 Hi, this is Susie Henderson with EDUCAUSE. Thanks for joining me for EDUCAUSE Online Presenter Coaching, a series of recorded sessions for online speakers on subjects such as Adobe Connect features, how to design your presentation for delivery within Adobe Connect, and how to share your desktop or specific applications within Adobe Connect. Our goal is to provide you with the tools and resources you need to be a successful online presenter. In the next few minutes, we will talk about EDUCAUSE Speaker Concierge Web Resources and online event technologies. Are you familiar with the EDUCAUSE Web Resources that you can access anytime you have an internet connection? Do you know how to easily locate them? To quickly and easily locate the Speaker Concierge resources, scroll to the bottom of any EDUCAUSE web page to find the resource links shown here. In the second column, under Conferences and Events, locate Speaker Concierge and click on it. This will take you to the main Speaker Concierge web page, which is displayed. As you can see, there is a sampling of resource links for face-to-face and online presenters. Now let's click on Design a Presentation to begin to drill down to Dedicated Resource Page for online presenters. There are also dedicated resources for online presenters within the Deliverer Presentation and Facilitate Discussion tabs too. Under Design a Presentation, notice that there are three sub-tabs. Click on Online Presenters. Notice the short, scrolling resources for online presentation best practices, which provides quick, helpful tips from Leverage Your Voice to Practice Makes Perfect. They provide really helpful information. To stop on any one resource, just click on it. To scroll through the resources, simply click again. Next, scroll down on that same page to view online presentation design tips and resources. Listed below are URLs to excellent resources from well-known and successful presentation gurus such as Gar Reynolds. You too can become an online presenter guru by reading or listening to these resources and incorporating good design elements and strategies into your session. If you only have six minutes, watch the EDUCAUSE screencast Best Practices for Presenting Online. This will help you to learn more about the power of voice and engaging your audience. Click on the words Watch Here in the lower right hand corner to download and listen to the session. Every EDUCAUSE conference provides the speakers with an information page to organize the information that you need to prepare for and deliver your session at the conference from one location. You will find deadlines, example sessions to watch, the entire conference schedule, the optional EDUCAUSE PowerPoint template and the link to upload your completed presentation and links to register for the conference and locate housing. Presenters must register for the conference to present online. However, if registering and attending the face-to-face conference and presenting online no additional registration is required besides the face-to-face. Here is an example of the speaker information pages for a regional conference. Take a moment to look at some of the different tabs. Scroll down to find more valuable information for the exclusive online speakers. So to recap, EDUCAUSE provides multiple sources of information for speakers on the speaker concierge webpages and on the conference-specific speaker information pages for each event. If you would like to make suggestions for new resources or improvements, please send them to speakerconcierge at educause.edu. It's important for you to be familiar with the technologies used to support the session that you will deliver. There are currently three main environments in use. There are two largest events, the EDUCAUSE Online Annual Conference and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting. The conference experience is delivered through INXPO, a virtual conference center. Attendees can access the links for all sessions through the EXPO interface by clicking on Sessions in the top navigation bar, or you can locate your own session information from there. Two types of online conference sessions are offered, webcasts and exclusive online sessions. Both are recorded for archiving in the EDUCAUSE Library and later playback. Here is an example of the webcast screen layout. The blue screen is where the PowerPoints or presentations are projected. There is also a live feed of the presenter labeled Presenter Video. Each of your slides is displayed in the small windows under the presentation. And on the right side is a chat window where attendees can share comments, URLs, and you can ask them to respond to questions, offer solutions, etc. Participants have the option to configure the layout to suit the audience or the topic. The beauty of a webcast is that the sessions are professionally recorded and captured for on-demand playback in the future. In some cases, we have as many or more attendees watching the recording as attending the live session. For those of you presenting an exclusive online session, those sessions are delivered within Adobe Connect. Here is a typical layout with six pods or tools. Pods are combined together to create a layout. Starting from the upper left, the pods are speaker identification, chat and ask questions, poll, roster with one-on-one chat, information, and the large presentation window. To learn more about Adobe Connect, view the presenter coaching recording, getting to know Adobe Connect. We enjoy hearing from you. Please let us know if this information was helpful and how we can improve it to meet your needs by emailing speakerconcierge.edu. This is Susie Henderson for EDUCAUSE.