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Explore our extensive collection of recorded webinars, offering valuable insights and practical skills across a range of interpretive topics. Perfect for professional development, these webinars are available for purchase and can be accessed anytime, anywhere.

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Professional Development

Includes content aimed at personal and professional growth, skill-building, and career advancement within the field.

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Creating A Place-Based Story for Your Site
Jessica Doleh
90 minutes
Date Recorded: June 12, 2025

Explore and participate in the process I took to create a site-specific story for my site and leave with the foundations of your own. No matter where someone works, anybody can use these techniques to write their own story and provide a unique experience for their guests.
Regular price: 40.00
Discounted member price: 15.00
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WEB0612256/12/2025 12:00:00 AM
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Evaluation for Improvement
Karin Hostetter
2 hours
Date Recorded: April 10, 2025

One use for evaluation is to improve products such as exhibits, programs, and written communication. Knowing your goal and objectives and then designing questions to measure success toward meeting those is a skill that improves with practice. We will work with best practices to write questions which give meaningful and useable information. Emphasis is on development evaluation tools which give practical and useable information and not statistical analysis.

Regular price: 45.00
Discounted member price: 20.00
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WEB0410254/10/2025 12:00:00 AM
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Rolling Stories: Interpretation on the Road
Kristin Robinson
2 hours
Date Recorded: March 27, 2025

Dreaming of getting paid to travel the world as an interpreter? Learn how to adapt those familiar principles and tools to over-the-road work. We discussed strategies to interpret new content every day for days on end, and other skills to help you thrive in this unusual interpretive environment.
Regular price: 45.00
Discounted member price: 20.00
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WEB0327253/31/2025 12:00:00 AM
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Turning a Teen Program into a Career Pipeline
Leigh Spencer and Katy Carchedi
2 hours
Date Recorded: March 13, 2025

Using the Great Plains Zoo's successful Junior ZooKeeper program as an example, we discussed the process of creating a teen involvement program, managing its growth, and transforming it into a true youth pipeline for your organization.
Regular price: 45.00
Discounted member price: 20.00
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Volunteer Program Management: Behind the Scenes
Trouble Shooting and Avoiding Problems
Karin Hostetter
2 hours
Date Recorded: September 12, 2024

No matter how well thought out and responsive a volunteer program is designed, challenges crop up. This session investigates firing volunteers, navigating change, solving problems, managing liability, and structuring programs. How up-to-date is your volunteer handbook? Bring challenges from your own volunteer program and we will look at what might be changed structurally to give better results.
Regular price: 45.00
Discounted member price: 20.00
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Volunteer Program Management: Keeping Volunteers
Keeping Volunteers
Karin Hostetter
2 hours
Date Recorded: August 8, 2024

Keeping volunteers engaged and happy takes work. This session focuses on training, recognition, and evaluation of volunteers. Why do volunteers give their time? What are they looking for in return? Matching volunteer wants with organization deliverables makes all the difference in whether a volunteer sticks around or looks for another place to offer time and expertise.
Regular price: 45.00
Discounted member price: 20.00
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Volunteer Program Management: Attracitng and Selecting
Attracting and Selecting the Right Volunteer
Karin Hostetter
2 hours
Date Recorded: July 11, 2024

Volunteers are the backbone to many of our organizations. They accomplish huge amounts of work and save us thousands of dollars in wages. But how do you get the right volunteer for the job? This session explores writing job descriptions, marketing the job, and interviewing prospective volunteers. You will leave with forms, ideas, and questions to get you started right away. Even if you already have a volunteer program, these tips will help you make the right match of volunteer and task.
Regular price: 45.00
Discounted member price: 20.00
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Time Management for Interpreters
Matt Villamaino
90 minutes
Date Recorded: April 26, 2024

We all have the same amount of time each week to do what needs to be done. Learn how you can use that time more efficiently to become more productive. In addition to covering core time management fundamentals, we will also cover how to integrate the challenges of scheduling while working a public facing job with minimal administrative time.
Regular price: 40.00
Discounted member price: 15.00
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RECquity: Managers Session
Karen Houston
60 minutes
Date Recorded: May 17, 2023

RECquity is found at the intersection of recreation and equitable access for all visitors of interpretive sites and programs, regardless of how they experience the world. This webinar provides a basic introduction into the diverse and dynamic world of disability, with a focus on how management can support staff to provide meaningful and equitable experiences for members of the disability community.
Regular price: 35.00
Discounted member price: 10.00
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Inspiring Interpreters to Change
Dr. Jacquie Gilson
90 minutes
Date Recorded: June 14, 2022

What do you do if you’re excited to offer audience-centered, participatory, and dialogic interpretation at your site, but your staff and volunteers are lukewarm about changing? Jacquie will share how she got buy in from her staff to try new techniques. We’ll look at how change models can help and share ideas.
Regular price: 40.00
Discounted member price: 15.00
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