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By: Bob Hartman

Bob Hartman — Sun, 02 May 2010 22:03:45 +0000

Monik, I do use several simulation games depending on the circumstances. I also frequently turn physical demonstrations into ongoing simulations during workshops by asking questions like “How would we model that with the demonstration we did earlier? Let’s try it!” I think simulations are absolutely essential to the learning process.

By: Monik

Monik — Sun, 02 May 2010 21:58:26 +0000

Hi Bob,
first of all your blog is great – very agile-inspiring
This entry inspired me enoug to write a little comment;) Have you ever used simulation games during your trainings? Some time ago I hae conducted exercices about project management for students (waterfall, agile, …). It was really hard for me to show them all those project management problems… In theory everything seems so easy… Than I have created couple of short simulation games (altergames). During the game they had to face many different/weird situations and find a solution. It was a good introduction to interesting discussions.
Looking forward to your next blog-entry:)

By: Bob Hartman

Bob Hartman — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:17:35 +0000

David, I had read Presentation Zen a while back. It is a great book and is pretty close to what I use for the presentation parts of the course. I also liked “Beyond Bullet Points” which I think I read around the same time. Both books helped me try to keep words to a minimum. But I have to admit I didn’t fully take the plunge until recently. Now I’m glad I did. I have found that a slide with few words and an entertaining picture can lead into the topic and then a handout or a few of them can help with later retention of the material. It is amazing to me how much more students retain when you almost force them to write some things down rather than relying on the slides. I’m convinced it works, even for highly technical material. As good as you are now, I can’t wait to hear about your future results because I really want to know how much higher than 10 out of 10 your students will rate you!

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By: David Bernstein

David Bernstein — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:50:41 +0000

Bob, I know you are an outstanding trainer from the class I did with you a few years ago so I am very excited to get and read “Training from the Back of the Room”. I am reading a book now called “Presentation Zen” which I love. It also says to put very few (less than six) words on a slide. This is a challenge for a guy like me who trains highly technical material but I’m working on it. Even if I can’t achieve it for every slide I know these suggestions are making my materials better.

David.

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