If you're visiting this page, you've probably volunteered to deliver a webinar to the OSUM community.  First, thanks for voluneering! This page is will serve as a guide for delivering a webinar (Web Seminar) to the OSUM community.

Step 1 - Schedule Your Webinar

All webinars will be delivered using Elluminate Live!.  Once you have a set day and time, send an email to David Botterill requesting an Elluminate Live! session.  Include the webinar name in the email.

Step 2 - Create the OSUM Event

Once you've received a confirmation email with the Elluminate Live! session link, you'll need to schedule your Webinar.  Please try to schedule the Webinar at least one week out to give enough time for advertising and promotion.

If you haven't already done so, you need to join the OSUM community at http://osum.sun.com.  Once you've joined, you can schedule an event.  Make sure you are at the top level of the OSUM before you schedule the event. You can tell by looking at the right navigation bar on OSUM under "Explore" and make sure the "Current Filter:" is blank.

This will insure that all OSUM groups see the event.

Then click on the "Events" link and select "+Add an Event".  Fill out the Event information with the following information.

Name:  "OSUM Webinar: " + The name of the webinar

Event Image:  An image for the webinar.  You can use the NetBeans or the OpenSolaris images attached to this page or create your own.  The image must be square or the OSUM site will incorrectly stretch the graphic.  I find using the dimensions 125x125 px to work.

Description:  Enter a description of the webinar.  Use this description as a guideline. You can copy and paste to get the needed links. Make sure you insert your bio information and make sure you enter the timezone for the time of the Event because the OSUM site does not support timezones.

This webinar will be conducted in English.

This webinar is scheduled for <INSERT LOCAL TIME HERE> which corresponds to:

<INSERT CORRESPONDING TIMES FOR APPLICABLE LOCALES>

Please use the <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html" >World Clock Meeting Planner</a> to convert to your local time.

The following resources related to this webinar are also available:

* <a href="http://osum.sun.com/notes/Learn_Java%2C_NetBeans%2C_OpenSolaris_%26_More!">Learn Java, NetBeans, OpenSolaris & More!</a>

*<ANY FEATURED VIDEOS TO SUPPORT THE TOPIC>
*<Projects in Repository (Technical Talk Resources)>

This webinar will give you an overview of web services, both SOAP and REST.  The webinar will also show you how to use NetBeans to help you get started with Web Service development.

This webinar will be conducted by David Botterill, who has worked at Sun for over 9 years as a software engineer with the Sun Tools team, as a NetBeans Evangelist and is currently the Global Technology Manager for Student Developer Communities.

This webinar will be conducted using Elluminate Live! You will be able
to listen to live audio via your computer speakers or ear phones and be
able to ask questions using chat/text. Please use the weblink provided
in the "Website or Map" field to login in. Please login in 5-10 minutes
early to properly configure your session. Please refer to the<a href="http://osum.sun.com/notes/OSUM_Webinars_and_Elluminate_Live%21" > Elluminate
Live! Guide</a> for system requirements and features.

Event Type:  "Webinar"

Start Time:  Enter the time the Webinar will start in your time zone.

Location: "Online Webinar"

Website or Map: Enter the "Guest" link of the Elluminate meeting you created.

Click the "Add Event" button to create the event.

Step 3 - Prepare For the Webinar

1. Prepare slides, talking points for your slides, and demo scripts.   This slide template and speaker notes template is provided for your convenience.
2. Practice.  Please schedule a practice session with David Botterill to run through at least one full practice session with Elluminate so you get a feel for the screen sharing for demos and also how the session recording works.  All sessions need to be recorded so students that missed the live webinar can see it via replay.  Make sure you practice the screen sharing, loading the whiteboard files of your slides, etc.

Step 4 - Do the Webinar

1. Make sure you RECORD the Webinar.
2. Load the lead-in slide file as the first slide.
3. Load your slides.
4. Conduct the Webinar.
5. Tell all participants to introduce themselves via the chat window by stating their name, what country they are from, and what university they are attending.
6. Reiterate that you will answer questions at the end of each slide while you are presenting the slides.

Step 5 - Webinar Followup

1. After the training, the replay links will be posted to http://osum.sun.com/notes/OSUM_Webinar_Replays
2. Create an activity in the activity repository covering your webinar topic.
   1. To access the activity repository click on the "OSUM Projects and Activities Repository" on the "Resources" window on the left navigation bar in OSUM. 
   2. Add your webinar as an activity.
   3. Edit your activity and add your slides and talking points.