First, I want to begin by saying I do see the benefit of a webinar . To be able to have educators from all over the world together in one virtual place, sharing ideas, is fantastic. That is, of course, if everyone attending the webinar provides useful information.
Unfortunately this did not happen for me. I was excited to learn more about the benefits of blogging in the classroom. The webinar was titled, "Blogging with Students" with special guest Kathy Cassidy. While she did show her blog and how she applies it in her classroom, there was not a lot of information from others in the webinar. Therefore, it was mostly based on one teacher's experience with blogging. I also found my attention wandering and had to refocus myself often to stay tuned with what was being said.
I would have enjoyed this more if there were more people interacting (24 participated but only a few spoke) and sharing their ideas of the usefulness of blogging in the classroom. Perhaps another webinar will provide me this experience. All in all, it was a good experience and I am looking forward to participating in more.
That is unfortunate that you had a not so great experience with the webinar. I have attended several webinars through the grant group I am part of and I found that the smaller the participation level the more I got out of it, partly because I could ask more qusetions of the teacher directly, and I also found that I was more distracted with a larger group of people participating. I am also looking to take a webinar specifically about blogging and implementing it in the classroom so perhaps I will try to find one by a different author.
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