T Is For Training

The photographer, teacher and author Glenn K. Seki, Ed. D. talks to us about how to become an expert in Anything. Find his book at https://howtobecomethebest.com/ Notes added 2/11/23 I didn’t want the world to remember him like that. [Glenn was the LMU photographer when Hank Gathers died on the court] https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hank-gathers-death-college-basketball K Anders Ericsson [I would make a bad photojournalist] because I want to save the kid on fire. Companies should retrain injured employees for free. I learned to compensate. Make sure you have a plan B. Planning and Pre-focusing. Anticipation matters in photography You can only use one good eye for photography. Have an editor who can tell you “This Sucks, Start Over.” Glenn practiced action photography by following seagulls. Drive to get better. Takes deliberate practice with goals. Observe habits. You don’t have to be born the best; you have to work at it. Persistence is the key. It depends on where you attribute f

T is for Training 328 - You Don’t Want Your Grandmother to Clean That Up All info at https://tisfortraining.wordpress.com The show was recorded on January 26th 2023. Due to my computer completely freaking the * out, we recorded it in Zoom. Thanks, Paul! The panelists were Paul Signorelli, Tom Haymes, Buffy Hamilton, and Maurice Coleman. Running Show Thoughts: See think wonder. Teach the big concept – SOAPSTone text analysis – We need to teach people how to use this (or a variation) on every social media platform. Some students come with a critical thinking framework, some you have to install the framework before you can ensure they will learn something they can use in real life. Ethos, Pathos, Logos. AI is transforming education. Education shouldn’t be a black box. Resource links on http://tisfortraining.wordpress.com How Tom Learned to Stop Worrying about ChatGPT (from the Shaping Edu Blog.) Making Thinking Visible Project Zero Classroom Check out Standardized Minds: The High Price Of Ameri

We started talking about what tech and non tech we will use in 2023. Recognizing Limitations of Technology is important. It is a good thing to hear your friend's voices in your head. Leave the interstate and take the road less traveled (you want to see the big ball of string) We learned that Jill folds (and annotates) her maps properly. We want you to get the right help. Start your training with a story. Or a murder like Colombo. You then get to see how you got there. Which is the interesting journey.

The end of year wrap show. Next episode January 12th 2023. We figure all systems are broken and all of our guests this year are trying to fix them one small change at a time. We should create small learning communities, not ways to game the system and chrun out diplomas like automobiles. The notes: DEI is everywhere Work on people and self-discovery is at the heart of DEIJ training. It is also an easy way to approach any problem. (really emotional intelligence) Familiarity breeds contempt. Bad things happen when you doomscroll and have no outlet to process and evaluate what you learned with moderately reasonable people. Interacting with people acts as a professional governor. Chat GPT you can beat it by knowing some stuff about the subject. The world changes as the world resists the change. Non-industrialized and non-gamified instruction will turn Chat GPT into a tool, not a problem. Education has become an assembly line. There is an economics of academic scale. Large schools have money to prov

Pat Wagner's penultimate public appearance. Lessons over 44 years. Every time I hear you speak, I feel braver. You should meet the needs of your community. Have a sincere desire to like people and to serve people. Don’t show benign contempt. Don’t dominate under the guise of service. Serve with a clear heart with compassion and empathy for everyone. The three types of libraries: the Comfort Zone library, the same old stuff, and the Responsive library, can be expensive, fad driven, and cater to the loudest voices, and the Visionary library, think and be different take risks and learn from mistakes and failures. Libraries like this tend to be really rich or really desperate. Pat would ask libraries, what percentage of these types of libraries are you? You should explore failures. Innovation is a process, not an event. Why did we build it THIS way? Monuments to ego, not service. One library consulted with its staff to figure out the right type of floor to install. They saved time and money by inst

