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3 February 2019 by activatelearning

What I Learned from Running OneNote Training

  Thread by @ActivateLearn: “I’ve been running Training these last couple of days (and will be doing again today) for a client’s organisation and their employee […]” #OneNote Never Miss a Blog – Subscribe to Receive a Monthly Email Email Address First Name Last Name

Filed Under: Musings, Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2019, February, February 2019, Microsoft, OneNote, Threadreader, Twitter

3 February 2019 by activatelearning

What Being Part of a Fake News Channel Has Taught Me

Every week, our team @cammysutra6 @NickJRishwain @ChelseaPeitz @desherb @JoAnnKrall @Baierman @DCPlateKing create fake news show @CNTnewschannel I play Aussie Foreign Correspondent Sharon (Dont Call Me Shazza) Breaknews. This week I report on Venezuelan crisis from my roof. pic.twitter.com/8U7jj1I2YX — Helen Blunden (@ActivateLearn) February 2, 2019 Being part of this creative team of peers taught me […]

Filed Under: Instagram, Musings, Vlogging Tagged With: 2019, CNT Newschannel, Fake News, February, Shazza Breaknews, Twitter, Video

2 March 2018 by activatelearning

This Month’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning February 2018

Here is this month’s snap stories of personal learning for February 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day and it’s a great way to capture all your work and learning – and also to see your progress towards your goals. I […]

Filed Under: Vlogging, Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2018, AITD, Amy Burvall, Bookswap, CNT, Creative Melbourne, Creativity, Docklands, Docklands Library, February, February 201, LearningNow TV, Personal Learning Network Workshop, PLN, Podcasting, Shazza Breaknews, Snapchat, Twitter for Professional Development, Vlogging, Walkshops, webinar, WOL, Working Out Loud, Workshops

10 February 2018 by activatelearning

Social Learning Is Personal

Ever since late last year, I’ve been revisiting my old work, blog posts, and references sitting in Evernote folders to do with connectivism and came up with the thought that, “social learning IS personal”. Let me explain. For the last few years, working as an independent consultant has been challenging to say the least. It necessitated […]

Filed Under: Social Learning Tagged With: 2018, February, February 2018, Personal Learning, social learning

24 February 2017 by activatelearning

This Week’s Snapstories About Personal Learning

I started to use Snapchat again after a long break over January as I was doing a lot of soul-searching about my independent consulting career and instead focussed on “slow reading” to get my mind on other things.  (My definition of this is blocking out 5-6 hours in the day to read without any distractions).  […]

Filed Under: Musings, Vlogging, Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2017, February, February 2017, Snapchat, Snapstories

20 February 2017 by activatelearning

Visit to Knowledge Market

Today I organised a co-working day at Knowledge Market which is a community space situated in the Docklands in Melbourne.  It was another event as part of the social networking group that I created called Third Place. Co-working with #3PlaceMelb at the #knowledgeMarket in #Docklands https://t.co/rBdJqTxqT9. Great space check it out! pic.twitter.com/E4OmiR503U — Helen Blunden […]

Filed Under: Third Place Tagged With: 2017, Community, February, February 2017, Knowledge Market, Third Place

6 February 2017 by activatelearning Leave a Comment

Inspire Learning in the Workplace

This article was published in the Modern Workplace Learning Magazine on 2 February 2017 to inspire learning in the workplace. I don’t know about you but it’s rare that any mandated traditional training inspires me anymore. Whether it’s completing annual compliance e-learning programs sitting on an LMS or being told by a manager that I […]

Filed Under: Learning and Development, Social Learning Tagged With: 2017, February, February 2017, Learning

6 February 2017 by activatelearning Leave a Comment

4 Myths of Social Learning

This article was published on 27 January 2017 in the Modern Workplace Learning Magazine. Social Learning In the last couple of years, I have spoken to many corporate Learning and Development practitioners about how they may support and enable opportunities for their workforce to learn collaboratively with each other in and during the flow of their […]

Filed Under: Social Learning Tagged With: 2017, February, February 2017, Myths, social learning

1 February 2017 by activatelearning Leave a Comment

What on Earth is Block Chain?

I have an admission to make. I have no idea what is blockchain and bitcoin but there seems to be a lot of people on the internet who do. Or maybe many people who think they do. I’ll be the first to put up my hand and yell from the top of the data centres […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 2017, Blockchain, February, February 2017

5 March 2016 by activatelearning Leave a Comment

Change Without Fear

Can you change without fear? It seems like I’ve been doing a lot of fighting…and I’m tired. Last week I attended the Bayside Business Breakfast.  The Bayside Council runs various business networking events for small business owners. These vary from after work ‘meet and mingle’ events, business book club, workshops, seminars and a popular breakfasts […]

Filed Under: Conferences, Musings, Professional Development, Working Out Loud (Work Narration) Tagged With: 2016, change, February, February 2016

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