Thanks a lot for the positive feedback Roro and Asteria (Tya). I was quite busy in preparing the session, particularly because it included a Weather and Forecast Discussion. This required me to download the latest data on the morning prior to the session. However the enthusiastic feedback by the audience during the interactive sessions and the very busy chatbox action envigorated me. I felt full of energy after the session :-)
Altogether there were 40 "computer terminals" active during the session. I recognise the fact that there may have been multiple participants sharing a terminal at some locations. Participants were from Australia, Indonesia, Japan, China and Singapore. The average "Interest Rating" as obtained from the Webinar Attendee Report for the 40 computer terminals was 89 percent.
The CALMET component included incorporating the four types of audience interaction (A, B, C and D) as discussed during my CALMET 2016 Topic 1 into the Weather and Forecast Discussion. At the conclusion of the Weather and Forecast discussion the attendees were asked to vote on their favourite method of audience interaction and I have attached the result in the attachment below.
As you can see, interactions B, C and D were more popular than interaction A. Example A poses a very "open" type of question, with the least "cues" and "guidance" given.
Some feedback from audience members as forwarded in the chatbox included: "C was easier to interpret", "we preferred D because many wind names that we did not know about were introduced", "example D because it shows low-level and upper-level difference". It appears that some of the attendees based their feedback on the "meteorological content" of the example given rather on the "interactiveness" of the method used. This in spite of the fact that I specifically asked attendees to judge what method of interaction they preferred. Maybe this was misunderstood by some members of the audience, maybe due to language difficulties.
Towards the end of my online presentation I summarised "things to look out for when conducting a session" as per the slide "Summary - some lessons learned" as discussed during Topic 1.
For those CALMET attendees who could not attend, the recording of the session will be posted soon. I will let you know.
Bodo