Velsoft’s New Year’s Resolutions Revealed
Six Velsoftians were willing to put their New Year’s Resolutions out there. Congratulations! You now have a chance to be in the less than 10 per cent of people who are successful in keeping their resolutions! To increase…
Happy Holidays All!
Happy Holidays! Some are just beginning their holidays, while others are just finishing up theirs. I thought this week I’d find out what each Velsoftian wants most for Christmas. Keith– Free babysitter Carol– Foot rest so her feet…
Six Tips To Building Good Workplace Relationships
Good workplace relationships are an important aspect of becoming successful at work, allowing you to build a broad coalition of support within an organization. Here are a few tips to building good workplace relationships: Be nice to everybody…
Holiday Stress Management Quick Reference Guide
The holidays are a wonderful, happy, special time of year. But any holiday, whether it’s Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, can throw off your routine. This Holiday Stress Management Quick Reference Guide will help you to put a de-stressing plan in…
Seven Essentials for any Training Follow-Up Program
Following up is an extremely important part of any training program. How this is approached will determine the effectiveness of a training program. Many courses are designed to familiarize or train employees in a new program or method…
Jean’s Free Christmas Trees Adventure
Every year Jim (CEO) invites Velsoft staff and families to view the New Glasgow Christmas Parade from the ‘Wall of Windows’ on the second floor of the lavish Velsoft Head Office. These windows look directly down on the…
Microsoft Office 365 Focus on Delve
An excerpt from Velsoft’s new course Microsoft 365 Part 2 focusing on Delve. What is Delve? Delve provides quick, easy access to documents, people, conversations, and activities linked to your user account. Users will only see documents they…
Roger Simon: Teaching Against the Grain
In Teaching Against the Grain Roger Simon explores the horizon of possibility. Simon has us looking at a vision of the future rooted in our own present, through our curricular practice. Further he is saying that our curricular practice is…
An eLearning Assessment for Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
An eLearning Assessment for Remembering Level of Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Imagine that you have covered an introduction to Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy (as seen below) and want to assess whether the participants remember which subdomains correspond to which verbs…
The Velsoft Palatial Head Office Orchestra
This week, with the assistance of Carol (Senior Editor), I set out to create a Velsoft Orchestra based on the personalities that typically play the orchestral instruments. The idea came when I was reading an article by Zoran Mihajlovski…
Digital Citizenship Focus on Digital Commerce
In her blog Digital Citizenship: Are You a Practitioner, Carol Dunn pointed out that “Learning how to be a good digital citizen is necessary for navigating through this world of technology — which includes email and online shopping…
Bloom’s Taxonomy – Still ‘Bloom’ing After All These Years
Discovering Bloom’s Taxonomy When I first started teaching at our local Community College I was asked to teach a summer course in ‘Test and Measurement’ to a class of 25 new teachers at our provincial teacher’s college. It…
