tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89775733228272076802024-03-14T02:12:41.948-07:00L & D Matters by Burnham L&DL&D Matters is changing focus to match how my work has been developing. I help individuals and organisations use drawing & Sketchnoting to think, learn and work better - this will now be the focus of my blogging. My work is grounded in L&D and OD practice gained over 30 years working in and with organisations as a consultant. Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-91391797668305156282024-02-09T08:11:00.000-08:002024-02-09T08:11:18.517-08:00How Sketchnoting became the key to unlock a whole new way of working<p> <span style="color: var(--color-text); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold);">Case Study - Sketchnoting in Use in the Chemical Industry</span></p><div data-scaffold-immersive-reader-content="" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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--artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Background</span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1241" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"></p><ul style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><li style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: 0.8rem 0px 0.8rem 3.2rem; padding-left: 0.8rem; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Janet Greenwood runs a specialist consultancy, TT Environmental Ltd, helping high hazard industries such as heavy industry and manufacturing understand and comply with chemical regulations. They provide environmental consultancy services and GHS Classification Courses, which provide introductions to CLP, and also CLP mastery, which is all about ensuring that organisations are able to communicate clearly to customers and staff the hazards of chemicals.</li></ul><p></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1242" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">How Sketchnoting is being used</span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1243" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Janet has been using Sketchnoting in her work since she did an introductory virtual workshop to Sketchnoting facilitated by Rachel Burnham in the summer of 2021. There are two main ways in which she is using Sketchnoting:<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1244" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"></p><ul style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><li style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: 0.8rem 0px 0.8rem 3.2rem; padding-left: 0.8rem; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Firstly, as a way of communicating urgent news to customers and contacts in a quick and easy to digest format. This has enabled Janet’s consultancy to get breaking information out rapidly to her client base and industry to inform and reassure. Eg a problem with the law underpinning CLP was identified and it was important to provide professionals dealing with this with timely advice on how to respond. Here is the simple but effective Sketchnote used to do this:<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><a class="app-aware-link " data-test-app-aware-link="" href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janet-greenwood_state-of-play-with-annex-viii-to-clp-as-we-activity-6900757098003517440-W51n/" style="background-color: var(--artdeco-reset-link-background-color-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);" target="_self">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janet-greenwood_state-of-play-with-annex-viii-to-clp-as-we-activity-6900757098003517440-W51n/</a></li><li style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: 0.8rem 0px 0.8rem 3.2rem; padding-left: 0.8rem; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Secondly, Janet and her team are now making extensive use of a variety of Sketchnotes within their training courses to summarise complex and detailed information on a single sheet. She describes Sketchnotes ‘as a way of getting across years or even decades of experience concisely and in an easily understandable form, both to beginners and more experienced professionals.’ They had previously make use of flowcharts and infographics - one of the advantages of Sketchnotes is their flexibility, so that you can vary the approach used to present the content most effectively and also combine a number of approaches within a single Sketchnote such as flowcharts, words, diagrams, arrows, structure and pictures. Some of their Sketchnotes are more word based and some more visual eg setting out the hazards of particular chemicals. With a Sketchnote you can both get the big picture, the context and also specific details.<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></li></ul><p></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1245" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1246" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">The impact of using Sketchnoting</span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1247" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"></p><ul style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); line-height: 1.75; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><li style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: 0.8rem 0px 0.8rem 3.2rem; padding-left: 0.8rem; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Janet and her team have had a very positive response to their use of Sketchnotes both as a communication tool and also as a learning aid from their customers and contacts. Communications using Sketchnotes shared on social media have had an excellent response with people commenting on the usefulness of the information contained.<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span></li><li style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: 0.8rem 0px 0.8rem 3.2rem; padding-left: 0.8rem; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Participants in their training courses undertake a series of tests covering each of the course modules and since the introduction of the Sketchnotes pass rates have improved. As other improvements to the courses were made at the same time this cannot be wholly attributed to the introduction of Sketchnotes. However, the trainer’s view is that participants understand the information presented more quickly and easily when a Sketchnote is used. In addition, individual participants have commented on the ease of understanding the Sketchnotes in discussions. This feedback from trainer and participants. when coupled with the test results, indicates a positive impact from using Sketchnotes.</li><li style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: 0.8rem 0px 0.8rem 3.2rem; padding-left: 0.8rem; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Clients have responded very positively to the use of Sketchnotes in their work – in this field of work, clarity is highly important – the risks of getting information wrong are high. So any tool which leads to great transparency of information is valued.</li><li style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: 0.8rem 0px 0.8rem 3.2rem; padding-left: 0.8rem; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Janet was so impressed with the impact of Sketchnotes for her business that other team members have now been on the online Introduction to Sketchnoting workshop and are now using Sketchnoting in their work.</li></ul><p></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1248" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Key Learning</span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1249" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">A Sketchnote doesn’t have to be perfectly drawn to be highly effective as a communication tool. This is not about producing art.</p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1250" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">In Janet’s and her colleague’s experience they have found that they can create one in about half an hour – providing they fully understand the topic. What the process shows up is where your own gaps in understanding are and so it helps you to pinpoint where you need to do more research.</p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1251" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">The only downsides are that you go through a lot of pens and sometimes end up with ink all over your fingers!</p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1252" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">‘It is like turning a key in a lock and opening up a completely new way of working’ says Janet.</p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1253" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1254" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">Rachel Burnham</span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1255" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-bold); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">25/4/2023</span></p><p class="ember-view reader-content-blocks__paragraph" id="ember1256" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: 1.75; margin: 1.6rem 0px; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); pointer-events: all; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); 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vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><h3 class="mb6 t-sans t-16 t-black" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--color-text); font-family: var(--artdeco-typography-sans); font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); font-weight: var(--artdeco-reset-typography-font-weight-normal); line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin-bottom: 3.2rem !important; outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br /></h3><div class="display-flex justify-space-between align-items-center" style="align-items: center !important; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; display: flex !important; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); justify-content: space-between !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><div class="display-flex align-items-flex-start" style="align-items: flex-start !important; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; display: flex !important; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><br /></div></div><div class="pv2 t-14" style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.4rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.42857; background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getFontSize); line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); padding-bottom: 0.8rem !important; padding-top: 0.8rem !important; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);"><span dir="ltr" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);">How can Sketchnoting make a difference to the way you work?<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Here is a case study looking at how Sketchnoting has been used in a business to work with customers and help the team become even more effective at communicating complex and technical information in easy to understand ways. It shows the value that visual thinking can bring and how it is a highly effective way of working, rather than just a fun activity.<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Sketchnotes make use of a combination of words and simple graphics to communicate information. They can combine pictures, diagrams, flowcharts with words and so are a very flexible tool for use in learning, thinking and working. I offer workshops introducing professionals and students to using Sketchnoting for note taking, planning, reflection, sense-making and communicating.<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />With many thanks to @JanetGreenwook of TT Environmental Ltd for telling her story. It is great to be able to share this experience of Sketchnoting from the chemical regulations and health & safety field.<span class="white-space-pre" style="background: var(--artdeco-reset-base-background-transparent); border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-size: var(--artdeco-reset-base-font-size-hundred-percent); margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); outline: var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero); padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre !important;"> </span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></div></div>Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-44904842518493575302024-02-02T07:08:00.000-08:002024-02-02T07:08:15.768-08:00Collection of Sketchnotes from World of Learning Summit 30 & 31 January 2024<b>Rachel Burnham writes:</b> I spent a very interesting two days at this year’s World of Learning Summit, which was held in January 2024, at Olympia, London. I was fortunate to be able to attend the conference to Sketchnote a wide range of sessions, but of course also enjoyed meeting and speaking with people in between sessions, over lunch and whilst wandering around the exhibition. <div><br /></div><div>The sessions I participated in were on a real mix of topics – AI and its importance for L&D, skills-based organisations, learning in the flow of work, neurodiversity, reverse mentoring, the advantages of curiosity and developing our digital skills as L&D professionals. </div><div><br /></div><div>The sessions that were most effective from my perspective dug deeper – for example Kerry Richardson from Thames Water presented an excellent case study (see Sketchnote later in post), which was about ‘Learning in the flow of work’ as advertised. But she also set out clearly how to run an effective pilot, including focusing the intervention clearly on a business need – in this case reducing complaints with clear success criteria and showed how to cost the results generated from the pilot. There was so much useful stuff in this session – not necessarily new, but practices that are important and often don’t get done. </div><div><br /></div><div>Some of the less effective sessions attempted to cover far too much material and so skimmed over the surface. I think it is easier to get more depth if sessions involve just a single presenter or case study or if sessions are slightly longer and I would encourage conference organisers to take this on board. <div><br /></div><div> Here are all 8 of the Sketchnotes that I created live over the two days. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The Opening Address on AI</b> </div><div><br /></div><div>Not surprisingly, the first two inputs at this year's conference were on AI and how L&D can be making use of this. My favourite bit was the Crawl, Walk, Run and Fly stages that Trish Uhl outlined that we need to go through in our learning about how to get the most out of AI.
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The Skills-Based Organisation</b> </div><div><br /></div><div>This is from a session by Asi De Gani and Dani Saadu, who each talked about their organisations' approach to taking a skills based approach to Learning & Development.
People I talked to about this session had very mixed responses - some feeling that this was bread and butter L&D and wondering how it was different from a competence based approach, whereas others found it incredibly helpful for the journey that their own organisation was in the midst of. </div><div><br /></div><div>Have a look and see what you think. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicska8wHpLrJalJxdtWYmLjzcnqdMbqPdFtbkRAZX1StjartEiqlp7kdQ5M-iBpWxqwSXXzylj8mGWeCzbWPts45Nz6PGfBae6xQZH0_SrtFCzrJeZpyxanozPNXl3ffieC7OZbxzJRQsAyZynGco5hN95OX9FhoSyZ5ycAd9lc4uHRRZpzVdYHRNatENW/s2341/The%20Skill%20Based%20Organisation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1563" data-original-width="2341" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicska8wHpLrJalJxdtWYmLjzcnqdMbqPdFtbkRAZX1StjartEiqlp7kdQ5M-iBpWxqwSXXzylj8mGWeCzbWPts45Nz6PGfBae6xQZH0_SrtFCzrJeZpyxanozPNXl3ffieC7OZbxzJRQsAyZynGco5hN95OX9FhoSyZ5ycAd9lc4uHRRZpzVdYHRNatENW/s320/The%20Skill%20Based%20Organisation.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>A practical look at learning in the flow of work </b></div><div><br /></div><div>Great session from Kerry Richardson, Thames Water detailing how they ran a pilot to add a learning in the flow of work element to the mix using 'Clever Nelly' to pose questions.
So many super things about this approach - it taps into both 'retrieval practice' and 'spaced repetition', they focused on addressing a key business needs - reducing complaints - and identified success criteria ie what success would look like, they carried out a pilot and compared with a control group, and costed the results sharing their workings out. Kudos to Kerry and her colleagues for such a rich case study. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_wqn2pSMoIf48Kw-lvhsqd3Ve5rFiOvA4UneB7NvJ0zqOFE8_GpLYrGN2msiDUF4ZGbaV3nIel8odnJV4EFr2L6jKRY1lK_hqZoo0jTsy2HIDNUTNjlgA4-SkKRxIHci1rYLps3N8jyr9b17DewtfSyoLFXQi9I7kdXdKNxL43W7VCDX6LAUcLC1r_9K/s2526/A%20Practical%20Look%20at%20Learning%20in%20the%20Flow%20of%20Work.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1698" data-original-width="2526" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_wqn2pSMoIf48Kw-lvhsqd3Ve5rFiOvA4UneB7NvJ0zqOFE8_GpLYrGN2msiDUF4ZGbaV3nIel8odnJV4EFr2L6jKRY1lK_hqZoo0jTsy2HIDNUTNjlgA4-SkKRxIHci1rYLps3N8jyr9b17DewtfSyoLFXQi9I7kdXdKNxL43W7VCDX6LAUcLC1r_9K/s320/A%20Practical%20Look%20at%20Learning%20in%20the%20Flow%20of%20Work.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Navigating the spectrum in a neurodiverse world </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>I am so excited to be able to share my Sketchnote with you from the session led by Leena Haque and Sean Gilroy from the BBC, titled 'Navigating the spectrum in a neurodiverse world'. Leena described her experiences of autism and of the challenges of school and finding her way into the world of work - she used pictures and video clips to vividly communicate her story. Of course as a Sketchnoter, my favourite bit was when she told us about how she drew pictures at school to process her learning! This is something we can all do and benefit from. </div><div><br /></div><div>Sean also explained about the initiatives the network they co-lead had taken at the BBC to address the needs neurodiverse people had identified - training to increase awareness, changes to the built environment and to technology to make it more accessible and to build community. </div><div><br /></div><div>I know a lot of people in the session were very moved by this presentation. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Us4cExazRBRL59-qZ0Uof9TuCLoUbh9dUW4C_1UrfDXnCs9mpRRIgDkKiMZq5JN243FpqzCH4vpvMuZTV1SqMYagiTFMiKbBeoO0yl7Tb2A1yZdAAiBKaAB1RusOtle8NMfiFwQMO5SR6F5eMparpQkzjBO_ADI5qOfaxAf9PIWxxTzwMUcvjxo7PPCR/s2674/Navigating%20the%20spectrum%20in%20a%20neurodiverse%20world%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1809" data-original-width="2674" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Us4cExazRBRL59-qZ0Uof9TuCLoUbh9dUW4C_1UrfDXnCs9mpRRIgDkKiMZq5JN243FpqzCH4vpvMuZTV1SqMYagiTFMiKbBeoO0yl7Tb2A1yZdAAiBKaAB1RusOtle8NMfiFwQMO5SR6F5eMparpQkzjBO_ADI5qOfaxAf9PIWxxTzwMUcvjxo7PPCR/s320/Navigating%20the%20spectrum%20in%20a%20neurodiverse%20world%20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>L&D skills for the digital world </b></div><div><br /></div><div>Here's my Sketchnote from Jo Cook 's session 'L&D Skills for the Digital Word' which was getting us thinking a bout the Digital skills we need now and how to future proof are skill sets. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoVxsKyXmyMcfxgGxtRrHHnQGzRm-MRKDf8t8QlTv2aDA6YPNgtuPwrHyVZn2vlsJ_iO89qJNG80Vb737r6n6iIDIMb_O4D8VamXJIPw5d79towjzj-fZhyrmJUOP6xRMlfP5crvTmChglesDAaw7oB0fcA1ukVux0fF_9buOEWD6iEZOOHBuoWmVFy-LK/s2763/L&D%20skills%20for%20the%20Digital%20World%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1855" data-original-width="2763" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoVxsKyXmyMcfxgGxtRrHHnQGzRm-MRKDf8t8QlTv2aDA6YPNgtuPwrHyVZn2vlsJ_iO89qJNG80Vb737r6n6iIDIMb_O4D8VamXJIPw5d79towjzj-fZhyrmJUOP6xRMlfP5crvTmChglesDAaw7oB0fcA1ukVux0fF_9buOEWD6iEZOOHBuoWmVFy-LK/s320/L&D%20skills%20for%20the%20Digital%20World%20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>The curious advantage </b></div><div><br /></div><div>Great conversation about curiosity and how it benefits organisations and how to nurture it. So good to hear Peter Ashcroft, Garrick Jones and Tim Munden discussing this. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsqeAD9DdwBst_CN6GjA2BTnWdPLon1MXIdMvFiUt469btmdIUMgv9ASMXqKvZibOJAIK3zecYuJsw25MALcQiCeToXCw-rSrpbbGkuisRxF7g8MB4kjcRMdUgTs9hqOtmuPvYun42OKNdXki-GgGTDUGKp5tVfrXqhRvgJcVfRmmt-PZC-qu16CZl_mrT/s2421/The%20Curious%20Advantage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1649" data-original-width="2421" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsqeAD9DdwBst_CN6GjA2BTnWdPLon1MXIdMvFiUt469btmdIUMgv9ASMXqKvZibOJAIK3zecYuJsw25MALcQiCeToXCw-rSrpbbGkuisRxF7g8MB4kjcRMdUgTs9hqOtmuPvYun42OKNdXki-GgGTDUGKp5tVfrXqhRvgJcVfRmmt-PZC-qu16CZl_mrT/s320/The%20Curious%20Advantage.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>The evolution of reverse mentoring</b> </div><div><br /></div><div>This session was co-delivered by Emily Cosgreve from 'The Conversation Space' and Mark Taylor from RSM UK. They shared their experience of using reverse mentoring to stimulate intergenerational conversations at work and they included lots of helpful detail about the way they did this. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzoQCOGR0LGkGvAlilzsdiFaMY3tI7_sIsJNlurcaznUT8SJRwoB7aWOiwNRssp2C8yQzlvI6R_W7QtXGSA-rpl9T_A9eKVCAKaC0k0sOtREkbXi3MDMnxkpK31B6A9Z5RmvzDKVXXFVHCxsmSNsLMxhR0NckXuPrnC6pnmb9Q_AfthfHeV-x3EDBN4dLy/s2611/The%20evolution%20of%20reverse%20mentoring.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1751" data-original-width="2611" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzoQCOGR0LGkGvAlilzsdiFaMY3tI7_sIsJNlurcaznUT8SJRwoB7aWOiwNRssp2C8yQzlvI6R_W7QtXGSA-rpl9T_A9eKVCAKaC0k0sOtREkbXi3MDMnxkpK31B6A9Z5RmvzDKVXXFVHCxsmSNsLMxhR0NckXuPrnC6pnmb9Q_AfthfHeV-x3EDBN4dLy/s320/The%20evolution%20of%20reverse%20mentoring.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I hope you have found it useful to see summaries of the sessions in Sketchnote format. I am always interested to hear what people think of them. </div><div><br /></div><div>If you are interested in learning to Sketchnote yourself or have colleagues who would find this of interest do get in touch – my next open workshop is online from 1pm on 29th February. Or get in touch if you would like to commission me to create a Sketchnote for your organisation. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Rachel Burnham </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>2 February 2024</b></div><div><b> </b></div><div><b>I help individuals and organisations to use visuals to think, learn and work more effectively, particularly though using Sketchnoting and drawing.</b></div></div>Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-7396306152689233602023-06-13T06:58:00.000-07:002023-06-13T06:58:57.716-07:00Resilience Tested<p><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rachel Burnham writes: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Back
