<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">*Apologies in advance for multiple postings.*</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ALCTS webinar: Creating Effective Webinars</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Date: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Wednesday, August 17, 2016</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Description: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Learn how to create and deliver effective and memorable webinars from two veterans of this style of presentation. You will leave with new skills, including a few easy tips and tricks, in effective presentation design and powerful workshop delivery. You will learn how to manage live (synchronous) and recorded (asynchronous) learning spaces. In addition, resources related to effective webinars and presentations will be provided.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Learning outcomes:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">* Design better presentations.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">* Understand how to prepare for delivering the presentation (producer/tech support).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">* Better engage the audience.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">* Prepare for the unexpected, technical and otherwise, during the webinar</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">* Understand some of the basic features of “web conference” software and how to use them to your advantage.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Who should attend? Anyone who is interested in giving a webinar or who wants to improve his/her techniques in giving a webinar.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Presenters:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Maurice Coleman</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> is the Technical Trainer at a Harford County Public Library in Maryland. He has presented numerous virtual and face to face presentations on social media, technology implementation, and presentation and training skills. In addition, he hosts the library training and presentation podcast T is for Training at <a href="http://tisfortraining.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://tisfortraining.wordpress.com</a> and was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker in 2010. He can be found through Twitter at @baldgeekinmd.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Jill Hurst-Wahl</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> teaches on-campus and online for Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and is a contributor to the “T is for Training” podcast. Jill is a frequent conference presenter, including sessions in 2016 at Computers in Libraries, Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, and the Academic Librarians Conference in New York State. Jill can be found online at <a href="https://ischool.syr.edu/people/directories/view/jahurst/" target="_blank">https://ischool.syr.edu/people/directories/view/jahurst/</a> and through Twitter at @jill_hw.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">*****************</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Registration Fees: Free</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:19.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">To sign up and receive the webinar access link, sign up online at: <a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5147847845651520513">https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5147847845651520513</a></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="times new roman"><span style="font-size:16px;line-height:19.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">This webinar will be recorded. The recording will be posted on the ALCTS web site shortly following the webinar.
For questions about this webinar, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or <a href="mailto:alctsce@ala.org">alctsce@ala.org</a>.</span></font><br></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.</span></p></div>