Here is my shortest post yet! 2 quotes from Tim Samara's book, Design Evolution.
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Here is my shortest post yet! 2 quotes from Tim Samara's book, Design Evolution.
Posted at 01:21 PM in Books, Design, Learning, Visuals | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Participating in the Learn Trends session yesterday I was struck by the potential for social technologies such as wikis, twitter, personal learning environments and ..... to really make an impact upon how people learn within organisations.
Posted at 12:28 PM in Design, Ideas, Learning, Learning 2.0, Web 2.0, Web/Tech, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
On April 21-22 "Corporate Learning Trends & Innovation" is hosting a 24 hour free conversation on the topic "Learning in Organisations".
Posted at 04:42 PM in Ideas, Learning, Learning 2.0, Web 2.0, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A few posts ago I mentioned an interesting discussion taking place on the LinkedIn group, "Learning, Education and Training Professionals".
A lively discussion with input from a wide range of learning professionals. My contribution was as follows:
"Facts and information without context provided as discrete bites of knowledge are not memorable but just add to the ceaseless stream of information that bombards our brains every day. With so much junk hitting our brain we filter out as much as possible, just like spam is filtered by my computer. But my brain sees a story and it stands out from the 'junk', our brains let it in, it has meaning, we remember it, learn from it."
The discussion is still active with 40+ contributions at this point. In many links contributors provided links to various sites and books. I've had a look at all the sites and listed a couple below.
Surely this statement provides enough reason to include storytelling in your learning design and presentation. Start out by reading this article, if this doesn't convince you on the benefits of storytelling, nothing will!"If you can harness imagination and the principles of a well-told story, then you get people rising to their feet amid thunderous applause instead of yawning and ignoring you."
Posted at 08:55 AM in Books, Ideas, Learning, Presentations, Storytelling, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
I was recently sent a review copy of Jacqueline Novogratz's, The Blue Sweater. To explain further, Seth Godin, via his blog asked for volunteers who would be interested in reading and reviewing this excellent book.
Posted at 10:52 PM in Books, Ideas, Storytelling, Travel, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
LinkedIn is a great way of connecting with others with similar business interests. I belong to 3 groups on LinkedIn that allow me to follow and join in on discussions around topics I find interesting. It is another good way of seeing ideas differently. On the LinkedIn group, "Learning, Education and Training Professionals" there has been an interesting discussion on "StoryTelling as a training tool", a particular interest of mine. Following the discussion is a good way of seeing how others use storytelling.
My addition to the conversation was as follows:
Facts and information without context provided as discrete bites of knowledge are not memorable but just add to the ceaseless stream of information that bombards our brains every day. With so much junk hitting our brain we filter out as much as possible, just like spam is filtered by my computer. But my brain sees a story and it stands out from the 'junk', our brains let it in, it has meaning, we remember it, learn from it.
Storytelling is an area of learning that deserves some more attention, so over the next few weeks I'll add to this with some further thoughts, ideas, links and readings on storytelling.
Posted at 02:25 PM in Ideas, Learning, Storytelling, Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I've mentioned the TV show the Gruen Transfer previously as a lesson on how to communicate ideas visually. You can watch the latest pitch by following this link, if your work is in education/learning fields, watch them and think about how marketers/advertisers approach the problem of how to communicate ideas. I especially like the section on how to sell ice to the eskimos!
Thought: what can you do to make people interested in what they're learning? How can you do this?Some learning ideas/objectives are just hard to package, it's important to think of new ideas to do this more effectively. Selling water when you can get it for free or ice to eskimos, surely what we put into workshops can't be as hard as this?
Fake ads that work (and others that don't), is it true that if the idea spreads the ad works. The lesson is that real surprises catch our attention and make us remember the information!Posted at 09:22 AM in Design, Ideas, Presentations, Television, Visuals | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Here's a question I've been thinking about for a while now. I know that people come to a learning situation with differing personalities and preferences for how the like to learn. So far so good! But for the facilitator/teacher/presenter what does this mean? Will they know the styles of each person in the room? Can they adjust their approach to teaching on the spot? Does it matter?
Posted at 09:06 AM in Design, Ideas, Learning | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
If you take a quick look down my list of books, on the right side of the blog, you will see that a reasonable proportion of the books are actually marketing/branding books, for example all books by Seth Godin, Marty Neumeier, Andy Nulman...
Posted at 09:22 AM in Ideas, Learning, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)