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Reference
Material / Books
- 101 More
Training Games - £18 (1999)
By Gary Kroehnert
Mc Graw Hill
- The Big
Book of Flipcharts - £26.40
By Robert Lucas
McGraw Hill
- Even More
Games Trainers Play - £25.20 (1994)
By Edward Scannell
McGraw Hill
- Indoor
Outdoor Team Building Games for Trainers (1997)
By Harrison Snow
McGraw Hill
- The Trainers
Blue Pocketfile Of Ready to Use Exercises Management - £36.60
By John Townsend
Pocket Books
- The Trainers
Red Pocketfile Management Of Ready to Use Exercises - £36.60
By John Townsend
Pocket Books
- The Trainers
Green Pocketfile Management Of Ready to Use Exercises - £36.60
By John Townsend
Pocket Books
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Internet
Links
http://www.thiagi.com/
"Thiagi" is Dr. Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan, who has consulted and
conducted training in such areas as rightsizing, diversity, creativity,
teamwork, customer satisfaction, human performance technology, and organizational
learning. He is internationally recognized as an expert in multinational
collaboration and active learning in organizations. Thiagi's framegames
are an activity "shell" to hold the content that is to be learned. The
underlying principles are active learning and a lot of interaction between
players. The framegame becomes a structure for cooperative learning:
the players teach each other. In a game, the participants get immediate
feedback, which is important to learning. One of the best parts of this
site is the freebies and goodies section, where there are a number of
useful games and ideas. The web site keeps trainers up to date on the
latest techniques and provides a refreshing charge when you are in need
of a new and different simulation.
http://www.trainingworld.co.uk/healthmenu.htm
Although this site sells training courses, it is worth mentioning as
it provides descriptions of these courses, their aims and a breakdown
of what they cover. If you are creating a new course, this breakdown
would give them a good idea of what to include in it. The list of courses
is very comprehensive.
http://www.activephase.com/demo/
Registration required to gain the full benefit of this web site. It
is worth registering to view this demonstration of an active training
course. It will suggest ideas to a trainer interested in designing an
interactive CBT course. However, this site serves no other purpose,
and download times are excessive.
http://www.instant-training.co.uk/index.html
This UK training web site contains information relevant to trainers
split into areas such as "Training Courses", "Why Train?" and "Helping
Hand". The "Helping Hand" page provides free information sheets on various
training and safety-related subjects. They have also included online
versions, for previewing before downloading. For example, the manual-handling
information sheet, http://www.instant-training.co.uk/images/pdf/ismanh.pdf
http://www.free-training.com/
This is an excellent resource for trainers. It provides free Internet
training programs. These are complete programs made available by the
companies and organizations that sponsor the site. There is also a free
multimedia course development guide. Part of the extensive list of topics
covered can be viewed at http://www.free-training.com/osha/othersites.htm.
Some of the programs allow the user to choose an interactive version
which gives them feedback e.g. http://www.pp.okstate.edu/ehs/modules3/back/back-a.htm.
These programs are ready for use in training but are also useful in
informing trainers about CBT and e-learning.
http://homepage.eircom.net/~mjcollins/index.htm
MJ Collins Home Page
This is an excellent
resource website on HRD. It provides many links to other useful sites,
and to articles on other sites. The topics cover a wide range of HRD
subjects. Well worth a visit.
http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/index.html
TrainingZone
To find up-to-date
information, click the Toolkit or the HRzone links at the top of the
screen. http://www.trainingzone.co.uk
This is an excellent site for HRD information. Trainingzone describes
itself as the "largest interactive community for Training and HR professionals".
Trainingzone is a megasite covering a wide range of training-related
topics. Articles are added daily so it is worth checking out the latest
trends.
You can click on
these links to get extensive information:
TOOLKIT:gives access to a large range of learning materials including
handouts, programmes and discussion papers.
WORKSHOP: a timetable of on-line events. Some examples of the topics
to be covered in the coming months include: Building Trust, Time Management
and Training for Trainers. You can link to recent workshops, for example:
Developing Online Learning, Presentation Skills and Coaching and Mentoring.
SHOPS: takes you to a virtual mall with details of training products
you can purchase from Training Zone. The range is extensive and includes
Videos, Books and CDs.
HR ZONE: the name says it all.
http://www.excelhrd.aust.com/
The author the Excel HRD website is also the author of several books
on the subject. The website has obviously been set up to sell his products.
Each page is surrounded by an attractive red border and the site is
very easy to navigate. The most interesting information lies in the
Articles page, which discusses subjects such as "Workplace Learning
in the 21st Century". The articles are quite short, but they are kept
up-to-date and so worth reading.
http://www.topten.org/content/tt.AU20.htm
This site contains the top 10 icebreakers for meetings and training
seminars. It includes an introduction to icebreaker activities and stresses
their adaptability for different audiences. It then details ten different
games. There is also a badly written piece about the author of the page.
http://www.baylor.edu/~Daniel_Shroyer/games.html
This site aims to teach core concepts of how to choose and use effective
icebreakers and games in presentations. It provides a slideshow, handouts,
lesson plans, and examples sources and sets a time expectation.
