Reflecting on the webinar life!
I think I now officially like webinars! I've always been kind of -- well perhaps suspicious is too strong a word, but less than enthusiastic about webinars as a format for learning. They seem to carry a very high risk for being difficult to relate to, and presenting material in a stilted, difficult-to-hear format. I have attended very few webinars in my working life outside of a couple of software demos (which felt overly drawn-out), and so perhaps my perspective is also a product of only seeing them from afar.. Well, regardless, I very much enjoyed being a participant and a presenter in webinars over the past couple of weeks. Some of the main reasons: The webinars emphasized asking the right questions . Even for topics that don't typically capture my imgination like the intricacies of copyright and orphaned works were extremely well-presented and engaging, and I think the heart of that was the emphasis on creating a space for questions that felt genuinely meaningful and ...