by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 13, 2018 | Facilitation
Yesterday I facilitated a short session for a local networking group, the Sooke Women in Business, about how to engage participants when doing speaking events. Of course I planned for the session to be very participatory and I asked the group to come up with...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 2, 2018 | Learning design
It was a pleasure for me to work this past winter with Victoria Hospice, a Victoria-based non-profit which provides end-of-life care focused on palliative treatment. Victoria Hospice’s Education & Research Department contacted me last year for learning...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jan 23, 2018 | Learning design, Online facilitation, Workshops
Last October I co-facilitated the “FLO Synchronous” course for the third time, with a class of over 20 people from various BC post-secondary institutions. FLO Synchronous is short for “Facilitating Learning Online: Synchronous”, a three-week...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jan 4, 2018 | Educational technology, Learning design
One of the projects I worked on this year through my work at Royal Roads University in faculty development was creating an online interactive resource in Articulate Storyline. It’s a simple tool that is intended to help faculty members choose between RRU faculty...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Dec 19, 2017 | Business back end
As the year gets closer to putting itself to bed and I begin to get excited about taking two weeks of holidays over the Christmas break, I thought I’d put in one final post to look back on some of the things that stood out for me this year. I have a lot to be...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Nov 24, 2017 | Consulting
I find with my line of work that people that I meet often have questions about what I do, particularly in relation to something that they are trying to do with a workshop, course or program of their own. With that in mind, I’ve decided to offer a new service...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Nov 16, 2017 | Facilitation, Professional development
A few weeks ago I wrote a post announcing that I had co-facilitated the Facilitator Development Workshop (FDW) at Royal Roads University in September, at which I got ‘mentored in’ to the role of Trainer by working with Doug Kerr. The FDW is the course that...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Nov 3, 2017 | Facilitation, Professional development
It was back in February this year that some of us, while gathered at the Liberating Structures immersion workshop in Vancouver, began talking about starting a Victoria-based user group to continue to deepen our practice in using Liberating Structures. Tracy Kelly from...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Oct 19, 2017 | Business back end
I’m looking for potential subcontractors to be able to support learning/instructional design projects for my clients. If you’re interested in talking with me about sporadic, part-time subcontracting opportunities related to learning design, please email me...