What do you know about Webinars?

Janet Freeman asked me what I knew about webinars, here is my reply:

From Wikipedia

A webinar is a type of web conference, although the direction of the presentation more often than not is primarily one way from the presenter to the audience as in a Webcast, which is transmission of information in one direction only, like watching a concert on the internet. A webinar however can be designed to be interactive between the presenter and audience. A webinar is 'live' in the sense that information is conveyed according to an agenda, with a starting and ending time. In most cases, the presenter may speak over a standard telephone line, pointing out information being presented on screen, and the audience can respond over their own telephones, preferably a speakerphone. The word 'webinar' is a portmanteau combining the words web and seminar.

From Idealware: "Wednesday, March 28, 2007

New Idealware Article: An Introduction to Screencasting
We have another great feature article this month, from the incomparable Beth Kanter. As many of you likely know, Beth has been doing a number of screencasts of late – for instance, on Tagging and on Widgets. These screencasts show video of her screen, along with her voice, as a way to demonstrate complex computer tasks or processes. She’s been learning a lot, and as Beth is prone to do, she’s written an article to share those learnings with the rest of us.

Her article, An Introduction to Screencasting, covers a lot of ground: the many purposes with which screencasts can help, how to go about planning and “filming” your screencast, posting and distributing it, and the software that can help in all of it."

And from:

Knowplace.ca a site and community dedicated to using Moodle to build on-line learning.

"Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities."

That's what I know.

What do you know?