Category: Presentation
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Can trainers be good public speakers?
I often get asked for advice on how to make a good speech from trainers. This used to surprise me as I used to think that if you can stand in front of a group of people and train them then of course you could make a good speech. There are many aspects of training…
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E – Tool of the week: PowerPoint add-in
How many times have you been running a training session using PowerPoint and you have had to flick to your web browser to show something on the web, generally using alt-tab, and then you get lost and can’t find you way back to your slide or you accidentally close the slideshow which means you have…
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PowerPoint Power Tips
PowerPoint is a great resource for most trainers. But for others it can definitely be their downfall. The real trick is knowing when not to use it. I wrote a link piece to PowerPoint a while back if you want to check it out. It was time to condense this information down though into 56…
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The power of a great conclusion
I believe that most trainers struggle with making a good conclusion to their sessions. For some it just seems to fizzle out or it is the old, “got any questions, no, well see you next week”. A great conclusion rounds up the session, makes it whole and finishes with impact. That critical impact makes participants…
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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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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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Who wants to watch an online lecture?
Maybe the lecture portrayed above is on the way out. Please read this post from the Chronicle of Higher Education. It basically covers the issues, pros and cons of putting your lectures, sessions or training online. Most of us are aware that in the university sector a growing number of lecturers post their lectures online,…
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Learning styles
Here is a different approach to learning styles that you might find interesting. It is from another blog called performing excellence which appears to be fairly new. Hopefully you are familiar with Kolb, Honey & Mumford and Jung but maybe not so familiar with the 4MAT system which does seem to have some theoretical basis…
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Ask Logicool 2 Video
The second Ask Logicool video has been released and in this episode I am looking at the appropriate rate of speech and what video camera shouldou y use when shooting training videos. Hope you enjoy the answers and information. I am really looking forward to more questions so that I can start planning the next…