in early February we had a fire in our kitchen and had to call out the fire brigade. Whilst neither my son or myself were hurt, we
have been unable to live in our home since then. I want to write about this experience and its
impact. I am not writing this looking
for help or advice – I have wonderful close friends and family who have been a tremendous
support during this time. Instead, I
want to focus on what I am noticing and my reflections on the experience so
far.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What happened<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The fire started with our toaster, one lunchtime. We were eating
in another room when the power cut out and when my adult son got up to check
the fuse box, he smelt smoke coming from the kitchen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the toaster was not in use at the
time, it had still been plugged in and by then the fire was well away – before too
long the kettle was in flame and the fire had spread to the top of the fridge/freezer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our priority was to get out of the house, call
the fire brigade and alert our neighbours from the houses adjourning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two fire engines arrived very quickly and
they soon had it put out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was in many
ways a small fire - but it left us with no electricity downstairs, a wrecked
kitchen and smoke damage throughout the whole house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four months on we are still dealing with
insurance, the entire contents of the house is in the process of being destroyed
or cleaned and put into storage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have
just got a date for the work to start and it is likely to be another 10 weeks
before we can begin to move back in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Gratitude<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We have a great deal to be grateful for! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither of us was hurt, the fire was
relatively easily contained, the fire brigade were super, we are fully insured
and my parents live nearby and were willing and able to take us both in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My son was able to get extensions for his
course work and got caught up and I have been able to work from my parents’
house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We both get on very well with my
parents and as they are both in their late 80s it is great to have the opportunity
to spend more time with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have
even got me interested in cycling by watching the Giro D’Italia together and I
am now keenly looking forward to the Tour de France. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Impact <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But of course, this whole experience has had an impact on us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would like to share some of what I notice
in myself – it does vary a lot from day to day, so some weeks I am fine and
some hours or days I am really struggling with it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Initial
shock </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">– In the first few weeks there was the effect of the
initial shock and the adrenaline of trying to tackle insurance claims and get settled
into our temporary living quarters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
found sleeping very difficult at this stage and kept waking up either with
worry about insurance or smelling smoke. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Uncertainty
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">–
I am used to working as an independent consultant with a very fluid diary and
changing patterns of work, but the aftermath of our fire has generated so much
uncertainty and made any planning beyond the immediate exceptionally
difficult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is uncertainty over big
stuff: timescales, what happens next, who is doing what, what the insurance
covers, what will need to be destroyed because of smoke damage and uncertainty
over small matters – ‘which paper pile did I put the last water bill in?’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my notebooks is now entirely given
over to lists of fire related business and I have several digital spreadsheets too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Loss
of agency/control </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">– I am definitely finding the loss of control a
challenge – having other people pack up the contents of my house and having little
opportunity to get organised before - for example I keep wondering whether the
TV and DVD controls have gone in the same box as the wires for this equipment
and a thousand and other similarly small anxieties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also hard not being in my own home – it
is 40 years since I last shared a house with my parents – I am used to making
the rules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(There will be a parallel
loss for my parents too.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Cluttered
mind </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">– I find that my mind is less sharp than usual and also
seems much more narrowly focused – at times there is a lot to get your head
around and not much energy for anything beyond what has to be done whether work
or house-related.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes weeks go by
with no contact at all from insurers/builders etc and then there will be a
flurry of communication with multiple decisions needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mourning
for my home and garden </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- I am feeling a real sense of loss for ‘our
home that was’, particularly since the company started packing up and clearing
our house. Not only are there specific things that the fire destroyed, but also
furniture that has had to be destroyed due to smoke damage, including some furniture
that had come from previous generations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As many of you will know I love gardening and I have also felt the loss
of time in my garden this spring and summer – some of the plants in pots are really
suffering from lack of watering during this hot dry early summer – I am not
sure that they will survive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do know
that we will get to unpack in time and will make a new home and this will have
its joy, but right now, we are without a home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have found myself painting little hopeful boats in rough seas, which
expresses some of these feelings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvvqrGdi2VvP8WmLrlVJ3PDl4zEjQoCd6L4xO0btJ21WM7VO4RzgIgrxbQAbHmB7D40-8D6UA5xCGwd364bv6tWwh4d6DBct4H1HHm6ktP_RIRfCU0NTbX-NiL34VyIkH8bfc1x2zKYyfzdYUW1qKU4zw9ue2JaSHq8U-wgO7Q6JCTNUfMO_lA4QcnUA/s2524/Unmoored.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Two small boats with bright orange and red sails on a rough sea with dark clouds overhead - in ink and watercolour" border="0" data-original-height="2524" data-original-width="2524" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvvqrGdi2VvP8WmLrlVJ3PDl4zEjQoCd6L4xO0btJ21WM7VO4RzgIgrxbQAbHmB7D40-8D6UA5xCGwd364bv6tWwh4d6DBct4H1HHm6ktP_RIRfCU0NTbX-NiL34VyIkH8bfc1x2zKYyfzdYUW1qKU4zw9ue2JaSHq8U-wgO7Q6JCTNUfMO_lA4QcnUA/w400-h400/Unmoored.jpg" title=""Unmoored'" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Unmoored'</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Resilience
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">–
I have had more colds, viruses and other physical ailments in the last 4 months
than since I was two!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I must have
less resilience and ability to bounce back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It certainly feels that way emotionally – I managed to wash a pair of
new trousers with pale coloured clothes and dye them all primrose yellow last
week – normally I would have taken that in my stride, but this time it felt
like a disaster.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Self-care<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">During this time all the usual suspects have been extra important
and valuable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been exercising
each day, eating lots of healthy food, cooking favourite and new dishes,
walking in the park – it has been particularly good to do this with my father,
and working on the allotment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first
time after the fire, that my son and I got to the allotment we felt this huge
sense of peace and relaxation – even though we were digging and chopping, so we
have made it an essential part of our week. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The other crucial element has been time and contact with
close friends with opportunities to share how we are feeling and also do
completely different things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it was
great to get back to painting and drawing regularly after the immediate press
of insurance claims.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reflections <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One of
the things I am reflecting on is what happens to our resilience when we face an
extended period of stress and challenging circumstances – when we are in it for
the long-haul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, I have a
number of friends who are or have been caring for parents who are seriously
ill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not sure that we focus
sufficiently on the kind of support that people need when resilience is tested
over an extended period. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is
good to talk and share how we feel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
has been an important message around mental health for many years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My experience over these last few months has
been mixed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have great close friends
who have listened and I have felt heard by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have also sometimes shared something of how I have been feeling at the
time and not felt listened to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
interesting how quickly many people are to offer advice or remind you to feel
gratitude – I have noticed how this has made me feel. I wonder if hearing
someone talk about how they are struggling is too hard sometimes for us and so
we close it down and make it more comfortable by turning to a positive ‘Be
grateful that neither of you were hurt’ or ‘Lucky you, new kitchen!’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has
made me more conscious of my own behaviour when people are sharing with me. I
have been reflecting on the extent to which I really listen and how powerful
and healing it can be when someone does. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We are
all different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of things that has
been said to me and intended as a comfort, is that ‘things can be replaced, but
people can’t’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And at one level this is
true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been reflecting on why I
have felt so distressed at the thought of various belongings or pieces of furniture
being destroyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is because whilst they
are just things – together they make ‘home’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that ‘home’ has gone – for us this will be
a temporary thing, but for refugees and for homeless people how big and how
painful that loss must be?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is
also about the way that some things become interwoven with your own life story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For some people photographs are important – I
am not a photo person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, for
example, I found myself really upset when I realized that my steamer had been
destroyed – it was given to me by my parents when my son was born, so that I
could make baby food for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each time
I cooked with it, those memories were there and I suppose I had thought I would
pass it onto him, perhaps for him to make baby food for a child of his own?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are all different and what has meaning
for us is different too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are so quick
to see things through our eyes, values and experiences and it is so hard to see
them through someone else’s. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rachel
Burnham<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">13 June
2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I help
individuals and organisations to use visuals to think, learn and work more
effectively, particularly though using Sketchnoting and drawing. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-67021311868558022322023-05-24T03:46:00.001-07:002023-05-24T03:46:23.107-07:00Collection of Sketchnotes from Learning Technologies Exhibition, London |May 2023<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I found lots to interest and challenge me when I spent two days at the Learning Technologies Exhibition at Excel in London in early May. I carefully picked out a few of the very many free sessions to Sketchnote and I am going to be sharing my five Sketchnotes that I created here.</span></p><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">My first pick was a session on Optimizing Learning for the Hybrid Workforce and I chose it because one of the speakers was </span><a data-attribute-index="0" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAAX5acBhslCS0CufBW47gflr5tRAXiazvA" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">Fiona Leteney</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> from the analysts </span><a data-attribute-index="2" data-entity-type="MINI_COMPANY" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/fosway/" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">Fosway Group</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. She shared some of the key market trends across L&D field in the use of technology and you will find these captured in my Sketchnote below. The point about poor digital experiences for cohort based courses linked in my mind to a point raised in a later session on Benchmarking about the reduction since 2016 in the use of blended learning - I wonder if they are connected?</span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ug7dSzdVfZT8un58BjwamSjz80VV3op45w1kmck95L_D6H7Lt6uYL4otHb9-aAYozkAYG5VzFPQ-YH_qKrDRs77QigUymoY_9zsLMHeiNMT3gVBUwcq_wgvnvh2fsdLL05fiD7xN4TFfZbsTkExQo2bZQ5noJahw7xe0I_DHm6zpe_ukEAedjuZkcw/s3522/Learning%20for%20Hybrid%20Workforces.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2380" data-original-width="3522" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ug7dSzdVfZT8un58BjwamSjz80VV3op45w1kmck95L_D6H7Lt6uYL4otHb9-aAYozkAYG5VzFPQ-YH_qKrDRs77QigUymoY_9zsLMHeiNMT3gVBUwcq_wgvnvh2fsdLL05fiD7xN4TFfZbsTkExQo2bZQ5noJahw7xe0I_DHm6zpe_ukEAedjuZkcw/w400-h270/Learning%20for%20Hybrid%20Workforces.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">My second selection was the always insightful </span><a data-attribute-index="0" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAF-xYYBqd2MN78uyJXM7MxqRdlgtACsZxA" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">David James</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, from 360 Learning. He was talking about the skills challenge that we face and the need within so many organisations to upskill at scale and the particular advantages of doing this when it is hard to recruit for many roles. It makes sense to grow your own and hire from within by building skills. He focused on practical ways to do this by getting subject-matter experts involved - not in developing content as might be expected but by engaging them in solving pressing business problems. Check out my Sketchnote for more details.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimAKVEM0g1PYGE4-Bx66Hld-JSce0FD8S0A_5qzPZyPLtJ7RpTmUk9TEa7PJCHnz2kiIboOtkw8qzb3-QGIcUUysa2q6BRWTIs-Ilf-0gVWtaJKY0jRH2fx4SNzxOGukqyIPFmfJVAGV30vm9aZXzFmkQwyf1EgGc-754Dv_BSZFMbiz3fV3KI4bBzOA/s3584/Upskill%20from%20within.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2471" data-original-width="3584" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimAKVEM0g1PYGE4-Bx66Hld-JSce0FD8S0A_5qzPZyPLtJ7RpTmUk9TEa7PJCHnz2kiIboOtkw8qzb3-QGIcUUysa2q6BRWTIs-Ilf-0gVWtaJKY0jRH2fx4SNzxOGukqyIPFmfJVAGV30vm9aZXzFmkQwyf1EgGc-754Dv_BSZFMbiz3fV3KI4bBzOA/w400-h276/Upskill%20from%20within.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">My 3rd Sketchnote is of </span><a data-attribute-index="1" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAANfwbcBfHSN58Zi1PrZelis2pthhE6Uh2c" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">Toby Harris</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, from </span><a data-attribute-index="3" data-entity-type="MINI_COMPANY" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/filtered-com/" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">Filtered</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, and his session on 'Applied AI: How to unlock the power of your learning content'. AI was all over the exhibition floor and drew huge crowds to some of the sessions. Toby focused on how AI can be used to solve real problems and specifically Filtered's experience over many years of using AI to make content curation more practical for busy L&D teams needing to create learning journeys or playlists for diverse requirements for colleagues. Manual curation is becoming more and more of a challenge as the range of content materials has grown and expanded along with the different formats of content. The session included a demonstration and fortunately the wifi just about held out for this!</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGBnM2ZD_c5zXbot5g6fwTHDVdm1_a8Z3G5rJWQ5tJxifLiXTrxtlcBtLq3F-LXHoPg7KoyicnU013VxCBi3NS2vOBgC4lh-ZqvKkZaRTT5E3wyDbPQR-KTli1ZuCWY8dvMVb4_DlyQEDca03Ah0RmBzAdM4rVsv_wEPX-FhQ-jvd0T92OKrlcTtv-KA/s3798/Applied%20AI.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I knew right away I wanted to Sketchnote this session because it had a winning line up of speakers - </span><a data-attribute-index="1" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAATnf0B-a_Nc21c6QBUZ3p4fJWKfeR84X8" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">Laura Overton</a>,<span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Michelle Ockers, </span><a data-attribute-index="3" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAD19gABPayNFGpzpUrpb_735YCr9dimlXo" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">Nahdia Khan</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and </span><a data-attribute-index="5" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAjLAwUBrg2NJxIL6f6D9e5bVuai-5ArhnA" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">Ross Garner</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The session was marking 20 years of The Learning Performance Benchmark, which is a wonderful tool to aid L&D teams and organisations to gauge the effectiveness of how their organisation is using L&D and provide opportunities for reflection and action as a result. It is free to use and the session include great examples of its use by organisations. The session also included some key insights and trends from the benchmarking tool across organisations. You can access the tool by contacting Mind Tools.