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Five Zoom features you might not have discovered yet
I've been in dozens and dozens of Zoom meetings since the end of March, mostly on the facilitator side of things leading a meeting or a learning event. I've learned a few Zoom tricks along the way - even after I have been using Zoom for a few years - and I thought I'd...
The importance of mindset when working with technology
For today's post I made a short (3 min) video to tell you about an email I received from someone who is considering taking one of my upcoming courses, with a question about whether I think their apprehension to technology might be an issue that would affect their...
Join me for an upcoming course in online facilitation
If you're looking to learn about how to facilitate online learning events you may wish to consider joining me for an upcoming online course I'm offering starting May 25. The course is called Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) Synchronous (FLO Synchronous for short)...
Developing self-study e-learning courses
This is the fourth and final post on the basics of creating online learning. In earlier posts I overviewed the different modes under the umbrella of "online learning", gave some tips around facilitating learning in synchronous web conferencing sessions, and talked...
Creating multi-week facilitated online learning
This is the third post of a four post series on the basics of creating online learning. The first post focused on the different types of online learning and some of the decisions you need to make when setting out to create online learning. The second post centred...
Facilitating learning over web conferencing
In Part 1 of this four post series on creating online learning, I gave a very brief overview of the different types of online learning that exist as well as decisions you need to make when you first set out to create online learning. In this Part 2 post I'll talk...
If you’re thinking about creating online learning…
There's no two ways about it, right now is a great time to think about creating online learning. Whether you're an organization that is trying to educate your staff or volunteers or a consultant attempting to reach your clients, you may be thinking about creating...
Five tips to move a face-to-face meeting online
In the world we're living in right now it's become even more important to use technology to meet online. Online meetings can be a robust equivalent to face-to-face ones if you know how to facilitate them well. If you have a scheduled face-to-face meeting coming up...
My Liberating Structures facilitation journey so far
It's been four years since I attended my first Liberating Structures immersion workshop, with Keith McCandless, Fisher Qua, and Tracy Roberts and Leva Lee from BCcampus. Not too many months before that, I'd never heard of Liberating Structures and responded with the...
As the sun sets on 2019…a year in review
As the sun sets on this last day of 2019 - and the last day of the 10's decade - I thought it was time to take a reflective look back over the year. If you're curious what my 2019 looked like, here are some highlights for each quarter. January - March When January...