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ace is sometimes confusing for first time users join me is dead simple to use but it lacks the ability to record your meeting and it doesn t integrate with a payment system meetingburner let me record a session and then download the recording so i have it even if meetingburner goes out of business it also has built in options to quickly share the recording to youtube also meetingburner integrates with paypal so you can charge for your course and the application takes care of the usernames passwords payments these features are with the pro level which is 40 per month also don t forget google hangouts it s free you can share your screen record your session and share files on your google drive why not convert your powerpoint presentation to a google presentation and share it during a hangout if you require the people in your class to get a google account you can add them to your circles and use g to share with them in between sessions in sum i think meetingburner is the easiest solution and google is the cheapest solution with work google can provide intriguing possibilities for sharing and keeping in touch with your students if you d like to read the other questions that i ve answered on quora or just click around the e learning and moodle sections or you can click through to my quora profile posted by bill at 10 16 am 2 comments monday february 11 2013 more attractive course layouts in moodle i just answered a question on quora com about course formats in moodle quora com is a question and answer website created edited and organized by its community of users i answer questions about e learning moodle and blackboard i ll reproduce the question and answer below the question how could the moodle course design framework be made more modern and user friendly at the moment the course page design is really awful there should be many more ways of navigating creating less linear sequences and the label system should just die die die and my answer i see that some contributors have suggested that you look at other moodle themes a moodle theme will change the layout of the frame that surrounds the course page but the layout and function of the course page itself is determined by the course format that you select topics weekly social etc until recently most of us chose the topics format and many of us felt the same as you about the aesthetics of that format in moodle 2 4 you can add plugins for many other course formats collapsible topics grid nested sections and so on check out the documentation at course formats moodledocs i think you will be pleased with the expanded choice of course formats if you d like to read the other questions that i ve answered on quora or just click around the e learning blackboard and moodle sections you can click through to my quora profile posted by bill at 11 17 am no comments wednesday february 6 2013 does it make sense to use the same product for k 12 schools and corporate e learning environments i just answered a question on quora com about academic versus corporate learning management systems quora com is a question and answer website created edited and organized by its community of users i answer questions about e learning moodle and blackboard i ll reproduce the question and answer below the question does it make sense to use the same product for k 12 schools and corporate e learning environments the product is an adaptive learning system which will adapt to users learning ability the product supports multiple roles student mentor admin i am seeking opinions about the usability and effectiveness of such a product in 2 very different environments the issues i foresee are wrt content and presentation but i have limited experience in e learning both for k 12 and corporate and my answer i have helped people use moodle in both academic and corporate environments i work for a medical school that is part of a large hospital so our learning management systems yes there are several must occasionally work in both a corporate and academic environment in your question you ask specifically about differences in the content and presentation of courses when used in a corporate versus academic environment in my experience the types of content that an lms can handle the presentation of a course and the usability of the lms for students are the issues that are least affected by the different needs of corporate and academic users the issue that most separates academic and corporate users of a learning management system is user and course management for example in a corporate environment we often need to enroll everyone with a given job title into a specific course and require that they pass that course by a specific date so the corporate lms needs to pull job titles from your company s human resources system assign courses based on job titles track due dates for course completion and alert users of past due courses these are things that a lot of lms s developed for academic environments don t do on the other hand in an academic environment we might need our lms to establish core competencies often called outcomes that apply to all students in all grades we might want to have teachers include those competencies in all of their courses for example we might establish deductive reasoning as a core competency so the academic lms needs to allow administrators to establish outcomes that apply to all students in the school allow teachers to indicate when an activity test or assignment is testing or developing that outcome report on the progress that individual students and groups are making in learning the outcomes learning outcomes that are measured across courses is something that you ll find in academic lms s but if you wanted to ensure that everyone in company has a given skill then in a corporate lms you would probably need to make that skill a separate course and run everyone through that one course to summarize once a student is inside a course the differences between academic and corporate learning management systems usually don t matter to the student but the managers administrators and teachers who run the learning management systems have different needs in academia and the corporate world so lms s designed for those different worlds usually have very different features for managing courses managing users and reporting on activity i hope this helps you to evaluate lms s for k 12 versus corporate learning environments feel free to post any follow up questions that you may have if you d like to read the other questions that i ve answered on quora or just click around the e learning and moodle sections you can click through to my quora profile posted by bill at 10 13 am 3 comments thursday september 27 2012 get a free e book from packt publishing my publisher packtpub com is about to publish their 1 000th title packt publishes highly focused how to books on technical subjects this weekend they are celebrating their 1 000th book by giving away free e books just go to http packtpub com and register to create a free account on their site then when you return to the site on september 28 or 29 you will be able to add any one e book to your account for free these e books are in pdf format and do not have drm enabled so you really do own the book you re not just renting it from the publisher remember this is only if you visit their site this weekend september 28 and 29 so hurry over and get your free book posted by bill at 6 16 am no comments friday