Category: Training Videos
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Practice – but good practice.
Want to be a better, more effective trainer or for that matter a better anything? Well you are going to have to do a lot of practice. According to some experts 10,000 hours of practice. Where did that figure come from? What sort of practice works best? How much practice per day or session? These…
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Talking with your hands
All good trainers use their hands to talk with and to make appropriate learning gestures. I often think that I am using my hands too much but I’m probably not. Wish I was as good as this guy though. can’t see it click here
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SOPA – what does it mean for Australia
You have probably heard of SOPA. It is an American issue or is it. I was trying to do some research the other day and Wikipedia was shut down for 24 hrs and it was very inconvenient. It could be like that after SOPA. sadly if America brings in censorship of the internet I don’t…
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Trainers and reading
Here’s a great article from the Harvard Business Review which basically says that reading is good for you and has many business benefits apart from being just good entertainment. Now that should be good news for all those trainers who got books for Christmas. I have said many times in this blog and in my…
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Do you want to be an instructional designer?
The title is a question but really the first question should be what is an instructional designer. How about we cut through the usual professional BS and just state that an instructional designer writes training material and resources. It doesn’t matter if it is print based, ebook, online or powerpoint it is all training material.…
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Elearning Predictions for 2012
Watch the slideshare below. Do you agree? Do you know of any others? Here is one that isn’t listed but has a rapidly growing user base and could be used by a creative trainer/educator as a learning tool. This will be big. At present it is invite only – Pinterest. Top 10 open source eLearning…
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Predictions
Welcome back from the Christmas Break, hope you had a good one with family and/or friends. The prediction posts and video’s are coming in thick and fast as the New Year approaches. Here are two from slideshare. JWT10 trends for 2012 executive summary 11 12 05 View more presentations from Brian Crotty 2012: 12 Themes…
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Christmas nearly here
With one day to go to Christmas here is a video that has nothing to do with training but I hope you get the message. I hope all of my readers have a great Christmas. Also – follow this link to some fantastic photos.
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2011 Online Review
2011 No – I’m not going to write another 2011 review. I’ll let someone else do that who is much better at it than me. This is a really good, brief article that covers all the key elearning events of the year. Excellent source of links here too. Read article here.
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More surfing and training
I posted a blog recently (access it here) that had some favourable feedback. This was mainly due to the beautiful surfing images. Ok – so not easily related back to training but my point was that we need to use images, be creative in our approaches to learning and now and then experience some different…