Post by Nicky Hockly, originally posted here.
Photo by rustysheriff
If you work mainly online like me, you may find yourself running regular synchronous (real-time) tutorials or seminars with your students. Or perhaps you give public webinars to large audiences online. No matter how good your video-conferencing platform, sitting through an hour (or more) of an online presentation requires stamina – from your audience. When things get dull, your participants can easily just nip off and get something from the fridge, or simply go out to the pub. Nobody will even notice them leave.
Reflecting on this, one of the participants on our current E- Moderation skills online course put it beautifully:
… Although it’s great to be sat at home having a lesson, there are also many things to distract you (in my case multiple tabs opened up in my browser, the beer in the fridge, the ...