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How to Prepare Yourself for a Public Session

What are Public Sessions?

Public Sessions are live online teaching sessions on WiZiQ delivered by subject experts on various topics, open to the public to attend. Public Sessions offer value to attendees as they get more information and they can interact with experts on a given topic. Teachers get more exposure as subject experts when they deliver a Public Session.

Applying for a Public Session

After signing-up on WiZiQ and creating your professional profile, you can apply for a Public Session. Once your credentials are validated and session approved, it will appear on the Public Sessions page. If you have already done a Public Session, it becomes easier to request for the next session as a validated teacher; you can just request for holding the next session and it can be put up faster. 

Preparing for your Public Session

• If it is your first Public Session, ask some of your friends or colleagues to join you for a mock pre-session, where you can practice and can get some feedback from them about the whole class. 
• Write down some of your ideas you don’t want to miss from the class on a paper, and put it next to you.
•  After making your PPT presentation (if you use one), don’t forget to upload it to WiZiQ Content at least one hour before your session starts, because it needs some time to get compiled on WiZiQ. You can also upload your PPT direct from your desktop when you are in the classroom during your session, but then it takes precious session time.
• Print out the presentation in reminders so you will know which slide is coming. You can write some hints on it as well.

Marketing your session

·       Giving a Public Session will raise your reputation and you will become more popular amongst students. The WiZiQ marketing team promotes the Public Sessions through many channels to get more attendees. But to get the word out, it helps if you market your session at your end also. Some tips:

• Make a post on your blog/website with the attendee link in it, and also write a short description about the session. Put a link to your WiZiQ profile and write a few lines how attendees can sign-up for WiZiQ.
•  Tell other bloggers you know to put a link to your session on their webpage.
•  Offline-market your upcoming session amongst people around you or your students if you are already teaching offline.

Before starting the session

• Make sure that your audio and video devices are working properly (if the webcam has a microphone make sure you are using the headset’s microphone). This can be done by choosing the mike in the audio settings.
• If you are teaching in a shared environment, tell others around you not to disturb you, and to avoid downloading heavy files or videos as it takes away the Internet bandwidth and it can cause bad audio or slow video.
• If it’s a longer session, put some water next to you for refreshment.

We hope that these tips will enable you and your attendees get a great teaching and learning experience using WiZiQ.

Tamas Toth

Free Webinars Online by Educationists on WiZiQ

Our endeavor is to make WiZiQ a generic brand in online education. WiZiQ has gained significant recognition in education segments including IIT/JEE, AIEEE, PMT, CAT, GMAT, GRE, TOEFL, CLAT, CBSE Class Xth and XIIth, Civil Services examination, Management, Personality Development, Meditation and the list goes on…

Till now, we have organized over 80 ‘Public Sessions’ (online webinars) on WiZiQ. Public sessions are free live web seminars on recent interesting topics.  These are presented by prominent educationists having a huge fan following. The portal has been endorsed by celebrity teachers, authors and educationists. Some of our Public Session presenters on WiZiQ:

1.       Dr. HC Verma – The most read author of Physics , professor at IIT Kanpur

2.       Dr. P Bahadur – The most read author of Chemistry, professor at DAV college Muzaffarnagar

3.       Dr S Biswas, Dr A Biswas – Authors of Pradeep’s objective Biology

4.       Dr. DC Pandey – Author of numerous books on Physics

5.       Mark Cruthers – History teacher and Home Schooling expert, California, United States

6.       Manoj Tyra – Author of the best selling book on Quicker Mathematics.

7.       Gaurav Tekriwal – President, Vedic Mathematics forum of India, mentee of Shakuntla Devi.

8.       VP Gupta – Director, Rau’s IAS study Circle, New Delhi

9.       Sanjay Singh – Mathematics Mentor for IIT/JEE AIEEE aspirants

10.   Ananya Ganguly – Chemistry teacher for  IIT/JEE AIEEE aspirants

11.   Dr. ID Shukla – Phonetics, Linguistic and Communications  expert

12.   Rajesh Pandey – Director of  People Factor and Ex VP of HR at the Quark Media house

We have successfully connected students to the finest educationists throughout the world and are in process of establishing a relationship with educationists in varied subject areas. WiZiQ invites you to take the best advantage of our Public Sessions initiative. Check www.wiziq.com/public for viewing live, upcoming and archived public sessions. And if you are an expert in your subject you can apply for giving your own public session.

Mayank J Kumar

Maria H Anderson's WiZiQ Demos

Practice Sessions on WiZiQ

Maria H Anderson will be doing practice sessions on WiZiQ for instructors to help them discover how they can use WiZiQ for e-teaching.

Maria writes, "There was a lot of interest at ICTCM in this little program called WizIQ and I offered to do a demo this week to let instructors try it out."

Directions and Tips

Maria has also given step-wise directions on what to do before these sessions to help attendees to prepare themselves for a smooth experience. I would like to add that to avoid echo issues, it is best for attendees with speakers to not activate their microphones; virtual classroom protocol is as important for a smooth session as is protocol in traditional classrooms. Also, I tried to answer a question recently: what's the "best" web conferencing software; this post includes some tips on what to expect in virtual classrooms and how to avoid probable issues that could be encountered in all web conferencing systems.

Session Links:

ICTCM Demo - Friday, March 14 [3:30 PM To 4:30 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)]

ICTCM Demo - Sunday, March 16 [7:00 PM To 8:00 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)]

Public Sessions on WiZiQ

If you are an expert in your subject and want to publicly share your sessions with everyone, it is a good idea to get these listed on our Public Sessions page. Subject experts can get visibility on WiZiQ this way. We also try to publicize your sessions by reaching out to audiences that are interested in your subject. You would need to send a request for us to help you with that.

Jagdeep Singh Pannu

What Can You Teach On WiZiQ?

Our latest video on YouTube. Enjoy :-)

Jagdeep Singh Pannu

Cat 2007 Preparation Free Help in Live Seminars

We have collaborated with TCY, to bring to our members a series of live, online web seminars titled:

“Countdown to CAT 2007”

These sessions are focused at helping you strategize your preparation in the last few weeks before CAT.

Inaugural Session:

Topic: Ever Changing CAT Pattern

Presenters:

Atul Prashar

An Industrial Engineer by qualification, Quant Expert, and a Certified Business English Trainer, Atul is working in the capacity of Center Head - TCY CHD since 2004 with TCY Chandigarh center.

Munish Kumar

Munish has a rich experience of teaching Mathematics and Data Interpretation to CAT/ MBA aspirants at TCY. His short-cut methods have helped thousands of students eliminate the use of pen-paper considerably and solve questions very fast.

Schedule and Participation:

To check schedule and participate, simply visit:

http://wiziq.com/session/910 and register. As always, participation in these seminars is absolutely free.

You can leave a comment here if you any questions about these sessions.

Jagdeep Singh Pannu