What Works for Me

Marty Riesberg August 31, 2020 No Comments

What Works for Me

BRINGING THE CODE OF EXCELLENCE TO LIFE

A New Weekly Video Podcast Series Featuring IBEW Electricians
Retelling Their Success Stories of Winning Long-Term Customers

There’s a new and unique addition to the Blended Learning course offering. It’s entitled What Works for Me | Bringing the Code of Excellence to Life. It is delivered via weekly 7-minute video podcasts. In highly engaging one-on-one interviews with IBEW electricians from locations all over the US, Leticia
Fedora, the moderator, each week reveals a new success story of how a journeyman created a long-term relationship with a customer—or, perhaps, saved one. All of the lessons learned tie back to the philosophy embedded in the IBEW Code of Excellence. The series has received enthusiastic reviews from all across the country for its one-of-a-kind style and great takeaways. Herself a veteran journeyman and apprenticeship instructor, Leticia ends each episode reminding the audience that, with customers, it’s not just the quality of your work that counts. Equally important is how you made them feel. Each What Works for Me episode entry in the LMS is accompanied with a trio of questions which apprenticeship instructors can use to stimulate classroom discussion about the videos.

See also the SGT LLC website for more details: www.sgtllc.org

 

 

Widespread Internet Outage – 08/30/2020

Greg Greiner August 30, 2020 No Comments

An internet outage affected the electrical training ALLIANCE systems today, (8/30/20) as it did many other providers.  The issue was found to be with a third-party internet transit provider incident with Century Link that then cascaded to affect many other services.  This meant services like Cloudflare, Hulu, the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Feedly, Discord, and dozens of other services, like ours, reported connectivity problems Sunday morning.  Please see this post for more details.

We saw issues appear on our monitors with the LMS, TMS and the IC systems just after 6:30am EDT Sunday.  These issues were intermittent but began to stabilize fully just after 11am EDT.  A notice was posted to the login pages of all systems, as well as status on onlinesystemstatus.org.  These notices were pulled down following recovery of the programs.

We have a team continuing to monitor the situation and will post updates as needed. We know how important these services are and will continue as always to monitor and communicate regarding site access.

 

2020-2021 Latest Available Curriculum

Tonya Strickland July 13, 2020 No Comments

We promised that as new curriculum became available, we would let you know. Since April, we have made you aware of what is new, what is happening, and what is available through the blogs at the electrical training ALLIANCE. In April, we let you know that the 2020 Curriculum Catalog Planning Guide was available and how to download it. In June, we gave you insight into how to use the 2020 Curriculum and Planning Tools, and we updated you with the New LMS Courses that were Turned On. July 2, 2020, provided an even longer list with New 2020-21 Curriculum Updates. And today, for all Inside, Installer/Tech, and Residential training centers, the following courses are now available. (more…)

New 2020-2021 Curriculum Update

Tonya Strickland July 2, 2020 No Comments

Ladies and gentlemen, let’s get ready to order! It is July already, and now is the time to order the curriculum from the ’20-21 Training Essentials catalog. Our curriculum calendar year for ’20-21 began July 1st and continues to June 30th of ’21.  Since the June 22, 2020 blog was posted letting you know about new course availability, we are pleased to announce that even more courses are turned on and available for you.

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What’s in it for you – vNTI 2020 July 27th-31st

Greg Greiner June 24, 2020 No Comments

vNTI 2020 is fast approaching and you want to be sure to be left in.  There is much to offer to all those supporting the IBEW-NECA industry and training.  There are Committee, Technical and Instructor Professional Education training sessions available throughout the week [July 27th -July 31st].  There are just too many highlights to list them all, but here are a few for each group.  For a full list check out the event booklet here. https://bit.ly/vNTI_2020_InfoBooklet

Just a Handful of the Highlights:

The Committee Sessions:

  • State of the Apprenticeship with Executive Director Todd Stafford
  • The Apprentice Startup Challenge with ELECTRI
  • An Update with NECA and IBEW with NECA CEO David Long and IBEW International President Lonnie Stephenson
  • Safety Update including OSHA and ET&D with Palmer Hickman and Wes Wheeler
  • Many Legal Sessions covering topics like Substance Abuse Policy and EEOC Guidance on  COVID-19 Testing; ERISA and Potential Relief during COVID-19; Standards & EEO Policy Changes
  • A Roundtable with Milwaukee
  • And so much more

