Category: Future
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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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Twitter – eTool of the week
There has been an incredible amount written about twitter and I am sure that you have an opinion about it even if you have never used it before. If you have never tried it, please give it a go today for just 30 minutes. The reason for this exercise is that most people do not…
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Career questions
Ocassionally we all need to review where we have been, where we currently stand and where we believe we are heading. This could involve your career but it may also involve your social life, your personal development or just what you want to do with your life. The difficult thing about this process of reflection…
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Tim Ferris – The updated book
I read Tim Ferris’s book “The 4 – Hour work Week” somewhere back in 2009. I wrote a blog post referring to it as great book that I read that year. I have recently completed the expanded and updated edition and it is bigger and better> The concepts are the same but there is a…
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Something different
This topic has nothing to do with training, teaching or assessment. It is Sunday and I normally don’t post anything on Sundays but my new website has gone live and I thought I would let you have a first look at it. If you want to go to the blog which is a good starting…
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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…
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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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E-Tool of the week
I still find it surprising when I find out that professional trainers and assessors do not know about slideshare. This is one of those great resource websites that is free and has a number of uses. First, I would suggest that you just go there and have a look around. Basically the site is a…
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e-Portfolio’s Australian Conference
I just though I would let people know, in case you don’t get the ePortfolio updates, that the annual conference is on again. http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/content/e-portfolios-australia It is always interesting and there are always a few standout guests from overseas who are way ahead of Australia in this area of education/training. This is also a good…