Learning and Development Apps

I am going to start listing apps that i think can be used to design, develop and deliver affordable, non-tradtional and effective online learning. So the first three i am recording are:

1. Ning for scoial netwroks
2. Blogger (you guessed) for blog posts
3. Mindmeister for mindmapping
4. Gimp for image editing (not online hosted)
5. LearnDash LMS (Wordpress plugin)
6. Chris Lema's site and check out membership and e-learning plugin reviews (not an app but useful)
7. Speakerdeck
8. WP101 - training for wordpress
9. Wheeldo - social game learning
10. WP - Courseware
11. sohelpful.me
12. hogrefe - coach on the desktop

At the mental health manager's meetings

Bola's Learning Diary

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

At the Mental Health Managers Meeting

On September 16th 2013 i attended the MH Managers meeting at my company. Now for a bit of context, we recently started using a business partner model so I partner with the MH aspect of our organisation hence i attended the meeting to give the managers an update about what learning and development and also to talk about Recovery Star training. Recovery Star is a person centred tool we use in Certitude to support our service users. So what were my key lessons from this meeting.

To start with i found out that i sometimes talk too much and don't listen. Well honestly that is something i already knew but it dawned on me more at this meeting. Secondly I listened to Susie Petherick, our new Leadership Development Manager who gave a brilliant presentation and really engaged the audience. I think her listening skills and ability to use light humour was outstanding. Also was the encouragement for me to network more.

The goals for me out of the programme was:

• To visit our services more often
• To design a new Recovery Star training programme that is more blended and less classroom focused.