Interact and Engage!: 50+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars

Convince your online participants to tune in―and get them to interact and engage.

Virtual classroom training is here to stay, and web and video conferencing is close to ubiquitous. Interact and Engage! offersproven strategies for captivating your live online audience. With more than 50 activities ranging from openers and icebreakers to closers, instructional design experts Kassy LaBorie and Tom Stone present a framework for igniting online training programs, meetings, and webinars.

Engaging online audiences can be difficult. This is true for novice instructional designers and facilitators―and for experienced ones. Learn how to break the mold of static lecture-style online training that drives participants to multitask or, worse, tune out. LaBorie and Stone cover all the steps necessary to remedy poor online training experiences and ensure that what you teach sticks.

In this book you will:

Explore the popular delivery platforms (Adobe Connect and WebEx Training Center) inside and out, backwards and forwards, and upside down.

Discover how to start events off right and bring them to a fitting end, while achieving the event’s goals in the middle.

Delve into what facilitators and producers need to do before, during, and after an activity.

Short Bios:

Kassy LaBorie, director of virtual training services for Dale Carnegie Digital, leads a consultancy that partners with organizations to help them develop successful online training strategies.

Tom Stone, director of technology-based learning at Dale Carnegie Digital, sets the product road map and strategy for the company's live online and other digital offerings, and leads new uses of technology in its in-person, instructor-led training programs.

Long Bios:

Kassy LaBorie is director of virtual training services for Dale Carnegie Digital. She leads a consultancy that partners with organizations to help them develop successful online training strategies. Previously, Kassy served as the product design architect responsible for developing the company's live online training experience. Prior to this, she was a master trainer for InSync Training, a Microsoft software trainer at ExecuTrain, and a senior trainer at WebEx, where she helped create WebEx University.

Tom Stone is director of technology-based learning at Dale Carnegie Digital. He sets the product road map and strategy for the company's live online and other digital offerings, and leads new uses of technology in its in-person, instructor-led training programs. Tom has been in the learning and development field for 15 years, previously serving in a variety of roles including senior research analyst at Taleo, and senior instructional designer, manager of instructional design, and product design architect at Element K.