The Technical Sessions:

  • Updates to the NEC® and associated training content
  • Clarifications and communications on worker safety and the NFPA 70E®
  • Explanations from the authors on Grounding and Bonding and Code Calculations
  • Fundamental aspects of the LMS and curriculum planning tools like the CLCS

As well as interactive sessions planned regarding:

  • Conduit Level II Labs and Calculations in support of AC Theory Trig
  • The PLR and Instrumentation Desktop Trainers
  • Transformer Simulation use for the Inside and the Outside Simulator
  • The new Motor Control Simulator on what it is and how to use it
  • The Electrical Theory Simulator for use in training on AC and DC Theory

Instructor Professional Education Sessions:

The virtual NTI professional education and experience for the I Group (or Instructor Program) have single day sessions created for Instructors.

  • Monday is First Year,
  • Tuesday is Second Year
  • Wednesday is Third Year
  • Thursday is Fourth Year and Advanced Studies
  • Thursday is also for the Pre-I Group

Participants will enjoy interactive sessions with the Lead Instructors from each year focusing on:

  • Reconnecting with professional education topics and with peers
  • Reflecting on how previous skills have been successful or not
  • Reconsidering practices from both the Professional Educators and peer attendees
  • Reinvigoration for success on the next school year – no matter the challenges.

 

Please note that instructors will attend for the year they last completed; if you were in First Year in 2019 (or an earlier year), you should register for First Year in the vNTI 2020.  If you are a new instructor or new to NTI, there will be a Pre-I Group session on Thursday.  The Pre-I Group will meet with several Professional Educators who will offer them a tour of what NTI offers as well as providing insights into upcoming changes in the way apprenticeship training will be conducted.

 All I Group participants will have the option to register to attend Technical sessions on the other days.

Yep…There’s More! Because you attend you will also receive…

Some time-slots for each day have multiple sessions running concurrently.  To avoid concern of picking one thing and missing out on another.  All sessions will be recorded and reposted to the days event packaged course.  This means those who register will have access to everything presented that day.

Registration is just a click away.  To register access  https://electricaltrainingevents.org

  • If you do not remember your log-in information, simply go the site and click Sign In located in the top right corner. After that, select the Forgot Password link and enter your email address. An email will be sent to you with a link to reset your password.
  • For even more information visit our NTI website at http://nti.electricaltrainingevents.org

Can’t wait to see you at the vNTI!

 

Thanks for Reading!

#TP Tuesday Remote Learning Sessions Moving Forward

Marty Riesberg June 18, 2020 No Comments

We just wrapped up our 10th Training Partner Tuesday Remote Learning Session (TPTues RLS)! Thanks to each one of you who have participated. It has been our pleasure to assist during this time of social and physical distancing.

As summer approaches, we know this year looks much different than past ones. While many are opting for staycations over traveling, it seems most will be taking a break from classes for the summer.

You have spoken and we listened!! To that end, we are going to push pause on the TPTues RLS and come back to you live on Tuesday, September 8th. In the meantime, you will have access to all of the previous sessions on the LMS. You can find them by going here:

We are also working on a few other ideas for supplemental classroom material through the Training Partner Symposium Courses. Stay tuned for more information.

We continue to keep training at the forefront of our mission. It’s truly been our privilege to host these sessions and we look forward to jumping back in on September 8th.

Details will be coming your way in August through our memos, Blended Learning Blogs, and social media platforms.

Take good care!

2020 Curriculum and Planning Tools Are Ready

Greg Greiner June 8, 2020 No Comments

The 2020-21 electrical training ALLIANCE curriculum continues to roll out some new and exciting resources. First, the ’20-21 Training Essentials catalog was released in April, and made available for download by logging into the member’s area of our site. The ’20-21 student Syllabi, and the Course Level and Credit Summary (CLCS) Catalog and Roadmap view worksheets are also available… well…in the CLCS. Now as we near the July 1 date for the ’20-21 content use, many courses have been made available. (more…)