Comments on: What to do while attending a boring online learning event: stealth learning

By: Learning Pulse | Xyleme Learning Blog

Learning Pulse | Xyleme Learning Blog — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:09:34 +0000

[...] Clarey: Stealth learning, for when you’re trapped with nothing else to [...]

By: Putting the Learner in the Driver’s Seat « Technogenii’s Blog

Putting the Learner in the Driver’s Seat « Technogenii’s Blog — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:15:10 +0000

[...] This is something every good face-to-face to trainer knows well. In order to avoid having a bunch of blank faces staring back at you, you need to interact with your learners by asking a question or by soliciting their opinion, anything to get that little hamster running. The advantage of face-to-face training is the visual feedback that learners are disengaged. In an online setting, you won’t get that feedback and disengaged learners won’t be paying attention to the content, as Janet Clarey and her commenters demonstrate in a post entitled: What to do while attending a boring online learning event: stealth learning. [...]

By: Joan Vinall-Cox

Joan Vinall-Cox — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:57:20 +0000

Muting the mic! What a brilliant idea! Is there a way of muting typing or YouTube sounds while on the phone? ;-> Joan Vinall-Coxs last blog post..Jing (for Screencasting) and TweetDeck (for Twitter)

By: Joan Vinall-Cox

Joan Vinall-Cox — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:57:00 +0000

Muting the mic! What a brilliant idea! Is there a way of muting typing or YouTube sounds while on the phone? ;-> Joan Vinall-Coxs last blog post..Jing (for Screencasting) and TweetDeck (for Twitter)

By: Janet Clarey

Janet Clarey — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:00:36 +0000

Kristina – I imagine I’ll have some little laughs like Cathy during my next one thinking about all the possibilities. It’s a good mid-session ice breaker vs. the ‘where are you from’ at the beginning. “What are you doing” twitter style..

By: Janet Clarey

Janet Clarey — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:00:00 +0000

By: Kristina Schneider

Kristina Schneider — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:43:43 +0000

I love the responses to this. I once attended an 8 hour Thiagi workshop (who is not at all ever boring) and he said that you have to keep people engaged otherwise after 2 minutes of being bored, they start to go away in their minds and think of sex.

So there’s one for you Janet, if you ever find yourself boring giving a conference…

Kristina Schneiders last blog post..When Did We Forget How to Draw?

By: Kristina Schneider

Kristina Schneider — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:43:00 +0000

So there’s one for you Janet, if you ever find yourself boring giving a conference…

Kristina Schneiders last blog post..When Did We Forget How to Draw?

By: Janet Clarey

Janet Clarey — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:43:54 +0000

Hi Jason-
Couple of things come to mind…
Although I despise gender stereotyping I’m wondering if your “I’m outa there” behavior is more male and the “I’ll stick around/don’t want to hurt feelings” approach is more female. Although I have bailed on a few so that’s probably not accurate.

Life is too short for boring webinars! (and secretly I wish for more if it means you’ll real our blogs
: )

By: Janet Clarey

Janet Clarey — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:43:00 +0000

Life is too short for boring webinars! (and secretly I wish for more if it means you’ll real our blogs
: )