The library training, teaching, learning podcast is back in your ear holes.
Come join the fun TONIGHT at 8:30 pm Eastern on our platform Talkshoe.
T is for Training on Talkshoe.
Think of it as the first day back at school, with new clothes and old friends.
See you then!
On the call were Kate Kosturki, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Diane Huckabay, Maurice Coleman, Paul Signorelli, and Samantha (Sam) Becker. We talked about winning the war on complacency in education. We need to illuminate exemplars and expose people to different ways of engaging learners. Can we learn from our own experiences?
As teachers, we need to help students/learners to understand how to learn better. We can’t just teach them the subject, but how the student can learn more about it in the future.
Technology are not a meaningless set of tools. We need to understand how to use the technology in meaningful ways to meet our goals.
All stakeholders need to come together to think about how various disciplines play together, and how learned can acquire multi-interdisciplinary skills.
Students/learners need to acquire foundational, core and specialty skills. Sam noted that there are a broad range of foundational skills which people need. Some of this might be done through personalized learning. Jill noted that the acquisition of those foundational, core and specialty skills might occur with technology being a means or clue.
This conversation connected to our previous conversation with Jonathan Nalder. Sam and Jonathan have worked together and she is was part of the genesis of First on Mars.
What are some simple things we can do to help our folks get to a place where they can be successful with technology?
What’s the first thing you would say directly to trainer-teacher-learners to reverse that the part of learning that is passive (referred to in our conversation as the 90% piece of the pie)? We talked about several solutions.
Question: Can we do personalization at scale? What can we do face-to-face as well as online?
You can listen to the entire conversation on the TalkShoe website, as well as through your favorite podcast service (e.g., iTunes). And don’t forget to rate the show, so we might get a rating that shows during our 10th year!
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On the call were Chris DeChristofaro, Kate Kosturski, Paul Signorelli, Jill Hurst-Wahl, and Maurice Coleman. Chris is part of the Library Pros, who do a library/education podcast. {BTW the Library Pros recently interviewed Maurice on their podcast.}
We discussed LinkedIn’s Top 11 Challenges For Learning And Development In 2017: The LMS Game Plan To Succeed. The list is (we’ve focused on the ones highlighted):
You can listen to the show here. Our last two episode for 2017 will record on December 8 (hosted by Kate) and December 22, both at 2 p.m. ET. Our first episode in 2018 will be on January 5 and then we’ll be recording (generally) every two weeks throughout the year.
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On the call were Kate Kosturski (moderator), Paul Signorelli, Henry Mensch (newbie), Angela Paterek, Diane Huckabay, Jules Shore, and Jill Hurst-Wahl. We talked about the article, How Constraints Can Stimulate Creative Learning Opportunities, which includes a link to a 5-minute video. Our stories included ideas of creativity in training, improv classes, and more.
By the way, when we came up with today’s title, Jules chimed in with (from Only the Good Die Young): “I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners have much more fun.” When you are faced with a constraint, you need to be able to smile, laugh, and move forward.
It was a good conversation today and we hope you’ll give it a listen.
As a follow-up to this blog post, Kate Kosturski and Jill Hurst-Wahl talked about podcasts they recommend for summer listening (and those long road trips):
Enjoy and “see” you in two weeks!
Episode 202 was recorded St. Patrick’s Day! Diane Huckabay, Maurice Coleman, Kate Kosturski, and Paul Signorelli talked Play to Learn (yes, using games), the Congress bromance trip, and incorporating play into your training. You can listen to the episode here.
For this 200th episode, Maurice Coleman, Kate Kosturski, Jill Hurst-Wahl, and Buffy Hamilton. The four (including Buffy in chat) talked about the history of the program and what has changed in training since 2008. For example, there have been technology changes since 2008 that have truly impact training/teaching/learning.
At the end of the episode, we talked about the ALA Midwinter conference. A list of future ALA conference sites is here.
A bit Hat Tip to everyone – EVERYONE – who has ever been a part of this show. Thank YOU to EVERYONE who listened to this show. This show continues to ALL of you!
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On the call were Maurice Coleman, Kate Kosturski, Jill Hurst-Wahl, and Paul Signorelli (three with coughs and one with a “busted” foot).
Paul started us off on a conversation about the Communities That Work Partnership Playbook (Nov. 2016), focusing on page 11 (see image). We focused on “balancing customization and standardization” in terms of training and education. In self-directed learning, students (and trainers) need to know that the correct skills are being learned which are necessary for the workplace.
Maurice brought up a wonderful image of a honeycomb, where you provide some structure and people are free to then fill-in the structure.
We moved eventually to a long conversation about conference planning and changing from sessions to tracks. And we ended by talking again about customized learning, with a slight detour on the topic of “ambivert.” (See “9 Signs That You’re An Ambivert.”)
You can listen to the show here.
On the call were Andrea Snyder, Kate Kosturski, Michael Porter, Jill Hurst-Wahl, and Maurice Coleman. We began with the topic: How do we connect with our learners, whether it is a workshop or a speaking gig or webinar? What tips or tricks do we use?
As background, Jill has been listening to a nearly two-hour interview with Seal (the singer). At one point, Seal talks about advice he was given early in his career. He had a hit (“Crazy“) and was on a popular music TV show in England. A colleague told him that the performance was “good”, but that he hadn’t connected. She said Seal would know when he had done it.
Tips mentioned were:
How do you know that you “lost the room”?
Reading the room is a soft-skill. Can it be taught?
It was pointed out that sometimes you have to power-through a training, even if you’ve lost the room.
Can you have someone in the audience that gives you feedback or ensures that there is engagement?
Managing the flow of the training is a soft-skill that a trainer needs to learn. Managing the flow means the person needs to be flexible and nimble. The person needs to know the content well and be able to alter priorities on-the-fly, if necessary.
One other soft skill is learning how to hide the butterflies (or worries).
What do you do before you present to an audience that you don’t know?
You can listen to the show here.
On the call were Andrea Snyder, Kate Kosturski, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Paul Signorelli and Maurice Coleman. The topic for today was “The Size of the Room.” How do we extend and expand a conference conversation easily, quickly and at a low cost (or free).
Paul reminded us that it is a room with an open door, which means you can enter or not, and enter when you want to.
Paul’s takeaway from the Association for Talent Development (ATD) Annual Conference is to end conversations with action plans, so that things occur. This moves people to be doers. This is actually something Paul has had us do on T is for Training.
Paul mentioned the closing keynote by Jeremy Gutsche. A version of his talk is in Youtube:
Andrea’s takeaway from the Public Library Association (PLA) Conference, included these topics:
PLA organized a handout and post-conference conversations through Facebook so help people extend the learning.
Andrea mentioned this talk from Verna Myers, who was the “Big Ideas” keynote speaker:
Recaps of the conference are at http://rcplpla2016.blogspot.com/.
BTW we invested a new term, which is “pottycast.” You’ll have to listen to the show to understand why or how.
You can listen to the show here.
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