Tag: Diane Huckabay

T is for Training 353 – Next Best Thing To Sliced Cheese

Maurice, Paul, Tom, Diane with Aaron Blumberg and special guest Connie Guglielmo (CNET) T is for Training 353 on Talkshoe. Download the show from this page.

You get Maurice style notes again…

Connie’s Article on AI – AI Chatbots Are Here to Stay. Learn How They Can Work for You kicked off the show. Read it.

Topics discussed included Transparency, AI, Open vs Closed AI Systems. Most of the AI we talk about are Neural Networks within a Language Learning Model. AI’s are good for brainstorming. Garbage In and Garbage Out, or the importance of a good prompt. AI will be disruptive to copyright. Protecting IP. Useful for older information depending on the service Neural Network within Large Language Model. The chatbots can give you a hallucination as an answer. Less likely now. The EU and Bletchley Park accords. The Need for Prompt Libraries for Libraries. They are a for-profit business. Those who pay for the services can use them without the service learning from them, protecting intellectual property. Image below via CC from https://turnoff.us/

Some Links:

Robocalls in New Hampshire used Biden’s voice to tell people to stay home

Eric Adams uses AI to send out public service messages in multiple languages.

The EU AI Act

2023 Bletchley Declaration

Khanamigo (Khan Academy AI)

We next record at 9 pm Eastern on February 8th. See you then!

T is for Training 352 – The Joy of Finding Excellence

T is for Training 352 – The Joy of Finding Excellence or Simplicity (Take Your Pick) is ready for a listen.

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Jill, the award-winning editor of the T is for Training blog, is off this evening, so you have yours truly as substitute teacher. Sorry about that.

The jumping off Point:

Communities, Quotations, and Inspiration: Learning With and From Our Colleagues

Tom’s Photographs (all about the framing)

Objectified the documentary – General information: https://watchdocumentaries.com/objectified/ the IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1241325/ page, the Trailer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-l5rOBLwNk and the link to Part 1 https://vimeo.com/265861057  and available on Kanopy at your local library

Quotes:

It’s a short internship.

Baby Librarian peeps

If you stop learning you’re dead.

As a teacher, you have to learn and adapt to their unspoken needs. Be a work reader or mind reader.

What pushes Tom forward?  Solving the art part of his brain to find joy. Photography takes away and reframes reality.

Photography helps teaching. Photography helps reframe reality.

We are AIs  Curators of Information

Photography is removal; removing everything that impedes grasping the point of the picture. Those moments when you find the shapes and tones and textures and lighting, and it feels good, then you take the picture. It is instant analysis, and the shutter is pressed when it feels right, feels good. – Fred Price

Simplify the range:

With the right eyes and an open mind, everything can be inspirational.

The challenge is getting learners to think deeply and quickly. 

Technology should simplify, not make it more complex.

Composition is the joy of finding excellence.

“Solvitur ambulando is a Latin phrase which means “it is solved by walking” and is used to refer to a problem which is solved by a practical experiment. It is often attributed to Saint Augustine.”

Scarcity mindset finds its way into the classroom. 

Time is the only finite resource in a classroom.

You’re going to have shrinkage no matter what.

Always be learning.  If you don’t continue to learn, you won’t grow.

Keep your hands at your side – Don’t swat gnats and flies with presentation

Art is in the movement.

T is for Training 350: I Say Crap with Affection

On the call were Diane Huckabay, Tom Haymes, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Paul Signorelli, Maurice Coleman, and Sardek Love. Sardek is our guest this week to talk about the transition from one learning format to another (e.g., from onsite face-to-face to asynchronous online learning) and will be drawing upon his own fairly recent work in that area. He is the author of Presentation Essentials: The Tools You Need to Captivate Your Audience, Deliver Your Story, and Make Your Message Memorable and Speak for a Living, 2nd Edition: The Insider’s Guide to Building a Speaking Career. (paid links)

Sardek started off by asking us to think about an online presentation and how many people are disengaged after 30 minutes. How many? We guessed 100%, but listen to the podcast for the real answer.

And how do you teach someone that with practice they can go farther and do more? That’s at about the 26-minute mark.

