Training Tips
Measurement Job Aid
Friday, June 27th, 2008Here is a link to a very interesting job aid created by Dr Will Thalheimer. It gives you things to think about (based on research) when you are designing evaluation for training. It is broken into sections by evaluation levels and provides best practice and rationale.
You can download it to print out and reference the [...]
Keeping It All Straight
Monday, May 26th, 2008As readers of this blog, one thing we probably all have in common (or at least we’d like to think so) is an interest in lifelong learning. So we’re all trying to get information in, sift it into what’s important and not, and assimilate the good stuff while filing the rest in the “expend at [...]
Free online tools for learning professionals
Monday, March 10th, 2008Jane Hart, Head of Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, keeps track of an incredible array of online tools. She has written an article 25 Tools every Learning Professional should have in their Toolbox - and all for FREE!
I have started using most of them in the last year, and I must say [...]
Camtasia and the Chipmunks
Sunday, January 13th, 2008On the latest episode of Podcascadia, I was talking about my struggle to learn Techsmith’s Camtasia. Now I did say, my complaints were not directed at Camtasia, but at the limitations of e-learning that focus on telling me how things should work rather than how to think it through when they don’t.
I had been Googleing [...]
Back to Basics in the New Year
Thursday, December 27th, 2007I recently returned from Mexico. I stayed in a small village on the Pacific coast. I had the opportunity to read great books, lay on the beach, practice my Spanish and laugh really loud as my husband and I tried to boogie board. Although I was trying really hard not to think [...]
Life on the Road: Looking for tips and tricks
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007I’ve been speaking at a series of conferences lately, and have been spending a lot of time on airplanes and in hotels. At the end of one earlier this week in Atlanta, I had a free evening before flying home the next day. I stopped into the Body Shop since one of the things I [...]