Web Seminars are free, interactive, live, online, 90-minute sessions of professional development featuring content experts from NSTA government partners such as NASA, FDA, NSF, NSDL, and NOAA, as well as NSTA Press authors. To assure you of a pleasant experience during the Web Seminar, the first 15 minutes, of the 90-minute program are dedicated to training to give you time to get acquainted with the interactive tools. We strongly advise all first time web seminar participants to be part of the 15-minute introduction.
Throughout the science content session you will have the opportunity to interact with the presenters in several ways. You can speak to the presenters using your computer microphone, communicate with them via the direct messaging window, by responding to poll questions, or through the use of "mark-up" tools that will allow you to mark the presenter's slides.
In addition, time is provided to answer your questions. You can type your questions to the presenters via the "Direct Messaging" window, or you can ask your questions using your computer microphone. The experience will be a rewarding hour of collegial learning and discussion that will give you direct access to the presenters.
The web seminar software NSTA uses is called Elluminate Live! As the date for the web seminar gets close, go to: www.elluminate.com/support to make sure that you have Java Web Start on your computer before the day of the seminar and visit the Elluminate Live! CONFIGURATION ROOM to set-up your computer's audio. This will verify that your computer has the proper plug-in and is configured to participate in the seminar.
In addition, we recommend that you watch a 5-minute RECORDED ORIENTATION of the
features of Elluminate Live! In addition please watch a 5-minute RECORDED ORIENTATION of the features of Elluminate Live!
For more information contact webseminars@nsta.org.
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