by Beth Cougler Blom | Jul 8, 2022 | Business back end, Facilitation, Teaching, Workshops
In May I facilitated a half-day workshop at a Vancouver-area college and it marked my first in person facilitation since the pandemic took hold of us all in March 2020. I was thrilled to be back in a physical room again and revelled particularly in the sound of...
by Beth Cougler Blom | May 25, 2022 | Learning design, Online facilitation, Teaching online
I got a lovely email recently from someone who said that she has so appreciated my book because it’s full of great ideas. She asked me if I would share my top five or ten most important points for people to consider when teaching virtually, which I was doing...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Apr 25, 2022 | Learning design
As a learning designer I get the chance every year to work with great organizations to build courses on interesting topics. Every topic is worthwhile of course, but sometimes one comes along that also has direct relevance to my own life. This happened last year when I...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 21, 2022 | Learning design
Recently I was working with a client in a 1:1 consulting session and we were looking at their emerging lesson plan for a 2-hour workshop. I noticed some misalignments between the draft learning outcomes they’d written and the content and activities they’d designed...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 10, 2022 | Facilitation
In my last post I described how to facilitate the Back to Back Listening activity virtually. What I didn’t know then was that I would soon receive negative feedback about that activity from a participant. And it prompted me to think more intentionally about my...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jan 27, 2022 | Facilitation
Back to Back Listening is one of my favourite “in development” Liberating Structures. It’s not part of the original set of 33 but it’s an activity that really works – both in person and virtually. You’ll find the write-up of Back to...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Dec 24, 2021 | Business back end
About this time every year I take some time to look back on the year and reflect on my work. Come along on this journey to get a glimpse of some of the things (I can only mention a few here and there!) I was up to each quarter. January – March The start of 2021...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Dec 22, 2021 | Books
Do you have my book, Design to Engage, and want to learn more, directly from me? Before midnight Pacific time on January 3, 2022, post a photo on Instagram, Facebook and/or LinkedIn of either you holding Design to Engage or the book itself, tag #designtoengage and my...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Oct 27, 2021 | Educational technology, Online facilitation, Teaching online
Have you ever heard of Google Easter eggs? They are “hidden features or messages, inside jokes, and cultural references inserted into media” and can be really fun surprises tucked into certain Google searches. Some of Google’s Easter eggs could be...