I am not sure whether I am a digital immigrant or digital native, having been born in 1975, I very quickly came into contact with the ZX81, I was just going to universoty when the internet was invented some twenty years ago. So today there are now many candidates who are enrolling on the Mountain Training UK qualifications who are very much a part of the internet revolution.
When I did my winter ML two years ago, I made my logbook with word, as I felt it looked better than the traditional MLT logbooks. This year as I was developing iCoach Climbing, I decided to automate and create an online version of the Mountain Leader Training Logbooks, and used my experience of working on training and assessment courses and the comments I have heard from various assessors to add top tips to the system to help guide candidates to fill in their logbooks with the information that those assessors are looking for.
These logbooks are now live on the site and offer anyone a free solution to storing their logbooks online. Whilst not part of the system at the moment I will probably eventually allow coaches, leaders and instructors to opt in to publish their logbooks as a form of online CV highlighting their experience.
For the time being there is only an export option which can easily be cut and pasted into a word document to create a highly professional logbook for training and assessment courses and include as part of application.
One way that I think the iCoach Coaching logbooks will help is to have the logbook available to the growing number of people who regularly use the web for facebook and other social media on a regualr basis. So your logbook won’t be filled away and need finding everytime you need to add to it but available 24/7 at the click of a mouse whether you have your own computer or a friends.
Below is a tutorial on the coaching logbook system. To use this you need to be a registered user. However there will never be a charge for the use of this feature, only the enhanced coaching features if you want to become a registered iCoach Coach, which allows you to view your clients training data, manage coaching groups and add routes to either individual clients or whole groups.