It’s quite incredible what you can do in 10 minutes on Twitter. I spent 10 minutes looking through my feed and found: A picture using a neat app that highlights colours in photos A link to a free online conference I may join A link to some new fonts I can use in presentations A… Read More Networked learning
I had a great experience this week, I did a bit of old-school ‘training’ to a ‘group’ in a ‘workshop’. I hadn’t thought about it but someone reminded me that this came almost a week after I’d been presenting about changing learner mindsets and, there I was, doing what I did 20 years ago. Even if… Read More I want to tell you a story
I wrote the other day about how I was going to be presenting to a group of other L&D professionals; we really engaged with the group and I think it went well (see above). There were 3 key themes we wanted to address. Changing the trainer mindset We were incredibly lucky to have Barry Sampson… Read More Reflecting on a presentation
How many trainers does it take to change a lightbulb? 3 – one to tell you what to do, one to demonstrate it, one to evaluate it afterwards. What do you call an auditory/visual learner? Anything you like, they’re not kinsthetic so won’t feel it anyway. Why did the trainee cross the road? To avoid… Read More Learning’s a funny thing
This week I’ll be co-facilitating a session on this subject with the fabulous Naureen Wilson for Learning Pool. Our audience is a group of other L&D practitioners and the crux of the session is to highlight how (and why) we need to be supporting learners in pulling learning, rather than us in L&D constantly pushing content. I’m really looking forward to… Read More Changing the Learner Mindset