It's Dr. Seuss Day!
Dr. Seuss was very effective at making learning fun so it's only right to give him a shout out on what would have been his 116 Birthday. Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) used amazing creativity to make up words and characters to get children' attention and provide encouragement to learn to read. By making learning fun and interesting, he was able to increase participation and retention - sound familiar? SafetyFUNdamentals strives to do the same things and if you are reading this post, you probably are too!
Learner Personas
Learner Personas are fictitious but realistic profiles, based on actual data, of the individuals you expect to attend your training classes. Your learner persona will have a name, age, gender and maybe some details about their life and what motivates them. Finding a photo of this learner persona and keeping it in front of you as you develop and prepare training materials can help keep you on target and help make sure training materials are going to be right for your intended audience. Sometimes, you will need to develop several personas if you have a wide variety of people in a class.
What is Your Word of the Year?
What is one word that can guide all that you do, in your personal and professional life, during 2020? One word can be better to guide you than a list of resolutions. What word will you use?
The Hazard Hunter Game
Project-based learned is great for learning new skills and helping other is a formal training setting to grasp key ideas and concepts and remember key information longer.
OSHA's Latest Top Ten
Every year, OSHA issues a list of the top citations they have issued the previous year. Here is an infographic on themes frequent OSHA violations for 2019.
What's Your Favorite Game?
What type of games appeal to those who might take safety training classes? Add your comments to help design a safety training game for learning how to identify and correct hazards.