Interesting that Sardek used ChatGPT to help draft his new website. Tom loved hearing that! Tom asked if AI is a threat to training. Sardek thinks that AI will automate some jobs and some aspects of the training process will become automated. Will there be mass adoption of AI? Not quickly. And while AI might write for us (and write training materials), it will not do the final version. Copy editors will still be needed.

Sardek’s business went from 95% in-person in early 2020 to then developing a robust online business for delivering training. While he is back to doing more in-person session, delivering training online is extremely important to him.

What followed were a number of stories and good things for trainers and facilitators to think about. This episode will be a very good listen!

Our last episode of 2023 will be on Dec. 28 at 9 p.m. ET/ 8 p.m. CT/ 7 p.m. MT/ 6 p.m PT and it will be our episode for wrapping up 2023.

T is for Training 349 – George Needham is Sourdough Starter

Drawn together by the passing of library champion George Needham (1955-2023),
a group of long-time T is for Training usual suspects (Peter Bromberg, Janie Hermann, Diane Huckabay, R. David Lankes, and Paul Signorelli) and one of George’s great collaborators (Joan Frye Williams) joined host Maurice Coleman to talk about George’s influence, his partnerships (and the way they worked), his love of making this as good as we can make it, his love of improv, and many other reminders of his continuing influence on the way we think of libraries to this day. If you knew, admired, and learned from George, this one is for you. And if you didn’t have the great fortune to come across him, this is a good time to be inspired by all he fostered.

You can download the show here, or look for T is for Training wherever you get your podcasts.

Here are links to some of the resources mentioned during the recording of
this episode:

Paul Signorelli’s remembrance of George: https://buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/2023/11/30/george-needham-hope-and-inspiration/

A BattleDecks sample (relevant to the conversation) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kPEcU0GPtzNK0X3lZ26vkQZEXz0VDIVg/edit#slide=id.p1

George at BattleDecks at ALA Annual 2010 (demonstrating George’s quick wit and wonderful sense of humor) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Q-Dgw8rCY

George and the Applause Meter (with guest appearance by PJ Sweeney and
Jenny Levine: https://www.flickr.com/photos/shifted/4769987802/in/pool-1493112@N22/

Samples of George and Joan’s work, available on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/search?q=george%20needham%20and%20joan%20frye%20williams

Join us in two weeks on December 14th, when we welcome back our friend Sardek Love!

@TisForTraining 341: The Night We Broke the Show

Our topic is “Handling Unexpected Disruptions: When Your Tech or Your Learners Are Feeling Cranky”, which means that TalkShoe didn’t to give us a tech disruption, so we recorded the show using Zoom (thanks, Paul).  On the call were Diane Huckabay, Andrea Snyder, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Tom Haymes, Paul Signorelli, and Maurice Coleman.
We talked through some scenarios and how we overcame the tech failure. For example:
    • A tip is that you think conservatively about technology, meaning that you don’t use complicated technology.
    • Consider technology that uses low bandwidth.
    • In an in-person session, use conversation – perhaps a discussion question – to provide time while you troubleshoot a problem.
    • Use the problem – e.g., a 3D printer failure – as part of the training session.
    • Use the technology you have available, e.g., Facebook Live.

Again, thanks to Paul for hosting this on Zoom and thanks to Maurice for getting this onto TalkShoe.  Our next T is for Training will be on August 10 at 9 p.m. ET. Hopefully TalkShoe will cooperate!

Resources

Sam Harrison. (2016) How Great Speakers Handle Surprise Disruptions.

@TisForTraining 340: Stuffed

On the call were Maurice Coleman, Tom Haymes, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Diane Huckabay, and Paul Signorelli. Jill set the topic this week. She said:

I feel like we four are going in different directions as we think about and “do” training-teaching-learning. Perhaps we should do an open discussion on where we’re focusing our practices and how that intersects with the larger world.

