Another Day in the HR Field

I wrote this post last year but just now getting a chance to actually finalize and publish it. This past week I had the privilege of speaking at a very well attended annual women's conference sponsored by the  Illinois Women in Leadership . A group I have been a member of before but have not been available to attend meetings over the past several years especially since I took on leadership roles at the state and national level of  SHRM .  The program covered several adult learning principles, strategies and tips not to mention a little fun for the attendees who had a chance to "create" what IWIL meant to them using PlayDoh. Since I shared a blog series I wrote a couple years ago while working on my Master Online Teaching Certificate during the program, I thought I would write a post that allowed participants to find the entire series called "Teaching with Technology" all in one place.      Teaching with Technology Part 1 Teaching ...

For the last few weeks I have been blogging about a my takeways from a class I am taking for my Master of Online Teaching Certificate from UIUC's online learning curicullum. As you can tell from my posting, I have learned a great deal and really enjoyed taking this course and sharing with my readers. This post will be the end all be all for the series labeled Teaching/Training with Technology. I hope you will look for my next Mini Series about Horrible Bosses as I and my summer Organizational Behavior students will have a few things to say to help educate the real time bosses who don't play the role but live the role of "boss" everyday. The following is a list of the top 23 most important things I think online instructors need to know or learn. This list assumes that the instructor is new to online teaching as I use my own list of "wish I had knowns". 1) First, instructors need to spend some time learning how to use whatever their web tool is for online ins...

Happy Summer! If your in the Midwest right now like I am your trying to figure out how to cool off about every 5 minutes or so. Well I have been discovering some very cool stuff this week but unfortunately it won't make me feel any better in this heat. It will however, help me to be a more inspiring, interesting, and possibly even entertaining educator and presenter. The first new discovery was a very NON-POWERPOINT way of presenting slides. Prezi is the new wave of slide presentations that can literally take your audience down a rabbit hole (just check the site linked to this blog title). The second most powerful thing I learned is don't ever trust your equipment. While trying to develop a Twitter for HR presentation for my students, I could not get my sound to work. This is equipment that was only used once before mind you. After three unsuccessful times (so I thought) I gave up and posted the assignment saying it is only half done. After posting, I discovered t...

Finding ready made content for education and training courses in business is not as easy as a Google search. Sometimes you need to know exactly where to look. This weeks lesson took us to many sites I personally had not even heard of. For instance, I found a fantastic site for my HR management students that will be a perfect source for international HRM issues. You see they have to research a country and compare three HR policies, laws or customs to same in the US. Some may choose hours while others chose minimum wage. The site was found on a site called Merlot which stands for Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Training. The site of interest to my class looking for recent International HR information is the HRM Guide . I plan to go back to this site at a later time to explore in more detail and perhaps join. The benefits looked intriguing: As a Member you can: Contribute learning materials Create a personal collection Devel...

I know at least my twitter followers are aware that I have been incorporating technology into my teaching for a while now as they have watch several posts go by with #UIS431 in them. However, if you don't learn something new every day we tend to get a little stale. I am working on a Master Certification in Online Teaching. This summer I am taking course 3 & 4 out of 6 required towards that goal. I am learning about student assessment and teaching technology. As homework for the technology course, over the next seven weeks I will be taking a class requiring me to blog more than I do (currently once a month) and specifically highlighting new technologies that I am learning about. Specifically, my blog is going to be my scrapbook with at least the following items: -social networking/media -a tool for asynchronous communication -a tool for synchronous communication -an example of ready-made content -some content you've produced on your own -whatever your produced in the 7...