Lesson 2: Enhancing Webinar Participant Engagement: Practice

6. Practice

activity indicator icon Following are three example webinar scenarios. Read each one and think about how you would use one of the interactive tools you just learned about to support the interaction. Then, view suggested approaches you might take by clicking the "View suggestions..." link.

1. You just explained Amdahl’s Law, and you want to know if your students understood it well enough before moving on.

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Ask them to indicate if they understood it by selecting thumbs up or thumbs down emoticon or the smiley face.
Use the polling tool to ask a multiple-choice question to test their understanding.
Use the whiteboard to display a graphic of two formulas and ask students to circle the one that depicts Amdahl’s Law.

2. You know that some of your webinar participants have experience in the presentation topic, and you want to allow them to contribute to the content.

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Using hand raising, have them request the microphone to share an experience with the class.
Using chat, ask them to input their experience (if the response is expected to be short).

3. You want to demonstrate how to generate performance data on a sample code and interpret the results.

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Use application sharing to demonstrate how to run the software needed to generate the performance data. Then discuss the results displayed on the screen. Use the pointer and arrows to highlight the area under discussion.
Use application sharing to demonstrate how to run the software needed to generate the performance data. Then copy the results to the whiteboard so you or the learners can use annotation to highlight key areas.