ISTE20 Live Presenter Guide

• Location: Pick the location you plan to host your webinar from. What’s behind you? Make sure no one can pass behind you during the broadcast.
• Internet: Find a place to broadcast where your Wi-Fi bandwidth is at its most optimal. Test your Wi-Fi within your computer preferences and consider locating yourself close to a router. Consider hard-wiring your internet with an ethernet cord if your Wi-Fi isn't 100%.
• Sound: Pick a quiet and well-lit place where you won’t be disturbed. Turn off loud fans, air conditioners, etc. and avoid street noise. Consider using headphones to avoid echos and outside noise.
• Lighting: Keep the light shining on your face and don’t let light come in behind you. Consider adding an additional light behind your video camera or laptop.
• Video: Clean your camera lens. Ideally, you'll be calling in from a computer webcam or computer-connected camera, but you can also call in from your mobile device. Make sure the video is as crisp as possible.

• Model best practices in online, remote and hybrid learning while attending to curriculum-specific content. As a presenter at ISTE20 Live, you're in the unique position to model innovative practices in online learning.
• Create a learning experience that is beyond a static presentation. Consider learning modalities and how you can engage session attendees as learners. Bring new ideas for engagement to your attendees, and have them try something new to bring back to their educational environments.
• Create opportunities for attendees to connect and learn from each other. Invite active participation in the session chat, try some activities and encourage collegial sharing of best practices during your session.
• Engage your audience from the moment they join the event with an opening slide containing a relevant and interesting fact, anecdote, poll or a probing question. This could also be a big question they'll wrestle with during the presentation.
• Outline what you'll be discussing during the session and in what order. Make it clear that people will leave with actionable advice and recommendations.
• Engage your audience in active learning using the platform's built-in connection and collaboration tools. Encourage attendees to turn their cameras on at the start of the session and enable their mics when they have a question. Polls, surveys and breakout rooms are great for enhancing interaction between your sessions attendees.
• Divide the information into manageable chunks and use multiple content delivery options to keep your audience engaged. Use slides, images, brief videos and sound to deliver your content. Use several learning modalities to present information and engage attendees in their own learning.
• Consider the use of collaborative group work and collaborative learning. If your session includes group work or collaboration, consider the use of break out rooms. It's a more complex solution, but it enables you to divide participants into teams to discuss or work on a project together.

Get acquainted with the LiveWebinar space. Don’t wait until the day of your session! Practice hosting your own webinar to get a feel for the tools. Log in to the event platform, use the program search to navigate to your session, and practice right on your session page.

Practice is key. We can’t emphasize this enough – do a run-through, actually, do a few run-throughs of your session!

• Practice using all tech tools.
• Know how you will do your transitions – to breakout rooms, slides, screen shares – and allow time to do this!
• Consider how you will set up your screen so you can see notes, see the participants, see your communication with a co-facilitator.

Uploading a presentation is a great way to share information, but sharing applications on your desktop is also a good way to engage attendees. Include live demonstrations online and navigate through the content you're discussing.

• Give clear directions when navigating to websites and share the link in the chat.
• Give time for these kinds of transitions.
• Clearly explain when you're demonstrating an app and have a plan for how you'll answer questions from people that need help or fall behind.

Presentations are visual.

• Create visually compelling content. Online presentation content works best when it relies on a combination of audio and visual elements, so make sure you have slides with compelling images.
• The text on your slides should be readable and clear to everyone, so keep text to a minimum to give viewers time to grasp all the words.
• Infographics are also a great way to get your message across because they combine visual elements, data and facts, which are reinforced by text.

Post discussion questions in your slides so they're visible to attendees during the session.

• Consider allowing participants to ask questions during the event itself, rather than during a specific time period at the end. This will likely lead to interactive discussion that will feel real and relevant, and will encourage attendees to share practices.
• Give participants time during the session – time to ask questions, time to respond, time to transition, time to experiment. Don’t be afraid of an awkward silence; sometimes it can have amazing results!