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Discerning and Adjusting Tone When Working with ChatGPT
Have you ever read something and gotten the distinct impression that you were being “sold” to? A “salesy” tone in writing can feel false, and if the people reading it are participants in an online course, it can annoy them and perhaps even prevent them from engaging...
Five Essential Tips for Starting Your Own Podcast
We recently passed the one year anniversary of my podcast, Facilitating on Purpose, so it feels like a good time to celebrate. Have you ever thought of starting a podcast of your own? Here are a few things I’ve learned along the way: 1. Find Your Unique Voice: Your...
Designing Accessible E-Learning
“Accessibility allows us to tap into everyone’s potential.” I (Carla) recently read this quote by Debra Ruh, an advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities. It stood out to me because our team is constantly striving to learn about and implement accessibility...
Designing Effective Slide Decks with Pain BC
From time to time, our team helps organizations design effective materials for their learning-related events. Recently, we had a wonderful opportunity to work with our client, Pain BC, to redesign the slide decks their volunteer facilitators use in a peer support...
Using Images Effectively
Images have the power to move us in many ways. They can evoke our emotions, feelings, memories, and more. Images can complement and enhance text that we read or hear, or they can be viewed alone and worth "a thousand words", as the old saying goes. We’ve been working...
Holding Space
Meg Bolger is a social justice educator, facilitator trainer, and the founder of Facilitator Cards, a set of activity cards used to help design and facilitate group learning. Recently, I (Carla) had the opportunity to participate in a virtual workshop Meg hosted...
Designing Learning Experiences: An e-learning course about fossils
One of the things we enjoy most about our work is getting to design great learning experiences for people while also learning about important topics. For example, did you know that British Columbia is home to an incredible variety of fossils? They are mostly found in...
What ChatGPT has to say about participatory learning experiences
I finally got a chance to jump on the ChatGPT bandwagon. The first task I asked this AI tool to complete was to "Create a 200 word blog post in the style of Beth Cougler Blom about why participatory learning experiences are effective." What do you think? I'm thinking...
Professional Development in Facilitation – Ongoing and Early 2023 Opportunities
I often get asked how folks can learn more about facilitation, so I thought I'd do another post about it here. I'll start by saying generally that if you are interested in "facilitation" it would be good to decide whether you're interested in facilitating learning...
Reflections on 2022
Around this time of year I usually write a post to look back on some of the great work we did this year. Sometimes the year can go by in such a whirlwind, I really appreciate taking this opportunity to see everything we've accomplished for ourselves and for our...