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4MjteF9qVfsaf_DVR0UatSvZLein__Vug2XarOlBkEYwV9PYOXONrZtx91DfWA2HPFyB9lU5xBG-r0TC4WP6xJBUbmGY_shGbnnWoUh4Nc5tJIUuGia2BaJM8CBCSM2fhJ4HiJr9KKzq6sfNYqs3NuWwXiBNr55mOv1kDk_n3A25ZNlAOTO4GWrz6A/s3674/20%20Years%20of%20Benchmarking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2501" data-original-width="3674" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4MjteF9qVfsaf_DVR0UatSvZLein__Vug2XarOlBkEYwV9PYOXONrZtx91DfWA2HPFyB9lU5xBG-r0TC4WP6xJBUbmGY_shGbnnWoUh4Nc5tJIUuGia2BaJM8CBCSM2fhJ4HiJr9KKzq6sfNYqs3NuWwXiBNr55mOv1kDk_n3A25ZNlAOTO4GWrz6A/w400-h272/20%20Years%20of%20Benchmarking.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This session was all about how we can transform the way we think and act around delivering business impact in L&D. The speakers were </span><a data-attribute-index="1" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAATnf0B-a_Nc21c6QBUZ3p4fJWKfeR84X8" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">Laura Overton</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and </span><a data-attribute-index="3" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAeklegBELVZuIV_9nB80IbC2RYdISc-x9M" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">Bo Dury</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> from Lepaya and they were sharing insights from the Impact Lab's which they have been running with 200+ Learning Professionals. From the experiences of these professionals Laura and Bo have created a wonderful metaphor of the journeys which L&D teams are on to deliver business impact - take a look at my Sketchnote and have a think about your own journey. What do you have in your rucksack that is helping that journey, what might you need to discard and what might you need to pack?</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">It was great to meet </span><a data-attribute-index="5" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAeklegBELVZuIV_9nB80IbC2RYdISc-x9M" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">Bo</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> for the first time and to continue the discussion afterwards with </span><a data-attribute-index="7" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAATnf0B-a_Nc21c6QBUZ3p4fJWKfeR84X8" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">Laura</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and be joined by </span><a data-attribute-index="9" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAAP0GQBhrokaoWYk6gYi3_RqZGJgDCjvCA" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">Paul Matthews</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and the L&D Detective </span><a data-attribute-index="11" data-entity-type="MINI_PROFILE" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAES894BuVItHdOx0WUTO4ocG61TTK2D8fU" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit !important; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">Kevin M. Yates</a><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit !important;" /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYv-aABfTR8Qulr-0OmjpDj_A4cgSQwORrhVVEsc9Zt9cXWXDs0cDAF2SCkoWE29hB4BZ08mZGgsT4EumzY7c50yTW6t4foIRA6i3DlL0Yjr9SC5eCdc76lWBgtKu_DiEjJvKixbwcmf8bt8o1G_TpksHtRVneALkrxgkSdJ4dXS6uLSFBklTpoRUD0Q/s3778/Delivering%20Business%20Impact.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2547" data-original-width="3778" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYv-aABfTR8Qulr-0OmjpDj_A4cgSQwORrhVVEsc9Zt9cXWXDs0cDAF2SCkoWE29hB4BZ08mZGgsT4EumzY7c50yTW6t4foIRA6i3DlL0Yjr9SC5eCdc76lWBgtKu_DiEjJvKixbwcmf8bt8o1G_TpksHtRVneALkrxgkSdJ4dXS6uLSFBklTpoRUD0Q/w400-h270/Delivering%20Business%20Impact.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I hope you find some useful morsels in these Sketchnotes to help your thinking and L&D practice. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rachel Burnham<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">24 May 2023<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I help
individuals and organisations to use visuals to think, learn and work more
effectively, particularly though using Sketchnoting and drawing. </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></div>Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-44386726241413094652023-02-03T07:36:00.003-08:002023-02-03T07:36:50.704-08:00If you have lots of complex or detailed information to get your head around or convey to others – why not consider a Sketchnote?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcmBWI8GIgPWG8h4MmvNC-On8oPfpjt71q1ogbgfhrqz___Q-xMtSAlQgGczA5V2EUhk-aGGB2YF_CQ57ETW0PuA5y4gSCzX0-aNgI6KPTmyHSnDSEufQCyp1aXoRzym5_IeLC6anlq3XlPJEq3UaTOoAnbml8kZKsWRo9n5bPdfRTcnRa3kz0rtH0nA/s1200/Complex%20information-w-t.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="1200" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcmBWI8GIgPWG8h4MmvNC-On8oPfpjt71q1ogbgfhrqz___Q-xMtSAlQgGczA5V2EUhk-aGGB2YF_CQ57ETW0PuA5y4gSCzX0-aNgI6KPTmyHSnDSEufQCyp1aXoRzym5_IeLC6anlq3XlPJEq3UaTOoAnbml8kZKsWRo9n5bPdfRTcnRa3kz0rtH0nA/w400-h224/Complex%20information-w-t.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rachel Burnham writes: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many of us need to digest and make sense of detailed
and complex information such as regulations, health & safety requirements, project
plans and organisational policies as part of our work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And having got our own head around this
material, need to go on to convey this to others in a meaningful way. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sketchnoting the key
points from this kind of material can help you to get to grips with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creating a Sketchnote is a dynamic process
that can help you to step back from the detail and identify the big picture –
the main story, if you like. Sketchnoting can help you to identify the most
important aspects of the information for your needs and map out how these
aspects are connected – arrows, proximity and size are often used to indicate
relationships within a Sketchnote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sketchnotes
are versatile and can make use of a variety of different types of graphics –
flowcharts, simple illustrations, diagrams (such as Venn Diagrams or
Input/Output Diagrams), cartoons, plus words and even combinations of
these.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By playing with different ways of
representing the key elements you can discover what best represents this
information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Working visually and on
paper is often easier – in a way the paper becomes an extension of your
brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By Sketchnoting you can set out
your own understanding of complex information in a one page format.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Going through this process
in an iterative way can help you to identify your own gaps in understanding and
enable you to focus your efforts to get further clarity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">By making visible
your understanding, you can also use this to test out with other colleagues and
stakeholders, how your understanding compares to theirs, making it much easier
to develop a shared and more rounded understanding of the information and
insights from it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Once you and other
stakeholders are happy that your Sketchnote represents a helpful summary of the
information, you can use this as a basis for communicating with others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could use the Sketchnote as a summary or
introduction to the more detailed original information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Sketchnote could be used as a talking
point within a presentation or learning programme or could be used as a curated
resource conveying the key information, with access to the detailed material
for those who require it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sketchnotes are often
experienced as a more engaging and accessible way into a topic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And for complex or detailed information they
can be computational more efficient because they summarise the material in a
single page and so allow people to access the main points more easily.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If you would like to
learn to Sketchnote why not book a place at my online <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/think-differently-an-introduction-to-sketchnoting-tickets-532072391847" target="_blank">‘Thinking Differently:Introduction to Sketchnoting’</a> workshop? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rachel Burnham<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3 February 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
help individuals and organisations to use visuals to think, learn and work more
effectively, particularly though using Sketchnoting and drawing</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-19306245379353388542023-01-17T08:34:00.000-08:002023-01-17T08:34:19.471-08:00Sometimes you don't know what will be useful, until it becomes essential<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rachel Burnham writes: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">I was clearing out some shelves in my office the other
day and I came across a notebook with my notes (& pictures!) from when I
was first learning to facilitate live online sessions – though back then I
called them webinars and was just learning to distinguish webinars and virtual
classrooms. It was 2208/9. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I started learning
about them and how to facilitate online out of sheer curiosity, rather than a
need or specific demand from a client.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
a result I was able to suggest to a client that we started to make use of live
online sessions as part of a blended approach to the redesign of a programme
that I went onto to develop. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When the pandemic
began I had 10 years’ experience of designing and facilitating live online
sessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I was so glad of this!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the client had developed its provision by
then to offer options for all courses that were either blended or totally
online.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was comparatively easy for
them to move over their offerings to a totally live online programme.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Somewhere in between
these times, a fellow volunteer for CIPD Manchester, Mike Collins, introduced
me to using some new-fangled online meeting tool called ‘Zoom’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we found it useful for holding planning
meetings in the evenings to bring together our small but dispersed team of
volunteers for CIPD Manchester’s L&D work we adopted the practice of using
it. It saved us all having to struggle into the centre of Manchester for a
short meeting and made it much easier to find mutually convenient meeting
times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back in 2017, it never occurred
to me that I would be using Zoom for hosting most of my professional work,
chairing CIPD Manchester committee meetings, painting socials, #LnDCoWork
Manchester Christmas Curry and even family Christmas parties.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNSlHTnNUUrqjfQZpwX-Nxzm8y1BQDlI3rMiGO7DQEH0z2wymMbKMrJPr66urqnDVPFA3ZQVnls_BYwgo-_gCI1KXERCoXm22KH6X4E2LMYyHRYho_ze8tHQEGCLKOvrckn03-Jz2puJHadJjsUwWTE_TcAZmJhmXkxb65d7Kgbqdua0VUTaDI3j7sSw/s2856/Image%20-%20you%20don't%20know.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1734" data-original-width="2856" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNSlHTnNUUrqjfQZpwX-Nxzm8y1BQDlI3rMiGO7DQEH0z2wymMbKMrJPr66urqnDVPFA3ZQVnls_BYwgo-_gCI1KXERCoXm22KH6X4E2LMYyHRYho_ze8tHQEGCLKOvrckn03-Jz2puJHadJjsUwWTE_TcAZmJhmXkxb65d7Kgbqdua0VUTaDI3j7sSw/w400-h243/Image%20-%20you%20don't%20know.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I started using
drawing in my work in about 2015 and found myself developing skills in
Sketchnoting, before I had even heard of the term!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now the majority of my work is drawing and
Sketchnoting related and I have even illustrated Gary Cookson’s <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hybrid-Working-Practices-Employees-Organization/dp/1398605727" target="_blank">‘HR for HybridWorking’</a> book. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My art teachers from
school would be flabbergasted. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Last week in the
#LDInsight chat 13/1/23, we were discussing how we could explore the use of AI
in our work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that made me think back
to that notebook I had found earlier in the week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sometimes, you just
don’t know what will be useful and in what way, until it is essential to have that
skill and experience. Message to myself - keep exploring, keep learning, keep
experimenting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rachel Burnham<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">17 January 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
help individuals and organisations to use visuals to think, learn and work more
effectively, particularly though using Sketchnoting and drawing. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-78907565081006278922022-11-03T04:50:00.002-07:002022-11-03T04:50:54.422-07:00Why do visuals work?<p><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rachel Burnham writes: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">A well-designed visual can be a powerful communication
tool, which can be used to inform, inspire and as a guide to action. They are a useful part of the toolkit for
those in organisations, who want to communicate information & ideas, enable
learning and support effective performance. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So often visuals are
used for purely decorative purposes – which is fine for plates and tea towels –
but is a missed opportunity in learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And worse, using visuals purely for decorative purposes can be
distracting and get in the way of learning by causing cognitive overload.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, visuals used purposefully and
particularly when used to explain are highly effective.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A well-designed visual
can enable you to grasp the key points of a concept or process or practice all
at once and also pick up details.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
can ‘see the big picture’ and also components within the main idea and how
these fit together – it is ‘computational efficient’ compared to using just a
written or verbal presentation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An
example of this is my recent Sketchnote on Psychological Safety, which in a
single visual explores what this is, what it contributes too and what leaders
can do to support this in their teams. When I shared this recently one person
commented that this Sketchnote managed to set out on a single page, what others
had taken 15 slides to explain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifZjcDlfmXJmrcMLGf19DdTne6PtB26XEiOU3Ywg8-2qAM2vMhtagLcApQT6vzAmlhO7jQKsPs286zcYORelsY7L9ZVq8tje5k_XGRwsbw95_jTAqKtn2l289WuBsq3hPtGR5tAGfDp7Yyj_TcMXtA3gqFogbDXQHlP5Uu1YRZjFX7jbVZESFwKtdtsQ/s3454/Developing%20Psychological%20Safety-w2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2452" data-original-width="3454" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifZjcDlfmXJmrcMLGf19DdTne6PtB26XEiOU3Ywg8-2qAM2vMhtagLcApQT6vzAmlhO7jQKsPs286zcYORelsY7L9ZVq8tje5k_XGRwsbw95_jTAqKtn2l289WuBsq3hPtGR5tAGfDp7Yyj_TcMXtA3gqFogbDXQHlP5Uu1YRZjFX7jbVZESFwKtdtsQ/w400-h284/Developing%20Psychological%20Safety-w2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The reason a well-designed
visual works is that you are able take in all the key information synchronously
ie at the same time, whereas written or spoken language is sequential and this
requires you to work much harder to link the various pieces of information
together. This is known as ‘The Visual Argument’ and comes from the work of
Allan Paivio.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Z6OimikHwYRGDoIW6etwyveWZ4iN6OGRFp13p8ouA6JtA1HWqRZXUagfKfGT2NxuQA94qeXAJ5P2NJUN-JgDyXTUdhgD-eaejfHjdRgY9J8IV-DVRzJr1U4UKX6Zgd1FzmlxvYvt0czpm43o9vvnAK0XuKqiBCmV7waMWbdtCoE_bWIrp9ZluclFOA/s3508/Visual%20Argument-w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2413" data-original-width="3508" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Z6OimikHwYRGDoIW6etwyveWZ4iN6OGRFp13p8ouA6JtA1HWqRZXUagfKfGT2NxuQA94qeXAJ5P2NJUN-JgDyXTUdhgD-eaejfHjdRgY9J8IV-DVRzJr1U4UKX6Zgd1FzmlxvYvt0czpm43o9vvnAK0XuKqiBCmV7waMWbdtCoE_bWIrp9ZluclFOA/w400-h275/Visual%20Argument-w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In addition, a visual
is able to make use of the spatial arrangement on the page to convey elements
of the information and we often find this an easy way to take in information,
without having to work too hard for it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, items physically closer together
on the page are understood to be more closely related; arrows and location can
indicate which items come first in a sequence; and bigger items are understood
to be more important to physically smaller items. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A well-designed
visual can be particularly useful when you are new to a particular subject, as
it helps you to build a mental model of the topic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you become more familiar, informed and
experienced in a particular field, it becomes easier to build on and adapt your
mental models to incorporate further details and nuances because you already
have a sense of the area in question and can use your existing mental model as
a scaffold to hook new ideas & information onto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A great visual can help to shortcut this
process. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Great visuals can
also be useful if reading is not one of your strengths for example if you have
dyslexia, or perhaps are working in a language that is not your first language.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Well-designed visuals
can be used in many ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They could
form the basis for a performance support tool – a practical guide to help
people do a particular task or activity. They could be used as a way to present
information & ideas and be accompanied by prompts to aid reflection &
action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A visual could be used as the
basis for a discussion within a team or amongst a group of peers, as an
alternative to a presentation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The visual
could be part of a wider package or stand alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If you would like to
discuss more about how to use visuals effectively to aid learning, why not get
in touch?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am also working with Andrew
Jacobs on a free Llarn Learning Clinic on Thursday 24 November 2022 at 11am on
this subject – why not <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/llarn-learning-clinic-sketchnoting-tickets-456897862807?keep_tld=1" target="_blank">book</a> a place? It would be great to see you there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rachel Burnham<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3 November 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
help individuals and organisations to use visuals to think, learn and work more
