What did you actually learn?

Technology is impacting our lives whether we like it or not so we may as well learn to live with it, or even embrace it! That’s the view of Gina Blackie of Nurture Public Relations who works with tech firms to help them explain to the public what they do and why. Except what they do can be complex and hard to understand.

Journalist Jill Sainsbury met up with Gina in Whitchurch in Hampshire for a much needed, tech-free walk along the River Test.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

This episode sees Jill catch up with long time friend and associate Paquita Lamacraft in her new neighbourhood in South West France.

Having lived all over the world, Paquita’s latest venture to start a new life in France is ‘un morceau de gâteau’ compared to the challenges she’s faced bringing people to work happily together in a range of vastly differing workplaces and overcoming all sorts of challenges in the process. Using her skills as a ‘catalyst’ she’s brought about change which sticks and works.

Talking of ‘cats’ they went for a stroll in the village of La Romieu on one of the Camino routes spotting a selection of stone ‘cat’ sculptures’ en route.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

PR and marketing are often lumped together as one entity but talk to any PR professional and they’ll tell you otherwise. Public relations is like any other form of relationship - it needs nurturing. Jill talks to Julie Jackson founder of Essential PR and Marketing about how she goes about building those relationships and how she releases the ‘brand voice’ of her clients - so that what they say is actually what they do.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

eLearning can be as complicated as an immersive VR experience or a simple PDF and everything in between. While much is made of the tech, perhaps rather less is made of the learning. The team at the Learning Network, a meeting place for those working within the Learning and Design (L&D) industry run an annual awards scheme to showcase the very best of both. Jill went along to their showcase event at Birmingham Thinktank to see what good eLearning looks like.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

Can business be a force for good? While ‘doing good’ sounds good, making that a profitable reality is rather more difficult which is where operations consultant Andrew Ormerod comes in. He supports mission-driven businesses whether that’s a social enterprise or a limited company in their mission to make the changes they need to ‘do good’ because ‘good’ doesn’t just benefit society and the planet, it’s profitable too.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

How do you make IT training interesting for those who aren’t interested? How do you enable the unconfident computer user, to be confident or persuade the overconfident that there is still stuff to learn? How do you ensure everyone ends up in the same place from different starting points? Debbie Sawyer is an IT trainer with 30 years experience and knows all the tricks to get the best out of those she trains.

Jill met Debbie for a screen-break stroll on a beach to discover that it’s the human connection which makes all the difference.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit switchedonmultimedia.substack.com

It’s official, learning is fun, or at least it should be because that way the info goes in. Kevin Morgan is the CEO of Course Kings, compliance training specialists to the dental sector and other industries. Jill met up with him in central London to talk about how he ensures everyone in the room enjoys learning.

How do you explain a difficult concept and know they’ve understood it? The answer? Coronation Street! Problem is today’s undergrads don’t watch it. Jill takes a trip to a beach in Brighton to catch up with sociology lecturer Dr Stephen Brown to find out his methods for ensuring his students know what he’s on about.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

Producer: Byron Lewis

We all need some extra help with those tasks we either don’t want to do or find difficult to do. So how does that person who offers the help, cope with everyone else’s unwanted/difficult tasks? Gemma Lane is a virtual PA and her company Hidden Gem accurately describes the value she brings to her clients because she quietly and efficiently gets on with all sorts of tasks the rest of us put off. Jill caught up with Gemma in the grounds of a country house hotel to find out how she regularly has to learn new stuff quickly and pass that on to her clients.

Find out more about at Gemma Lane on her website: https://www.hiddengempa.co.uk/

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What did you actually learn is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

Producer: Byron Lewis

This week, we’re on the balcony at Switched-on HQ talking to our very own content producer Byron Lewis. Byron spent his time at uni running the student TV and radio stations and so had to learn many new skills in a short space of time and then quickly pass them onto the next cohort. Jill asks him what it’s like to go from being taught to teacher in a matter of months.

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"What did you actually learn?" is the podcast that gets out and about to find out how people learn new stuff and help others to do the same.

We’ve turned off Teams to visit fascinating people in person in the places where they hang out to find out how they absorb and pass on new info.

The podcast is produced by Switched-on Multimedia, film and content producers for training and education.

To find out how Switched-on Multimedia can boost your training and education video and digital content visit www.switched-on.tv

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CREDITS:

Presenter: Jill Sainsbury

Voiceover: Ian Miles

Producer: Byron Lewis