Ways To StartA WEBINAR

F o r

MAXIMUM

Engagement

Interactivity keeps people paying attention to your content during a webinar…(Remember: If your webinar is straight lecture-based, you may as well just tell your audience to go check their email or play Words with Friends while you’re talking)

…but what happens if your audience doesn’t know how to interact?(Not everyone knows how to use the text tool or the drawing tool or many of the other interactive features that come standard with most web conferencing platforms)

What in the world is the

“Text tool”?! I don’t get

it. Oh, look at that! I got

a new email…

That’s why it might be helpful to have your audience practice using the interactive tools while waiting for others to log on

Here are five webinar “ice breaking” activities to engage people as soon as they long on(And at the same time, they’ll get practice using your tools!)

Using the Drawing Tool

Welcome! We’ll begin promptly at 9:00am. In the mean time, you can get

warmed up by practicing with one of the tools we’ll be using

throughout our webinar today.

Click on the “Marker” tool

Draw a circle around every “c” on this slide

Once you’ve drawn a circle or two, you may want to stop circling so that other folks have a chance, too. In the mean time, thank you for coming on time. Feel free to grab a cup of coffee or send one last email

message. Once we commence, this webinar will be so interactive that you won’t have time to multi-task until we conclude.

By the way, how many “c”s are on this incredibly cool slide? Feel free to count them and type the number into the “Chat” box.

Using the Text Tool

WEB LIBSA Webinar Warm-up Activity

ADJECTIVE

VERB

NOUN

NUMBER

NOUN

VERB

VERB

PLURAL NOUN

ADJECTIVE

ADJECTIVE

While you’re

waiting,

select the

Text tool,

then click

above one of

the lines on

the right, and

help us with a

word for our

opening

activity.

Using the Marker/ StampTool

We’ll begin in a few minutes. As you’re waiting, use the “Stamp”

Tool in order to mark where you’re joining us from today!

Using the Polling Feature

Web-Pardy!A Pre-webinar Quiz Game

POLL QUESTION #1:

WHO HAS THE BEST

TRAINING BLOG IN

THE WHOLE WIDE

WORLD?

Using the Text Tool(yes, again… this tool can be super helpful in having your audience generate content that you can build upon throughout the webinar!)

Before we begin (at high noon Pacific time), use the TEXT tool to type a word or

phrase in response to each of the questions below

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