effectively, particularly though using Sketchnoting and drawing. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-26678168262627833862022-06-17T09:17:00.002-07:002022-06-20T02:44:22.014-07:0010 Sketchnotes from CIPD's Festival of Work June 2022<p> <span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Rachel writes: </b>Here are all 10 of my Sketchnotes created live this week at CIPD's Festival of Work conference 15 & 16 June 2022.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">They cover a broad range of topics from: the economic environment in the UK; experimental uses of AI; ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) responsibilities in the workplace; HR as an anti-racist ally; making learning accessible, leadership skills for the future and of course hybrid working. The Sketchnotes appear in the order of the sessions in the programme.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGPkTdG0G58rpMQ0NN_vYriCGQXnnWuAFBaK77a16RRW1koKu-BIc3K8u9Jlmk6GSkTtrbgy7lFd4ZVK1ftEmXG6wBgGupFb_g-YWaeNX8WfkrlwUJkVqK43cIo6wJeBudXJxpiK95sJk_ouYKRjQE-02ItJgvyEa_3n0uxIN3Fo3I-IG-22qp2Sh3OA/s3429/Day1%20Opening%20Keynote%20FoW22.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2341" data-original-width="3429" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGPkTdG0G58rpMQ0NN_vYriCGQXnnWuAFBaK77a16RRW1koKu-BIc3K8u9Jlmk6GSkTtrbgy7lFd4ZVK1ftEmXG6wBgGupFb_g-YWaeNX8WfkrlwUJkVqK43cIo6wJeBudXJxpiK95sJk_ouYKRjQE-02ItJgvyEa_3n0uxIN3Fo3I-IG-22qp2Sh3OA/w400-h272/Day1%20Opening%20Keynote%20FoW22.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The shifting economy and labour market with Paul Johnson</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVD-arwm5Fx_-NzgHuiy2FZmnGQS9KA2MrFQnHTHcUJGRFD_tLkw7-zq-zM8eCd4BU1Y9Mb7SOeId8_00d59kBIXXEJqzQ_jX2X84SQoHMlaUCGWBrUsZC5iYpMBFxgO2BTLcaHPTg_Q-DZ0ZdydF0NSM0FcCFpn0JtCmk17YKxQ8Voh2mxb7egD9gfA/s3406/A1%20Leadership%202030%20-%20critical%20skills%20for%20leaders%20FoW22.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2341" data-original-width="3406" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVD-arwm5Fx_-NzgHuiy2FZmnGQS9KA2MrFQnHTHcUJGRFD_tLkw7-zq-zM8eCd4BU1Y9Mb7SOeId8_00d59kBIXXEJqzQ_jX2X84SQoHMlaUCGWBrUsZC5iYpMBFxgO2BTLcaHPTg_Q-DZ0ZdydF0NSM0FcCFpn0JtCmk17YKxQ8Voh2mxb7egD9gfA/w400-h275/A1%20Leadership%202030%20-%20critical%20skills%20for%20leaders%20FoW22.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A1 Leadership 2030: critical skills for leaders - panel</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxttI895onyY7PdD1bXWAkZTdGiAwh1puRs-3aYvZ1RTvHUOlHqUiz742vZXqhLFEpf_KnbO_Zf2tT4ZnaCk1woiC-fKiYLUP0avVz1ohA4UrxVyEihKcEyPvBFtNUI36Rasti7xBj7-8OVwrMDEmYrSjuBsN1HVOxv328a1R_u_899GXNsGN_6hfFlg/s3441/B2%20HR%20as%20an%20anti-racist%20ally%20FoW22.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2327" data-original-width="3441" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxttI895onyY7PdD1bXWAkZTdGiAwh1puRs-3aYvZ1RTvHUOlHqUiz742vZXqhLFEpf_KnbO_Zf2tT4ZnaCk1woiC-fKiYLUP0avVz1ohA4UrxVyEihKcEyPvBFtNUI36Rasti7xBj7-8OVwrMDEmYrSjuBsN1HVOxv328a1R_u_899GXNsGN_6hfFlg/w400-h270/B2%20HR%20as%20an%20anti-racist%20ally%20FoW22.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">B2 Masterclass: HR as an anti-racist ally with Jenny Garrett OBE</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2GW5BOJefptOsdjSxRTHbnIvBge1foPvNUKJ2jPKNDeFb9Hg6xAeQptUDhQnP5EbszbauZZhRXCOTun9GwRbq5tgPtv6fkAqogKzrKVFtPrXW5OuuTWBwUTmaoSLiwLnb9qRNm6YGQfSq4FPp0Cj-8ZbQYzANgOXQYGDnlFpK9-bAz73G9fwmhJaRyw/s3447/D2%20Collaboration%20&%20engagement%20in%20hybrid%20teams%20FoW22.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2315" data-original-width="3447" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2GW5BOJefptOsdjSxRTHbnIvBge1foPvNUKJ2jPKNDeFb9Hg6xAeQptUDhQnP5EbszbauZZhRXCOTun9GwRbq5tgPtv6fkAqogKzrKVFtPrXW5OuuTWBwUTmaoSLiwLnb9qRNm6YGQfSq4FPp0Cj-8ZbQYzANgOXQYGDnlFpK9-bAz73G9fwmhJaRyw/w400-h269/D2%20Collaboration%20&%20engagement%20in%20hybrid%20teams%20FoW22.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">D2 Creating structures to ensure collaboration & engagement in hybrid teams </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9wRBC4nLjs6gvAeeGnArarAT6kn4n6kJPBsYH4u51wg_OUvbUi5bN5IJoQB4cdGsBDEAyfZk6yZA4pNBNjeYq58oZc2nqkRieMBYf3ufGIPi0Is4Erx_cBFXfJKkGzZUMnZHbrZkNf9Y5ZQZqgh2rKZKgF5WabGyKzJrbeuRhSAlqNG4FbjeK-50rOA/s3473/Day%201%20Closing%20Keynote%20FoW22.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3473" data-original-width="2306" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9wRBC4nLjs6gvAeeGnArarAT6kn4n6kJPBsYH4u51wg_OUvbUi5bN5IJoQB4cdGsBDEAyfZk6yZA4pNBNjeYq58oZc2nqkRieMBYf3ufGIPi0Is4Erx_cBFXfJKkGzZUMnZHbrZkNf9Y5ZQZqgh2rKZKgF5WabGyKzJrbeuRhSAlqNG4FbjeK-50rOA/w424-h640/Day%201%20Closing%20Keynote%20FoW22.jpg" width="424" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Day 1 Closing Keynote - The future of work: How to amplify human potential in the 4th industrial revolution with Dr Ayesha Khanna</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUzmMRJQEpEZ5FyM0cf-60KcFGxP3qeEYMQD3SnWzktI5JbQS88aAdKDCwe4d8FmqnV0SwoVoDf85ZW8lHaV-hnCGupb1ZXhGvLdZeGyeKcuYxx3J-Xcw1yUL97crXiXssheMEle-xn1jdfSHBqCx1rTSbsqxlyzUll8vJyUtTzUVdZ3QT7KGhcTszBA/s3434/Day2%20Closing%20Keynote%20FoW22.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2341" data-original-width="3434" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUzmMRJQEpEZ5FyM0cf-60KcFGxP3qeEYMQD3SnWzktI5JbQS88aAdKDCwe4d8FmqnV0SwoVoDf85ZW8lHaV-hnCGupb1ZXhGvLdZeGyeKcuYxx3J-Xcw1yUL97crXiXssheMEle-xn1jdfSHBqCx1rTSbsqxlyzUll8vJyUtTzUVdZ3QT7KGhcTszBA/w400-h272/Day2%20Closing%20Keynote%20FoW22.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Day 2 Closing Keynote - How to fail with Elizabeth Day<br /><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Rachel Burnham </b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">17 June 2022</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>I help individuals and organisations to make use of visuals to aid thinking, learning and working. </b></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><br /> </p></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-4988121562387843572021-01-29T09:17:00.001-08:002021-02-01T10:51:02.972-08:00How paper & pen can enhance virtual learning sessions<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKGZM3-icNnhHYquya-ni4rxVF1we52cfa395T9_m9R7VCt1-hjufiH4TKoXT9bVaGKWjBPijDoWhSpg3MQpQdOytsP-jKsGIGEk_NHmxwGEstOMjOK2AnDDBk4dLMV9UMJ_LIWhQ0CUbf/s1650/The+power+of+pen+%2526+paper.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="745" data-original-width="1650" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKGZM3-icNnhHYquya-ni4rxVF1we52cfa395T9_m9R7VCt1-hjufiH4TKoXT9bVaGKWjBPijDoWhSpg3MQpQdOytsP-jKsGIGEk_NHmxwGEstOMjOK2AnDDBk4dLMV9UMJ_LIWhQ0CUbf/w400-h180/The+power+of+pen+%2526+paper.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rachel Burnham writes: </span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">I think paper & pen can enhance the effectiveness
of digital learning and particularly virtual learning sessions.<b> </b>I have been experimenting with the use
of drawing-based activities over the last few months, as most formal learning,
whether in the workplace or in education, has moved into the digital sphere. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Whilst many in
Learning & Development were already using webinar technology, elearning and
other digital technologies such as video and podcasts (or at least some of
these); for others in L&D, it has been a major shift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been using a range of webinar
technologies for live online learning, as part of my practice, for many
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As fellow professionals have
been discovering, there is a whole skill set to designing and delivering
effective learning using webinar based technology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a Sketchnoter myself, I have been testing out how we can use drawing for more than just a fun element to enable effective
learning within live online sessions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I am, of course,
always keen to encourage the creation of Sketchnotes by individuals to aid
their own learning and thinking (see previous blogs on this <a href="https://rachelburnham.blogspot.com/2018/09/sketchnoting-5-benefits-for-learning.html" target="_blank">subject</a> and I offer
workshops to help people get started in doing this).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I also wanted to explore the how and
why of using very simple drawing based activities that any L&D professional
could incorporate into their sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I think drawing-based
activities offer the following five benefits for learning designers and
facilitators: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They
can add a wider range of options for learning activities beyond the standard polls,
chat and whiteboard activities and thus enable online learning to be more
tailored for the particular topic and impact required. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They
bring a hands-on tactile element to a session that can enable a session to
standout as more memorable from multiple online sessions, plus give time away
from the screen within a session, both of which can contribute to reducing the
digital screen or ‘Zoom’ fatigue that many experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They
provide an opportunities for activities that are learner-centred rather than
instructional eg asking participants to map out their own understanding of a process
or illustrate a concept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This can be
used to create more challenging recap activities, or activities that tease out deep
understanding and enable more personal sense-making.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They
often have the effect of slowing things down and getting participants to think
more deeply, which is great for encouraging reflection and application of
learning. Drawing often makes use of observation in order to draw a physical
object, process, or even our own behaviour – it requires us to slow down and pay
attention to ‘what is’, rather than what we think there is. It can help us to
notice how things are working currently and provide space to look at what we
can do differently. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They
can enable different voices to be expressed and new insights gained. Often
drawing something out, will help us to see something differently and give us a
fresh insight. Drawing-based activities can enable some individuals to express
themselves more clearly than other more traditional online activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whilst there is a concern that not all
participants may feel comfortable drawing or may feel excluded by a lack of
skill, I think that often we don’t recognise that some voices are silenced or
muted by the tools we currently use – not everyone is comfortable speaking up
over the microphone in the free for all of a Zoom, not everyone is comfortable
typing comments into a chat panel eg because of dyslexia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For example, imagine encouraging
a verbal discussion of what ‘leadership’ involves or facilitating a whiteboard
activity to record points on the same topic or inviting people to each draw a
picture using metaphors of what ‘leadership’ involves, which are then shared
and discussed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latter often enables
different people to express a range of more thoughtful and nuanced ideas,
providing the basis for richer learning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Considerations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I want to be very
clear – this is not about learning styles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whilst individuals do seem to have preferences for how they learn, there
is no evidence to support the idea that using different types of activities to
match individual preferences improves the effectiveness of the learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In contrast there is
evidence from studies into Dual Coding (see my earlier <a href="https://rachelburnham.blogspot.com/2021/01/why-does-sketchnoting-work-exploring.html" target="_blank">blog</a>) that the
combination of words and pictures used effectively can be a helpful tool in
learning for all people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Secondly, many people
feel that they can’t draw or simply haven’t drawn since they were a child and
feel uncomfortable drawing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t
need to be an artist to either facilitate these sorts of activities or
participate in them – the sorts of activities I have in mind are based upon the
simplest of drawing – neither art nor even illustration. You can reassure
participants that it is definitely not about the quality of the pictures. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5j_Wzp-fmkHP0QqDHKRqWp5_VY4S7-ZLBeljWjmp3dNWIf6udaiFTN-n-obgMjjF07qeTzyBU4vTshRdIKgyR5zjwV-NBZyBBmOH3AS4N-NFsYMKYr3JIju_CMReCTADULOAW1MJRNDce/s1695/Not+art.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1197" data-original-width="1695" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5j_Wzp-fmkHP0QqDHKRqWp5_VY4S7-ZLBeljWjmp3dNWIf6udaiFTN-n-obgMjjF07qeTzyBU4vTshRdIKgyR5zjwV-NBZyBBmOH3AS4N-NFsYMKYr3JIju_CMReCTADULOAW1MJRNDce/w400-h283/Not+art.jpg" title="Not art, or illustration, more like this house!" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The best way to
encourage participants to have a go at a drawing-based activity is to be
comfortable with it yourself. Practice drawing in preparation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep the activities simple, be positive &
encouraging and focus on facilitating the learning from the activity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I think getting
comfortable with using drawing-based activities within online learning sessions
is a great addition to any L&D professionals’ toolkit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why not give it a go yourself? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rachel Burnham<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">29 January 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For further support<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If you would like to
explore the use of drawing-based activities but would like some support in
getting started, why not sign up for my new short programme ‘The Power of Paper
& Pen in Digital Learning’? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
designed a series of ‘pick-up and use’ drawing-based activities that can be
adapted for use in many different contexts – this session will enable you to
have a go at them and explore how they can be used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Follow <a href="http://bit.ly/3oZGmVa" target="_blank">this link</a> to find out more & book
a place. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">I
help individuals and organisations to work and learn more effectively,
particularly though using the tools of Sketchnoting and the curation of
resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make use of Sketchnoting to
introduce people to using visuals to aid thinking, working and learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-64515135322867596622021-01-04T04:12:00.002-08:002021-01-05T02:27:27.608-08:00Why does Sketchnoting work? Exploring Dual Coding<p><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rachel Burnham writes: </span></b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">As I am spending more and more time Sketchnoting and
introducing other people to Sketchnoting, I thought it would be useful to
explore why I think it is such an effective tool, both when learning and in the
workplace more widely. Sketchnoting
involves combining words and simple pictures for making personal notes,
thinking things through and communicating ideas. In a number of my previous blogs I have
shared how Sketchnoting can be used to aid <a href="https://rachelburnham.blogspot.com/2018/09/sketchnoting-5-benefits-for-learning.html" target="_blank">learning</a> and <a href="https://rachelburnham.blogspot.com/2020/09/6-ways-students-can-use-sketchnotes-to.html" target="_blank">studying</a>. I think one of the reasons it is a useful
tool both for learning and thinking is that it makes use of Dual Coding.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dual Coding Theory is
the idea that when we take in material that is made up of both verbal (written
or spoken) information and visuals (drawings, diagrams, photos), these are each
separately coded within our brains, but form linked memories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that when we come to recall the
material, we have two sets of retrieval clues to draw upon – we might remember
the words or the visuals – perhaps a picture or a diagram, the colour, the
layout on the page and from this recall the fuller memory of the words and
visuals. (You may be interested in the <a href="https://www.learningscientists.org/learning-scientists-podcast/2018/2/7/episode-12-dual-coding" target="_blank">Learning Scientists Podcast</a> on this
subject.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9HKsd-OvPl-HrTVJnHDSQGxavBaA4YW4CsfaREdy6owNnpWHZHXXYb9moZ3pjaMDWgsMiZSYcgfX-a99l9wHWAmOkb7GuqZi6iMUQ0cvAT8flSt1cwTMToYbBtfjV2EeRPGG71_w1b0ss/s1711/Dual+Coding.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1192" data-original-width="1711" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9HKsd-OvPl-HrTVJnHDSQGxavBaA4YW4CsfaREdy6owNnpWHZHXXYb9moZ3pjaMDWgsMiZSYcgfX-a99l9wHWAmOkb7GuqZi6iMUQ0cvAT8flSt1cwTMToYbBtfjV2EeRPGG71_w1b0ss/w400-h279/Dual+Coding.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We know that our
working memory is limited, so this is a great advantage to successful coding
information to be stored in long term memory, which means that it is very
useful for improving learning effectiveness. ‘According to dual coding theory,
if the same information is properly offered to you in two different ways, it
enables you to access more working memory capacity.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Caviglioli O, 2019 p20).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Allan Paivio
developed Dual Coding Theory and wrote about it in several publications over a
life time of studying memory, cognition and imagery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His first major publication on this subject
was ‘Imagery and Verbal Processes’ in 1971 and he continued to write and study
it throughout his career as a Professor of Psychology at the University of
Western Ontario.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Intriguingly, he had
early success as a bodybuilder and was a former Mr Canada.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dual coding has been extensively studied over
the years and is supported by a body of research studies (for example Mayer, R
E and Sims V K 1994).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I want to clearly
distinguish the approach of dual coding theory from learning styles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learning styles theories, of which there are
many approaches, are often interpreted to suggest that individuals have
learning preferences, including for learning visually and that it is more
effective to match the method of learning to someone’s learning
preference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the evidence from research
does not support that matching the modality of method of learning to an
individual’s learning preference leads to more effective learning. (Coffield et
al 2004, Lee S 2017)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Instead, dual coding
theory provides evidence that everyone can benefit from the effective use of
visuals alongside verbal communication when learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is important to
focus on the effective use of visuals, rather than just include any visuals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know for example that using visuals just as
decorative features, can lead to cognitive overload and be a distraction to
effective learning. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I had chosen to
illustrate this blog with a picture of Paivio in his bodybuilding days, this
would have been an example of a particularly distracting use of a visual. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, where visuals are used to aid
explanation, through showing relationships, interpreting material and
organising information and concepts they can be immensely powerful (Colvin
Clark R and Kwinn A, 2007).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we
involve learners themselves in creating visuals, as happens with Sketchnoting,
then we get really powerful learning, as learners create visuals to make sense
of what they are learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One limitation from
the some of the studies of dual coding is that they often focus on learning
applications where the material to be learned are in the context of language
learning or relatively simple concepts. However, another aspect of Paivio’s
work on dual coding is about how these two types of information – verbal and
visual are taken in and this has led to another concept which is the idea of
‘The Visual Argument’ which has many application for more complex learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to explore this in another blog in
this series. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dual coding has
applications to many aspects of effective learning aside from
Sketchnoting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can make use of it
throughout the design of both resources and learning programmes to make them
more effective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It deserves to be
better known and used amongst L&D professionals in general.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, it is at the core of why
Sketchnoting works and why Sketchnoting is a great tool to support effective
learning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rachel Burnham<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4 January 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Caviglionli, Oliver (2019)
‘Dual Coding with Teachers’ John Catt Educational<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(Coffield, F et al
(2004) ‘Learning Styles and Pedagogy in post – 16 learning: A systematic and
critical review’ Learning and Skills Learning Research Centre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Colvin Clark, Ruth
and Kwinn, Ann (2007) ‘The New Virtual Classroom’ Pfeiffer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Lee, S. (2017) ‘Raising EFL Learners'
Awareness of L2 Lexical Errors and Correct Usage: A Dual Coding Approach’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>English Teaching, <em><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">72</span></em>(2)<em><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">,</span></em>
29-50</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mayer, R E and Sims V