We talked about:

    • Helping people focus
    • Meditation
    • Dale Carnegie program
    • Being more mindful about the business of training
    • Help people be and do better
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Disrupting thinking
    • …and went off topic (e.g., U.S. History)
Resources

@TisFortraining 339: Monologue with Hostages

Sardek Love joined Paul Signorelli, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Tom Haymes, Diane Hackabay, and Maurice Coleman to discuss his recently-released report “2023 Top Challenges Trainers Are Facing at Work.” Sardek recently summarized the report (and included graphics from it) in one of his “Ask a Master” videos by focusing on the results of his own research with learners. If you want a peek at what we’ll be discussing, you can view that (10-minute) video and download a free copy of the report. 
    • Participant engagement
    • Management buy-in
    • Time constraints
    • Stakeholder buy-in

Most trainers have not been trained in instructional design, so the training is boring and participants do not engage. Trainers tend to be bad at engagement and rather good at telling. Trainers need to be good storytellers, which helps them to be better trainers.

“Engagement looks like magic, if you don’t know how.” – Sardek

In our discussion, Sardek gave a quick lesson in telling stories from his book, Presentation Essentials: The Tools You Need to Captivate Your Audience, Deliver Your Story, and Make Your Message Memorable (paid link).

Maurice noted – as he often does – that not everything management wants employees trained on is not a problem that can be solved by training. Some problems need changes within the organization, rather than training.
We covered several interesting topics, so this is definitely worth a listen. You can listen to this episode on TalkShoe and in other places where you listen to podcasts.
BTW we had talked about Sardek’s book before in episode 323.

@TisforTraining 336: Everyone can change something

Tonight’s show was focused on diversity, equity, inclusion training (DEI or whatever set of initials you use). We talked about what types of training we’re doing, what organizations need (e.g,, DEI 101), creating an environment that fosters compassionate curiosity, and more including being connected to the history of our locales.  On the call were Diane Huckbay, Maurice Coleman, Paul Signorelli, Andrea Snyder, Tom Haymes, and Jill Hurst-Wahl.

We used to end our shows with the question of what we were going to do next based on what the show conversation was. We did that as a group after the recording ended. We hope that you’ll do the same. Now that you’ve thought more about DEI training, what are you going to do?

Resources

@TisForTraining 334: The Spellcheck is in the Back of the Computer

On the call were Paul Signorelli, Diane Huckabay, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Tom Haymes, and Maurice Coleman. We started off talking about reversing assumptions in training-teaching-learning, then jumped into talking about the difference between teaching and training. We deterred and dove into technology for a while, then circled back to assumptions in training/teaching.
Wow. Yes, we got an early book reference (thanks Paul) as well as a Star Trek reference (thanks Jill), and a few laughs, while also considering the topics.
You can listen to the episode on TalkShoe and in other places where you get your podcasts.
Resources

Paul Signorelli. (2020) Adapting to Change, Loss, and Possibilities: Training, Learning, and Reversing Assumptions. https://buildingcreativebridges.wordpress.com/2020/05/07/adapting-to-change-loss-and-possibilities-training-learning-and-reversing-assumptions/

Matthew Syed. (2020) Coronavirus: The good that can come out of an upside-down world. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52094332

Clark Quinn. (2018)  Millennials, Goldfish & Other Training Misconceptions: Debunking Learning Myths and Superstition. (paid link)

Tom Haymes. (2023) AI is a Creativity Augmentation Engine. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-creativity-augmentation-engine-tom-haymes/

 

@TisForTraining 333: We Lost the Hallways

What are we talking about? Conferences (and more)!  On the call were Diane Huckabay, Tom Haymes, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Paul Signorelli, and Maurice Coleman.

Maurice started us off by talking about the Computers In Libraries Conference, where ChatGPT loomed large. Among the lessons from those conversations are that the system needs to be open, transparent, and that you need to own your content. Who are the owners? Who has access to it?

BTW Computers in Libraries was held this year at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City (VA). Its sibling conference, Internet Librarian, will be held online this year.

Paul attended the Associated Collegiate Press Spring National College Media Conference, which was held in his backyard (San Francisco). Part of what stood out was the networking and support opportunities available to students. Paul’s blog posts are in his blog.

Tom talked about the ShapingEDU  Global Community Solutioneering Summit 2023 (GCSS23). Tom reflected on this conference in a blog post. He poised the question of why do students engage with TikTok rather than online learning? What makes the experience with TikTok better? Listen for his answer.

We ended by talking about lobbycon and unconferences. Ah…the stories!

Listen to the entire episode on TalkShoe and in other places podcasts are served.