Category: Creativity & Innovation
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Games families play
A recent report has revealed that 8 out of 10 parents played video games with their kids and 97 percent of Australian households with children under 12 have at least one game console. Please read the full news report item here from news.com.au. What has this got to do with training? A great deal. This…
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Education and the internet
At times we can get very carried away and create learning opportunities that are far too complex, don’t really appeal to the learner and don’t end up achieving an outcome. Sometimes keep it simple is difficult when you are on a roll. E learning is one of those areas where it is easy to forget…
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Sir Ken, Again
I have written a few times about Sir Ken Robinson. You can check these posts here, here and here. I notice now that I never posted his now famous TED speech. I can highly recommend it. Watch it here. The reason I am bringing this up now is that four years on Ken has made…
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Inside a good training program – a real example
Ask Logicool 7 has been released and can be found at all of the usual locations. I don’t think anyone else has ever done it before but in this episode we look at a good (tested) program and why it was designed the way it was. This is a blend of learning theory, learning strategy…
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Unique?
This weeks training tips 56 video has been posted at all of the usual places and this week it covers being unique. Being unique is what sets you apart from the average trainer and makes you a superior trainer. Of course being unique is just one factor. You also have to be effective. No point…
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Free screencasting software!
I found this great post a while ago which lists six free screencasting tools. What is screencasting? Basically it is where you take a series of shots of your computer screen, add some text, some voice and a range of other material and compile it so it plays like a movie. One of the simplest…
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Brilliant Program Design
The 6th episode of Ask Logicool covers how to design a training program or session which will hold participant’s attention, interest and focus. This is a follow on from the last episode which covered how the trainer can maintain the participant’s attention, interest and focus. Both of these videos can be found at the usual…
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Ignore everybody
Just finished a great little book which you might be interested in. Its called Ignore Everybody – And 39 other keys to creativity. Very funny and insightful and just the sort of thing you should read if you have an idea and do not know whether you should try it out. It starts off with…
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Edutainment
A regular contributor to the blog, Steve, (check his post in the training zone) commented on my post yesterday about another term that he had heard which is edutainment which could then bring about another term for a person who provides edutainment, the edutainer. I think I might have created that term. Wikipedia actually has…
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More on the online debate
It doesn’t take very long to find an article on the online education debate. Part of what I hope my role is in this blog is to review a lot of information and pass onto you some of the better articles, saving you the time taken to scan thousands of useless and poorly written posts…