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Category: Reading/Books

  • Get your slang right. Alright!

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    Photo by Lorenzo Cafaro I found this website the other day doing some research. You might find it useful. It contains 5 centuries of english slang. Test it out – it will be there. Get your slang here

  • MOOC BOOK

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    Below is a link to a book on MOOC’s. Hopefully I don’t need to explain what a MOOC is but the book does do that as well as give some history on the development of MOOC’s and then lays down a plan on how to create a MOOC. Good read – click here to read…

  • I told you to read more!

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    You heard it here, well actually you heard from Yale University, but I am happy to report that if you read you will live longer. It doesn’t take much effort to read and it also makes you a more effective, more informed trainer so maybe it is time to give it a go. Check to…

  • Reading (again)

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    Every now and then I have a post about reading as I consider it to be a critical part of every trainer’s ongoing development process. I’m always reading something. Currently that is Crucial Conversations which is a good read so far. Just for fun, as it is Friday, test your reading knowledge at this website…

  • Reading

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    I am a big advocate of reading for all teachers, trainers and educators. But, often we just don’t have the time so I listen to podcasts and read short form articles like blogs using Digg Reader to collate them for me. Do you need a book to read this weekend or are you driving somewhere…

  • How do you keep up to date?

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    We all have to remain competent and in fact as a trainer we have to be a little better than that I think. But how do you do it with limited time and resources? Teaching doesn’t make you current. It might if you were doing something different all the time but doing the same thing…

  • Book Report

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    Technically I think this is the first book report I have written in this blog. I was recommended this book, The Magic of Thinking Big, by a few people and it took a while for me to get around to it. I thought it was going to be a common sense read and to a…

  • Access Art

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    Do you have the need to access art texts, articles or actual diagrams, paintings and sculpture. Maybe you are just interested in browsing the Met gallery. Check out the following reference. You can download for free over 400 free texts. Click here to access the Met Of course you could also do a tour through…

  • ‘Work Rules’ Rules

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      Ok, so I have finished the book ‘Work Rules’ by Laszlo Bock and it is a great read about HR and training. If you are in those fields then you really need to get hold of this book and read it. It is challenging as you will often question the logic but the evidence…

  • Rapid E-learning

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    Having designed quite a few elearning programs I have found that most of the software is pretty similar and generally not that difficult to learn. Articulate is one product I have used and it is probably the easiest to master without too much effort. They have a blog which has some useful posts and a…