike
Eccentric

54. The Presenter

55. Practice

57. The Voice

59. The 5 Things
1.Organize
2.Relate to an adult audience
3.Keep memory in mind
4.Design slides to reinforce
5.Use your personal
instrument

60. Contact us:
christa.burns@nebraska.gov
402.471.3107
michael.sauers@nebraska.gov
402.471.3106
laura.johnson@nebraska.gov
402.471.2694
Nebraska Library Commission
The Atrium
1200 N Street, Suite 120
Lincoln, NE 68508
800.307.2665