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As part of my PTLLS (Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Sector) course, I presented a session which I am extremely passionate about – making learning fun through using games!

When you speak to technology educators the aspect of using simple tried and tested tools of Saturday night evening entertainment in your classroom seems to never have been considered.

By employing the vehicle of a game where the learners are more concerned about the rules and the objective of scoring points, the focus is taken away from the strenuous nature of learning CompTIA A+ facts by rote, and instead you’re learning to WIN!

A game that I love using is the word game of “Shiritori” – something that I adapted from my time in Japan (see a video of its use in a Japanese classroom: http://youtu.be/4sEhxaYCsPI)

Below are my slides from my session, if you wish to share your own tips, please feel free to comment.

I recently delivered a remote training event to fellow online facilitators on the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT).

Here are the slides from the session:
 

Hot on the heels of the UK Microsoft IT Academy Summit 2011 is the CompTIA EMEA Member conference. This year the conference is taking place on the 9^th of November at the Hilton Metropole London. The conference has three different tracks:

• IT Channel – aimed at businesses
• Learning and Development – aimed at training providers / educators
• Training and Certification – aimed at anyone who wants to learn more about CompTIA’s certification portfolio

Last year the highlight for me was meeting best-selling author and A+ guru, Mike Meyers. This year, Mike is joined by Professor Messer and Todd Lammle. The giants of the CompTIA authoring and training world are all going to be in one place for what truly seems like a fantastic event.

CompTIA certifications are vendor neutral so they have a holistic view of the IT industry and are the market leaders of predicting what is going to be the next big technology that will shape the industry.  So it is no surprise that this year the focus of the conference is on the Cloud and mobile computing.

I’m really looking forward to the event as the agenda gives tantalising glimpses of what there is to come from CompTIA in the very near future.

Hope to see you there!

For more information and registration, please visit the official website: http://www.comptia.org/events/emea/home.aspx