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Long drive to Waunakee?
Attend your workshop by videoconference in another city!
Current Videoconference Locations
If the workshop you are interested in has the option of attending via videoconference, simply select the location you would like when you register. Plan to arrive at your conference site a little early so you can get settled in before the session begins. When you arrive, a site coordinator will explain the room set-up and procedures to you, and then you simply need to make yourself comfortable and participate in the conference!
You will be able to see, hear, and interact with the presenter and any other sites that are participating througout the conference. Depending on the room set-up, they will either be on separate monitors or on a split screen with one monitor. There will be at least one camera in the room to broadcast your site to the other locations, and there may be one or several microphones to broadcast participants' voices. In larger rooms, each participant may have his or her own microphone; smaller rooms may have only one or two in the center of the room. Please see Videoconferencing Etiquette below for information on working with microphones.
In addition to broadcasting sound and video, the videoconferencing equipment also allows the presenter to display power point presentations, websites, and documents for all the locations to see, so you should feel almost as if you were attending the workshop in person.
Your site coordinator will handle most of these details either before or during the videoconference, but understanding these simple guidelines will help make your videoconference session a pleasant experience for everyone.
- All participants should be introduced at the start of the conference.
- Introduce yourself when you start speaking.
- Make sure you can see and hear the remote-site participants.
- Seat yourself in view of the camera and in range of the microphone so the remote site(s) will be able to see and hear you.
- Speak in your normal voice without shouting.
- Avoid tapping on the microphone or rustling papers near the microphone.
- Mute the microphone before moving it to avoid disturbing the remote site(s).
- In a multipoint call (more than one remote site), mute your microphone when you are not speaking.
Current Videoconference Locations
There are no current workshops utilizing videoconference.
If you are attending
a workshop by videoconference, please note that you will need to
make your own arrangements for meals and lodging. Please contact
the Continuing Education
Director,
at 800-589-9762 for more information or if you have questions.
Please continue to check this site for updates. If you would like to host a videoconference site at your school, please contact the Continuing Education Director, at 800-589-9762.
For information on attending a workshop at the Wisconsin Center for Music Education in Waunakee, please visit our Registrant Information page.
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Don't want to drive at all?
Attend your workshop from your home or school computer!
Webinars are "web seminars" that include both an audio line (telephone) and an online presentation. Webinar participants will register as for any other workshop, but instead of joining the workshop in person, they can attend from home using a telephone and a computer with an internet connection.
After you register, you will be provided with a phone number and password to enter the webinar. At the scheduled time, each participant logs onto the webinar web site and then calls the phone number for the audio line. The presenter's voice will be heard over the telephone, while the presentation is visible on your computer screen once you log in. Usually the presentation is in the form of a PowerPoint or other slide slow, but the presenter may also show screen shots of his or her computer, navigate to other web sites, etc.
Depending on the webinar, you may be able to answer questions during the presentation by typing them in, "raising your hand" by clicking on a session button, or simply speaking them if your instructor has allowed for that. Many instructors will "poll" the audience by asking for specific feedback that you type into a field on the web site.
Most webinars last approximately one hour and are recorded. Many can be downloaded to your computer for later playback, either as a full recording or separately as an audio file and a presentation file.
Want to learn more? ReadyTalk, our webinar service provider, offers samples of several webinars you can attend for free. Click here for more information.
Webinars are currently being scheduled for 2010. Please continue to check this site for updates, or visit our Professional Development Opportunities page for a full list of courses and workshops.
- CMP and Technology Webinar Series - a series of 1-hour webinars focusing on different aspects of the Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP) model, as well as using technology in your classroom. Webinars will take place from January 21 to May 13, and will be Thursday afternoons from 4-5 PM. A detailed scheduled and registration information will be posted in December; webinar topics are listed below:
- SmartMusic for Band, Choir and Orchestra
- Setting Up Your SmartMusic Gradebook
- GarageBand in the Classroom, Parts 1 & 2
- ProTools Recording and Editing Software
- What is CMP?
- CMP: Getting to the Heart
- The Most Important Part of the CMP Model Is...
- CMP: How to be Intentional
- CMP: Affective Rehearsals
- Technology and CMP
- CMP: Bringing it Home
- CMP: What To Do When the Workshop Ends
- Gifted and Talented Webinar Series - a series of 1-hour webinars for gifted/talented coordinators and music educators on how to use the new Music Identification Handbook/Gifted and Talented Resource Guide, Spring 2010 - dates TBA
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