Episode 147: Lecture-breakers and smart tips for virtual summits with Barbi Honeycutt, Ph.D.
She works with professors, instructors, faculty development professionals, instructional designers, graduate students, postdocs, and entrepreneurs who want to design engaging learning experiences.
Whether you're designing your first course or you've been teaching for many years, the resources Barbie shares will help break up your lectures, increase student engagement, and improve learning.
This week, I’m talking to someone who has a similar mission as me, but her audience is the higher ed sector!
I remember university lectures (or, do I?) - you would arrive, sit down, then essentially shut up and listen for a couple of hours.
Then, you’d walk away and not really retain the information that was handed over to you.
Dr Barbi Honeycutt, my guest today, works with professors, instructors, faculty development professionals, instructional designers, graduate students, postdocs, and entrepreneurs who want to design engaging learning experiences.
It's challenging to come up with new, creative ways to engage your students. Every day, when you arrive (or log in) to your classroom, you are responsible for creating a space for students to learn from you and from each other.
Barbi provides the structure, strategies, and support you need to engage students and improve learning. When you are successful, your students will be successful. And, that's why she focus’ her energy on supporting you!
In this conversation, Barbi shares her experience with teaching others how to create engaging lectures and learning experiences, how she created a virtual summit which drew hundreds of people - we dive into great detail on this one, as well as how she built her facilitation business and gained exposure through one blog article!
About my guest: Barbi Honeycutt, Ph.D.
Throughout the past 19 years, Barbi has facilitated thousands of professional development events for educators at colleges and universities throughout the world. The resources she provides are grounded in theory, informed by research, and designed for practical application.
She teaches online professional development courses and events, facilitates in-person workshops, and creates resources to help educators increase student engagement and improve learning.
Whether you're designing your first course or you've been teaching for many years, the resources Barbie shares will help break up your lectures, increase student engagement, and improve learning.
In episode you will learn:
Strategies to use during workshop to make it more exciting
How to figure out the strategy for some push back through evidence-based teaching
Practice what you’re teaching through active learning
Inspiring participants to take action after a workshop
Tips how to run a webinar and making it engaging
Questions Leanne Asked Barbie During the Interview
Tell us more about the concept of lecture breakers and what you teach people when you teach them how to teach others?
What are some strategies you’ve tried to make your workshops more exciting?
What’s your experience working with professors who used traditional lecturing throughout their life and you come in and shake up their world?
How do you inspire action after a workshop?
How did you find (and your audience) about pivoting from face to face to the virtual world?
How do you manage your time doing all the things you do?
You're a very succinct and clear communicator, have you worked on that skill or have you always had this ability to communicate clearly?
Resources
Visit Barbi Honeycutt’s website
Listen to Lecture Breakers Podcast
Connect with Barbi on Linkedin
Let Barbie know you listened to this episode, send her a tweet!
Watch the video!
About your host: Leanne Hughes
Leanne Hughes is an international facilitator, speaker and coach who loves creating unpredictable workshop experiences, that predictably work.
She combines her experience in Marketing, with her education in Human Resources and Psychology, to help leaders create engaging everyday experiences - that are so contagious they scale across teams, functions and regions.
Leanne has facilitated leadership, onboarding and team-development workshops across Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore and believes in a strengths-centred approach to learning and development. She has over 13 years’ of experience across a range of industries including mining, government and tourism sectors.
She’s the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and was a finalist in the 2018 Australian Learning Impact awards for Learning Professional of the Year.
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