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Greetings!
The April 2004 chapter meeting is a Luncheon Mixer at Cafe de Thai with
ASTD Area Manager of the Western States, Ms. Maureen Orey. We'll be dining
on the outdoor patio (weather permitting), otherwise we'll be meeting
indoors. Maureen will give us a short update on what is happening at the
ASTD national and regional levels, and then we'll have time to get to know
our fellow colleagues.
ASTD Survey Raffle Results! The results are in! Thanks so much to those
who participated! Members with the following raffle ticket numbers have
won a $10 gift card: 273548, 273571, 273574, 273523, 273589, 273575,
273545, 273542, 273531, 273529 To claim your prize, bring the winning
ticket to the next membership meeting, or contact Beth Blackwood at:
bablackwood@west.com
President's Message 
Gandi said: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were
to live forever. The great thing about the training profession is that it
is all about learning: facilitating learning for others and lifelong
learning for ourselves - how lucky we trainers are! Of course some are
luckier than others, for example, the fortunate ten who won gift
certificates simply for turning in their membership surveys! If you
haven't already done so, do check the newsletter above to see if your
raffle ticket number is one of the lucky winners. Prizes will be handed
out at our next membership meeting, which is our first luncheon this year
and being held at Café de Thai on the 21st of the month from 11:30 am to 1
pm.
Don't forget to RSVP for the luncheon by emailing Cheryl Woehr at
cwoehr@unr.edu, as the restaurant would like to know how many attendees
will be coming. Maureen Orey, ASTD Regional Area Manager for the Western
States will be speaking, and there will be plenty of opportunities for
networking, so don't miss this event!
To come back to the membership survey for a moment, many thanks to all
who participated. We were very pleased with the response and are now in
the process of evaluating your feedback, and it appears that there is
demand for several luncheon meetings a year, so we'll be expecting a good
turnout on the 21st. A full report on the survey results is still
forthcoming!
I'll be looking forward to seeing you all at Café de Thai, and I leave
you with a final quote: The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher
explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -
William Arthur Ward. Go forth and inspire! ---Shelley MacDonald,
President, Sierra Nevada Chapter
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Hot Tips for Trainers |
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 Did you learn a lot from Sharon Bowman's
presentation at the March ASTD Member's Meeting? Did you buy a book
or two? Have you used any of her great training tips?
If you are a fan of Sharon's, you will also like the tips from
David Gibson at Eureka! Accelerated Learning LLD. in London,
England. Go to their website at http://www.eureka-tp.com/ for a fun
tour of their reader friendly e-Books on different aspects of
facilitating a successful training workshop. Written for trainers by
trainers, the books will give you ways to add pizzazz (sounds like
Sharon) to a tired, dull workshop or develop your skills as a
facilitative trainer. Like Sharon Bowman's books and wisdom, these
are based on the latest research from the world of learning and
neuroscience. While at their website, sign up for their free
bi-weekly Tips for Trainers newsletter.
P.S. Don't forget that Sharon's website is www.Bowperson.com.
Check it out too, and you will have a double dose of extraordinary
training tips! ---Pat Tuecke
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e-Learning DevCon 2004 |
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 Special offer for the Sierra Nevada chapter of
the ASTD! Rapid Intake will be hosting the first ever e- Learning
Developers Conference August 9-11, and as an added bonus for
belonging to the ASTD we are offering members of your group $50 off
of the conference registration!
e-Learning DevCon 2004 is scheduled for August 9-11, 2004, in
beautiful Portland, OR. This conference is designed specifically for
the developers out there, or those of you who want to become
developers. Are you tired of conferences that focus only on theories
and concepts of e-learning and don't actually show you how to "get
it done?" You're not alone!
