Tayloring it

In this very short podcast I make a reappearance into the podcasting arena and provide a glimpse as to what lies ahead…..

Craig chats with Bianca Woods about what they took away from Devlearn 12, but more importantly what they've been able to implement back in their organisations in the 6 weeks since Devlearn concluded. Bianca also shares her tips on how to maximise your engagement with your 'non conference attending' colleagues prior to, during and after any conference attendance.

Craig is joined by Zak Mensah for the second in a series of podcasts in which Zak helps to make sense of the whole ebooks subject.

Craig is joined by @zakmensah for the first in a series of podcasts in which he Zak helps to make sense of the whole ebooks subject.

Lisa Johnson shares her teams success of delivering training to over 7000 people who are scattred throughout the length and breadth of the UK, with a team of only 5 people. Here’s how they’ve done it…

Craig chats with Lisa Johnson on the subject of her teams’ recent *award winning* work with the use of internal wikis and ‘just-in-time’ performance support videos.

Craig chats with Laura Layton James on the subject of her recent blog post and discuss whether it is possible to create engaging compliance elearning.

Craig chats with Di Dawson on the subject of gaining formal accreditation for learning programmes and in particular the offering of ITQs for Social Media, Mobile Learning and Accessible IT.

Craig chats with his gaffer Neil, on the subject of podcasting to an internal audience with a particular focus on their shiny new toy…..

Craig chats with Chris Brannigan from Thinking Worlds about why he thinks 'simulations' and 'immersive environments' haven't made in mainstream yet.

If you’ve not already read my previous blog posts ‘Getting Beyond Bullet Points (visuals only)’, ‘Getting Beyond Bullet Points (with audio), Bringing in the BackChannel and The Learners Voice then I’d strongly suggest having a read of them before you read any more of this post. Why? Well for 2 reasons really: 1. The earlier posts will provide you with the context behind this post. 2. You will notice in the the earlier posts I suggest that whilst a modern, bullet-point free, visually rich presentation is certainly very engaging and less cognitively challenging for any learners, this approach certainly falls down when you distribute the slides on their own after the event. Essentially all the learner is left with is a collection of pretty slides, which without the context that your narrative provides may fall short of it’s intended purpose. I mentioned that an audio recording of your ‘live’ presentation can be coupled with your slides to provide that important narrative, possibly utilising Slideshare to synchronise the various elements. The second of this series of posts coupled visuals with a ‘non-live’ audio recording. The benefit of this was that I could keep the duration fairly short, improve the quality of the recording and stick to the ‘script’ – Of course, that also meant that any questions that were asked during the live session are lost to the learner and that any interesting digressions are not included. To illustrate this point the audio recording below was recorded live at my LSG session. The audio was taken from my lapel mic, into the audio mixing desk and then directly into my Zoom mp3 recorder.

If you’ve not already read my previous blog posts ‘Getting Beyond Bullet Points (visuals only)’, ‘Getting Beyond Bullet Points (with audio) and Bringing in the BackChannel then I’d strongly suggest having a read of them before you read any more of this post. Why? Well for 2 reasons really: 1. The earlier posts will provide you with the context behind this post. 2. The purpose of this specific post is to provide a brief audio summary of the actions that the attendees committed to, on leaving my session. By viewing the earlier posts in this series there is more likelihood that the attendees actions will make sense. I have to admit that I wouldn’t usually take this approach for providing visibility of the attendees actions, much preferring to have the attendees create an AudioBoo or tweet their actions and then produce a Wordle from those responses, however the large number of attendees (60+) precluded the use of AudioBoo and the small number of tweeps would have had very little impact on a Wordle. What I was/am trying to show to presenters is how their presentation can still resonate days, if not weeks or even months after the live event by using methods such as this to keep the original message alive in the minds of those who attended and if you used a backchannel, perhaps even in the minds of those who did not physically attend. Anyway, here’s the recording.

Craig is joined by podcast panel regular Kate Graham along with some new voices which belong to Mandy Randall-Gavin and Niall Gavin. Today they are chatting about their recent journey into the…… “Blogosphere”!

Craig missed Dr Chris Atherton‘s session at LT11, however the video recording of her session has provided him with inspiration and ideas ever since. This podcast scratches the surface of Chris’ specialism and hopefully provides you ‘Dear Listener’ with a few ideas (and maybe even a challenge) ahead of your next presentation. Craig even starts to try and determine the origin of the word ‘logo’ and then gives up to the wisdom of Wikipedia!!!

Damian Farrell chats with Craig about how he has enhanced some of his face-to-face training by using some simple, intuitive *FREE* tools

This podcast sees Craig being joined by Erica Neve to discuss their recent attendance at the Plymouth eLearning Conference at the University of Plymouth.

This podcast sees Craig being joined by Kate Graham, Kim George and Paul Simbeck-Hampson to (hopefully) dispell any misgivings or musunderstandings relating to QR codes, how they can be used to not only enhance learning activities but also as a marketing tool.

Today’s podcast sees Craig being joined by Kate Graham and James McLuckie to discuss the subject of internal communications. How are businesses enabling technologies to enhance and enrich their internal conversations? What tools are organisations and individuals turning to enable their staff to connect, communicate and collaborate? Kate and James provide some answers to the above questions whilst Craig complains about them rubbing salt in his wounds!

Craig chats with Fiona Leteney on the subject of the new Media City e-learning showcase that she has implemented. The aim of the showcase is the pursuit of excellence, and the desire to inspire and share best practice so that e-learning can always be viewed in a positive light.

Craig chats with Stephanie Dedhar, Col Hawksworth and Sam Burrough on the subject of compliance training, their best and worse experiences of it and what we in the Learning Technologies field can do to enhance its reputation.

Craig chats with Lillian Soon, Kate Graham, Karyn Romeis, Laura Overton, Christie Fidura and Don Taylor on the ‘actions’ that they personally took away from their attendance at Learning Technologies 2011, along with the challenges that they anticipated in trying to achieve them!

Waaaaay back in the mists of time that was Learning Technologies 2010, I attended a workshop on the subject of storyboarding facilitated by @juliewedgwood. This session came a little late in my ID career as I had spent the previous 6 months putting together rapid elearning module with NO storyboard process – oh well, better late than never! I recently asked Julie to facilitate that session again with a number of my colleagues which culminated in them producing a podcast to reflect upon the session’s content and what they were going to do with it. Apologies for the sound quality in parts of this podcast, I was using a portable Zoom recorder for the very first time and should have practiced with it beforehand (as you’ll hear)

Craig chats with Jane Brotchie on the subject of Project Management. This podcast will count as a piece of evidence towards a group activity within the Certificate in Web Content Creation & Management programme.

.. I'm currently sat in Gloucestershire College attending @jamesclay's Podcasting Workshop. I'll blog about the workshop in greater detail shortly, however James has set us a task over lunch of creating a podcast, so without further ado....