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I like the format of webinar teaching.
First, I get to make slides, and once I learned how to make slides, I found I loved making them. There is something about arranging and rearranging and organizing information on slides so that it is visually interesting (at least to me) as well as conceptually interesting that engages my brain, that captures it, that makes it focus, better than reading and underlining does. So, I get to make slides.
Second, I get to build a story out of slides that will have a beginning, middle and an end. So it's like a book, but more visual. And less writing.
Third, I get to tell the story to people who are far away but who I can't see, so I don't feel nervous. And I don't have to travel/go through airport security/worry about being mugged/have swollen ankles/deal with lost luggage. All good.:thumbs_up
Fourth, I get paid. It works out to about 2¢/hour, probably, but still, I get paid. :thumbs_up
I just did a second one of these, last night, for a group of osteopaths in New Zealand, for Nic Lucas' and Rob Moran's company, HealthProfessionalCPD.com.
The actual webinars themselves are property of the company so I can't link to them. However, the slides I made for the presentation last night on the neuromatrix model of pain, are attached as a PDF. Much of the information I talked about is right on the slides, so here they are in case anyone is interested in reading through a bunch of slides, minus my voice and story-line.
The only drawback to producing a set of teaching material for a webinar is that I have WAY too much time to obsess over it and no way to see if what I'm building is on the mark for what the organizers expect or even want. I have to wait for feedback about it. Total creative freedom is a luxury which at the same time provokes anxiety. Which I have had to learn how to cope with.
Still, that luxury of total creative freedom is something I would never want to trade for the security of more troopiness. And out of all the apparent chaos is finally emerging into my field of awareness the possible backbone for a potential book. Still a daydream but less vague than before. Sometimes pareidolia is a good thing.
First, I get to make slides, and once I learned how to make slides, I found I loved making them. There is something about arranging and rearranging and organizing information on slides so that it is visually interesting (at least to me) as well as conceptually interesting that engages my brain, that captures it, that makes it focus, better than reading and underlining does. So, I get to make slides.
Second, I get to build a story out of slides that will have a beginning, middle and an end. So it's like a book, but more visual. And less writing.
Third, I get to tell the story to people who are far away but who I can't see, so I don't feel nervous. And I don't have to travel/go through airport security/worry about being mugged/have swollen ankles/deal with lost luggage. All good.:thumbs_up
Fourth, I get paid. It works out to about 2¢/hour, probably, but still, I get paid. :thumbs_up
I just did a second one of these, last night, for a group of osteopaths in New Zealand, for Nic Lucas' and Rob Moran's company, HealthProfessionalCPD.com.
The actual webinars themselves are property of the company so I can't link to them. However, the slides I made for the presentation last night on the neuromatrix model of pain, are attached as a PDF. Much of the information I talked about is right on the slides, so here they are in case anyone is interested in reading through a bunch of slides, minus my voice and story-line.
The only drawback to producing a set of teaching material for a webinar is that I have WAY too much time to obsess over it and no way to see if what I'm building is on the mark for what the organizers expect or even want. I have to wait for feedback about it. Total creative freedom is a luxury which at the same time provokes anxiety. Which I have had to learn how to cope with.
Still, that luxury of total creative freedom is something I would never want to trade for the security of more troopiness. And out of all the apparent chaos is finally emerging into my field of awareness the possible backbone for a potential book. Still a daydream but less vague than before. Sometimes pareidolia is a good thing.
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