How Web Conferencing Provides Educational Opportunities

Written by John Simpson


Many colleges have been expanding their curriculums overrepparttar last decade to include online classes and web conferences have played a significant role.

A feature that only requires an Internet connection to access, a web conference allows instructors to interact with their students by lecture, discussion or question and answer. Whiteboards can be employed through web conferencing, as can slideshows, allowingrepparttar 142075 instructor to demonstrate examples or share graphics that illustrate their point.

While many online classes also utilize web pages, message boards and emails,repparttar 142076 web conference allows for a lecture period and if a student is 'absent,' they can replayrepparttar 142077 lesson.

Also, with web conferences, lectures can be 'recorded' and attached onrepparttar 142078 syllabus page for viewing asrepparttar 142079 students achieve that part ofrepparttar 142080 semester. This not only allows more freedom forrepparttar 142081 instructor, but also for students with regard to flexible enrollment.

Online college courses allow more people than ever to haverepparttar 142082 college experience. Freed fromrepparttar 142083 obligation of committing two or three hours a week to a physical classroom (not including drive time) lets everyone from full time employees to full time parents take advantage ofrepparttar 142084 opportunities for higher education.

Technology has a way to breed progress and nowhere is that statement more visible than inrepparttar 142085 utilization of web conferences in online courses.

Online courses are not for every student, because they require a certain amount of self-motivation and drive. They also require thatrepparttar 142086 students work to completion withoutrepparttar 142087 pressure of physically presenting themselves week after week.

How Not to Write a Press Release

Written by Michele Pariza Wacek


Several years ago, when I was working for an agency, I was fired from an account. What that means isrepparttar client didn’t want me writing for him anymore.

Another writer, a friend of mine, gotrepparttar 142032 account and life went on.

Of course, I was pretty upset byrepparttar 142033 situation. I had completed several writing projects already for that client, which had seemed to go well, and had just finished a press release when I gotrepparttar 142034 boot.

My writer friend told me later her "secret" for making this client happy. Basically, what she did was rewriterepparttar 142035 press release so it focused solely onrepparttar 142036 client andrepparttar 142037 client’s business.

I said: "But what you’ve written isn’t that newsworthy. I don’t thinkrepparttar 142038 newspaper will accept it."

She said: "That’s not whatrepparttar 142039 client wants. Therefore, I don’t worry about it."

And she was right. (She keptrepparttar 142040 account after all.) The client wanted an "I’m so great" press release. He didn’t want something that might actually result in coverage for him. He wanted something that would make him feel good when he read it.

Inrepparttar 142041 world of public relations, press releases arerepparttar 142042 explorers. They travel far and wide, visiting media outlets everywhere, and presenting information about your products and services. Media people decide whether or not to cover your business based in large part on those hard-working press releases.

So, there's a lot riding on them. Therefore, it pays to take a little extra time to make sure they're outfitted correctly forrepparttar 142043 job.

When you get an idea for a press release, ask yourself this question: "Is this something someone else would be interested in or is this something only I (and maybe my mother) would want to read?"

Sounds easy, right? Well, if it was that easy, there wouldn't be so many "Look at me -- I'm so great" press releases running amuck out there.

Unfortunately,repparttar 142044 "I'm so great" press releases are seductive. They sound so good when you read them. They whisper things like: "Of courserepparttar 142045 editors will want to write about me. I would make a wonderful human interest/special feature/business feature story. Didn't I just see a story like this about my competitor/another business last week?"

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