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 →
On Monday 27th March 2017 I was honoured to be the keynote speaker for the Colleges Wales annual training and learning conference. This year the title is Step Up To the Future and the themes are "digital" and "more able and talented". The session I'm keynoting is focusing on the use of technology as part of... Continue Reading →
I'm getting involved in another MOOC, this time it's open only for a short time, 48 hours in fact! It's a bit of an experiment from HT2, which is something I really like about them - trying different things to see how they work. This MOOC is 48 Hours To Better Sales Training and focuses... Continue Reading →
I've been having a few frustrations recently with regards customer and technical service. If you follow me on Twitter, you've probably already got bored of my increasingly frustrated tweets about the level of service from my domain and web hosting company. Through my frustration with Titan Internet's increasingly poor service and what feels like disregard for the... Continue Reading →
It's the summer and time for L&D conferences once again. One of which is the Virtual Learning Show, hosted by LPI CEO Colin Steed. It's a free, online, conference focusing around online facilitation and webinar delivery, how to design online learning, using the support tools that we consider "social media" and also digital content tools.... Continue Reading →
The winter Virtual Learning Show, organised by Colin Steed is now at day two. Here are my summer show and winter day one blogs. This is what the line up was for the day. All about the community Mike Collins from DPG spoke passionately and eloquently about where to start with communities. Mike said that at... Continue Reading →
Using game design to create approach-based learning Julie Dirksen is from Usable Learning and is an instructional designer. Julie is focusing on using game design in the learning environment, but emphasises that this doesn't have to be designing whole games. This really interested me as I know I'm not going to make some immersive video game... Continue Reading →
Live Online Learning at Hogan Lovells Claire Line is Learning Technologies Manager at global law firm Hogan Lovells and her session was about the journey the firm has taken to implement web conferencing and training online. Claire commented at the beginning of her session that she was going to be very open and honest about... Continue Reading →
Comparing Webex, Adobe Connect and Goto for your virtual sessions Karen Hyder highlighted that she was going to cover Adobe Connect, GoToTraining and the WebEx Training Centre. Karen gave us a link to a comparison of these on Wikipedia. Karen’s delivery was great to listen to and she had a scary amount of knowledge about all... Continue Reading →