Links: very relevant and interesting links to articles, books, and
software. CHECK
http://www.susqu.edu/campus_center/book2.htm
This is a University site which details the role icebreakers play in
minimising feelings of isolation and loneliness at the start of each
academic year for new It lists several basic games and getting-to-know-you
exercises.
http://aged.tamu.edu/classes/689/main.html
This site deals with Dr. Kim Dooley's lectures on Advanced Methods of
Distance Education. There is a slideshow on the relevance of icebreaking
activities, and also some advice on how to get these activities started,
and how to evaluate them.
Links: Useful link to necessary software if access to all lectures
is required.
http://lonestar.texas.net/~tsberry/swepage/ice.htm
This site contains a long list of general ideas for icebreaking activity,
and discusses how long icebreakers should be, and how often to use them.
Links: good links to source material and related sites.
http://adulted.about.com/education/adulted/library/blicebreakers.htm
This site is the Adult/ Continuing Education section of the on-line
magazine, about.com. It introduces and explains the role of icebreakers
as well as providing three links to particular icebreaker types.
http://docsun.crn.cogs.susx.ac.uk/local/doc/teaching/teachingnode13.html
This site is about Managing Groups. It explains the role of icebreakers
and details one sample activity. The results of one particular are outlined
and help to underline how these activities can focus a group.
http://www.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/ice_breakers.htm
This site contains training materials for lay health promoter training.
These materials are not intended to take the place of the services of
physicians, nurse practitioners, or other health professionals. There
is a list of eight sample games and their descriptions.
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOAR/Lead/Icebreak.html
This site belongs to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. It
stresses the importance of icebreakers and the invaluable role they
play. There is a list of twelve activities with lots of details on how
to play them.
http://www.amanet.org/
This is the website of the American Management Association. It
contains information on hundreds of self-study courses on such topics
as Managerial Skills, Leadership, Time Management, Finance and Accounting,
and Sales. This website also contains information on training courses
(or seminars) on topics like Management, Communication Skills, Warehousing
and Inventory, Purchasing and Negotiation, and Customer Service.
http://www.alx.org/
This is the website of America's Learning Exchange (ALX). ALX
is a free service administered by the U.S. Department of Labour. The
website is aimed at students and adult learners, human resource managers
and small employers, training providers and developers. It contains
links to classroom courses, distance learning opportunities, web-based
and computer-based training. It also contains links to four specialised
databases related to education and training.
http://www.ratio.org.uk/training/onlinecourses.htm
This is a great site. It provides links to courses available free on
the Internet. The site officially belongs to the Rural Area Training
and Information Opportunities body of England, and it is partially funded
by the EU Structural Fund. Courses available include:
- BBC's Introduction
to the Internet, and how to become a confident user.
- The Internet
Road Map -with links to simple documents that explain the jargon that
everyone knows but no-one understands.
- The Online Netskills
Interactive Course
- A link to FAQs
on the web.
- Travel Languages
and Finger Spelling, a site devoted to the teaching of sign language.
Other topics include: Accounting, Business, Computer Aided Design
and Computer Skills.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/
This is the BBC's contribution to web-awareness for children and adults
alike and it is quite a helpful one. Links are organised for the novice,
the intermediate learner, and the more advanced who might want to know
how to include cartoons on a siteThe site has a good search facility.
The entire site can be searched from the home page
http://www.liv.ac.uk/~evansjon/roadmap/Welcome.html
Every new student of the web should be sent to this site. It offers
an introductory course on the Internet. There is an extensive list of
topics which cover the questions every new user wonders about. Examples
include E-Mail, Netiquette, FTP and WWW. At the end of each section
of information there are plenty of examples, a list of which topics
are coming up next, homework, and a list of sources. There is no interactivity,
but there is a quiz ,with the answers revealed periodically. The lessons
are written in a simple easy-to-follow style.
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/TonicNG/cgi/sesame?tng
Tonic is an online netskills interactive course that belongs to the
University of Newcastle. Even though the service is free, you must still
register before entering the site. Topics covered include: The Global
Internet, Levels of Connectivity and Domain names. Clicking on 'The
Global Internet' brings up the first lesson.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/web/wwwfaq/index.htm
This is part of Oxford University's website which deals with answering
Frequently Asked Questions on the World Wide Web. It provides a gateway
to an extensive list of links to information. Topics include: What is
the Web? What are SGML and HTML? and How do I Publish on the Web? And
many more.
http://www.maximtraining.com/msol/review/index.htm
This is a commercial site, but worth visiting because it offers samples
of management skills courses which you can browse through. You can link
to the course samples from the home page. Examples include: The Effective
Leader, Project Management, Working in Teams, Training for Non-Trainers
and Preparing + Giving Presentations. Some course samples give you a
quiz, with instant feedback. This is a good feature.
http://www.enterprixemedia.com/Best.html
Enterprise Media's Discounted Training Videos and CD ROMS
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Multimedia
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TRAINING RESOURCES:
DIRECTORIES An interactive directory of learning resources on disk,
called 'Open Mind' is available from Gower. It lists 4,500 learning
resources and is updated annually. The resources are:
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