2020 #VWEDU LIBR: Promo: Flipped webinar for educators in the metaverse. A distributed conference. Short presentations, followed by focused discussions. With plans for outreach.

Flipped webinar for educators in the metaverse.

A distributed conference.   

Short  presentations, followed by focused discussions.

With plans for outreach.

Overview of draft plans for a flipped webinar.

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Flipping the webinar

• The plan is based on audience participation.
• Starts with "What do you want to know about?"
• Uses online tools to get questions from the audience.
• Uses online tools to present those questions to contributors.
• Uses online tools to show presentations offered by contributors.
• Meeting organizers select presentations for their meetings.
• Presentations run about 10 minutes, followed by a discussion period.
• Presentations and discussions may be live-streamed and saved as videos.
• These may also be converted to text and published as a blog.
• With some editing and referee work, the products might be published as proceedings of a distributed conference.

Benefits

• Efficient sharing of knowledge among online educators.
• Broadens the networking In the online professional learning community (PLC).
• Outreach from educators in virtual worlds to other online educators.
• Aggregated activity gets better visibility than individual activity.

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Keywords and categories for online teaching

• Use-oriented categories
• Outreach
• Onboarding
• Levels: grades, young adult, mature, retiring 
• Teaching tools
• Digital teaching assistant
• Subjects
• Teaching methods
• Instructional projects
• Educational communities 
• Career categories
• Lesson plans
• Instructional designs

Resources

• The virtual worlds already have meetings that can collaborate.
• They also have groups that can participate.
• The Community Virtual Library could manage and maintain the spreadsheet.
• The needed technical resources exist and most are widely used in virtual worlds.
• One that is not yet widely used in virtual worlds:
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The elements

• Distributed conference: Meetings organized like a conference, but distributed in time and space.
• Organizers: People who organize meetings..
• Flipped webinar coalition (FWC): Meeting organizers collaborating on content.
• Contributors: People who agree to prepare presentations in answer to questions
• Videographers: People who will capture video, edit it, and post it on YouTube.
• VWPLC:  Professional learning community of virtual worlds.
• QA spreadsheet: Spreadsheet to manage questions and presentations.
• Outreach: Participants promote meetings on social media, citing livestreamed link.

Action items

• Draft QA spreadsheet
• Identify organizers.
• Identify collaborating groups
• Identify contributors.
• Plan for outreach 

Roadmap for a presentation

• Given a question from the QA spreadsheet.
• One (or more) of the contributors prepares a presentation of about 10 minutes.  
• The availability of that presentation is posted in the QA spreadsheet.
• An organizer  picks this presentation for a meeting

What contributors do

• Follow the QA database additions and answer questions.  Multiple answers are encouraged.     
• Put questions into the QA database (with or without answers). 
• Send questions to other experts they know.

Outreach

• An inworld meeting is inherently not outreach.
• But we know the ways of the digitals. 

Social media

• We can post in social media.  
• And in the flipped model, we don't just announce the time and place.
• We announce the specific questions that will be discussed.
• We may give links to relevant reading/videos.
• And we don't ask them to join us in software they have not installed.
• We can live-stream video, so we invite them to watch on YouTube.
• And we invite them to ask their own questions in the YouTube chat panel.
• Of course, we will monitor that panel and include it   

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