Engage Your Audience with Interactive Tools and Activities

Name: Engage Your Audience with Interactive Tools and Activities
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Balance Content with Effective Audience Participation in your Seminars and Workshops

Created byCarol Harvey

Last updated 3/2016

English

What you'll learn

balance information and content with interactive activities that keep the audience engaged
use free, field-tested online tools and pen/paper activities that involve your audience
build audience interaction into your presentation, choosing appropriate activities that reinforce your presentation objectives
vary the pace of your presentation or seminar, choosing activities that reinforce your presentation objectives

Course content

6 sections • 23 lectures • 50m total length

Quick Look1:04
This gives you a quick look at some of the activities we will be exploring together.
Hello and Welcome2:11
How Much is Too Much?0:46
The course gives you many activities- don't use them all at one time! This lecture provides a guideline for each half-day of your seminar.

Behind the Scenes- Getting Ready5:48
In this lecture, you'll find some suggestions as to what you can do behind the scenes to ensure a good audience experience.
The Personal Touch2:51
And we were angry and poor and happy,
And proud of seeing our names in print.
~G.K. Chesterton

This lecture considers the importance of names and ways you can get better at remembering them.
Optional Lecture: Icebreakers3:41
This lecture contains directions (along with wording suggestions and timer clocks) for a great icebreaker that helps set the stage for your presentation.
Fun assignment for section 21:00

Here you spend time practicing the game that can have real-life applications.

Do a baseline score. What was your first score? How did you do after 20 minutes of play? Post your results in the discussion section.

Introduction to Section 3 (Video)1:05
This quick video introduction explains what to look for in this section.
AWA and Connect Fours6:06
Here are the first two activities to get your audience thinking about your topic.
A Short Snapper and a Collaborative Bulletin Board5:15
This lecture contains two more interactive exercises for your audience.
Group Activity 5: An Audience Response System1:12
In this lecture, you will be introduced to a free audience response system that you could use in your seminars to foster audience participation.
Practice Exercise1:00
Here is your practice assignment for the section. It will familiarize you with the material and help you see how you can use it in your seminar.

Considerations for Partner Activities: When and How2:58
When you use partner activities, it is important that you have a variety of ways to choose partners quickly. This video offers several suggestions- and for brand new presenters includes some wording that you might use.
Interacting with the Topic -Partner Interaction3:08
Partner Interaction-

This lecture introduces a partner activity that helps your audience review and discuss different aspects of your topic. Dice are involved!
Small Group or Table Interaction4:04
Brainwriting

•Six people generate 3 new ideas in 5 minutes- then pass. (Youtube video)

Café Conversation- role playing see bookmarks under Udemy
Second Small Group/Table Interactive Activity2:31
In this lecture, you'll learn a role-playing activity that encourages participants to consider various points of view.
Quiz

Make a Test, Take a Test1:41
Have students make a quiz for another person in the room that highlights the important concepts
What Stuck with You Today?- Two Sticky Note Activities1:00
Sticky notes are a quick way to receive feedback from your audience. Here's how!
Letter Writing2:20
Sometimes we leave a seminar " all fired up" about the things we are going to do. Then we get back to our busy lives and our good intentions sometimes get set aside. This letter writing activity can help to change that!
Recap and Review: Practice Activity1:00
Take the time to print out and fill in the review chart. This will help you see what you remember and recognize from the course. There's an answer key in resources if you get stuck! Try not to check it until the end. The review chart is intended to be used as a tool for your future quick reference!

Requirements

Many presenters have expert knowledge and are truly passionate about sharing their topic. But learning how to work well with an audience is the piece that is sometimes missing. It takes time to find appropriate activities and to know where and when to use them. This course pulls all of that together for you, using free, easily available online activities as well as pen and paper activities-all field-tested.

Description

Updated March 2016.

Your topic is important and your slides are clear and powerful. Now what?

Make your seminars and workshops more engaging and effective by balancing information and content delivery with interactive activities.

An interactive seminar helps your audience to

Learn more
Remember better
Understand how they can apply the content going forward

This course is for you if you are a newbie presenter looking for ways to connect with your seminar audience.

Together we will walk through a typical seminar from beginning to end and learn

Short, fun interactive activities that will set the tone
Ways to connect your audience with the topic
Strategies to help the audience remember the content
Techniques that the audience can use to apply what they learned

Why this course?

Many presenters are experts and are truly passionate about sharing their topic. But learning how to work well with an audience is the dimension that is sometimes neglected. It takes time to find appropriate activities and to know where and when to use them. This course pulls all of that together for you. Together we will move through each stage of a typical seminar, from the time the audience enters the room to the end when you are asking for feedback. At each stage you will be provided with ways to enhance the seminar experience for your audience. Whether you like low-tech or high tech, and whether you are speaking to a small group or a large audience, you will find useful strategies to choose from in the wide variety of activities included in the course.

Other resources in the course include discussion questions, online links and review quizzes.

Who this course is for:

The focus of the course is increasing audience interest in your presentation through various activities that you can add strategically to your seminar.
This is not a public speaking course. It will be most suitable for beginning speakers who are presenting in person to a live audience.
A great course for anyone who is a new presenter or who is looking to increase audience engagement
Anyone who is looking for ways to increase audience enjoyment and interest in their presentation.

Engage Your Audience with Interactive Tools and Activities

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Course content

Welcome: Course Overview and Free Taste3 lectures • 4min

Optional Section for Beginner Presenters: Preparing the Room, Learning Names...4 lectures • 13min

Engaging your Seminar Audience as a Group: Free Online Activities5 lectures • 15min

Using Partner and Small Group Activities4 lectures • 13min

Soliciting Feedback -Interactively4 lectures • 6min

Summing it All Up3 lectures • 3min

Requirements

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