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2008 November Training News and Notes
By Liz Wheeler

Industry News and Notes

U of M and BPG Partner for Continuing Ed

The University of Minnesota has partnered with The Bob Pike Group to offer one of the most comprehensive Train-the-Trainer Certificate Programs available. Bob Pike will be kicking off the certificate program December 2 with the first course, Creative Training Techniques.

   The program uses research-based, field-tested creative training strategies to show how to effectively manage and influence people in educational and training situations. The highly interactive and engaging courses focus on training facilitation skills, participant-centered methodologies, presentation skills, design strategies, and more. Certificate completion requires three required courses and one elective for a total of 42 contact hours. The courses may be taken in any order, but must be completed within two years of the first course. For information, go to http://www.cce.umn.edu/certificateprograms/ttt/ . 

 

Put a Live Browser in Your PowerPoint

LiveWeb lets you embed Web sites in your presentations. This free add-on works with PowerPoint 97 and later. Once installed, you simply click Insert > Web Pages, then enter the URLs for the site(s) you want to add. A few more clicks and you�re done. You can interact with the sites from PowerPoint just like in an external browser. http://skp.mvps.org/liveweb.htm   

 

Free WiFi at Airports and Other Travel Secrets

While some airports have internet access for up to $20 a day for use, there are some airports that offer it for free. Interested in knowing which ones? Check out www.smallbusiness.com/wiki/free_wifi_airports . Waittime.tsa.dhs.gov gives estimated times on how long it takes to get through airport security. More tips on how to �fly� through airport security are at http://blogs.bnet.com/businesstips/?p=2069&tag=nl.rSINGLE .

 

e-Learning Games: Free Trial

New games for e-learning were just released as part of the Raptivity product line. MindPlay TurboPack includes strategy games and game shows. WordPlay TurboPack includes crosswords and letter games. All �interactions� are fully customizable and a free trial is available at www.raptivity.com.   


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Getting people to use learning resources in the company library can be tricky, Kathleen Miller-Buettner and Susan Hayley-Gates say. Their library has books, videos and audio tapes on communication skills, management skills, balancing work and home lives, and dozens of other topics. But, as in many organizations, the materials once went mostly unused. To encourage corporate library use—and learning—the training department initiated a TOM (theme of the month) Club. Membership is free. Each month has a topical theme – effective feedback, industry information and the like. Trainers, however, don’t disclose what the month’s theme is. Instead they post clues throughout the office and via email on the first day of each month. Employees guess the theme, placing their guess in one of the special TOM Club raffle boxes around the workplace.
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