Say cheese! It's time for an ISPI Vancouver Cracker Barrel. The evening of December 7th we'll have half a dozen presenters running simultaneous table discussions. The format will be both intereactive and informative. Participants will be able to pick the three they most want to hear.

We are in the process of determining speakers and would like to extend an invitation to all ISPI Vancouver members to submit a mini-proposal.

This is an excellent opportunity for our members to share their experiences and expertise with each other. If you have a topic you can share successfully in about 20 minutes, we want to hear from you.

If you are interested in presenting, send an email to Michael Doody, VP Programs, at mcdoody@shaw.ca by 5pm on Monday, October 25th. In your email, answer these four questions:

• What's your topic?
• What's your W.I.I.F.M.? *
• How can you do it successfully in about 20 minutes?
• Why you?

Michael will personally be getting back to those who respond.

This is an excellent opportunity for our members to share their experiences and expertise with each other. So we hope to hear from lots of you. If we get more than we can handle this time around, we can always do another similar event in the future.

* W.I.I.F.M. = "What's In It For Me"

Say Cheese!

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.

Learn with Ramona

ISPI Vancouver member Ramona Materi is presenting a couple of webinars via Elluminate. Both are free.

The first is on October 13th (11am-12noon Pacific). Ramona's topic: Winning Together - The Basics Of Virtual Teams. Click here for more info.

The second is on December 14th (11am-12noon Pacific). Ramona's topic: Getting The Most From Your Online Training. Click here for more info.

ISPI Vancouver member and Past President David Cory is presenting a day long workshop at Langara College on Saturday, November 27th. David's topic: Emotional Intelligence for Managers. Click here for more info on the workshop. If you plan to register, email Mika Madigan for a special discount for ISPI Vancouver members.

The Drive Is On!

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.