Week 13/14 Journal Reflection- Facilitating Live Meetings

Before the M.E.T. program, I had never attended live meetings. I have now attended live chats, webinars, used conference tools, and really participated in the online learning environments. It has been a huge learning curve for me because it is all completely different than what I am used to. When I first attended the live chats, I didn't know how I felt. I attended Simple K-12 chats and live Twitter chats. The Twitter chats were very fast pace and hard to keep up with sometimes. I felt like the Simple K-12 chats depended on the audience. I attended 5 different chats and they were all completely different. The environments changed by the number of people, the type of conversations (casual vs professional), and the flow of discussion. I really enjoyed the webinars, well, some of them because of the way the presenters did their lessons. I loved the presenters that were engaging and motivating. The webinars I did not like were like that video we watched last week, monotone and no enthusiasm. Last, the web conference tools have been wonderful because I didn't really know how to use them. I knew they were out there, but didn't get the hands-on experience. I have liked learning how to use them and getting more comfortable with them. It is fun to learn the tools available. I like being able to switch from video chat to screenshots, to even just changing to chat.