We put this developers conference together with three simple
rules: 1) NO FLUFF! 2) NO HIGH PRICES! 3) FOCUS ON DEVELOPMENT
e-Learning DevCon 2004 has the sessions you need on the topics
you want. You'll learn everything from project management and
usability testing to the tips and tricks of the latest authoring
tools available on the market. If you work with Macromedia products
then you'll love this conference! We would like to share additional
conference information with your members via email and direct mail,
hence we are offering the $50 discount to ASTD members. Please
contact us so that we can make arrangements to do this. For complete
conference details, point your browser to
http://www.elearndevcon.com |
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Principles for Effective E-Learning |
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 By Zoraini Wati Abas, New Straits
Times (Malaysia) (07/28/03) P. 39 Dr. Ruth Clark, an instruction
design and technical training specialist, lists six factors she
believes are essential when developing e-learning courses. The six
principles she supports are multimedia, contiguity, coherence,
modality, redundancy, and personalization.
The multimedia principle encourages the use of graphics and video
to enhance learning, while the contiguity principle advises that
text placed near graphics will help learning as well. The modality
principle advocates using audio to explain the graphics, and
redundancy supports the idea that presenting the same information in
multiple forms will help facilitate learning. The coherence
principle warns against using too much text or graphics that are not
needed, suggesting that these add-ons can distract and hinder
learning. The principle of personalization is the belief that using
conversational tones when writing text or recording audio will allow
the user to engage better with the material, whereas more formal
language may not work as well.---Julie Lamoureaux and Jeanne
Underwood
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Book Review: The Power of Full Engagement |
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 "Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance
and Personal Renewal" by Jim Loehr and Tony Scharwtz
"We live in digital time. Our rhythms are rushed, rapid fire and
relentless, our days carved up into bits and bytes. We celebrate
breadth rather than depth, quick reaction more than considered
reflection. We skim across the surface, alighting for brief moments
at dozens of destinations but rarely remaining for long at any one.
We race through our lives without pausing to consider who we really
want to be or where we really want to go. We're wired up but we're
melting down."
When I read this first paragraph of the first chapter, I knew the
authors were on to something. The frantic pace of modern everyday
life as I've seen it in cities like San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle
and Reno, and living that lifestyle myself, I had always thought
effectively managing my time was the key to optimization, economy of
effort and finding a balance in my life. It never occurred to me
that mismanaging my energy was a major contributing factor to my
personal and professional performance levels.
The authors state: Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency
of high performance. Performance, health and happiness are grounded
in the skillful management of energy. They ascribe to four primary
principles: ˇ Full engagement requires drawing on four separate but
related sources of energy: physical, emotional, mental and
spiritual. ˇ Because energy diminishes both with overuse and with
underuse, we must balance energy expenditure with intermittent
energy renewal. ˇ To build capacity we must push beyond our normal
limits, training in the same systematic way that elite athletes do.
ˇ Positive energy rituals - highly specific routines for managing
energy- are the key to full engagement and sustained high
performance. This book takes the reader through the fundamentals of
the Corporate Athlete Training System, using case studies to give
context of the learning points. There is a complete summary of the
program at the end. This book reads fast, but the wisdom offered
cannot be disputed. The authors are simply taking what they have
learned as performance enhancement consultants to elite athletes in
multiple sports and translating those lessons to Joe and Jane
Average. If producing optimal results and the pursuit of personal
and professional excellence are anywhere in your lists of desires,
this book is for you. ---Chris Champagne
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The Northern Nevada Diversity Networking Council
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 Diversity and Culture Competency Skills for the
Workplace
Do you have what it takes to be successful in today's diverse
workforce? How do people from culturally different backgrounds come
together and work more effectively as a diverse team? What skills
are necessary to be culturally competent in the workforce? The
workshop will focus on the following topics:
How culturally aware are you? Are you in touch with your personal
biases? What do you know about other cultures? What skills are
necessary to be culturally competent?
Presenter: Cheryl Woehr, M.A., IBET Program Coordinator
Intercultural Business Education & Training University of
Nevada, Reno. Date: April 27, 2004. Time: 9:30 am to 12:00 noon.
Location: Northeast Community Center, Tuscarora Room 1301 Valley
Road, Reno (The Old YWCA). For more information and to RSVP, please
call (775) 673-7105. |
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