Webinars

Webinars are online conferences, lectures, seminars, training sessions or workshops. They are simply a way of organising an event on the internet which can be attended either remotely from any part of the world or together with a face to face event. Webinars are interactive and online participants are able to contribute in the same way as those attending physically.

Contributions can be made either by voice or by text using a chat function. There are small icons such as a hand to raise your hand to speak, or submit a text question or you can chat with other participants who are all listed in the chat box.

Webinars can be voice only or they can be a mixture of voice and visual using presentation software or just the computer screen. Webinars are generally recorded and presentations stored so they are available for participants when ever they choose. They take place in real time which makes them an effective learning and conference forum that is not location restrictive.

Webinars use two types of software.

First is the course design software such as Moodle which is an open source course management system used to develop online training, courses, workshops and even complete websites.

Second is the acutal delivery software used to deliver the course, workshop, conference etc. Two open source examples are elluminate and Ready Talk.

How Kabissa hopes to use Webinars

Webinars are the most effective method of conducting online courses, workshops, seminars for the benefit of Kabissa members who come from all over the continent. We hope to provide third party Webinars to Kabissa members by notifiying you of any Webinars we believe would be helpful to members and their organisations.

Do you have any ideas for Webinars? Is there a particuarly area such as funding applications, or online campaigns, how to create your own blog, citizen's journalism, podcasting?

If so please send us an email at community@kabissa.org with the words Webinar Ideas in the subject line.