Today we welcomed David Lee King from the Topeka Shawnee County Library system in Kansas to talk about innovative learning and creative spaces that have blossomed during the pandemic. Regular Regulars Tom, Jill, Paul and Maurice da host were also on the call. Notes and Quotes: Full notes on the T is for Training blog @ tisfortraining.wordpress.com We were Google Kansas for just one day. Check out the American Connectivity Program part of the big infrastructure bill for resources (aka cash) to do some work libraries already do for the community. “My Soul Patch was on Fire” 30-dollar broadband with equipment can help the economic angle of the digital divide. How do we deal with the first/last mile? Modems, access points in a home/apartment, computers/internet-ready devices for all? Think like a designer. Create, screw up, fix, recreate, repeat until you reveal the sculpture in the marble. Do we hire staff to open the library on Local, State and Federal holidays? What does that mean for recruitment

On the Call were Maurice Coleman, Paul Signorelli, Sardek Love, and the newest friend of the show Anne Bruce. We talked about their new book from McGraw Hill Business Essentials Publications - Presentation Essentials. Anne and Sardek talked about the tools and best practices of presentations, the difference between presenting, training, and lecturing, and how both new and seasoned speakers can hone their craft.

Jared Bendis Jaredx2 is everywhere. If you are going to complain you have to be on Twitter. Right Platform for the job Only an idiot would post a 10-minute video. Me, Joe, and Josh with lava lamps and flintstone ties. My brand is Jared Bendis. I assume this was before the author went crazy. I don’t want videos to go viral. Call me fat and bald, don’t call me a boomer…. The only person who thinks I’m a bad guy is a Republican. You’re not a library but you are a digital hoarder. We will never get copyright reform until we leave international treaties. Let’s use social engineering to figure out copyright. Willingly expire copyrights. I don’t wanna pay for it. But why did you pirate it… Don’t yuck someone yum. Keep on trolling trolls…. Aldi’s doesn’t answer the phone. Even if you didn’t steal a cartridge. My friends really need captions. Turns out I talk really fast. I learned how to be a librarian from one conversation. You need to know where this thing goes in the schema of this house. I didn’t count fo

A summary: I’m a mass murderer of grandparents. Listen to the room. Listening to the silence. Seeing the emotion. I rolled snake eyes. A conga line of students. I don’t see black swans.

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Paul, Jill, Henry and Maurice talked about What do we do before the class to set "the stage"?, What do we do during the class to ensure all learners are welcome and feel as if they belong there? How do we use purpose to create a welcoming environment? How do we get learners to be active participants? In every format there are people hiding in the back row. How do we get them engaged? What do we need to do for/with ourselves to ensure that we are welcoming?

ATD's Handbook for Training and Talent Development, Third Edition, edited by Elaine Biech. With Rita Bailey and Tonya Wilson. Who are semi-new usual suspects. With Tom, Jill, Paul and Maurice.

A discussion of a ShapingEDU interview project with Imani, Tula and Lisa as guests. Paul, Jill, Angie, Tom (and his pack buster) from the pool of regulars. Find the details on the T is for Training Blog http://tisfortraining.wordpress.com or follow @tisfortraining on twitter. Thanks for reading!

We talked about conferences and speaking at conferences and supporting speakers and learners at conferences. With Clark Quinn Angie Paterek, Paul Signorelli, Tom Haymes, about 30 minutes of Jill Hurst-Wahl and yours truly, Maurice Coleman (colemanassociates.net)

We talked to our friend Pat Wagner about her career in libraries and about the Office for Open Network, a seminal connecting people to the right people and information service she and her husband ran in Denver for multiple decades. And then Pat shared a bunch of consulting business knowledge. (we love her.) Oh, get your Project Management Certificate yesterday.

The always brilliant Clark Quinn, author of the new book Make It Meaningful, joined the show and talked about what skills and commitment are needed to make sure that your learning event is both memorable and transformational.

We talked about Tom Haymes' 25 Books every Technologist Should Read, which sparked a conversation about education norms, bad design and other topics. Find the list on Tom's Website ideaspaces.net

We talked about our friend Tom Haymes' New Book Discovering Digital Humanity available from atbosh.com

Pat Wagner, a trainer and facilitator of the first order, joins the show again to talk about influences, self-examination and stealth idiocy.