Category Archives: Training
eLearn Magazine: Education and Technology in Perspective
This is a great 3-parts article can be apply to outdoor education, especially for pre-course or for debriefing. Please let me know what you think!
Outdoor Instructors Post-Season Tips
1. Make sure you make time to renew your Wilderness First Responder
2. Get some friends together and go on a personal expedition.
3. Challenge yourself the same way you challenge your students! Your challenge might be to learn a computer program like Adobe Dreamweaver or to participate in a public hearing.
4. Look for gear sales. Local retail stores and online sites are having amazing sales during the off season.
5. Swap services. Let’s say you are a kayaker, show someone effective paddling stroke and in exchange have them teaches you or give you something you want.
Endurance Staffing – Podcast #1 PFD
This is the first of many podcast created for Endurance Staffing. Enjoy!
Article – Training with Pizzazz
Thinking about the coming up staff trainings, I will be delivering, I redirect my attention to the article Training with Pizzazz at http://www.teambuildinginc.com/article_pizazz.htm
I really enjoyed this article and I have gain new tools for my own bag of tricks, such as “pattern interruptions” to re energize the audience and the proper way of using a flip chart (and the ideas that David Rothier mentions in his posting about flip chart uses). On the other hand, some of the ideas presented in this article I’ll never use, like the water guns to break the tension. First, I think it is rude and secondly I’ll be promoting violence in my training. Is that the attitude I want my participants’ to gain? No if I want to develop the soft skills needed to enhance their emotional intelligence.
I (we) make a difference!
This is a great mid week inspiration for all of you indoor and outdoor teachers/educators. I just finished a great training on podcasting by John Martin who was responsible for introducing me to podcasting as well as this youtube video. Enjoy!
First break all the rules
I have a 45 minute commute every day to work. Thanks to audible.com my commute is very entertaining and educational. The reading that I enjoy is non fiction because of the intellectual growth value. On the other hand, when I want to escape or relax I rather watch a movie. My wife would argue that you can learn about human nature through literature in general. I stick to my non fiction. Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman in their book First break all the rules emphasizes that to excel as a manager one must do the following: 1. Select talented staff, 2. Set expectations, 3. Motivate the person, 4. Develop the person. The last activity is the one that I want to expand in this posting. Developing staff members is an individual process that has to be mapped in order to achieve the desired outcome. You need to keep track of each person’s strengths, weaknesses and work habits in order to train them to be a better employee. Also, by starting them each off with an effective training program the development of employees is set on a good foundation, since each person will know the expectations of the manager, and hopefully, how they need to achieve them. Good training is a core element but not the only element for development
My favorites (del.icio.us) PART 1
Since I am looking at using the video as a tool for training, finding different online resources to help me with this task is a must. Ourmedia Learning Center provides the readers with the “how to” for multiple video tasks. This website shows how to convert DVD videos for use on the iPod, downloading videos from the web to be used on the computer and many more tips.
Cast blaster tutorial is an excellent tutorial on how to use the free software (Castblaster) to create a podcast. I have downloaded the trial version and I hope to create the voice that will go along with the video for my training videos. It is an open source program.
Audacity (Editing video) is a free open source software that can be use to create podcasts.
Recreation staff training
As my previous blog entry explains, I have created this blog as part of an education technology course that I am currently enrolled at Plymouth State University. Currently, I am managing the recreation programs at PSU. I want to ask recreation professionals, educators, class colleagues and students the following questions: How can we use wikis, blogs, podcasts and other technology tools to provide training and development to recreation and fitness staff members? I look forward to provoke some intellectual exchange via this blog!
