Category: professional development
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Sunday Zephyr – Infographics
Hopefully you know what an infographics is. If not here is a good definition: Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. (Wikipedia). The article below provides links to 10 tools that you can use to build a infographic. As a little exercise for Sunday, create one and if you…
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MOOC’s and the Future
Not sure what a MOOC is check this video out first before looking at the article below. Can’t see the video – click here. Here is a great article from Harvard Business Review on MOOC’s. It is basically 8 people commenting on various aspects rather than on one person’s opinion. I am currently enrolled in…
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Conferences
What conferences are you going to attend this year? Maybe none as there are some many good things happening on line that you don’t need to step out of the house. Personally I am attending regular webcasts and at present a number of MOOC’s which I am finding challenging but fun. This year’s EdTech conference…
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Teach Online
Want to teach online? Here is a straight forward way to try it out. Udemy has asked for people to teach online. Read the article to find out more and maybe this is your break into elearning. I am signed up to do some of their programs and they are good. I would love to…
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Getting started on elearning
Following on from my last post here is an article about getting into elearning. If you haven’t started doing something, this is the year to get started. I started running elearning start up sessions last year for people who don’t know anything and I hope to run more of them this year. If your interested…
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Get on a project management course this year
I have written previously about the importance of good project management for all trainers and educators and I hope that this post helps. My first training group for the year started this week, back into a Certificate IV in Project Management, and hopefully some of them will also read this post. Mistakes in projects are…
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Training Myths
The start of a new year is a good time to get your head straight on what is fact and what is fiction in training. Here is some useful information about common training myths. Myth about the brain – to read click here. Click here to see an infographic on training myths. Click here to…
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Presentation Tips
Hi and welcome back to this blog for 2013. I hope you had a good break and I assume that many of you like me are ready to start the work year off again. For many of the people who read this blog that means training, teaching and presenting. We can all improve in that…
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Three part E-Learning series
The last post of my three part series on E-learning Zero to E-Learning Guru was completed last week. If you want to check out all three parts go to the Total Learning site and this post will lead you to all three. They also have some excellent videos in their blog from their recent conference.…
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Do you need to understand computer programming?
I think it was Mark Zuckerberg who said that everyone should know at least some programming, coding skills. As a trainer, educator and instructional designer I think it is critical. If you want to provide direction and input into where education and training is going you are going to have to be able to talk…