{"id":1957,"date":"2021-08-27T12:06:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T12:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2021-08-27T12:08:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T12:08:15","slug":"engaging-the-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/posts\/1957","title":{"rendered":"Engaging the audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n<p>Have you been to a presentation where the presenter went on and on without really thinking of their audience? Have you been that presenter?<a style=\"font-size: 1.125rem; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/stadium-2921657_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/stadium-2921657_640.jpg\" alt=\"Empty seats at a stadium\" width=\"640\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Increasingly, our audiences get distracted in\u00a0presentations, partly due to digital devices. But are there ways of keeping them engaged using the same digital devices?<\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n<p>There are many audience engagement software out there. This year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alt.ac.uk\/\">Association for Learning Technology<\/a> Conference (ALTC) presenters have the chance to try out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wooclap.com\/\">Wooclap <\/a>software. Unfortunately, I wasn&#8217;t able to join the webinar but I did watch a personal link sent to the recording. The software is seamlessly integrated with presentation software which is great. However, the font size of the software was raised as a concern by participants of the recorded session. In fact, two in five participants asked about this but the software font size could not be made bigger. I was worried when watching the webinar as someone looking for accessible solutions. But being a browser-based solution, I wonder why zooming was not tried. A participant also reported difficulty with iPhone SE screen (the same model that I use).<\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n<p>Despite being given the chance to use this new software for the presentation, I have decided to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sli.do\/\">Slido<\/a>. This is based on several reasons including my familiarity, it is a web-based system, and the ease for the audience. If I had more time to test Wooclap with some of my office colleagues to make sure the audience experience is what I want it to be I would have gone for it. But at this time I am sticking to the software I am used to.<\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been to a presentation where the presenter went on and on without really thinking of their audience? Have you been that presenter? Increasingly,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}