K (1994) ‘For Whom is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Extensions of a
Dual-Coding Theory of Multi-media Learning’ in Journal of Educational
Psychology 86(3) 389-401<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">I
help individuals and organisations to work and learn more effectively,
particularly though using the tools of Sketchnoting and the curation of resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make use of Sketchnoting to introduce
people to using visuals to aid thinking, working and learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I help people to manage for themselves the
information they need to stay up-to-date in their professional work.</span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-70232754777180083412020-09-03T08:44:00.002-07:002020-11-06T03:47:54.527-08:006 Ways Students Can Use Sketchnotes to Aid Studying<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFoFuA1i1EzCM1MX_DRhT-HYEczfJF17ZqlqeA-2_H3ihN-d_h6mGuu9pTKiKRqbutZVW0z4sfyaNFIXWUPvrTlCBpWQyx4ewsyZiyQbGZGvzHgYcDodtvCDmltoBBo2Mmgax88-39tpTW/s1754/6+ways+Students+can+use+Sketchnotes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1202" data-original-width="1754" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFoFuA1i1EzCM1MX_DRhT-HYEczfJF17ZqlqeA-2_H3ihN-d_h6mGuu9pTKiKRqbutZVW0z4sfyaNFIXWUPvrTlCBpWQyx4ewsyZiyQbGZGvzHgYcDodtvCDmltoBBo2Mmgax88-39tpTW/w400-h274/6+ways+Students+can+use+Sketchnotes.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Rachel Burnham writes:</span> </b></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">In this article, I want to share some of my
experiences of how students can make use of Sketchnoting to aid them in their
studying.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Sketchnotes are rich pictures, which you create
yourself, that make use of a combination of both words and simple
pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many styles and
approaches to Sketchnoting – in Sketchnoting there are no rules, it is about
finding an approach that works for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For example, I like to make use of colour in my Sketchnotes, whereas
<a href="https://twitter.com/rohdesign?lang=en" target="_blank">Mike</a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/rohdesign?lang=en" target="_blank"> Rhode</a>, who came up with the term Sketchnote in 2007, creates fabulous
sketchnotes just using black ink.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">Some
people create Sketchnotes using a tablet & software, whereas I prefer paper
and pens.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I have been using Sketchnoting for about 6
years and have introduced many people to Sketchnoting to aid their work,
thinking and learning. I have worked with Learning & Development and HR
professionals, engineers, digital marketeers, coaches, forensic scientists, geographers,
university lecturers and many others including school and university students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From this experience I have become convinced
of the value of Sketchnoting to anyone who is studying, whether at school,
college, university or for a professional qualification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Sketchnoting is a flexible tool that can help
you to be more effective in the way you study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It can be used to create memorable notes; to aid you in making sense of
what you are learning; for planning your work including assignments; for
reflection; when revising; and when communicating your ideas to others. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, many people with dyslexia seem to
find Sketchnoting a helpful approach to making notes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">One thing that concerns many people when they
first hear about Sketchnoting, is the fear that you need to be good at art to
be able to use Sketchnoting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fortunately, you don’t need to be able to draw to start Sketchnoting, as
the drawings used are very simple indeed, which can be picked up quickly with a
little practise and an open mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">In this blog, I want to explore practically how
Sketchnoting can be used to aid learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As I do this, I will make links to the concept of ‘dual coding’ which is
a well-researched approach to learning which has been extensively studied in cognitive
psychology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dual coding essentially
identifies that information which is presented with words and pictures is coded
by the brain in two different but linked ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This means when you make notes using a combination of words and visuals,
your brain creates linked memories, which you have a much better chance of
recalling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The power of ‘dual-coding’
is at the heart of what makes Sketchnoting effective. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Here are the 6 ways you can use Sketchnoting
to help you study:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Note-making<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Sketchnoting can be used both
for making notes of lectures and discussions, but also to summarise material
studied through reading, watching videos or listening to recordings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sketchnotes enable you to make personal
notes, that focus on the key points from the session, lecture or reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When making notes in a class or lecture it is
awfully tempting to try and write everything down, but the very effort of
trying to record everything, can mean that you almost stop thinking about what
you are writing in the effort to capture it all. When Sketchnoting a lecture,
talk or class, it is impossible to record everything, yet this apparent
weakness, is one of the strengths of Sketchnoting. If you are Sketchnoting you
do not attempt to record everything, just the key points, but because you are
actively choosing which points to capture and which words & images to use,
you stay focused and engaged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
looking back at your notes, your memory is then triggered to recall additional
detail not directly captured in your Sketchnote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To get the full benefit of this, it is
helpful to look back over your notes and actively seek to recall the full
information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you do this, say the day
after creating your notes, you will also gain the benefits of retrieval
practice, which I will discuss in more detail when looking at revising.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">You can also use
Sketchnoting to summarise information gained from reading books & articles
or from watching videos or listening to recordings.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">Once again, the benefit of Sketchnoting over
other forms of notetaking, is that it requires you to think through and actively
identify which are the key points to record.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Connecting
ideas and thinking things through<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Often when studying a subject
it helps to think about how the different aspects of that topic link together
to deepen and broaden your understanding. You can use Sketchnoting to help you
do this, by creating a Sketchnote that shows the connections between the topics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are researching a topic, you can use a
Sketchnote to show the relationships between the information you have
gathered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">For example, I was
researching with a colleague the ways that virtual reality (VR) could be used
to facilitate training in the workplace – we talked to experts, read articles
and tried out different VR applications ourselves.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">We realized that one way of making sense of
all the different ways of using VR was to consider how much the different VR
apps immersed learners and so we arranged all the uses we had come across along
a rating scale of the degree of learner immersion and I drew the following
Sketchnote to illustrate this.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4snXP0F9yLlsmaZBzGwQArfGiwMQPL059-CJqmqvVYh91nvl9TdkDAtchTdOQ1mTAXxmVEZGRAelrJbZoxKqeHa9rNOe2GcbMAptwVYVRY8NHRO5o3k29fn7E8_iKPlNgB3EoBN6Y_v6V/s1300/VR+Sketchnote_0001_NEW-P%252BS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="861" data-original-width="1300" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4snXP0F9yLlsmaZBzGwQArfGiwMQPL059-CJqmqvVYh91nvl9TdkDAtchTdOQ1mTAXxmVEZGRAelrJbZoxKqeHa9rNOe2GcbMAptwVYVRY8NHRO5o3k29fn7E8_iKPlNgB3EoBN6Y_v6V/w400-h265/VR+Sketchnote_0001_NEW-P%252BS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p>L</o:p></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">eonardo Da Vinci, who was
not only an amazing artist but interested in a wide range of scientific subjects,
used to carry out ‘thought-experiments’ in which he regularly sketched out
pictures illustrating ideas he was exploring such as wave patterns, light &
the moon, river eddies and added notes alongside them.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">Effectively he was Sketchnoting! Some of his
notebooks still exist today and so you can see how he did this. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Planning<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sketchnotes
can be used very flexibly to aid you plan all kinds of work tasks including
assignments, presentations and projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When using Sketchnoting for planning, I often create much messier and more
unfinished looking Sketchnotes than for other purposes – I rarely keep them
beyond the need for the immediate task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here is an example of a Sketchnote I created when preparing a
presentation on Networking:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeKpxntRbfDZIFXaTI3J4iV0DAd_khu-O6kddWpwkM4Y_mryX1H1EjbCGmbxAKU45kXdNEOGXXOlHpdhZcHImgnnWCxmwEo-K8kdjBJITcGY4WFCsLjk4vXlHnVjIzoMefiEyCIJ_B4JEd/s1754/Sketchnote+plan+for+presentation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1276" data-original-width="1754" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeKpxntRbfDZIFXaTI3J4iV0DAd_khu-O6kddWpwkM4Y_mryX1H1EjbCGmbxAKU45kXdNEOGXXOlHpdhZcHImgnnWCxmwEo-K8kdjBJITcGY4WFCsLjk4vXlHnVjIzoMefiEyCIJ_B4JEd/w400-h291/Sketchnote+plan+for+presentation.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One
of the advantages of using Sketchnotes for planning is that you can begin with
whatever ideas first come to mind and you can then go back and decide the order
in which you tackle the tasks or the order in which the sections go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this respect, Sketchnoting has some
similarities to MindMapping, though there are many more options about how you
lay out your Sketchnote. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Reflecting
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Many courses encourage you
to carry out reflection during your time of study, perhaps as preparation for
using reflection as part of continuing professional development (CPD) in a work
role. It may even be an integral part of the whole course or a requirement
within one or more assignments to carry out a reflection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea behind reflection is to take time to
learn from experiences (whether those experiences involve doing an assignment,
carrying out a task, doing some research or from a life experience) by
identifying <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what went well and why, what
could be improved and what you will do to be even more effective in the
future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This process of reflection may
make use of a model such as <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/reflection/reflectors-toolkit/reflecting-on-experience/gibbs-reflective-cycle" target="_blank">Gibbs' reflective cycle</a> (1988). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">Reflection can be done and
recorded in many ways, in the form of a journal, a blog, through a video
recording, through a professional discussion with an assessor.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">Sketchnoting can also be used to record your
reflections. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">Some people find that this
is an alternative approach that works for them in a way that other methods
don’t.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">Others have commented that it allows
them to slow down and reflect more deeply and for this reason they find it more
effective.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Revising<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">One of the powerful lessons from cognitive psychology is how to revise
effectively. Often when revising people use the approach of reading and
rereading their notes.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">Many experiments
have shown that it is more effective to use an approach called ‘retrieval practice’,
in which you study a topic and then return to it and rather than study the same
material again, instead actively try to bring the material back to mind – this
could be through questions posed by a tutor or teacher or fellow student or
jotting down what you remember from the topic or you could create a Sketchnote
of what you recall.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">Once you have done
this you can then check back against the original study material, to check for
any errors and also fill in any gaps.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">This method of revising is highly effective even if you find that you
struggle to recall much material at first.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">But when you return to it again, you will have reinforced the links to the
correct and full information far more effectively through that process of
struggle.</span><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">If you allow some time to elapse between revisiting the material in this
way, you will also tap into the benefits of ‘spaced practice’, another well
evidenced learning practice from cognitive psychological research. If you are
interested in finding out more about ‘dual coding’, ‘retrieval practice’ and
‘spaced practice’ it is worth checking out The <a href="https://www.learningscientists.org/learning-scientists-podcast/2017/9/5/episode-1-welcome-to-the-learning-scientists-podcast" target="_blank">Learning Scientists Podcast</a> for
easy to understand explanations and examples.</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Communicating
your ideas<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">Finally, Sketchnotes can be used as a way of presenting your ideas, perhaps
within a seminar or session or even in an assessment.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">Some courses make use for example, of
academic posters for presenting ideas and Sketchnoting would be an excellent
way of producing one.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span><br /><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">These 6 ways of using Sketchnoting all come from experience and make use
of what we know is effective in learning.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;">They are all practical ways of adding to your study skills and enabling
your study experience to be both effective and enjoyable. If you think that
Sketchnoting could help you with your studying this year, why not learn to
Sketchnote?</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: left;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Rachel Burnham<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">2 September 2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">I
help individuals and organisations to work and learn more effectively,
particularly though using the tools of Sketchnoting and the curation of resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make use of Sketchnoting to introduce
people to using visuals to aid thinking, working and learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I help people to manage for themselves the
information they need to stay up-to-date in their professional work.</span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div>Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-23817457497756256492020-08-11T05:36:00.000-07:002020-08-11T05:36:15.365-07:00Permission to Play: Doing stuff you aren't good at<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Rachel Burnham writes:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Last week I was
interviewed about my approach to Sketchnoting and how I got started. As I talked, the questions posed made me look
again at my own journey into Sketchnoting and my underlying attitudes to
drawing. I was remembering the messages
I picked up at secondary school from our art teacher, which were rather less
than encouraging. One year we had to do
a pencil drawing of an object, set by the teacher, each week for homework,
which she marked out of 10 and if you received less than 5, you had to do it
again. By the end of the term, I was
having to redo 8 pictures every week.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One of my reflections
from last week’s interview, is that one of my patterns is to do stuff that I
enjoy, even when I am not very good at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes that is about our self-perception of our competence and
sometimes it really is the case. Sometimes it is simply that it is new to us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Last year, I at last
had the chance to take a flamenco dance class – it was so much fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I enjoyed the sessions, the teacher was
encouraging and created a helpful atmosphere for learning – the rest of the
group were great – I adored the dancing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And I was sooo bad at the footwork involved!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the extent, that I am rather surprised
that my left foot is actually connected to the rest of my body – it doesn’t
appear to receive many of the messages sent!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But it was a wonderful experience all the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I usually go swimming
on a Friday night – pre-lockdown, this was my ‘let go of work’ habit for every
Friday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am definitely not a good
swimmer, but I am a happy swimmer – l love swimming in my neighbourhood pool –
the way the light glints on the water, the letting go of the week, the focus on
breathing, the tired, but relaxed limbs afterwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When I say I am not a
good swimmer I am not being modest. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
really only can swim breast stroke and I am too scared to go down the deep end
of the pool – I do 80% lengths only.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
hate that feeling of being out of my depth. However, my friend, Liz, challenged
me to swim 5 miles over the course of June 2019 and I did it (without once
going down the deep end) – it is my only sporting achievement and I am
immensely proud of it!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Often we avoid doing
things that we aren’t good at or perceive ourselves to be not good at.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Andy Lancaster’s book ‘Driving Performance
Through Learning’ he includes a chapter on ‘mistakes’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He writes ‘From an early age, we pick up that
errors are to be avoided and, if committed, concealed.’ (pg 292)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doing stuff we aren’t good at can mean making
mistakes and not performing at our best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our UK schooling system has tended to encourage us to focus on things
that we are good at and drop subjects that we find more challenging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doing stuff that we aren’t good at (or
perceive ourselves to be not good at) can feel risky, uncomfortable, scary – a whole
bunch of troubling feelings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In a professional
setting it can also feel ‘that we should know how to do this already’, that
less than perfect competence is unacceptable and we fear of ‘loss of face’
particularly when we are employed for your professional expertise. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder if the more you are used to feeling
confident, highly skilled and in control the greater the temptation to not risk
putting yourself in a situation where this isn’t case?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I have been pondering
these ideas in relation to the field of Learning & Development and the many
trainers and other facilitators who have continued to concentrate on face to
face delivery – until the challenges of the current pandemic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And also reflecting on the areas where I personally
