T is For Training

Maurice, Paul, Aaron, Tom, Mark, and many special folks make up the panel of usual suspects on the show. Check out tisfortraining.wordpress.com for show notes and information.

Tonight we talked about how to make learning stick, using the course Paul and good friend of the show Dorothy, are currently co-teaching at ALA = CORE. Your job is to use the tools and techniques available to you to create real change for your audience. The depth of their learning depends on how long you have to create some memorable training stickiness.

Paul, Aaron, Tom, Julie, and Maurice used an Edutopia article entitled "What an Experienced Teacher Notices in the First 5 Minutes of Class

*Edutopia*, October 9, 2026 [https://www.edutopia.org/article/what-experienced-teachers-notice-first-5-minutes-class](https://www.edutopia.org/article/what-experienced-teachers-notice-first-5-minutes-class) as the inspiration for Beginnings: What We Do During the FIrst Five Minutes of class. See the full show notes at https://tisfortraining.wordpress.com We have to give our people permission to be brilliant.

Maurice, Paul, Aaron, Tom, Mark, and many special folks make up the panel of usual suspects on the show. Check out tisfortraining.wordpress.com for show notes and information.

Paul, Mark, Tom, Aaron, and Jared talked about what they would tell conference organizers and how they can encourage learners to see conferences are essential learning tools. Complete show notes on tisfortraining.wordpress.com Next show on October 15th @ 9 Eastern.

Maurice, Paul, and Aaron talked about how we can recognize our learners' needs and adapt in the moment. And some Presenting 101 tips and tricks. Look at tisfortraining.wordpress.com for the latest show notes and information.

Maurice, Paul, Aaron, Mark, and Tom are the usual suspects. We started talking about the importance of the arts in our work based on the book Art Cure, by Daisy Fancourt and went from there. Look at tisfortraining.wordpress.com for the latest show notes and information.

This was a very special episode of the show. Show number 400!!!!

We had old friends, current usual suspects, and some surprises wrapped in stories and appreciation for the program. On the call were Maurice Coleman, Paul Signorelli, Julie Strange, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Andrea Snyder, Janie Hermann, Aaron Blumberg, Dorothy Stoltz, Diane Huckabay, Jennifer Koerber, Mark Corbett Wilson, Jared Bendis, Lori Reed, and Tom Haymes. A big special thanks to Paul and Julie for pulling this off and to Dorothy for a wonderful poem. Many stories were shared. Complete blast from the past photos and minor notes on tisfortraining.wordpress.com

The next show is Thursday, August 20th, @ 9 Eastern.

Maurice, Paul, Aaron, Tom & returning Julie S. are joined by Sam Helmick, Immediate Past President of the American Library Association. Full notes on tisfortraining.wordpress.com Next show Thursday, August 6 @ 9 eastern

Tonight, Paul, Maurice, Tom, Aaron, Jared, and Mark discussed the role of AI in education and how students, faculty, staff, and the institution are being slowly challenged and changed by AI. We started the show based on Tom’s Substack post about Never Ask a Chatbot Question [https://augmentingintelligence.substack.com/p/never-ask-a-chatbot-one-question](https://augmentingintelligence.substack.com/p/never-ask-a-chatbot-one-question)

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T is for Training 397 - John Henry Dies in the End - Maurice, Jared, Aaron, Mark, and Tom. Talked about human interactions and AI. Why burn the books, when you can close the buildings…We discussed Pope Leo's encyclical and MIT's closing their libraries. Then went different places.

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