august 3 2012 surviving a difficult presentation techniques for handling a hostile audience if you give enough presentations there s a good chance that you will someday find yourself the target of an uncooperative or hostile audience member as in most crises you re better off if you have a plan to respond this article contains specific verbal techniques to help you handle uncooperative or hostile audience members during presentations these techniques are based on my fifteen years in the software training profession this article describes some difficulties you might experience from a hostile audience member presents verbal techniques to overcome those difficulties gives you examples of how to apply the techniques explains which techniques are appropriate when you are giving a sales presentation and which are appropriate when you are giving an informative presentation or class class versus sales presentations when teaching a class you are the authority figure in the room you set the agenda for the session and you determine most of the rules for interaction during the class this is a very different situation than when you are giving a sales presentation during a sales presentation the customer s highest ranking audience member is the authority figure in the room while you may have an agenda and rules for interaction in mind the client s authority figure has the ability to undermine or change them each situation closes some avenues and opens others as this document presents each technique it will make you aware of the unique advantages that each situation gives you difficult situation 1 a constant stream of questions one of the most common difficulties that you encounter in public speaking is a barrage of questions from a single or a few audience members sometimes the people interrupting the presentation sincerely want answers to their questions other times the questioner has a hostile motive usually a hostile questioner does not want to attack you personally instead the questioner wants to attack the material that you are presenting this is an important distinction because the most effective way to attack the material that you are presenting is to draw you off topic into areas that you are not prepared to speak about specific techniques for dealing with off topic questions are covered later in this document for now we will cover techniques for dealing with someone who continuously interrupts with on topic questions if the questions are off topic you may want to use the techniques covered in this section with the ones for off topic questions one breath answers the least confrontational way of dealing with a constant stream of questions is to answer each question as briefly as possible limit your answers to one breath in length and before stating your answer ask yourself if this material will be covered later in your presentation if it will be state only that the material will be covered later do not expand on your answer because additional details will give the constant questioner additional opportunity after giving your answer launch directly into the next topic taking time to answer a constant stream of questions may not be your desired solution however if the questioner is an authority figure you might feel obligated to answer the questions keeping your answers short minimizes the negative effect of the interruptions set limits you can discourage constant interruptions by setting limits on when you will take questions to avoid being confrontational or authoritarian state why the limits benefit your audience and ask for their approval for example if you re teaching a class you might say something like i m going to speak about this topic for the next ten minutes you ll probably think of questions while i m speaking but many of them will be answered while i talk i d like to address your remaining questions after covering this material shall we get started if you re giving a sales presentation you might say something like on the previous topic we had a lot of questions while i m talking about this next topic i ll keep your concerns in mind and try to answer your questions pro actively when i ve finished let me know how i ve done if the questioner interrupts after you ve asked them to hold their questions you may want to escalate by giving a very short answer and then tactfully reminding them to hold their questions for example you might say yes we can produce that kind of report stay with me for the next few minutes and i ll answer the rest of your questions right after this material acknowledge and delay you almost never want to ignore a question during a class or sales presentation doing so may be taken as a sign of hostility on your part even if a question is inappropriate or ill timed try to acknowledge it if short answers and setting limits has not eliminated interruptions you can acknowledge a question and delay the answer for example in a class you might say that s a good question and it s covered later in the course let s finish this topic and move on during a sales presentation you might try to get the room to agree to cover the question later for example you might say later on i m going to go over some material that will answer that question and several others that you probably have do you mind if i wait to answer that private discussion if short answers setting limits and acknowledging and delaying questions has not eliminated interruptions you may want to escalate to a private discussion with the interrupting audience member if you want to prevent the discussion from taking a confrontational tone remember a few important points first acknowledge the person s right to have their questions answered second point out any examples of questions the person posed that were answered later in the presentation remind the person that holding their questions until the appropriate time will speed the presentation promise to allow time for questions at the end also acknowledge any questions the person had that were off topic ask the person to compile a list of those off topic questions for you so that they can be answered outside of the presentation finally ask the person to agree to help you with the presentation by agreeing to these proposals remember the person s problem is probably not with you personally but with the material you are presenting or some other factor over which you have no control asking the person for help in speeding the presentation can get that person on your side difficult situation 2 off topic questions and discussions a few off topic questions from your audience should not be a problem for you however if an individual or group has many off topic questions this indicates a possible problem if the off topic questions are coming from several people your presentation may be unsuitable for the group for example if your presentation is about the hardware required for a new invoice system and the group has a lot of questions about the software s capabilities your presentation may be mismatched to the audience if the off topic questions are coming from one person then your presentation may be unsuitable for that person or the person may be hostile to your material a hostile questioner may be trying to make your material look bad because the questioner would benefit from its failure for example the questioner may be in charge of an old system that would be replaced with a new system that you are speaking about or the questioner may 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