Free Demo of VR Training Now Available!!

Learner with VR Headset

Attention all training directors! Are you seeking more information about virtual reality apprentice training? The Virtual Electrical Training (VET) Series 1 app is now available for training directors to use for free. This virtual training immerses apprentices into an interactive jobsite where they practice electrical installations in a safe environment. The learning content currently consists of 4 lessons on branch circuit wiring, while 7 additional conduit bending lessons will be released by the beginning of next year. The app’s scoring system reports directly to the ProTech Skills LMS.

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Training directors now have free access to try the VR training. Take advantage of the opportunity to try the training out for yourself!

To access the free lessons:

    1. Log into the ProTech Skills LMS from the TMS. Make sure to use a training director account.
    2. Navigate to “My Courses” at the top of the page.
    3. Select the VR Course titled Virtual Reality, Review.
    4. Review the privacy agreement document and accept the terms.
    5. Select the lesson you would like to try.
    6. Click “Enter”.
    7. Click “Get Started”.
    8. Review the 6-digit access code that appears. Keep this webpage open during your VR experience.
    9. Put on your headset, navigate to the app library, and open the VET app.
    10. Click the LMS code login button on the main menu.
    11. Enter the 6-digit access code from the LMS webpage, then click “sign in”.
    12. Click on your selected lesson and begin the lesson.

The training requires a Meta Quest 2 or Meta Quest 3 virtual reality headset to function. If you need a headset, contact IVRY Technologies at ivry-technologies@idealindustries.com to be shipped a demo headset for two weeks.

If you still need to download the VET app onto your headset, review the instructions below:

    1. Create a Meta account or login to your existing Meta account here on a computer: https://auth.meta.com/. The Meta account must be the same Meta account as the one on your headset.
    2. Download the VET Series 1 app by visiting this link: https://com/vet-1, and clicking the blue “Get” button.
    3. The app will automatically appear on your headset. In the headset’s app library, tap the VET app to download it to your headset.

More questions about the VR training? Contact ivry-technologies@idealindustries.com or schedule a virtual meeting with an IVRY team member at the link below.

https://ivrytechnologies.com/meet-with-us/

For more information on how to enroll your apprentices in the VR training, visit the link below.

https://resources.electricaltrainingalliance.org/vr-resources/

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What Works for Me

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

 

 

#TP Tuesday Remote Learning Sessions Moving Forward

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!

#TPTuesday Remote Learning Series Quizzes and Completion Certificates

After the popular question about how JATCs could determine if their students had watched the #TPTuesday Remote Learning Session webinars, the electrical training ALLIANCE recently completed the addition of both a quiz and a completion certificate to accompany each webinar.

Now you can simply have your students:

  1. View the webinar either live or later in the Training Partner Symposium course
  2. Take the quiz (gaining at least a 70% grade)
  3. Print/Download their own completion certificate as proof of completion.

Some have also asked for the ability to show licensing agencies the completion of the “course” in hopes of having the class count for continuing education credits (hours). For this reason, you will notice in the bottom right hand corner of the certificate is a code that is unique to each certificate. This is intended to help the licensing agencies feel more comfortable that the certificate was not in any way altered from the original and is specific to an individual.

Next Up?

Here is our list of scheduled webinars (at this point in time):

  • MAY 5 Klein
  • May 12 IDEAL
  • May 19 3M
  • May 26 ABB
  • Jun 2 Southwire
  • June 9 Fluke

 

 #TPTuesday Remote Learning Session FAQs

We are excited to let you know that we continue to schedule more Remote Learning Sessions from our much valued Training Partners. Be sure to check back here on the Blog, in the electrical training ALLIANCE newsletters, and each of our social media channels for more detailed information as it becomes available. Our social media handles can be found at the end of this post. As of now, and we will keep scheduling more, we have the following partners in line for the next few weeks. (more…)

#TPTuesday Remote Learning Sessions Rolling Along!

