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By Garry Platt (January 2008 Issue)
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There are some people who have specialised in particular areas of their work and through doing this, have developed a high level of understanding and competence. In the training and development arena, Roger Greenaway is just such a person.

His work has focused predominantly on the process of reviewing activities and exercises in the field of experiential learning. The amount of information on this website is huge. For anyone involved in running classroom or outdoor activity-based developmental events, visiting this website is likely to be a productive and useful exercise.

The site looks homegrown; it doesn’t come across as slick or smooth with groovy flash animations, and I counted at least three different fonts on the first page, so the first impression is of a Victorian music hall poster: very, very busy. This ‘richness’ can also make it challenging to navigate around the site.

These issues aside, you would be well advised to persevere and spend some time here. Let me begin by pointing you to some of the interesting corners of this piece of cyberspace. First, look down the left-hand side for the heading ‘Active Reviewing Tips’. Left-click here and you can subscribe to a roughly monthly newsletter with ideas and suggestions and development in the field of reviewing. It’s infrequent enough to not make it intrusive but sufficiently regular to make it useful.

Return to the front page, but don’t bother with ‘Active Reviewing Exchange’. This leads you to where you can join a discussion group; frankly it appears dead and doesn’t look worth pursuing. Turn your attention instead to the right-hand side of the page and here you will discover the heading: ‘The Best of Active Reviewing Guide’, beneath which is a large range of links to some extremely useful information and some great ideas that you could easily integrate into your reviewing and debriefing strategies.

A particularly interesting section is headed ‘Quick Reviews’. This contains various ideas that you can implement to review an activity, ranging from one-minute long to 20 minutes. Another section I found particularly useful was ‘Questions for Reviewing’; here the ideas of ‘facts, feelings, findings and futures’ are described, which is a great way to get a consistent and purposeful review of learning activities.

Dr Roger Greenaway has developeda fascinating and very useful site for trainers involved in this aspect of training and development.

http://garry.smugmug.com/gallery/3479312#195803485

This is a photo-sharing website and as such, is one of many, but I have used this particular web site run by Smugmug for several years and they provide an excellent service.
In the training context, I take photographs of clients undertaking activities and exercises. I then give the client a web address to go to where they can review and download
the photographs. It’s a nice addition to training which many clients and users like.

Garry Platt is a senior consultant at Woodland Grange, specialising in management development and trainer training. He can be contacted on +44 (0) 1926 336621 or at garry.platt@wgrange.com

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