Bring Your Live Virtual Training To Life
21 Ideas And Activities To Engage Your Learners From The Beginning To End Of Their Training
Thank you for being part of the live virtual training, ‘21 Ideas and Activities to Engage your Learners from the Beginning to the End of Their Training‘ on Wednesday 20 April 2022 starting at 1200 (noon) EDT until 1330 EDT
Discoveries you can expect to make are (but not limited to)
- What to do prior to training to prepare your learners (Priming)
- 5 Ways to Open your training that involve your learners
- 10 Ways to add interaction during your virtual training
- 5 Ways to Close your training that involve your learners
- Ideas for supporting handouts for learners make notes
- The 4-Minutes Rule – A great resource to ensure that your learners are engaged throughout their training
Link To Your Live Virtual Training Room (Teams)
If you don’t already have this, Leslie or Joy will be sending this to you. We will be using MS Teams for your workshop.
A little request
Please be prepared to use your webcam during your training (so remember to comb your hair and look great 😀). Using webcams is a great way of adding learner interaction and I’d like you to experience how to do this during your training.
A little task for you
Please click the video below and then to answer the question at the end of the video. Add your question to the comments box below the video. Please complete this PRIOR to the start of your training.
Resources
How to video for using Mentimeter
- Click here for the activity slides used during our training. Please feel free to use any of these for your own training.
- Click here for a blank 4-minutes rule template (Word Document).
- Click here for a completed 4-minutes rule template (Word Document).
- www.puzzlemaker.com – for creating puzzles such as a Wordsearch
- Click here for additional background information relating to the ‘plane’ activity (Abraham Wald)
- Click here for the website – Wheel of Names for random particpant/team selection
What are effective ways to train through discussion rather than presentation?
Great question Eric. Discussion is certainly better than presentation. But maybe we should go one step further and ask, ‘how do we go from discussion to actual practise ie learner practise?’ 🤔
How can I get people to turn on their videos (recognizing that a few may not be able to)? If I ask them a question, and no one answers, what can I do next to get people to respond?
Thanks for your questions, Lara. Always the live virtual training challenges for the trainer. BUT, after Wednesday, you’ll have a few simple techniques to help overcome both of these 😀 Looking forward to sharing these and other techniques with you and the team on Wednesday – David
Hi David! I’m really looking forward to this. What are best practices for creating and using interactive slides and the whiteboard in Teams?
And I’m looking forward to meeting and sharing ideas with you and the rest of the team. It will be my first time with Oceana so I’m excited. Interactive slides is something that people often don’t know about but can be a really good way of engaging your learners – the whiteboard too. You should experience both which will help you answer your question – with a few more suggestions from me.
I would like to learn how to use the tools in TEAMS to involve participants. The only one I know is using breakout groups.
Thank you, Joy. Teams doesn’t have a lot of tools, it’s more about how you can design around these for adding interactions. You’ll certainly get a mix of what’s available in TEAMS and how best design for interaction. See you later – David
How can we make trainings more interactive without worrying about “zoom bombers” or folks who are in opposition to our campaigns?
Thanks Samantha. Tricky one. I’ll share this idea with you now, but I’m sure we can keep them so busy, they won’t have time to oppose. But consider setting the training up so that learners generate most of the content themselves ie following the idea that ‘Learners never argue with their own data’. In other words, if you let them generate what you would probably have suggested, they are not going to oppose it.
I look forward to ‘interactive every 4 minutes’, without also annoying your audience. People have gotten used to ‘multitasking’ on video calls, so how do we get them to pay attention (single task!), but also without throwing in stuff that doesn’t add value?
Hi Beth – a retrospective answer 🙂
I hope that you enjoyed all the interaction yesterday and experienced how it can be done while still adding value ie keeping the interactions relevant to the content flow.
Thanks for your support yesterday – David