The Minnesota Wild hockey organization completed their 2009-2010 season but not without BRAVO! In case you didn't know, C3 SoftWorks' BRAVO! Quiz Show game was played between periods of their hockey games at the Xcel Energy Center. 

"Jon and I would like to thank you for both the outstanding customer service you provided us yesterday and for so generously and quickly sending us the BRAVO! Software. Jon held a little training session for his fellow teachers at the Area 1 Inside Electrical JATC in Portland, Oregon yesterday evening to demonstrate the program and it’s incredible versatility. The instructors are impressed and motivated to use this new tool in their curriculum. Thanks again for courteous, patient, and valuable technical support: You were a pleasure to work with and we are very favorably impressed with your service.”
J.C. Electric, Inc.

This is a mid-week roundup devoted to the top 5 links for trainers! (practical ideas, tips, tricks and more).

Some links are newsworthy and others just meet our “greatness” requirement, but regardless we hope you’ll enjoy them. Without further delay:

http://www.brainfriendlytrainer.com
http://thiagi.com/games.html
http://www.trainerswarehouse.com/links.asp
http://www.articles911.com/Training/Games_Icebreakers_Activities
http://training-games.info/IceBreaker_Training%20Games.php

Let us give you link love! Send your links to info@c3softworks.com

Handpicked by,
Corriea (@c3softworks.com)

• Writing Easy to Read Questions
• FREE Gameboard Intro Templates
• Trainer’s Resource of the week: Free raining Games by Thiagi
• Testimonial of the week 

Writing Easy to Read Questions posted on 12:08 PM by C3 SoftWorks

There are a lot of good resources out there on how to write good questions. In this section, we will talk about how you can best use BRAVO! and provide some suggestions on ways you can use questions more effectively in your game. 

Free Gameboard Intro Templates posted on 11:30 AM by C3 SoftWorks

We’ve made it easy for you to add a personal touch to your game shows with these FREE ready-made BRAVO! Extras! These templates are free for Windows & Macintosh users. 

Trainer’s Resource of the week: Free Training Games by Thiagiposted on 1:09 PM by C3 SoftWorks

Looking for freebies? Workshops by Thiagi has a collection of over 200 ready-to-use games and activated for trainers! 

C3 SoftWorks Testimonial of the week posted on 1:29 PM by C3 SoftWorks

"I produced the first draft game this morning on IS-700 NIMS review. (BRAVO!) is great product - easy to use and just begs for you to make another training. After NIMS we'll move on to START/MCIs and WMD/Hazmat/ clandestine lab awareness. Great tool – and easy to work with!"

David , Woodford County Fire & EMS Read more testimonials... 

"I produced the first draft game this morning on IS-700 NIMS review. (BRAVO!) is great product - easy to use and just begs for you to make another training. After NIMS we'll move on to START/MCIs and WMD/Hazmat/ clandestine lab awareness. Great tool – and easy to work with!"

David , Woodford County Fire & EMS

Read more testimonials...

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9 Training Tips on using games to teach

People agree games are a great way to review a topic, but what about using games to deliver your core educational principals? Absolutely! Here are some tips to accomplish this.

1. Define your objective. Make a list of the key teaching points you want to cover.
2. Create questions based on your key points.
3. Be creative. Questions do not specifically have to cover a topic, they can be used simply as a stepping stone to what you want to teach or review.
4. Remember, your key objective is to teach a topic, you are using “fun” to help you achieve your primary objective which is educational.
5. Use a game that allows the use of summary points that will allow you to review content after each question.
6. Slow down the game. Your objective is different than a TV game show. Theirs is to entertain, yours is to educate. On a TV game show in a 30 minute period they may play 3-4 rounds. In the classroom it may take 45 minutes of longer for one game.
7. Read each question prior to answering.
8. Your main concern should be more on the content delivery than who wins or looses. The game simply is a different medium to deliver your material.
9. Games do not always have to be long. A short game of 4-6 questions, can be a great way to review the key points of a talk or use as a warm up for a presentation.


Need More? You can find more tips here on our Training Game Tips Page

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Free Gameboard Intro Templates

We’ve made it easy for you to add a personal touch to your game shows with these FREE ready-made BRAVO! Extras! These templates are free for Windows & Macintosh users.

Photoshop Intro Gameboard Templates 3 Intro templates you can edit in Adobe Photoshop.

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VIDEO TUTORIAL:

Click the link below to watch a quick video tutorial on how you can use our free templates in your games: http://www.c3softworks.com/videos/gametemplateintrovideo/PSD_MQS.html