What are Velsoftians Reading Right Now?
At a tech company like Velsoft you would imagine everyone would be reading CHIP, Computer Power User, WIRED or other top technology magazines. It turns out that this is not the case at Velsoft. The staff here seems…
Measuring Training Results Quick Reference Guide
There are lots of good reasons to offer training, and even more reasons to participate and take training. But there is also an accountability element requiring measuring training results. We need to ask ask ourselves: What was the…
Michael Welton: Dialogue and Adult Education
Education professor Michael Welton, true to his Habermasian roots, sees society through a ‘learning lens’ and puts dialogue at the centre of his critical perspectives of adult education. Unlike the traditionalists who emphasized specific content knowledge learned in institutional…
Favorite Green Things at Velsoft
Planning to wear green to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? While that’s what most people do (legend has it that wearing green makes a person invisible to leprechauns that will pinch someone if they see them), the patron saint of…
Velsoft eCourse Design and Development Process
Managing Customers’ eCourse Expectations The Velsoft eCourse Design and Development Process ensures the sales, production and project management departments work together to manage internal and external expectations. Establishing a collaborative relationship from the beginning ensures we build a…
When the Cat’s Away the Mice Will Play
Jim is heading out for a much-needed weeklong vacation in a climate much better than ours. The usual thought is that when the cat’s away, the mice will play. Obviously, whoever coined this phrase did not know Velsoft!…
Creating Cards in a Microsoft Sway Project
This is an excerpt from Velsoft’s March computer course release: Sway. Create Cards In the last section, we learned that a Microsoft Sway project is made up of cards. These cards provide an easy way to create, organize,…
Nonverbal Communication: Eight tips to rock a business presentation
You are confident. You have rehearsed. You have a powerful, logical argument. You are ready to take on the task of presenting your points in a way that does not distract from your argument. In business presentations, the…
Celebrate Your Name! What’s in a Velsoftian Name?
What’s in a name? March 4-10 is International Celebrate Your Name Week, established by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill in 1997. He suggested reserving the first week of March for people worldwide to celebrate their names. Each day…
Stephen Brookfield – Critical Analysis
In Engaging Practitioners in Critical Analysis of Adult Education Literature, Stephen Brookfield is trying to “…encourage students to acquire the habit of asking certain critical questions each time they are confronted with a piece of published academic writing.”…
Olympic Team 2024 Paris!
Two weeks ago, I outlined the Olympic sports that the various Velsoft Head Office personnel could compete in at the Winter Games, which will wrap up for 2018 in PyeongChang on Sunday. Well, I received a great deal…
Diversity Quick Reference Guide
More than ever, a workplace is a diverse collection of individuals proud of who they are: their gender, their sexual orientation, their religion, their ethnic background, and all the other components that make an individual unique. One of…