find it uncomfortable to do stuff I am not good at and as a result avoid doing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There are many
downsides to avoiding things that we aren’t good at: from becoming unpractised
at handling these troubling feelings; to losing out on getting better; to being
unwilling to risk trying out new ways of working or skills; to just missing out
on doing stuff that you could be enjoying. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, there are well-founded arguments
for playing to our fundamental strengths, but if we understand this too narrowly;
there is a risk that we begin to focus more and more limitingly on what we are
good at now – that our territory of confidence becomes increasingly small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That our capacity to adapt & develop is
damaged.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFshhpjxroqbgLtM-GrIJmxjqx03GTUErwg9etk17ag-o4mkqoIyIt0rGrP373Vbw5P2ZxRt1QiNrpTbCYhyLkhljKptI2gdCHSLKQnsjY4vvIKVZQx-uWEu-oWnMbSzqbuWA7n8w7ydaN/s1638/Permission+to+Play.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="967" data-original-width="1638" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFshhpjxroqbgLtM-GrIJmxjqx03GTUErwg9etk17ag-o4mkqoIyIt0rGrP373Vbw5P2ZxRt1QiNrpTbCYhyLkhljKptI2gdCHSLKQnsjY4vvIKVZQx-uWEu-oWnMbSzqbuWA7n8w7ydaN/w400-h236/Permission+to+Play.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When I am introducing
people to Sketchnoting in my workshops, one of the common barriers is the
perception held by many people that they can’t draw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learning from my experience of helping
people to overcome this barrier, here are some of the things that can overcome
our reluctance to do stuff we are not good at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Seeing
others role model this behaviour – look out for people who do and be inspired
by them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Encouragement
from others – find a community, network or even just one person who you can
practise with.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A
more realistic approach to perfection – some times we set our goals too high
and it becomes easier not to start, rather than not reach them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When drawing, I often comment that nature is
often wonky, so it is fine if our drawing is wonky too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may be helpful to think about when
perfection is really needed – for example, an architect may need to be able to
draw a perfectly straight line, but a Sketchnoter doesn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Take
time to notice what the experience brings you – whether the pleasure of doing something
or any improvements in your skills, however small<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Permission
and time to play – give yourself permission ‘to draw for the bin’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carve out time and opportunities when you can
mess about, without it feeling high pressure. Permission to play is a great
gift given to us all – why not make use of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 126.75pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">End note – Two weeks after completing my 5 mile swim,
I at last made it to the end of the pool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My swimming is still not great, but it is improving all the time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rachel Burnham<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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more effectively, particularly though using the tools of Sketchnoting and the
curation of resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make use of
Sketchnoting to introduce people to using visuals to aid thinking, working and
learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I help people to manage for
themselves the information they need to stay up-to-date in their professional
work.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-87554872020968618842020-06-17T03:37:00.001-07:002020-06-17T03:53:55.885-07:00Sketchnotes from The CIPD Festival of Work June 2020<br />
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with three days of online presentations, panel discussions and Q&A. I participated in all three days and in some
wonderfully inspiring and challenging sessions.</span></div>
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I would like a fully online conference, particularly over three days, but I
really enjoyed it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I actually much
preferred it over last year’s ‘sitting in the dark, with headsets on experience’,
which I found profoundly alienating and gave me a splitting headache.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time it was great to have that ‘sitting
in the front row’ feeling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I would
love CIPD to add to the mix is the chance to chat in small groups with other
people about the sessions – I am sure it would be possible to add this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Business Leadership in an Age of Disruption</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Course to Learning Experience Panel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using Cognitive Neuroscience with David Rock </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Humans vs Automation? Dr Hannah Fry </td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I help individuals and organisations to work and learn
more effectively, particularly though using the tools of Sketchnoting and the
curation of resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make use of
Sketchnoting to introduce people to using visuals to aid thinking, working and
learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I help people to manage for
themselves the information they need to stay up-to-date in their professional
work.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-33948492517423780112020-03-26T12:18:00.001-07:002020-03-26T12:18:59.925-07:00The many forms of webinars<br />
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transition to making use of webinar/virtual classroom technology to support
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following graphic to help them think more widely about the different ways that
webinar/virtual classroom technology can be used, beyond the idea of webinar as
a lecture delivered on-line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">I thought it might be
helpful to share this more widely.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></div>
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included aren’t the only possibilities, nor are they intended as ideals, but as
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use webinar/virtual classroom technology is a design choice and like other
design choices needs to be made with the learning & performance need in
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more effectively, particularly though using the tools of Sketchnoting and the
curation of resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make use of
Sketchnoting to introduce people to using visuals to aid thinking, working and
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<br />Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-20910645546547328982020-03-08T12:58:00.000-07:002020-03-09T08:37:11.756-07:00'Teams' Everywhere<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rachel Burnham writes: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At the moment I am seeing and hearing Teams
everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not ‘teams’ but ‘Teams’,
that is Microsoft Teams to be precise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
am seeing presentations about it, talking about it with friends & colleagues,
reading about it and even receiving emails about it (there is an irony here, as
Teams is often talked about reducing the need for emails). It is in my work and
soon to be in my volunteering. Microsoft Teams seem to be everywhere I look – I
think I am having one of those times when having become aware of a topic or
product, you suddenly see it everywhere. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you haven’t yet
come across Microsoft Teams, it is a communication and collaboration tool
designed by Microsoft that works alongside a whole array of their other
products, particularly Office 365.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is a paid for enterprise version and also a free version that anyone can
download – there are some differences in capabilities between the two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve heard it described as hub for your work,
both with people, within and without your organisation and the software tools
that you regularly use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or the glue
that holds it all together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It isn’t the only
game in town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are of course other
alternatives available from other providers (I am feeling a little like a BBC
presenter at this point) and they each have many common features and their own
strengths and weaknesses – I am most familiar with the alternative offered by
Slack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have no interest in promoting
Microsoft Teams over any of these other platforms and tools, it is just that
this is the one that has grabbed my attention at this point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not making<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a case for this particular product, over any
other, but I do want to make the case for using what we have well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If your organisation has chosen to adopt Microsoft Teams as it’s
chosen platform, then it seems to me that it behoves us in L&D to really
get our heads around how the organisation is using it and how we all can make
best use of it, including L&D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
need to be playing our part in seeing how this tool can be used to enable
effective performance. That means using it in ways that do not stimulate unhelpful
habits (eg like not being able to do ‘deep work’ for constant interruptions
through poor use of chat features) nor seeing it as a silver bullet, that can
of itself solve major challenges (eg silo working) without doing the other work
needed to support this<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i> However,
I do think it has a huge potential, if used well, for supporting and enabling
behaviours that lead to effective performance, including learning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this was stimulated by this year’s Learning Technologies’ event, where I went
along to a presentation which was titled ‘Microsoft Teams as a Learning
Platform’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was hoping for lots of
sharing of ideas and experiences of using Teams to enable learning in the flow
of work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of people turned up for
the presentation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I was very
disappointed by the content, which was very much about using Teams as an LMS
and about access to training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it made
me ponder how else we could be using Teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It made me focus on the question ‘If we are working within Teams, why
not learn within Teams?’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the session and as is my habit, I shared my Sketchnote both on Twitter and
later on LinkedIn – I received a huge response from people, so many comments,
questions and lots of sharing of experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many were sharing that their organisation is adopting Microsoft Teams
and they are trying to get their heads around it, some were puzzled about how
it can be used to aid learning, others excited by the possibilities but wanting
help and support, others were already making use of it to aid collaboration and
support learning and shared some of the ways they are doing that.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Two comments in
particular stood out for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jo
Wainwright shared on LinkedIn ‘I use it because it is where people already are
and it already connects to everything else.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When you are wanting to encourage social and collaborating learning, it
is always helpful to consider where people already are – it means you don’t
have to work hard to get them there or to overcome barriers to access.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Secondly, Mike Bedford shared on Linkedin ‘…I
do not want it to be seen as another wasteful LMS missed opportunity’.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Nor do I!</span></div>
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people who responded to my Sketchnote was Helen Blunden, @ActivateLearn, who
works for Adopt & Embrace, who along with her colleagues has written a <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adopt-Embrace-Microsoft-Teams-communication/dp/0648745325/ref=sr_1_1?crid=XUDP4N3T529E&keywords=adopt+and+embrace+teams&qid=1583697163&sprefix=Teams+Adop%2Caps%2C181&sr=8-1" target="_blank">book</a>
full of advice on using Teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
been reading this with great interest and recommend it to you for providing
some great examples of how Teams can be used and a framework for thinking about
what is needed for each Team. </span></div>
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ideas about how we could be using Microsoft Teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some are my ideas, some have come out of the
conversations with colleagues since Learning Technologies, some from my reading
and some were shared via social media in response to my Sketchnote – many thanks
to all those who have contributed towards my thoughts on this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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use Microsoft Teams to host the conversations and resources shared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This can provide a safe space for conversations
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webinars or walk-throughs sharing your desktop. The features for webinars are
not perhaps as fully developed as in other platforms, but can be combined with
other tools. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recommending an article or video to colleagues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could curate useful resources as an individual or as a team using either
OneNote or a wiki, both of which can be easily linked to a Team. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could create a curated learning programme involving online discussion,
reflection and sharing hosted either within a Team or using a wiki. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could help people to find who within your organisation has particular expertise
using ‘Who’, a bot that can be utilised. You could then ask for help from that individual using Chat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could make relevant performance support tools and resources easily to hand
within the relevant Team via a Tab.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could make use of Forms to develop questionnaires and other tools within
Teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or use Teams with existing other
survey tools eg SurveyMonkey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sure this list is only scratching the surface of the possibilities and of
course, it is making these ideas work that is the challenging part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Encouraging the behaviours and habits of
individuals and teams to give these tools and approaches a go. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Teams is just a tool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that it
isn’t the tool that is important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
is important is how we use it to solve the problems that matter to the people
we work with and our organisations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you are interested in joining me in working together to explore how Microsoft
Teams can be used effectively to aid learning and performance, do get in touch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I help individuals and organisations to work and learn
more effectively, particularly though using the tools of Sketchnoting and the
curation of resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make use of
Sketchnoting to introduce people to using visuals to aid thinking, working and
learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I help people to manage for
themselves the information they need to stay up-to-date in their professional
work.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-79369481231642144822020-02-21T04:17:00.000-08:002020-02-21T04:17:23.018-08:00Collection of Sketchnotes from the Learning Technologies Exhibition 2020<br />
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13 February I participated in a number of sessions at the Learning Technologies
Conference and Exhibition at Excel, London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As with all exhibitions, the sessions were variable in quality and relevance,
some being mere sales pitches and others well informed and
thought-provoking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have taken the
decision to only share my Sketchnotes from the sessions, I found of value or
stimulating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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learning – I don’t think it was the session itself, which focused on an add-on
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in the launch session of ‘Back to the Future: Why tomorrow’s workforce needs a
learning culture’ which is the 2020 annual report from Emerald Works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Previous years reports were published under
the name of Towards Maturity and you may be familiar with them under that
name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do take a look at this report,
there is lots for us to work on in L&D here. Copies of this report can be
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<br />Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-4135671407789093602020-02-02T07:30:00.000-08:002020-02-02T07:53:36.450-08:00Skills Development and Deliberate Practice<br />
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in L&D, is that we don’t seem to be paying sufficent attention to skills
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In recent years there
has been a lot of focus on how we approach the knowledge that people need to be
effective in their jobs and a welcome move to making much more use of
performance support or resources to address people’s needs and reduce the need
for knowledge learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There has also
been work done on behaviour change through a focus on experience design, habit
development and learning transfer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
made this point in my recent blog <a href="https://rachelburnham.blogspot.com/2020/01/5-ways-we-could-change-how-we-think.html" target="_blank">‘5 Ways we could change how we think aboutL&D’</a>. But I think we also need look more deeply at skills development as a
profession.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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term ‘skills’?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here are a couple of
definitions of skills that I think are particularly helpful:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘the ability to use one’s knowledge effectively and readily in execution
or peformance’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Both bring out how
important skills are to effective performance, which is what we need to be
focusing on in L&D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Skills take many
forms: specific skills for specific jobs – taking blood in nursing, operating precision
equipment in engineering, managing conflict amongst neighbours in social
housing, advising a client on the best pension options for them, designing the
graphics and layout for a textbook; and skills that have more general relevance
such as problem-solving, project planning, providing feedback, managing our
time, communicating effectively with an upset individual. Skills can be
primarily physical skills, interpersonal skills, cognitive skills or
combinations of these. Some skills are relatively simple and straightforward,
others hugely complex and ones which need to be used in very many variable
situations and ways to be fully effective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Many skills take a long time to develop and hone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Developing expertise is in part about not
only having the skills, but being able to judge when and how to apply them in
very different situations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think skills
are really important to effective workplace performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, I have found
