Tag Archives: synchronous

Please keep your phones ON!

By Ally | Published: October 29, 2009
Mobile phones in the training room have a really bad reputation. Whether it is managers keeping one eye on their blackberry or an advisor tapping out a sneaky text under the table, they are perceived as a source of distraction by most trainers. Yet, a High School in Tampa Bay are allowing students to use their phones during lessons - with really positive results.
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Bringing synchronous learning alive

By Paul | Published: August 27, 2009
An interesting article by David Gibson at Eureka with some great tips for on-line learning webinars ( and in the training room). Bringing synchronous learning aliveHi thanks for coming back to our site. Paul and Ally will be running the morning session of the Brain Friendly Learning Group (Southern) in February. To find out more (and [...]
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The ballet of state management

By Paul | Published: August 25, 2009
One of the pillars of Brain Friendly Learning is “State Management” As Kim Hare, Managing Director of Kaizen Training says in her book The Trainer's Toolkit: Bringing Brain-friendly Learning to Life “State is everything (well almost)”  But what exactly is she talking about? Exforsys offers us the following: State is a combination of the internal representations of the mind [...]
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Mix up learning: reflections on a Seth Godin post

By Ally | Published: August 5, 2009
Seth Godin has posted a really interesting graph comparing amount of information with the way that the information is delivered. How can we help our learners by considering alternative ways to communicate our training messages using the model Seth uses for marketing communications?
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