Category: Creativity & Innovation
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Video gets better and easier and…
If your not using video in your elearning or normal training room learning…I don’t know why not. It has become so easy to produce good video content. It is just as easy to edit that video and simply stupefyingly easy to upload it to the internet or just place it on your laptop so your…
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Trainers who have failed
A few days ago I posted an article titled Trail and Error Training. Basically I was saying that to improve as a trainer you have to try new things and expect some to fail. I came across this post which outlines 10 great failures. It is an interesting read about how some great people…
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Google+ and learning
There is a lot of noise about Google+ on the internet right now. It is very new and some people have advanced access. Unfortunately I am not one of them but I have read an excellent introduction to the new social media platform. There is also a Google tour of the project. Google+ appears to…
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Business ideas and the future of learning
There is no doubt that the internet is where the future of training and assessment is located but when and what it will look like are still the two big questions. When is an illusive question as it has been predicted many times before and has always been inaccurate. Elearning keeps smoldering away, just waiting…
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How to write training blogs
I have been teaching participants how to write blogs over the last few weeks as a part of elearning and coincidently a Linkedin group that I belong to has had a number of posts on what training blogs are out there and what should I write. Two things come from this. One, why not try…
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Be very afraid or greatly excited
I really do enjoy and appreciate my IPAD. It is a great media delivery device. I am not that sure about it’s other possibilities but I haven’t had that much time to think about it. As a book it is ok but what if that book was a different sort of book? Check out this…
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Your Resume – is it doing it’s job?
Really Ugly Résumés I was going to spend some time during the Easter break working on my resume but I things got away from me and I was actually working on a writing project for a large training organisation which had to be completed today. I am going to get to this as my eportfolio could…
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Solving Problems
Solving problems is a big part of what trainers do. I feel like that is all I have be doing this week. It starts with how do we find out what our people and organisation need ie skills, knowledge, behaviours? Problem. Then we move to what sort of training can we provide to remove the…
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Gaming, education and training
Here is a good article about gaming and education. It’s not new. It’s not telling us anything that hasn’t been told to us for quite a few years but it does get straight to the point. Why hasn’t gaming, education and training come together. It must be a perfect match? Well isn’t it? I think…
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Virtual Worlds and Training.
Elearning is a difficult concept for many people to get their head around. Introduce the concept of virtual worlds into the elearning mix and you see most trainers’ eyes glaze over. It’s just a little too far out there for most of them. It is easy to understand why if you haven’t actually experienced a…