We are thrilled to announce the success of last week’s first cross campus Webinar training session ran here at the University by the CELT's Digitally Enhanced Learning team (CDEL). A webinar is a live, web-based event, that incorporates audio and visual elements as well as enabling attendee interaction. A training session ran in this way can be attended virtually, the trainer sharing their screen with their audience.
The training was delivered from the CDEL office at the Caerloen Campus and watched by trainees at both the Caerleon and City Campuses, participating as individuals from their machines. At Tredegar, seven trainees gathered in one room and watched on a Smart Board. They watched their trainer on the screen and listend to their comments using a real time screencast system. Attendees interacted with the trainer asking lots of questions and discussing what had been shown.
This particular session was on ‘What’s New in Moodle 2’ but literally anything informative that does not need on hand facilitation can be delivered in this way. The web based software used in this case was Join.me and Skype, both of which are free to use and available online.
The benefits of using Webinars to facilitate teaching and Learning
In this blog post, George Levy outlines some of the main benefits to using webinar technology, please click here to read it.
CDEL will be running regular Webinars, on a variety of technologies, for staff and students within the University & we also plan to showcase some of these at the forthcoming CELT Conference which is taking place at the University of Wales, Newport on June 11th 2012.
