Webinar

=__Webinar__= Rhonda Baumgardner

Introduction
====A webinar is a web-based seminar or presentation, discussion, demonstration, or training session. Because a seminar is presented online, many people around the world can listen and be involved. This reduces the cost in travel, hotel, and location prices. Sometimes there is a fee, depending on the host. There are many free webinars availble, though. Webinars can be viewed as a powerpoint slide and are interactive through live chats, polling questions, or questions via text boxes. To attend a webinar, you need a computer with internet and speakers to hear the presenter. There usually is a registration process, a specific date, and a start and end time.====

History
Eric R. Korb created the term webinar in 1998. He created an online meeting service for the company he was working for and decided to call it a webinar, for web-based seminar or web conferencing.

Application
A vodcast or a podcast can be created from a webinar so that you can listen to it whenever. It is not live, like a webinar is and there isn't any live interaction. Therefore a webinar can be converted to a podcast/vodcast and listened to at any time. This can be useful for classroom lectures. Teachers can use webinars for professional deveolopment purposes and learning new methods of teaching classic concepts. Also parents can attend webinars provided by the school, which can be on topics such as drug awareness,bullying, or autism. Major corporations and cmpanies can use webinars as well. Webinars are also considered part of the digital learning environment, which is becoming very popular in today's classrooms.

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