myself wondering whether we are giving skills development the attention it deserves,
so that we can support this as well as possible within our organisations and
the clients we work with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think some
of the workplace qualifications in wide use don’t sufficiently focus on skills
development, over-emphasising knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> S</span>ome of the new thinking, around approaches to improving
performance in the workplace, provide a needed corrective to traditional
education and ‘content-dumping’ approaches, with increased emphasis on
performance support or the use of resources and how we engage employees to care
for the things that matter to the organisation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But that still raises questions for me about how best to support
employees in developing skills. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I had the chance to
participate in the eLearning Network’s Connect event in November last
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the sessions I took part
in was led by Toby Harris and he was making some related points in his session ‘Beyond
the Point of Need’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is my
Sketchnote of his session:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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book “Peak Performance: How all of us can achieve extraordinary things’ by
Anders Ericsson and Robert Peel, which describes Anders Ericsson’s years of
research into how people in many different fields have achieved outstanding
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identifies ‘deliberate practice’ as the key to this development of expertise
and in particular looks at how this leads to the formation of ‘mental
representations’ which enable high levels of performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ericsson is very clear in distinguishing
what he means by ‘deliberate practice’ and how this differs from the purposeful
practice which we may already make use of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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are the most effective ways, that we in L&D can support people to develop
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it make a difference if they are new to an area of skill or wishing to enhance
an area of skill – Ericsson suggests it does?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I want to pay more attention to these kinds of boundary conditions (ie
in what circumstances does a particular approach work or not work). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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part can formal programmes and self-directed learning play to develop expertise
in a particular skill or set of skills, including the use of resources? What
might a formal programme look like that is based on ‘deliberate practice’?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can we encourage & support
individuals to use ‘deliberate practice’ in their self-directed learning?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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do we help people to develop the ‘mental representations’ that Ericsson
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in hearing from anyone who is already applying these ideas of deliberate
practice in their work to aid skills development. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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more effectively, particularly though using the tools of Sketchnoting and the
curation of resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make use of
Sketchnoting to introduce people to using visuals to aid thinking, working and
learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I help people to manage for
themselves the information they need to stay up-to-date in their professional
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<br />Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-40182419960573922282020-01-13T14:15:00.003-08:002020-01-13T14:15:59.026-08:005 Ways We Could Change How We Think About L&D<br />
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resources that I think are helpful for developing L&D and enabling L&D
professionals to modernise our ways of working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This year I have decided to do something different and instead take a
step back to focus more generally on how we think about L&D.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Whilst some in the
L&D profession are forging ahead trying out new ideas and experimenting
with approaches based upon well-founded research and evidence of what works
well, we also are part of a profession that is slow to change. Many continue to
use methods and practices that we know are not as effective as they could be -
methods and practices that are not meeting the challenges facing organisations
or individuals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that I think we need to work on as a profession. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has been adopted recently by CIPD, there is still a lot of muddle and confusion
around about what this really means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
think getting more in our profession familiar and confident using an evidence
based approach can help with three challenges: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the pervasive influence of learning myths around subjects like learning styles,
left brain/right brain and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a focus on effectiveness and what actually makes a difference to performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an appetite for making use of data analytics that is practical in focus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at a wider range of jobs and sectors<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So often the case
studies, research and examples explored in L&D conferences, articles and
podcasts are from the same rather narrow fields of employment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is time that we started to look more
broadly beyond the knowledge worker or service sector and also consider the
needs of other types of worker, sector and size of organisation.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When we are only
hearing from this relatively narrow field, important though it is, we risk
considering only these needs of these kinds of organisation and that the ideas
and solutions presented only are effective in those situations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we want to tackle the long tail of L&D
that is mostly still only using face to face delivery of content-heavy
material, then we have to ensure that our examples, our research, our practices
can meet these needs of a diverse range of job roles and organisations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I think we are running a risk of being too simplistic
in some of our thinking about L&D practices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of making ‘blanket –judgements’ about ways of
working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘This is good’, ‘this is
not’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is current, up-to-date, the
latest thinking and this is not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For example, I notice in each at the time of the Learning
Technologies conference and exhibition a slew of articles about the latest
technologies and a corresponding slew of articles defending face to face
delivery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When it isn’t either or.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We need to be so much better at being nuanced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not just about about the respective values of
using technology and face to face, but across the whole field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not helpful to run down the whole of
education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that context
matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So let’s get much clearer
about what works when, and in what circumstances, for who and at what point in
their career and what the limitations are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let’s identify the boundary conditions for approaches, rather than
portray each approach as the answer to everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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amazing ideas being developed and explored in L&D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New ways of working and new (well, newish, in
some cases) models and practices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many
have slightly different focuses and emphasis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When you begin to be exposed to the range of approaches to performance consulting,
models of learning, alternatives to face to face, learning at the point of need
or in the flow of work and so on (and also their critiques) – I think a lot of
people in our profession, who are new to these approaches can feel overwhelmed
and over-faced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Where are earth do you
start?’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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see some more linking up of these ideas, some more comparing and contrasting of
them, so that they are not just used piecemeal, but more systematically. We
need help to work our way through the thickets of new ideas and research, to
weigh up what is of value and work out which ones<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>link together and are worth taking action
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I think there is some very interesting thinking around
at present about knowledge – mostly about how we make much better use of
resources or other performance support tools to reduce the need for knowledge
learning. There is great work on
behaviour change around – work on habit formation and learning transfer to
support this. But I think we need to be
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our eyes off this area a bit, yet it is hugely important. High level skills can be challenging to
develop and continue to be important in many areas of work. Although we critique learning programmes for
‘mere content-dumping’ and a reliance on knowledge transfer done badly, we
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curation of resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make use of
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<br />Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-39158756741214781452019-11-22T02:24:00.000-08:002019-11-22T03:33:48.107-08:00'Creating a Culture of Curious Learners' eLN Connect 2019<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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eLearning Network Connect event in London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This conference brought together about 180 professionals from the fields
of elearning and L&D to explore the theme of ‘Creating a Culture of Curious
Learners’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were interesting speakers,
parallel sessions with participation, facilitated networking sessions, lots of
coffee breaks for conversation and chats with exhibitors and even cake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Big enough to have a variety of sessions and
participants, small enough to be friendly and undaunting for the novice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-22404790717588588792019-09-09T14:02:00.000-07:002019-09-09T14:14:17.293-07:00'Doing' Sketchnoting<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rachel Burnham writes: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have been reading (or perhaps it should be looking
at) ‘The xLontrax Theory of Sketchnote’ by Mauro Toselli, which is a book about
Sketchnotes in the form of Sketchnotes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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what makes an effective Sketchnote and is based upon many years of experience
of sketchnoting, plus some research he did into what people are looking for
when they look at a Sketchnote. This makes it very interesting reading for
anyone wanting to produce Sketchnotes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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share.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looks at the various elements
of a sketchnote and pulls out what works for people – what attracts initially
and what makes them easy to understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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me realise that my thinking about Sketchnotes has changed and now differs from
Mauro Toselli’s focus. Over the last couple of years of offering workshops in
Sketchnoting, I have begun to appreciate the value of Sketchnoting as a
process, rather than the production of an end product.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me Sketchnoting is now mostly about the
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drawing and also to using visuals to aid their thinking, learning and
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sketchnotes can be used not only
for note taking, but for planning, reflecting, as a recap tool to aid spaced
practice, for thinking things through and communicating informally. My friend
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number of benefits to ‘doing’ Sketchnoting: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a great way to get started with drawing for work<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As sketchnoting combines the use
of simple drawings and graphics with words, it can be a great way of getting
started with drawing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As adults, so
many of us feel that we can’t draw and feel embarrassed about sharing our
efforts with other people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet as
children, the vast majority of us did draw confidently and with enjoyment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sketchnoting can be a way to dip your toe in
the water and have a go at drawing, without any pretensions to art or
illustration, that so often get in the way of people picking up a pencil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can begin to Sketchnote effectively with
very simplified hand drawn graphics that you can get started with straight
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the more you do, the better
you get and the more confident you get - applying that ‘growth mindset’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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slows you down<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The use of drawing in Sketchnoting forces you to slow down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Traditional note-taking using just words is
definitely faster, but that doesn’t mean you take it in – sometimes you can
make notes and when you look back at them, you are hardly conscious of what you
have written, because it has been so automatic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When you add in drawing, it slows you down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It forces you take things at a slower pace,
whether this is note taking in a presentation, meeting or learning session or
when thinking things through for yourself or putting information together to
share with colleagues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That slowing down in itself can be beneficial – many of the participants
in my workshops have commented on how relaxing and de-stressing they find
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it also gives you time to
think, focus and identify what is important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When you are Sketchnoting live in a presentation, meeting or learning
session that slowing down is linked to listening deeply and focusing on what is
important, so that you only attempt to capture in a Sketchnote key points – the
key points for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a similar way,
when using Sketchnoting to aid thinking or if planning a project, presentation
or piece of writing, slowing down can enable you to think more deeply about
that piece of work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outlining an image
or colouring in a section can give you time to engage at a deeper level with
the material. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This slowing down that drawing
and Sketchnoting require are also closely connected to being able to observe
and listen carefully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Great drawing often begins with
observation and similiarly Sketchnoting live begins with listening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These activities promote attentiveness. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You need to be able to still
yourself and your own voice to see what is before you, to consider the evidence
and listen to what is being said, or not said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Observation and listening are very powerful skills to have and are
helpful in a great many circumstances in the workplace, such as when working
with customers and colleagues, when problem-solving, or when improving services
and processes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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encourages playfulness<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sketchnoting often involves the
use of metaphor and humour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colour is
often made use of – though some Sketchnoters work very effectively just using
black ink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This all encourages a playful
approach which can enable you to look at things differently and from different
perspectives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can help you to
communicate<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a concept, a process or
information in a more imaginative way, that connects more effectively and
memorably with the intended recipients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It can help you to see things in a fresh light as well, perhaps enabling
you to come up with a different approach or additional ideas that would not
have occurred otherwise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sketchnoting and the use of
visuals can help with seeing patterns amongst information and data.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The use of different layouts, colour and
tools, such as arrows, to group information and to explore the relationship
between items can be very helpful in thinking things through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps in outlining a current process, or
imagining a new framework or communicating an idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is an area where you
definitely don’t need to be able to draw, other than simple arrows and shapes
such as circles, rectangles or triangles to link and group items together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The use of colour can also help you to see
patterns and present material more clearly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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encourages seeing the whole story<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Sketchnoting workshops was mapping out a process he was very familiar with in a
Sketchnote and commented how much easier it was to do it in this format.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He noted how quickly he had spotted things
out of place or missed, compared to when he had tried to describe the process
in a text only document. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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describing a process or presenting information to a colleague, because they can
see the information as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sketchnote is a lovely thing, great for capturing notes of a session or
summarising some reading or a podcast, being able to produce a finished
Sketchnote is only one benefit of Sketchnoting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think that the real value of Sketchnoting is in the doing of
Sketchnoting and the many ways Sketchnoting contributes to thinking, learning and
working. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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more effectively, particularly though using the tools of Sketchnoting and the
curation of resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make use of
Sketchnoting to introduce people to using visuals to aid thinking, working and
learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I help people to manage for
themselves the information they need to stay up-to-date in their professional
work. </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-60362759194997277542019-07-07T06:10:00.000-07:002019-07-07T08:26:09.897-07:00Review of 'Curation: The Power of Selection in a World of Excess' <br />
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World of Excess’ by Michael Bhaskar.
Published in 2016, this is an exploration of the very wide way in which
‘curation’ as an approach is being used.
