For the third year running I've hosted the live online presentations as part of the Learning Technologies Awards. It's 60 presentations over two weeks, so that's about 180 sessions I've hosted over the years. As I come to the end of the hosting for this year, there are a few small but interesting observations I... Continue Reading →
In this post I'm going to focus on social media communication with regards our modern communications. I look at some free Twitter analysis and what changes this insight can help us with, as well as look at some other resources to help us with our approach to what we do on social media, either professionally... Continue Reading →
A lot of us know about how to plan, design and deliver a face to face training session. But what about a virtual classroom session? Here's a quick overview that might give you some ideas: Always teach the basic tools people need to interact, one at a time, as you need them. Usually this is... Continue Reading →
I'm interested in how people communicate and connect when they aren't face to face or even communicating in real time, perhaps through an asynchronous forum or community such as Slack or Yammer. Lori Niles-Hoffman, who is a Data Driven Learning Strategist, has experienced "the seismic shift from classroom to digital" in her career and this... Continue Reading →
This blog post details research about how our brains react to different types of communication and what this means for how we design and deliver virtual classroom training sessions. Through examining research that highlights the special nature and importance of face to face communication I make recommendations on how to achieve something similar in the... Continue Reading →
Further from my blog about personality in text communication, I'm digging in deeper to the idea of being able to read the digital, or virtual, body language of someone without seeing them face to face. In that last blog post, I shared about someone "knowing me" over instant messaging communication. A CBS News article highlights... Continue Reading →
On the 12th April 2018 I'm speaking at the E-learning Fusion conference in Poland. This is an interview with Personal Plus that is being published in Polish, so here's the English version for you. Personel Plus: Jo, thank you for agreeing to be interviewed. As you are probably guessing, the topic of our conversation will be…... Continue Reading →
"Face to face is the only way to communicate." "You can't pick up on tone of voice or body language if you aren't in the same place." "Remote communications lack so much." I hear this a lot of the time from people who don't work remotely all that much, or communicate a lot with people... Continue Reading →
