Webinars

Upcoming Webinars

Volunteer Program Management: Part 3, Trouble Shooting and Avoiding Problems

Karin Hostetter
Thursday, September 12, 2024
10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern (2 hours)
$65 Regular Registration / $0 with Professional Member Discount / $50 with NAI Member Discount

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.

Karin Hostetter is a founding, life member of NAI and has been involved with the certification program since its earliest days. She currently holds her CIG, CIH, CIGT, and CIHT. She has completed both the Planning and Coaching workshops as well and is one of NAI's five Lead Trainers. Karin helped moved NAI's certification program to the online format when is became necessary, believing that online learning could and should be just as engaging as face-to-face training. Karin has written several articles for Legacy, serves as a reviewer for CIGT applicants, scores media and Legacy awards, and is a frequently seen presenter at national and regional workshops.

Her career in interpretation includes front line interpretation for natural and cultural institutions including first-person living history; facilitating many national program trainings such as Project WILD, Project WET, Project Learning Tree, and others; training college students, staff, and volunteers both across the US and internationally. As owner of Interpret This, Karin offers a variety of face-to-face and online training programs around interpretive skills, interpretive writing, volunteer program management, as well as program and curricula development.

Interpretive Writing Strategies

Alan Leftridge
Thursday, October 3, 2024
10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern (2 hours)
$65 Regular Registration / $0 with Professional Member Discount / $50 with NAI Member Discount

Interpretive writing requires writers to have a deep knowledge of their readers' interests to make meaningful connections, relate to readers' values, and be personable. This session targets the need to use figurative language and vivid words and to be concise and focused to meet communication goals and honor readers' interests.

Alan Leftridge served for two decades as senior editor for the Interpreter and Legacy magazines at NAI and the Western Interpreters Association. Since 2000, he has conducted 150 interpretive writing seminars and Certified Interpretive Guide trainings across North America. He authored ten books on cultural heritage and natural history interpretation.

Being Personal with Virtual Interpretation

Nikki Rohde
Thursday, November 14, 2024
10:00am Pacific/1:00pm Eastern (1 hour)
$55 Regular Registration / $0 with Professional Member Discount / $40 with NAI Member Discount

Delivering online programs isn’t simply replacing the in-person experience with a recorded one. Audiences respond differently to online programs. This session will explore ways that interpreters can put the personal aspect of personal interpretation into virtual settings for meaningful and engaging programs.

Since 2015, Nikki has been an independent trainer for the National Association for Interpretation’s Certified Interpreter Guide curriculum which went virtual in 2020. Nikki has taught over 25 courses on Zoom so far offering students a chance to develop and deliver online programming in addition to in-person experiences.

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Pre-registration is required for all webinars. Registration closes at 6 a.m. Pacific the day of the webinar. You must sign in to your NAI account to register for a webinar. If you need help, email [email protected] to have your login credentials reset. Once you register for a webinar, you will receive an email confirming your registration as well as the webinar date and time.

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Group Discounts

Institutional and Commercial members can register staff (who do not hold current individual memberships) at the member rate. Institutional and Commercial liaison members can check their rosters by visiting their organization's account page. Contact [email protected] to update your roster.

Cancellation Policy

NAI will accept registration cancellations or changes, in writing, up to 5 business days prior to a webinar. Participants can choose to change their registration to a different course or webinar of equal or lesser value for free, or receive a refund minus a $10 processing fee. Changes and cancellations should be emailed to [email protected]

All paid participants will be sent a link to the recording of the webinar, when available.

Continuing Education Hours

You will earn continuing education hours equal to the duration of the webinar. NAI staff will verify your attendance and automatically record the hours on your account. To ensure we can verify your attendance, please login to the webinar with your full name via Zoom. We recommend you check for any system updates to your computer or Zoom prior to the webinar to ensure your ability to login.

Previous Webinar Recordings

Webinar recordings can be purchased for a small fee and viewed by any sized group. Recordings are archived in categories ranging from Culture and History to Career Development. Visit our online store to search and purchase webinar recordings.

Interested in Presenting a Webinar?

We are always looking for new webinar presenters. If you have a great idea for a webinar that you would like to present, email [email protected]!