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Learning: Actively Recalling Information from Memory Beats Elaborate Study Methods

Posted February 6th, 2011 by parbuckle
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 21, 2011) — Put down those science books and work at recalling information from memory. That's the shorthand take away message of new research from Purdue University that says practicing memory retrieval boosts science learning far better than elaborate study methods. "Our view is that learning is not about studying or getting knowledge 'in memory,'" said Purdue psychology professor Jeffrey Karpicke, the lead investigator for the study that appears January 20 in the journal Science. "Learning is about retrieving.

Using PowerPoint for Best Educational Outcomes

Posted August 16th, 2009 by ellenfinkl
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This talk explain best practices for using PowerPoint in an educational and training environment, based on the research that has been done in the field. (A list of references follows the handout.)

Topics covered are:
Why reading from slides is detrimental to learning
The damaging effect of unnecessary images
The solution
Points from Multimedia Learning by Richard E. Mayer
Research showing that animating text line by line is not helpful to learning
How to create clear graphs/charts

Pretty woman, dumb man…

Posted October 7th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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Johan Karremans couldn’t remember his own address when an attractive lady asked him at the end of a conversation. This Dutch psychologist had been so busy trying to impress her that his cognitive abilities were temporary exhausted. He decided to investigate this more closely and discovered man can’t think optimally after a conversation with a woman. The prettier the woman, the stronger the effect. With women this effect did not appear.

PREZI , a revolution in presentation software

Posted April 4th, 2010 by maarten.vannest...
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Prezi is presentation software that starts with one big canvas. It works not linear, like a series of slides, but follows a logic of the big picture and zooming in towards details. A very different but natural approach that breaks with rather boring series of slides and keeps your participants attention by regularly zooming out to the big picture...

League Of Rock :: Music-Based Leadership Training

Posted November 13th, 2009 by tmosh
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Leadership Training Taken To The Next Level...

Predictive Success Corp. Partners With League Of Rock To Combine World Renown Predictive Index Tool With Music-Based Learning

League of Rock is quickly becoming the de-facto standard in Music-Based Collaboration and Team-Building. Predictive Success Corp. is known nationally for assessment tools that turn self-awareness into practical business results.

Give Participants Time to Talk

Posted September 21st, 2009 by DanTobin
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It is a common error, and one that I made early in my career. Because bringing participants together is so costly to the company, and because it happens so infrequently, there is a natural tendency to cram as much information as possible into the available time.

IMEX. The Essential Worldwide Exhibition for Incentive Travel, Meetings and Events

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22 May 2012 10:00
22 May 2012 10:00
Location: 
Frankfurt
The show where the global meetings industry continues to do business while maximising connections, networking opportunities and over 70 sessions of education. Book and plan your IMEX 2012 to make the most of your time, development and foremost business.

IMEX ‘11 brought over 3,500 exhibitors from more than 150 countries for business in three days. For the rest of the year round search our virtual exhibition by product category or destination.

KISS THE FROG WINS FIRST FRESH AWARD

Posted January 25th, 2012 by maarten.vannest...
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The first fresh award was won by Kristine Nygaard from Kiss The Frog, a Danish Graphic Facilitator. The Fresh award promotes tools and services that increase meeting effectiveness. Read more in the attached report. For an interview see attached report, for picture see attached pictures.

also  the FRESH website   

see VIDEO of the ceremony (10min)

KICK-START YOUR WORK MEETING

Posted November 18th, 2011 by maarten.vannest...
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The world launch: at FRESH 2012 in Copenhagen

KICK-START YOUR WORK MEETING – A HANDBOOK FOR FACILITATORS

I don’t agree, this not a book for facilitators.

EXPERT on Micro Expressions: Yann Van den Branden

Posted February 11th, 2011 by maarten.vannest...
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Yann is a speaker on micro expressions and how you can use them to learn more about your 'opponent' in a commercial situation. Yann mostly teaches interactive sessions, trainings, workshops with real exercises for the participants or as a keynote speaker for a larger group. Yann has reference in large corporations in the pharmaceutical, banking, insurance and automotive world, from the USA over Japan to Russia. As an Actor he is also a member of the international business communication theatre group called YESSI JADA.

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