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Designing Effective Slide Decks with Pain BC
From time to time, our team helps organizations design effective materials for their learning-related events. Recently, we had a wonderful opportunity to work with our client, Pain BC, to redesign the slide decks their volunteer facilitators use in a peer support...
Using Images Effectively
Images have the power to move us in many ways. They can evoke our emotions, feelings, memories, and more. Images can complement and enhance text that we read or hear, or they can be viewed alone and worth "a thousand words", as the old saying goes. We’ve been working...
Holding Space
Meg Bolger is a social justice educator, facilitator trainer, and the founder of Facilitator Cards, a set of activity cards used to help design and facilitate group learning. Recently, I (Carla) had the opportunity to participate in a virtual workshop Meg hosted...
Designing Learning Experiences: An e-learning course about fossils
One of the things we enjoy most about our work is getting to design great learning experiences for people while also learning about important topics. For example, did you know that British Columbia is home to an incredible variety of fossils? They are mostly found in...
What ChatGPT has to say about participatory learning experiences
I finally got a chance to jump on the ChatGPT bandwagon. The first task I asked this AI tool to complete was to "Create a 200 word blog post in the style of Beth Cougler Blom about why participatory learning experiences are effective." What do you think? I'm thinking...
Professional Development in Facilitation – Ongoing and Early 2023 Opportunities
I often get asked how folks can learn more about facilitation, so I thought I'd do another post about it here. I'll start by saying generally that if you are interested in "facilitation" it would be good to decide whether you're interested in facilitating learning...
Reflections on 2022
Around this time of year I usually write a post to look back on some of the great work we did this year. Sometimes the year can go by in such a whirlwind, I really appreciate taking this opportunity to see everything we've accomplished for ourselves and for our...
Responsible Conduct Every Day: Creating an e-learning course for local elected officials
One of the joys of working in learning design is getting to collaborate with great organizations who are dedicated to building effective and engaging courses. Part of our work together is about first determining if it is actually a course that is needed, and if so,...
Call for Expressions of Interest
I’m looking for subcontractors who can support learning design and development projects on a sporadic, as-needed basis throughout the year, with immediate upcoming project-based needs. Specifically I’m seeking: senior learning/instructional designers with a graduate...
Learning is All Around Us
When I think about learning opportunities, I often think of the learning that happens in formal settings first. The workshop. The course. The virtual training session. But what about the learning opportunities that occur as we go about our day? What about the broader...