In a past life I used to run weekly and sometimes daily conference calls for different departments. The way we did it was to have a call manager who would invite a person to talk and time the response (we used to pay for calls by the minute). The person who was the main speaker would talk and the manager would encourage questions and keep the group to the topic - this would probably work for skype. The people I get my free website from allow you to embed youtube video and such into your webpages. Even on the free website you can embed. L
Kind Regards Liz Baker [email protected] My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Sunday, 30 October 2011, 23:38 Subject: Re: [lace] Skype lace classes Dear Katelyn, Clearly you have been in such a class or taught one. What class was it? Is there a class that one could easily sign up for to experience it? Devon In a message dated 10/30/2011 7:16:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Skype is a great idea, although there are some difficulties that come with online teaching. Firstly, in any class larger than 5 or so students, it becomes necessary to mute everyone but the teacher due to background noise, similar to a conference call. Once everyone is muted, it is incredibly awkward to deliver a lesson; it feels like you are talking to yourself. You must plan breaks to unmute everyone for Q&A periodically, but in between those segments you have absolutly no feedback. Am I going too fast? Too slow? Are they bored? Completely lost? It definitely takes getting used to. <snipped> Alternatively, lessons can be pre-recorded and thrown onto YouTube, for anyone to peruse at will. These must be edited, speeding past or skipping the repetitive parts. In a normal class, you may repeat a concept several times. In a video, people can simply pause the video to think, or watch it again. It's far better to go too fast than too slow in a pre-recorded video. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
