Hello From DOWN UNDER - DAY 01

Wow. We made it. It was a very long flight.

We got here in the morning and walked around quite a bit.

I saw a little something out of the corner of my eye and Peter discovered one of the most beautiful alleys I have ever seen filled with graffiti art.

Safari Greetings

Peter, his mother and our daughter, Lillian have been gone to Africa for almost two weeks. They will be coming home soon.

We wanted to send them a little a taste of home and our adventures here. Lucy has been doing a lot of "Ninja Training" and wanted to show off her skills.

We also wanted to send a special greeting to them for when the return from the Safari. We are so excited they will be home soon!! We sure have missed them.

ASTD Awards

I am delighted to share with you that Alphachimp Studio received an award last night from the ASTD (American Society of Training and Development) Middle Tennessee Chapter for Technology.

We were nominated by one of our students, Erin Evans. Peter and I were truly blown away that we won and took the stage with our Rockstar Scribe sign and hula hoop to "perform" our acceptance speech.

(Thanks to Hooprama who taught our entire team how to hula hoop last week.)

It was just one year ago that we thought, "Why don't make an online course?"

Within six months, we launched "How to Become a Rockstar Scribe at School or Work!" Then in October, we began our second course "That Creative Space." We have had over 250 students from around the world sign up and take our classes.

In 2012, we are busy preparing more Creative Learning Systems around the topics of parenting, creativity and visual modeling.

I want to send our a huge THANK YOU to Erin and all you ROCKSTARS, and the entire Alphachimp Team who supports our creative online learning curriculum - Meg, Pat, Perrin, Daniel, Morton, Clay, Marc, Heather, Launa, Becky, Diana, Rachael & Rachael (yes there are two of them) and most of all Peter and our daughters Lillian & Lucy!

Rock On!

Diane

Preparing For ASTD Awards

Peter and I were nominated by a Rockstar Student for the Golden Torch Awards for the ASTD Middle Tennessee Chapter.

Here are some of shots of us getting ready for the "Red Carpet" Affair.

Rock On!

Diane

Picking out a Dress by sending Photos to my "Fashion Advisor".

(Every Rockstar needs at least two - Thanks Allison & Perrin)

The invitation said "Red Carpet"...what does that mean? We are in Nashville.

All Dressed Up and Somewhere to go... The ASTD - Golden Torch Awards

Hubba. Hubba.

A lesson we were taught many years ago by Matt & Gail Taylor

Find the "And"

Alphachimp Team Building Session

Alphachimp Studio has seen a lot of growth this last year. Our small agile core team of four has more than doubled to ten Alphachimps! We now have three service lines with three different project managers and are growing at a rapid rate and even eyeing the studio next door already after having outgrown our last space in just six months.

So last week we called in all the Chimps to Nashville Tennessee for our first "All Hands" meeting. Can you believe over 50% of our team members had never even met each other in person?

Over a day and half we dreamed, designed and played as a team to build amazing plans for 2012!

Here are some pics from the day together!

Rock On!

Diane

Ramping Up for Module 01

We are working hard in the Studio this week scheduling calls and talking to all the
students who have registered for Alphachimp University's first course,

"How to Become a Rockstar Scribe at School or Work."

Thank you for all the great response!!

In preparation for the launch, we are taking input from the answers we have heard from you and processing them with a real-time workshop we are hosting in our studio for some local students.

We started our morning with a great "Welcome Wall" created by Lillian, age 7.

Here are four new students to Alphachimp University and their first assignment.
(And yes, one student is our very own daughter Lillian.)

Below are the drawings they made for their first exercise.




Lillian did research to create a visual to share with her team members
about what she learned about Ed Emberley.

After debriefing their lessons, they begin to write a summary of their lesson.



You still have time to sign up for

"How to Become a Rockstar Scribe at School or Work"

and save $200!!

www.learntoscribe.com

Thank You Neuland!!

We are getting ready for the launch of Alphahcimp Univesity's first course, "How to Become a Rockstar Scribe at School or Work". As part of our launch we are ordered five sets of Neuland Markers to give away.

We then asked if they would be willing to send us anything for our launch to give to our students. As a result of their generosity, we have an entire Neuland product area of gifts ready for our second course that will be launching this Summer...

Neuland offers a complete range of seminar and training materials – from high-quality markers to pinboards. All Neuland products are designed, manufactured and continuously improved at their own factory premises.

Their product know-how makes them one of the leading educational material suppliers in Germany.

I hope to make them a huge supplier to the WORLD!! Their products are AMAZING!!!

Check them out!!

http://www.neuland-world.com