It’s that time of year again as L&D professionals across the globe submit their top 10 tools for learning on the brilliant Jane Hart‘s list. If you haven’t already done so, you have a little more time to get your entries in – the closing date is Friday 19 September 2014 My current list, in no particular… Read More Top 10 tools – 2014
I did something very unusual (for me at least) last week; I went on a ‘course’. On this course there was some ‘training’ which I was both looking forward to (how new would it be) and fearful (the same old?). The course was about technology and applying it in the workplace. So the first thing… Read More Of course
A quick trawl through my junk mail filter in the last few months and I can find emails selling me ‘spooktacular’ deals (Hellowe’en) and ‘explosive deals’ (Guy Fawkes). I can’t stand those emails. They feel contrived and unoriginal; I can almost sense the copywriter, charged with a ‘quick’ solution going to their big book of… Read More An easy way out post
The track called Slide by the Goo Goo Dolls was one of the first tunes that my son learnt to play on the guitar. He found a set of guitar tabs (pictorial representations of the chords) and taught himself. If someone hadn’t put the tabs online he’d not have learnt it. Now you can watch… Read More Why don’t you slide…
We’re asking people to do things differently in the way they learn. The move away from dozens of courses and a calendar of instructional content is a challenge for some people, as are some of the ways of learning that we’re suggesting to people. I was in a #chat2lrn conversation the other week about what… Read More How do I blog?
Lost and Desperate 