The Smartphone Video Training sessions I deliver are hands-on and provide plenty of opportunities to capture video using your phone. One question I frequently get asked is 'what equipment do you use and how much does the kit cost?'. There are many options when considering investing in equipment to create professional video using your smartphone. … Continue reading Equipment for Smartphone Video
I recently heard the term 'Visual collaboration', which is described as learning via visual events and visual content. Historically people have learnt skills through an apprenticeship, where you would observe a skilled individual complete a task and that person would mentor you so that, in time, you too could perfect that skill. People still learn … Continue reading Visual events and visual content
Walking, inside or outside, improves creativity, influences cognition and improves physical fitness. Stanford released a research report following a study in 2014 claiming; Walking boosts creative ideation in real time and shortly after. It is well known that, Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs held walking meetings and others, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, see the benefit walking can have … Continue reading How to improve creativity
Yesterday I attended the Girlguiding Trainers Conference 2019 and spent the day with the Digital Zone in the 'have a go' area alongside two other external facilitators Piers Ansell and Emma Gray. It was lovely to see Trainers look at a variety of digital learning solutions, think of ways they could be embedded into their … Continue reading Smartphone Video Training
So the learning solution has been designed; the learning outcome agreed and activities selected. You have developed the 1st version and this has gone to testing. What now? Evaluation. What is the best way to collect the views of the people who have experienced the learning event? I have recently sat with my testing group … Continue reading Observational feedback #BlogEveryDay
For #LearningAtWorkWeek, which takes place 13th - 17th May 2019, the CIPD L&D Content Team put together an interactive A to Z of Creative Learning Methods and created a video describing each method, click here to watch this. Not only is this a useful guide to help identify activities to include when designing learning experiences, it is … Continue reading CIPD’s A to Z of Creative Learning Methods #BlogEveryDay
Think with Goggle shared an article in Dec-17 Why you should lean into how-to content in 2018. Their research uncovered YouTube viewers don’t just want to be entertained by cat videos they are hungry for learning content. Viewers aren’t just looking to brush up on skills they already have—they’re also hoping to acquire completely new … Continue reading YouTube and Self Directed Learning
Hands up who has been faced with a problem and turned to YouTube? I would take at guess that we all have at some point, and probably using a mobile device. I think we can agree that Online Video Learning is here to stay. With YouTube being the 2nd biggest search engine, after Google, it … Continue reading Online Video Learning
During day 1 my initial intention was to share a brief reflection after each session. After the lunch time session I realised I was missing out of network opportunities during breaks as I was hiding away in a corner. I took a different approach for Day 2 so I could talk to people and explore the … Continue reading #LT18uk Day 2
Session T3S3: Collaborative Technologies Speaker / Facilitator #letsgetsocial putting collaborative technologies to work for learning - Gemma Critchley Key Takeaways Get into the work and understand the problems that need resolving Learners need to understand the purpose of the benefit of the solution L&D are the Curators Connectors Collaborates Catalysts L&D should use the solution offered … Continue reading #LT18uk – Session 3 T3S3 – 31/01/2018
