Presenting a Webinar

Today, #TeamHAAK presented our webinar about catering to LEP patrons in libraries. Thanks to the Elluminate crash course we went through during class, we were able to get through our webinar without too many problems...until we were waiting for it to save. :P Yes we all exited out of it, and waited anxiously for the next five minutes to pass so we could get the link to the archived webinar. However, after about 10 minutes, it still hadn't shown up, and we were all getting a little more than slightly stressed out. We went back in to the room to see if we could retrieve the recording, and did all kinds of stuff to try and fix it. There was still someone else in the room when we went back in, so we figured we could try and all exit out again and wait for an agonizing 5 minutes for it to hopefully save. AND THAT WORKED! Thankfully. We were all quite relieved to say the least -- and we all realized what Kristin actually meant when she said that we HAD to exit out...otherwise it wouldn't save. We closed the program under the impression that just we had to close out of the program, not everyone else in the webinar. I feel like this was actually clarified in class -- given the amount of times Kristin repeated it, but for some weird reason, it just never clicked in any of our brains...But everything is all saved. Yay!  And the correct link is now posted in the wiki. :)

As a group, we are EXTREMELY glad that we got together the night before to do a cold run-through. the Pre-Meeting allowed us to work through the numerous technical we had concerning the Powerpoint presentation, and do a trial run of the presentation pointed out where some additional information/slides were needed. We were also able to get a rough estimate of how long it would take us to present, and we were all able to become more comfortable with what would be happening when we presented the webinar live.

While the actual presenting of the webinar did have some issues, such as quite a bit of lagging when we went on the web tour, and some audio issues, I feel that overall, the webinar went pretty well. We had some good chat going on in there, and the results of the polls were interesting. Overall, I feel that the webinar experience was a great way to put new information out there. And it was good experience for what we may be facing in our future careers.

My reaction to the webinars I have/will be attending will most likely be the content of next week's blog post. :P

P.S. I actually just finally noticed how incredibly annoying it is to read tiny white text...just in case you were wondering why the design suddenly changed...