We have new workshop details and resources for our Marc Prensky Special Event on Tuesday, October 26.

Here is more information on what you will be learning at our ½-day morning workshop, A Morning With Marc Prensky: Designing Learning Digital Natives Will Love:

How do we go about redesigning our learning for Digital Natives? As learners become more and more immersed in their digital technology — carrying around their communications, computing and entertainment devices in their pockets — the gap is widening between the skills they have, the languages they speak (e.g. game, blog, IM), and what instructors and trainers expect. We will explore the important implications of this gap, and suggest ways organizations and instructors can help close it, via gaming and other methods.

Specifically, we will look "under the Iceberg" at the 9/10ths of your learners' computer and video games (and e-life) you probably don't know about, and learn why understanding it is critical to you, to your students and trainees, and to education and training more generally. We will see how much learning actually takes place from playing video and computer games and how to bring this learning into the classroom. Working with real digital natives (i.e. high school and tertiary students) we will explore what it is about games that causes so much learning to happen, and what they look for in games. We will look at types of games and gaming, the depth of games' "below-the-surface" learning, and try some online games together. We will also play the non-computer game of "Give me a topic you think couldn't possibly be taught with a game and I'll show you how it can be."

Prerequisite: Marc sites only one pre-requisite for this workshop: A mind open to seeing things differently.

Pre-reading: Plus, Marc has suggested some pre-reading:

• Digital Natives Digital Immigrants
• What kids learn that's POSITIVE from playing computer games
• How kids learn to cooperate in video games
• Escape from Planet Jar-Gon

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.

Our call for speakers for our December 7th Cracker Barrel are sill open. The deadline is 5pm on Monday, October 25th.

If you are interested in learning more, click here to go to the October 9th issue of e-Spectrum for details on how to submit a mini-proposal.

BC HRMA is presenting Demonstrating and Calculating ROI with Jim Kirkpatrick on Monday October 25. This full-day workshop will provide a framework for demonstrating this relationship and ultimately determining, calculating and presenting ROI to executives.

Recognize the name Kirkpatrick from the world of evaluation? Yes, they are related! Jim Kirkpatrick is the eldest son of evaluation pioneer Donald Kirkpatrick. Jim currently works as the Director of Training and Development for First Indiana Bank and is responsible for their Balance Scorecard Management System, Leadership Development, Training and Career Development Program. Info on father and son is available on www.donaldkirkpatrick.com.

For more info, click here.

On November 26, the Knowledge Management Community of Practice's KM2 team will introduce its project and present its metamodel of Knowledge Management.

Learn from the stories of two local organizations and exchange practical examples of how best to manage knowledge. Work in groups to apply the KM2 model and explore how KM can contribute to areas such as: knowledge discovery, wuccession planning, improving performance, change management, building a learning organization, managing intangible assets and improving customer service.

KM2 stands for Knowledge Management Modelling. KM2 is a framework that is being developed by the Knowledge Management Community of Practice for KM practitioners, consultants, vendors, and researchers.

Click here for more info.

Royal Roads University is presenting a workshop with Barry Oshry November 29 & 30, 2004. Barry Oshry is a distinguished educator and a pioneer in the field of systems thinking.

The Organization Workshop with Barry Oshry presents a human systems approach for developing and sustaining satisfying and productive partnerships up, down and across organizational boundaries. The workshop explores why, despite our best intentions and our cutting-edge technologies, we keep falling into the same disempowering scenarios.

Click here for more info.

Learn with Ramona

ISPI Vancouver member Ramona Materi is presenting an upcoming free webinar via Elluminate. The date: 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.