In L&D, many people will be familiar with the concept of curation
being applied to how we select, manage and share resources for learning. You may also have come across the term
curation in relation to content marketing, in the context where a marketing
strategy makes use of content created by others which is selected and used to
promote a particular business – you may even use this yourselves. And of course, curation, has its origins in
the world of museums and art galleries.</span></div>
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curation in many different fields, as a business strategy, in retail, music and
many other fields, in governmental regeneration and planning policies and in
how we present ourselves as individuals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He looks at how curation is being used to create value in fields, such
as food retail, through specialist food retailers who bring together small
niche providers of particular high-quality foods all under a single roof or
fascinatingly in the way that a new city is being planned in Abu Dhabi, by
curating a cultural district with top museums, art galleries, theatres and
music venues. The book is full of examples of curation permeating all sorts of
aspects of life – I think he sees curation everywhere – I wasn’t always
convinced, though he does a great job of presenting examples to illustrate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And I found the
opening chapters with their emphasis on the abundance of everything for
everybody, rather sickening and infuriating – you don’t need to look further
than our city centres to see people living without a roof over their head, or
open a paper to see the growing demands on foodbanks and that is within the
wealthy UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the book did make me
think wider about what curation is and how it can be used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as ‘using acts of selection and arrangement (but also refining, reducing,
displaying, simplifying, presenting and explaining) to add value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found very helpful some simple diagrams he
shares which describe different ways that curating can add value. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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number of benefits that curation can bring through the way it adds value
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the most interesting aspects of the book is that looks at both curation through
the use of algorithms and also human curation and so it provides insight into
our very current concern about how can humans and technology work together. This
is sometimes described as ‘thick and thin’ curation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where ‘thin’ curation is </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">the network of cataloguing
and filtration </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">mechanisms</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">, recommendations and discovery algorithms found
throughout the Internet and 'thick' curation is done by humans 'based on detailed personal choices, often for smaller audiences; it discuses its choices and comments on them, adding extra spin to its decisions' (Pg. 233) Algorithmic curation can keep costs down and make curation scalable, but it is human curation that makes it personalised and personable. I like this quote from Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at Oxford University </span></span></div>
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- you have to have a say to be a curator. There is a practical side to
curation that means algorithmic curation should be joined by a sense almost of
ownership or custodianship. The ability to intervene, to follow on, to
ensure your curation has an impact is key. It is a pragmatic
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is a highly skilled process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bhaskar
says in the context of content curation in marketing </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">'But the term is often used
weirdly. Websites advise people to 'curate in the morning' or curate
their way to success. Curation is seen as a shortcut, a defined thing, not
a process. … Good curation is more difficult and subtle than that.' He
sees expert selection as at the start of good curation and quotes from </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Maria Popova, curator
of the highly thought of ‘<a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/27/best-of-brain-pickings-2018/" target="_blank">Brain Pickings</a>’:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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isn't about the individual pieces of content, but about how these pieces fit
together, what story they tell by being placed next to each other, and what
statement the context they create makes about culture and the world at
large. This is, she argues, a process of 'pattern recognition'. Seeing
how things fit together, understanding connections (which multiply in a
networked environment), but then also, crucially, creating new ones by
recombining them, is a massive part of curation.' (Pg 125)</span> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I love the sense of patchwork which her words
evoke, making something new and fresh from scraps of the old or the familiar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another word for this would be ‘bricolage’
which <a href="https://lostanddesperate.com/2014/01/25/just-another-bricolage-in-the-wall/" target="_blank">Andrew Jacobs</a> has written about. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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becoming trusted as a curator – it is about ‘Authenticity, consistency,
excellent selections - it is very hard to fake.' (Pg. 210)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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develop both as individuals to aid us in managing the huge amount of
information we now need to navigate daily as professionals and also as a skill
for us in L&D to share with others and use in our professional
practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bhaskar puts it like this: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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understand how curation coheres with a network of new skills, strategies and
capabilities, the better prepared we will be for thriving in the age of excess
that is changing forever how we live and work.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">'</span><span style="color: #383838; font-family: "segoe ui" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">(Pg. 165)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I help individuals and organisations to work and learn
more effectively, particularly though using the tools of Sketchnoting and the
curation of resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make use of
Sketchnoting to introduce people to using visuals to aid thinking, working and
learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I help people to manage for
themselves the information they need to stay up-to-date in their professional
work. </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-27261997935862060252019-06-16T13:47:00.000-07:002019-06-16T13:47:19.064-07:00Collection of 8 Sketchnotes from CIPD Festival of Work - exhibition, conference & fringe - 2019<br />
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held at Olympia, London on 12 & 13 June 2019.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The event combines the old L&D Show and
HR Software shows and adds a new element covering the Future of Work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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visiting the exhibition and include Sketchnotes from a couple of the free
sessions I attended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the second day
of the conference, I attended a number of formal sessions on a diverse range of
topics from reducing digital stress, to how investing in technology can aid
productivity, to a series of fast and furious Ignite sessions all on the theme
of curation for learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also
participated in a fringe event on the first evening of the event, a recording
of the GoodPractice Podcast with a panel focusing on the Past, Present and
Future of Learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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organisations to work and learn more effectively, particularly though using the
tools of Sketchnoting and the curation of resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make use of Sketchnoting to help people use
visuals, to think, work and learn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
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<br />Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-29803598323672830052019-06-10T05:23:00.001-07:002019-06-10T05:23:41.454-07:00FieldTrip Reflections <br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rachel Burnham writes: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">On Tuesday 4<sup>th</sup> June, it was my pleasure and
privilege to be one of the organisers for the first L&D Connect
#LnDFieldTrip. A group of 28 L&Ders,
from a mix of organisations, spent the afternoon exploring The Design Museum in
London and discussing & reflecting on what it said to us about design for
L&D and OD. It was great to work
alongside Niki Hobson, David Hayden and Kevin Avis to make this happen and also
to have the support of the wider L&D Connect community for this venture.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Here are some of my
reflections on the exhibits that caught my attention – they are a bit random
and I think I am still pondering on my observations and the many conversations
over the course of the afternoon with other participants. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One of the first exhibits that caught my eye told the well-known story
of the creation of the London Tube Map and equivalent maps for metros in other
cities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This reminded me that the London Underground map that is so familiar to
many of us, is not actually an accurate geographical representation of the tube
system in London – however, simplifying the map in this way made it easy to
find your way around using the tube system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This made me think again of the importance of clarity of purpose when
designing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What we design for one
purpose, may not work for another purpose. In simplifying, we may gain in some
ways and lose in others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sticking with signage, I loved this picture of the old style road sign,
that had been added to and adapted with lots of different styles of sign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It illustrated a display about the
introduction of a national standard approach to road signage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This picture reminded me of how sometimes we design a programme,
project, even an organisational structure and then keep adding to it and
adapting it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Wouldn’t be good to
include…’ ‘We could just slip this in here…’ ‘I am sure people would find this
useful…’ and before you know it, it is rather a hash of confused messages and
contradictory approaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes we
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It had been designed by an architect, who also designed furniture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was based on the idea that you could sit
on it in many different ways – this appealed to me – I am always curling up on
chairs and sofas with my feet under me or hanging out over the edge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The chair was designed to be mass
manufactured, but in fact that had not happened in the lifetime of the designer
– it didn’t explain why and originally only handmade ones had been
produced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I am intrigued by this story and I have been imagining all the many
different ways why the chair was not mass-produced as envisaged – expense, lack
of demand – perhaps it didn’t meet a real need from customers, technical
challenges, a crisis of confidence in the product by the manufacturer,
resistance to a radical design and so on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One of the displays was a mock-up of a fitted kitchen that you could
walk through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alongside, were some
pictures of kitchens prior to the introduction of the fitted kitchen concept,
which drew attention to how often these had surfaces at different levels, sinks
that didn’t have places to stack or dry crockery and cupboards that made poor
use of space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It sounds just like the
kitchen of my childhood in Chorlton which was tiny and very awkward to cook in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The display drew attention to the value of standardisation in kitchen
design which enabled fitted kitchens to be created, with their much more
practical design and their capacity to be personalised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is what caught my attention –
standardisation not as the opposite of personalisation, which is sometimes how
we think of it in L&D, but as the enabler of effectiveness and
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actually about being based on standards or principles or evidence about what
works – it is about establishing effective ways of working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So my kitchen sink lesson was to make me
rethink the value of standardisation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rough terrain wheelchairs for use in countries where roads and pathways often
do not have paved or tarmac surfaces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for the wheelchairs to be maintained locally, so itincluded provision for
training people to be able to do this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It got me thinking about content generation by users and about L&D’s
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continuing needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Towards the end of our time at the museum, I got to look at a display
right near the start of the exhibit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
through our time at the museum, members of our party were stood talking about
and pointing to various different objects in the display and so I couldn’t get
near it until the end of our time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The display was an array of well-designed and very familiar objects
displayed from floor to ceiling – bikes, jeans, paper bags, marmite, trainers,
juicers, phones and many, many more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Looking at this display brought back so many memories and associations
with the various objects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One of the things that they had in common was a simplicity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It reminded me that the simplest solution
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The paper bag particularly caught my eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paper bags are back in fashion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one time a plastic bag might have been
considered the latest thing and something that was well-designed to meet the
needs of modern shoppers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But our
criteria, for what makes a good design of bag, have changed and now we rate
environmental-friendliness as important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What makes for good design may change, if the context changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The whole exhibition focused on the relationships between three parties:
users, makers and designers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
quite clear how important each of these was to the creation of effective
designs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each of these parties have a
contribution to make. The best design seem to draw on each.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is making me wonder how well designs I am involved with utilise the
insights and differing expertise of all the parties and what I might do
differently to enable this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the exhibition plus conversations and sharing of varying perspectives and
experiences with fellow professionals that made it so effective for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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organisations to work and learn more effectively, particularly though using the
tools of Sketchnoting and the curation of resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make use of Sketchnoting to help people use
visuals, to think, work and learn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
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<br />Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-4081747989080767712019-04-01T03:10:00.000-07:002019-04-01T03:10:45.436-07:00Complete Collection of Sketchnotes from CIPD Northern Student Conference 2019<br />
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volunteer team contributing to the running of this event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was wonderful to be welcoming over 200
participants, mostly students, from across the 10 northern branches in CIPD to
Liverpool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the course of the day,
a range of presentations and sessions took place focusing on career development
and sharing knowledge about the future of our HR and L&D profession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with individuals and organisations to help them learn and work more
effectively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As part of this I help
L&D professionals to be even more effective through updating their skills
and know-how.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a particular
interest in curation and the use of digital technologies in learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I frequently Sketchnote at events and offer
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<br />Rachel Burnhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06771271062492475288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8977573322827207680.post-34318971822527890662019-02-10T10:04:00.000-08:002019-02-10T10:14:12.395-08:00More than content consumption <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rachel Burnham writes: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Learning is more than consuming content; more than
consuming information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In our
information rich world, where there is an abundance of information and content wherever
we turn, it is easy to focus on consumption. It is easy to give the impression
that more is better. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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that if only I read more books; kept on top of all my social media feeds; read
those journal articles and listened to just one more podcast – then I would be
up-to-date, then I would be meeting my own development needs, then I would be
role-modelling effective CPD for my colleagues. A counsel of perfection!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes people share their challenging book
reading targets for the year (I’ve written about this before – ‘<a href="https://rachelburnham.blogspot.com/2018/09/read-and-relish.html" target="_blank">Read and Relish</a>’)
or how they pack in listening to podcasts or audible books in every available
space in their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not going to
pretend to be immune to this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can
feel like being on a information hamster wheel at times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps it is the equivalent for informal
learning of the content-dumping sometimes found and decried in formal learning?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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than consuming yet more and more information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How do we digest this information, critique it, contrast it with other
information, put it into our many contexts, integrate with our current
understanding and skills, challenge our thinking and behaviours – how do we
sense-make? With all our talk about the abundance of information, ease of
access and dangers of feeling overwhelmed, I wonder if we are under-valuing and
under-practising sense-making?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last year interviewing a number of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>professionals,
primarily from the fields of L&D and HR, about how they manage the
information they need to stay up-to-date in their work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the areas we discussed was this area
of sense-making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here are some of the
approaches they used, plus some of my thinking based on my reading and doing in
this area:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from a diverse range of other things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
applied to sense-making, it emphasises linking information from different
sources together and looking at the relationships between these different
pieces to identify trends, patterns or create new insights and approaches. It
is something that Andrew Jacobs has <a href="https://lostanddesperate.com/2014/01/25/just-another-bricolage-in-the-wall/" target="_blank">written</a> about on many occasions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the very best or most relevant pieces and by doing this reducing the noise and
adding value for ourselves and others;</span><br />
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Contrasting
information – often there is more than one view on a topic, acknowledging this
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those with very effective digital skills, find it helpful to map out ideas
using pen, pencil and paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I, of
course, very often use Sketchnoting to do this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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people I interviewed talked about using paper and pen to draw out ideas and the
relationships between them when thinking things through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often it can be quicker to rough something
out on paper and it can be easy to play with different ways of visualising,
testing out approaches, adjusting, rubbing out and trying again. Diagrams can
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and paper, doesn’t require drawing skills and pictures, these can allow for the
use of metaphors, which can bring in another dimension and stimulate further
thinking. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Amongst my group of
interviewees, probably the key tool in sense-making that they identified was
writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One commented that ‘</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To
know what I think, I need to write</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">’ Writing can take many forms:
from handwritten notes, created to capture key information and aid recall;
through to writing for reflection, still for personal use; through to writing
for sharing either as a blog or for publication in an article or book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once you start writing to share publically, this
forces you to clarify your thinking and tests your commitment to what you
think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clive Thompson in his book ‘Smarter
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Audiences clarify the mind even more. Bloggers frequently
tell me that they will get an idea for a blog post and sit down at the keyboard
in a state of excitement, ready to pour their words forth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But pretty soon they think about the fact
that someone is going to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">read</i> this as
soon as it’s posted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And suddenly all
the weak points in their argument, their clichés and lazy, auto-fill thinking,
become painfully obvious.’ (Pg 52)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is known the ‘audience effect’ and it means that
when you are setting out to communicate with someone else, you are forced to
think more precisely and with greater clarity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another effective aid to sense-making is conversation,
whether that is in person or on-line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It could be as simple as talking through your ideas one to one over a
cup of tea, which can help you to clarify what it is you think, but also expose
you to other perspectives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Online conversations can also help with this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the challenges though is that light
and shade can be harder to hold onto in an online conversation – trust and
listening are just as important as in a face to face conversation, but are
often harder to achieve. Some of these online conversations happen in real time
such as a Twitter Chat, but they can also take place asynchronously, which can
allow for a more reflective approach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is also possible to share online, particularly with
Twitter, snippets of insight and practice, which can test out your thinking and
gather feedback from others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
often referred to as the practice of ‘Working Out Loud’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A variant on writing and conversation is to sharing
your thinking via a short video, which is also known as ‘vlogging’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be interesting to know whether the ‘audience
effect’ also impacts on the quality of thinking when using a video format.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For practical skills,
you can’t beat actually having a go at using those skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Playing with, testing out, experimenting and
then reflecting on this, are all vital aspects of sense-making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Documenting your experiments is such a
valuable contribution to the collective understanding and effectiveness of our
profession, but like writing publicly, it can feel like a scary and exposing
thing to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Each of these 5 approaches involves reflection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And underpinning all of that, time and space
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When planning this blog, I searched for a simile or
metaphor to capture the importance of this time and space for
sense-making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first I was drawn to
the idea of pools of time for reflection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I have settled on the idea of woodland glades. In a forest, with
many, many trees close packed together, the dense canopy of leaves can mean
that little sunlight reaches the ground and under the trees is a rather sterile
environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if a space is cleared
and a woodland glade created, where the sunlight can reach through, then all
sorts of seeds will germinate and plants grow up and flourish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A much more diverse and richer environment is
created.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is what sense-making
needs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Burnham L & D </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">works
with individuals and organisations to help them learn and work more
effectively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As part of this I help
L&D professionals to be even more effective through updating their skills
and know-how.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a particular
interest in curation and the use of digital technologies in learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I frequently Sketchnote at events and offer
workshops in Sketchnoting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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