The inaugural presentation from Greenlee was a success by all accounts! But we certainly understand that some may not have been able to see this event live but have no fear it is available to anyone that wants to access it in the Training Partner Symposium course. (More information about the Symposium is available here.) Each week, the recording of the Remote Learning Session will be posted to the appropriate “lesson” in the TP Symposium Course. To find this course, click here.

 

 

We now move along to the next presenter in the #TPTuesday Remote Learning Sessions, Lutron.

For background information about the Remote Learning Session series click here.

Lutron Logo

Title: Meeting Energy Codes with Wireless Lighting Controls

Time: Tuesday April 21st @ 6 PM Eastern Time
Learning Objectives:

Students will learn the lighting control requirements of today’s major energy codes, an overview of a basic wireless lighting control system and how to design those components to meet energy code requirements.

Speaker: Micah Martin

Background:

Micah Martin has 10 years of field service experience, 5 of which are with Lutron. He has been working for Lutron for 8 years now, and for the past 3 years has been devoted to launching Lutron’s newest commercial wireless control system. The system is called Vive, and the simplicity of design and easy to use software has empowered Electrical Contractors to evolve from install-only contractors, to one-stop-shop installer, programmer, service providers. Micah has visited over 50 JATC’s on the East Coast and has provided dozens of classes on Vive to apprentices and Journeyman alike on how take advantage of this new technology to take better care of their customer’s needs, keep more labor local, and increase their per-installation profit margins..

Registration Information:

To register, please click here.

Webinar ID:

947-930-363

 

Please also join us on April 28th for a presentation from Milwaukee tool. You can register for this one here.

We are grateful to our training partners for their willingness to step in and assist. And, we are continually inspired by you and want to support you during this difficult time.

#TPTuesday Remote Learning Sessions

 

In adjusting to this season of unprecedented changes, your sacrifices, steadfastness and ability to “change on the fly” have been noted, appreciated and admired! We understand your struggles and would like to help.
As an extension of our Training Partner Tuesday social media effort (#TPTuesday), we would like to introduce Training Partner Tuesday Remote Learning. Our training partners have agreed to offer their expertise and are willing to teach through various webinars. These remote learning sessions will be designed as a collaborative series of webinars to be held each Tuesday, at 6PM Eastern, to augment teaching and training despite the current national circumstances.

Please note the following particulars:

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Electrical Supply Price Sheet

New Electrical Supply Price Sheet

created with the assistance of Platinum Level Training Partner Graybar.

Graybar

Lesson 3 in the Blueprints Level-II course titled “Understand Job Costs and How to Do an Actual Takeoff” allows for the opportunity for students to do a small take-off on a Residential job. This helps the students to get a feel for the work done by NECA contractors in securing work of the IBEW members who work for them. This is an eye-opening lesson for most students. (This price list is also used in the Residential Job Information 2, Level I, (Based on the 2017 and 2020 NEC) – Lesson 7.) (more…)

Practicing for Leadership: The Foreman Development Series

Practicing Leadership: The Foreman Development Series

The electrical training ALLIANCE is excited to announce the continuation of the leadership course topics within the Blended Learning System. At the beginning of 2018 the ALLIANCE released the Preparing for Leadership course, which is intended to be taught in apprenticeship and, as the name indicates, prepare students for the opportunity, after they become Journey-level workers, to lead (more…)

Mentoring Playbook

Over the course of many years programs have expressed interest in beginning a mentoring program in their JATC, but many have not done so due to the initial inertia required to get a program started. For this reason, as a service to the local JATCs, the electrical training ALLIANCE has created a Mentoring Playbook.

This Playbook is intended to assist you in creating and implementing a mentoring program in your JATC without the need to re-create the wheel. The resources in each “lesson” are intended to serve as a starting point for things such as a program announcement, mentor applications, and project timelines that may be modified to fit your local needs.

The idea of the Playbook came from an NTI “C” Group session in 2018. Since then the Playbook has been created and a number of pilot programs have already begun at JATCs. To hear more about the Playbook and how these pilot programs have fared, plan to attend another “C” Group session this NTI (time and location still TBD).