Yesterday I was watching a Snap story from one of the people I follow on Snapchat and he was in Arizona at Taliesin West, the site of America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright had his home and which is now a school of architecture. I’ve always been fascinated with architecture and at one stage […]
Lazy Sunday Afternoon
It’s warm. Sunny outside. Lying in bed for the last 5 or so hours, doing pretty much nothing at all. Daydreaming. Looking out to the tree outside the window. Leaves turning yellow. I sigh. Autumn and then winter is around the corner. In the other room, my husband is playing Simon & Garfunkel. I sing […]
Learning Through Making
On Friday, I headed over to my parents and walked into my father’s art studio to check out what he was up to. He had been watching YouTube videos on how to do book binding and was on a roll with creating these for himself. As an artist, he had a lot of loose leaf […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
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 […]





