Webinar: A Teaching Experiment Part I

I recently had the honor of giving a university lecture on diversity for West Virginia University's Diversity Week 2010. The title of my talk was "The Diversity Rationale: What it Means and Why it Matters."

Rather than the usual stand-up-in-an-auditorium-and-talk format, I presented the talk via webinar. It was sponsored by WVU Extended Learning. The link to the archived here. (Note that you have to have an updated version of Java in order to access the program.) I would appreciate your feedback on how it (the webinar) came across, its utility -- particularly from the point of view of a student who happened upon the discussion -- and how useful this approach may be for teaching purposes.

In a subsequent posting, I plan to reflect in depth on my experiences in using a webinar as a teaching and lecturing medium. Suffice it to say for now that the experience was "surreal."

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