The Modern Classroom

Tools, Tips, and Technology

Enhance your classroom-based instructor-led courses before, during, and after training with a “buffet” of modern tools, tips, and technologies. This one-day BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) workshop will provide you with an introduction to a variety of fun and engaging options including social media, microlearning, video, gamification, graphic facilitation, virtual reality, and more! Bring your smartphone or tablet and come prepared to experience a number of these interactive techniques first-hand.

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Workshop objectives

For instructors, facilitators, and designers who are looking for new ideas and modern techniques to enhance traditional, classroom-based training.

Connect with learners using social media.
Augment learning with online and user-generated video.
Engage participants using learning games.
Tell a compelling story to start a session or present content.
Use graphic facilitation to enhance your delivery.
Leverage the use of apps to increase fun and engagement.
Provide real-world application through simulations.
Replicate job-like conditions with virtual and augmented reality.
Enhance teamwork with online collaboration tools.
Reinforce training with microlearning.

What you will learn

Before Training

When and how to use video before training.
How to use your pre-course email to generate excitement for the training program.
A simple template to help craft your pre-course email.
10+ sample survey questions to help gather meaningful data about learners’ experience, needs and concerns.
How to create hype for training using social media.
An easy-to-use tool to plan your social media strategy.

During Training

How to leverage technology to create non-traditional icebreakers.
6 new tech-based icebreakers and when to use them.
When to use video to present content.
Valuable tips, guidelines, and cautions for creating powerful videos.
How to create vivid stories to present content.
Storytelling tips to help build rapport with your audience.
A structured template to help write an attention-grabbing story.
How to make the presentation of content more interactive using polling apps.
New ways to use images and graphics on your flipcharts and slides.
How to use graphic facilitation to create a visual hook for your learners.
10 tips for using infographics to present content in a concise and compelling manner.
Guidelines for using games to add excitement and impact.
How to incorporate elements of gamification to increase engagement.
16 engaging options to help gamify a course.
When and how to use simulations for realistic, job-like practice.
How to extend simulations with virtual reality.
How to enhance practice using augmented reality.
Tips for using smartphones and tablets to help assess individual practice.
How to create an interactive learning experience using an online scavenger hunt.
When and how to use online collaboration tools to facilitate in-class team work.
15 tips for creating challenging and fun branching scenarios.
3 modern review techniques to reinforce course content.
A detailed worksheet to help you build a thrilling escape room review.

After Training

How to use microlearning to reinforce learning back on the job.
How to extend learning after class using online games.
Tips and guidelines for sharing lessons learned using social media.
Guidelines for sending relevant post-course reinforcement.
How to curate and share valuable job-related learning resources.

What you will receive

All the worksheets, checklists, and forms in Microsoft® Word template format. Simply download them from your personal MyLangevin website.
Free 1-year feedback service. Receive detailed feedback on your materials to help improve your courses.

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