“If you want peace, work for justice.”
Recent events have left me speechless. Global pandemic, local curfews and utter chaos. Nothing I can think to say that will be sufficient. As Euan Semple said “There is no them. There’s just us, all of us. Don’t let your tribe convince you otherwise.”
Happy Friday! Thanks for reading.
What I’m Listening to: I just discovered Oatmello Radio which is quickly becoming a new contender for my favorite playlist for working along to.
Last week’s most clicked item:
Creating Simple Animated Videos
Why Workplace Learning Needs to Change
The ever-increasing demands on businesses mean learning and development has never been more stretched, so it’s time to do things differently, says Ben Betts. Ben encourages us to “Start with some small experiments around social or self-managed learning experiences and measure results. If it works, go to the C-suite & explain what you’ve done and how it works. Start small..but start now.”
Principles of Instruction: Research-Based Strategies All Teachers Should Know
This article by Barak Rosenshine presents 10 research-based principles of instruction along with suggestions for putting them into practice.
Goodbye Growth Mindset, Hello Efficacy and Attribution Theory
This 3-Star Learning Experiences post explores what self-efficacy and attribution theory have to offer is way more specific and useful in practice (and why growth mindset is potentially damaging for learners).
How to Use Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia Learning
A nice illustrated walk through of Richard Mayer’s Multimedia Learning principles by Water Bear Learning.
Seven Habits that Seem Lazy (but Actually Let You Get More Done)
Interesting article from Scott Young that is resonating with me and talks about how we focus on being visibly productive, often subtly undermining the unseen ability to do important work.
A few other things just because I can.
Podcasts
Here are three podcast episodes from this week that are worth a listen:
- Shaking Up the Conference Format – The Good Practice guys host, Dr. Will Thalheimer and Matthew Richter to discuss the details of the new online-only ‘L&D Conference’.
- The Future of Online Learning – Robin Petterd and Cheryle Walker explorehow live online learning can reach more people and how organisations are going to become a hybrid of remote and physical workplaces.
- If You Build It, Will They Learn? This episode explores some of the main benefits of blended learning and follows the idea of meeting the learner where they like to learn, by using a variety of modalities.
Tools & Resources
- [Tools] – A first look at the new screen recording feature in Microsoft Stream
- [Design/Tools] – Canva keyboard shortcuts
- [Audio] – AudioMass is an online audio editor – sort of like Audacity online.
- [PowerPoint] – BrightCarbon has collected the best free PowerPoint templates for you.
- [Design] – This is a huge curated list of design resources.
- [Email] – A nice, free custom email signature generator
- [Collaboration/Tools] – Miro is an online whiteboard with “Google docs-like” collaboration.
- [Design] – 10 Excellent Font Pairing Tools
Conferences & Learning Events
The Learning Guild’s Speaker Chat will feature Nick Floro on Sticky eLearning Tools and Technology on June 12th (Free registration required)
Here are a couple of helpful resources if you’re looking for a L&D-related conference or webinar.
- Check out the upcoming conference schedule
- L&D Webinars for this month by Limestone Learning
Where You Can Find Me
- I’m excited to join an internal live conversation with learning pros at Nationwide on June 11th to talk about new perspectives on workplace learning.
- I’m working on an online program for the online Learning Development Conference starting June 22. Let me know if you or anyone you know is interested in a discount.
- Bianca Baumann and I are delivering a master class for the VOV Network in Belgium on “L&D Strategies from the Marketing Playbook”
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Mike Taylor 