Lectures are a barrier to the listener's thinking. The constant one-way transfer of information is like a dripping faucet. The information keeps coming and coming and coming. And that constant drip of new data, facts, figures and info keeps the brain overwhelmed with new information. The listener is faced with a choice: listen to the new information or think about what they just heard. You can't listen to the lecture and think about that information at the same time. You either do one or the … [Read more...]
Creating Buzz Groups To Add Audience Participation To Traditional Lectures
Lectures are good for sharing information. They are not good for learning and getting listeners to think! Nor are the good for getting listeners to remember and apply the information they hear. Audience discussion methods are more effective for learning than the lecture. Lectures are the equivalent of distributing a report and asking people to read it. The scientific research about the ineffectiveness of lectures for education and learning abounds. Yet it is still the primary method used in … [Read more...]
Helping Your Remote Virtual Attendees Succeed As Participants
Our time is valuable. Many of us see our time as money, a resource that we don't want to waste. Asking people to commit 30-, 45- or even 60-minutes of their time to attend your Webinar is asking a lot. It's critical that your digital event provide tremendous value and ROI or you'll lose your attendees' trust. Establish Expectations And Responsibilities As digital event presenter, it's your responsibility to make sure that everyone that participates succeeds. You need to provide enough … [Read more...]
Resurrect Lifeless Lectures: Tips For Turning Listeners Into Learners
You want me to do what? Include audience engagement and participation in my presentation? You've got to be joking. I've got too much content to cover! We've all heard that excuse from presenters. They fear if they don't cover all the content, the listener won't get all of the information. We love to explain things, regardless if the listener is getting it or not. Let's not confuse good explaining with good learning. Active Engagement Improves Learning The evidence is clear and … [Read more...]
Your Conference Audience Is Dead
It used to be that face to face presentations were one of the most important places people would go to get new, cutting-edge, critical information. They would pay a conference registration fee, airfare, lodging and expenses to attend a conference just to get that new information. But that has changed with the click of the mouse. Information Is Ubiquitous People no longer need to go to presentations to get information. They can "Google it." Or "Bing it." They can get it from blogs, … [Read more...]
Invasion Of The Participatory Culture [PPT]
If you haven’t made the shift from serving members to involving them, consider this your wake-up call — and your roadmap. Sociologists identify today’s online networked individuals as the participatory class. For many adults, the Internet primarily means the web. For others it means chat, connecting with friends, email, games, movies, social networks, text, video — all of which means they are content producers. As part of a participatory culture, we expect to create, collaborate, connect, … [Read more...]
Three Event Infographics On Conference Education And ROI
Here are three Infographics from Experient's e4 2010 Conference. Modernizing Conference Education - 15 min, TED-Style talk as part of Summer Storms Building A Customized ROI Tool That Measures Results - Terri Breining's 15 min, TED-Style talk as part of Summer Storms Developing Next Generation Conference Education Sessions - Cafe Session Images by GraphicFootprints. … [Read more...]
Why The PCMA Learning Lounge Worked
"What if no one shows up? What will we do?" It was 6:45 am on a Monday morning in Las Vegas. We wondered if anyone would actually show up when PCMA's Convening Leaders' Learning Lounge opened at 7 am. As the final countdown started, we were about to find out first hand if people would come. The doors opened at 7 am and the crowds started flowing in to the Learning Lounge. We sighed with relief. Then the adrenalin and serotonin started surging. The excitement and buzz in the room was … [Read more...]
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