webinars

Committed to improving your performance but can’t always travel to meetings? Presented by trusted field experts, Americans for the Arts webinars are flexible enough to meet your demanding schedule and affordable enough for multiple use. At a member price of $85 per site, you can choose to learn from your desk or lower the cost per person by inviting a group to learn with you. Hosting a webinar site is also a great way to connect with colleagues more often! 

What Is a Webinar?
Webinars are 90-minute online seminars on a current topic, issue, or trend. This new media platform enables a high level of interaction with the presenter, other attendees, and the content. To join a webinar, you will need access to high speed internet and a phone line for at least 90 minutes. Some webinars may have advance reading assignments or post event follow-up items.

How Are These Webinars Different?
The Americans for the Arts webinars are designed around the following guiding principles:

• Topics are relevant and responsive to meet your immediate needs.
• Field experts showcase best practices and illustrate innovative models.
• Tips and tools that you can use in your current context are always included.
• Instructional design methods take into account how people learn best.
• Interaction is prioritized to expand professional connections.

Webinar Tips
These ideas can help you get the most out of your webinar session:

• Make webinar sessions open to all members of your staff, or invite other colleagues and constituents. As long as everyone is in the same location, the price is the same!
• Sign in to the webinar about 15 minutes before it starts so you can get used to the interface and chat with other participants. 
• Once you sign in, you can watch as your colleagues from across the nation sign in! Everyone will have the opportunity to interact and chat with each other by writing a message in the text box, and then using the drop down menu at the right of the screen to specify who you want to connect with. 
• Prepare some questions you'd like to ask ahead of time, so you can focus on the content.
• If you want to ask a live question over the phone, press *1 during the open question and answer period. 
• After the webinar session is over, keep a file for any handouts or resources that were given out. Develop some strategies to integrate the lessons taught into your organization and ways to share your new found knowledge with someone else!   

Registration Is Open!
The following Americans for the Arts webinars are scheduled and open for registration. 

• September 10, 2008
  Better Program Evaluation for Arts Education    
  Presenter: Patti Saraniero, Professor of Theatre and Education, University of San Diego
  
                     This webinar is generously supported by

• September 17, 2008
  Starting a Local Emerging Leaders Network
  Presenter: Mitch Menchaca, Senior Director of Programs, Arizona Commission on the Arts
• October 1, 2008
  Creative Aging: The Untapped Demographic
  Presenter: Gay Hanna, Executive Director, National Center for Creative Aging
• October 15, 2008
  Leadership Succession
  Presenter: Lisa May Simpson, Program Director, Illinois Arts Council
  Co-Presenter:  Ra Joy, Executive Director, Illinois Arts Alliance
• October 29, 2008
  New Technologies in Professional Networking
  Presenter: Ron Evans, Director of Local Marketing & Technology, Artsopolis
• November 19, 2008
  Successful Models of Rural Development
  Presenter: Carlo Cuesta, Managing Partner, Creation in Common
• December 10, 2008
  Leadership in Tough Times
  Presenter: Robert L. Lynch, President and CEO, Americans for the Arts

Click here for more information on each topic and to register for any of the above webinars.

The following webinars are in development now. Have a topic you would like to see? Contact us at leadership@artsusa.org.

• Public Art 101 for Administrators
• Public Art 101 for Artists
• Branding the Arts in Your City 
• Models for Evaluating Civic Engagement
• Arts Education and School Boards
• Arts Education and Principals
• Arts Education and Superintendents
• Arts Education and Parents
• Arts in the New Federal Administration