We are delighted to bring you an exciting Special Event: A Morning With Marc Prensky: Overcoming our Digital Immigrant Accents on Tuesday, October 26. This will be a ½-day morning workshop.

Who's Marc? Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of education and learning. He is the author of Digital Game-Based Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2001), the founder and CEO of Games2train. Visit www.marcprensky.com to learn more.

For more information and registration details, click here. Reserve your seat today!

On November 9th, join us for our guest Elena Galbraith, CPT, and Developing Great Job Aids-Tips and Techniques.

Who's Elena? Elena Galbraith, CPT, works as a performance improvement program manager for Microsoft in the Enterprise Sales Productivity organization.

"One of the most critical design decisions related to developing training is whether to store training information in long-term memory or put it in the performer's hands. The time it takes to develop job aids is three to fives times shorter than developing instruction-to-recall-saving the organization time and money.", says Elena.

Interested in learning more? Then be sure to check out the full details for this event - just click here.

Readiness Is More Than Training: Changing the language of field training at Microsoft
- by Elena Galbraith and Colin Parrott
We thought you might enjoy an article from our November 9th guest speaker, Elena Galbraith - just click here.

Here's some quick bites on the topic of job aids to whet your appetite for our November 9th session on job aids with Elena Galbraith:

What are Job Aids? - A definition from San Diego State University

Job Aids Chapter - by Paul Elliott
This is an entire chapter from the ISPI bestseller, Handbook of Human Performance Technology by Dr. Paul Elliott. It describes the benefits and use of job aids.

A Handbook of Job Aids - - by Allison Rossett, Jeannette Gautier-Downes

Some interesting job aid samples found on the web.

Archives from a job aids symposium in healthcare.

Reminder: The ISPI International Conference is coming to Vancouver in April 2005. Visit our new Conference 2005 Information Centre for updates. Plus, the ISPI Conference 2005 Sneak Peek flyer has just been released - click here to download and print (PDF).

Roberta Westwood has resigned as Co-President of ISPI Vancouver for personal reasons. She will continue to serve as VP Communications.

Jim Wright will assume the role of President for the balance of the year.

Weston McMillan, CPT, President Elect, will assume the presidency January 1, 2005,

The ISPI Membership drive, that is!

Have you renewed yet? October 1 was the target to renew your ISPI Vancouver membership. Click here for the 2004-05 renewal form. Not an ISPI Vancouver member? Click here to learn about becoming a member.