Category: Education & Training Management
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Teaching overseas – second interview
The second part of the three part series on International Schools has been posted and can viewed below or at the usual locations (BlipTV, Youtube & iTunes). If you didn’t catch the first one please go to this link. I hope that you are enjoying these interviews. The third and last part of the series…
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Getting a training job
I wrote a post recently on how doing a human resource program is often a good idea for those people trying to get into a training role. At some point regardless of how you tackle the problem of getting into training you will need to face an interview. For a trainer this should be a…
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Cloud computing and training
Cloud computing as a term has not been around for a very long time (possibly since late 90’s) but it is the future of the Internet. Check out this article regarding the importance of cloud computing. The key for educators is what does this shift mean? Personally I can only see good things coming from…
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International School Interview
For this episode of Ask Logicool I managed to interview the Superintendent of Khartoum International School, Greg Hughes. It was such a fascinating topic and discussion that I will need to show the full interview over three parts. The first part can be viewed at the usual locations (BlipTv, iTunes and YouTube) or you can…
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Project managing training
Every aspect of training is a project. Sometimes simple, sometimes complex. Even just delivering a session is a project in itself. I was reminded of this recently as I was delivering a project management program and the concepts that I was teaching were part of the process that I was using to put the actual…
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Radical forms of educational thinking
Watch this video and think about what education and for that matter training will look like in the future. Do we really need to stick to the standard methods and approaches or is it a time for change. What are your thoughts. If you can’t see the embedded video it can be found here.
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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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No. Really. We need good teachers?
Sometimes research really irritates me. Why? Because it states the bloody obvious. I know, we need to prove things but at times you wonder why they waste so much effort and time to prove something that the majority of us mere mortals (as opposed to academics) already know and understand. Straight from ACER eNews is…
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Motivation, work & learning
I have discussed motivation in this blog before. If you missed the motivational videos check out this link. This is another video on motivation. This is by Dan Pink and it is based on his book Drive. I haven’t had the chance to read this book yet but it is a big seller and it does…
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Human resource management, training and getting a job
I lot of people ask me for career advice. In particular, how do I get into training, full time. This is always a difficult question to answer as there are so many different pathways based on the person’s qualifications, experience and their chosen area of expertise. Maybe I should do a more detailed blog to…