Je vais utiliser ce blog pour ècrire ce que j’ai fait durant la semaine. Je vais dire ces paragraphes durant ou lors de mon cours l’Alliance Française ce lundi. Chaque semaine, j’ajouterai une nouvelle histoire. Je ne sais pas si ces phrases sont correctes, mais il faut se lancer! S’il vous plaît, dites-moi si ces paragraphes sont bien ècrits. Merci beaucoup. This week, BIG thank […]
Do You Share Testimonials?
Recently I was told something that made me sit up and scratch my head. I was told that there was a risk to my personal reputation if I presented public classes and if participants to these classes, took some issue over how I presented them, that they could write negative reviews online which would then […]
Qu’ai je fait durant le weekend?
Je vais utiliser ce blog à ecrire pour ècrire ce que j’ai fait sur durant le weekend. Je vais dire ces paragraphes à durant ou lors de mon cours d’Alliance Française ce lundi. Chaque semaine, j’ajouterai une autre encoure nouvelle histoire. Je ne sais pas si ces phrases ont sont raison correctes, mais il faut […]
What Did Ya Miss in January?
I thought I’d collate all the blog posts for the month into the one post because it’s a great way to see what has been missed – but also as I view the collated posts, I can get some indication on what I’m working, improving, challenging for the month. Here are the blog posts I […]
How to Use RSS Feeds
When I told some people about how I want to reduce my social media use and instead return to using my blog, they asked, “how will we find your blog if you’re not always on social media?” Well, I hate to say it but if you’re relying on social networks for you to find different […]
I Am Not a Cat
Last year, I experimented with Snapchat Camera on Microsoft Teams and it was a lot of fun. My boss Paul Woods has downloaded it on his desktop camera and naturally, I wanted in. You download the app onto your desktop and then you can add a variety of Snapchat filters and lenses to your camera […]
Time Waster Twitter
I hate to say this but I feel that my use of Twitter has its days numbered. Back in the day before Twitter became a vitriolic, free for all, I espoused that it was a place to build a personal learning network, to show and share your work, build a reputation around your expertise, build […]
Speakly – A New Language Learning App
I’ve been watching this YouTuber’s videos about language learning for over a year now. I stumbled upon his videos as there’s tons of polyglots out there on YouTube land all trying to outdo each other when it comes to learning multiple languages. I love his videos because he takes a genuine and authentic approach to […]
15 Years Married and Goulash
It’s hard to believe that on Thursday 4 February 2021, Andrew (@TigerTex1) celebrated our 15 year wedding anniversary. I’m incredibly thankful that I have found someone in my life who not only I love and adore but who is my best friend and confidante. We are very different to each other but we share same […]
When Do You Give Up Reading a Book?
For the last few years, I’ve been changing my reading habits to try and force myself to: Read widely Read fiction Read classics The reason I wanted to do this was that I was finding that I tended to be influenced by others in my network who were reading the same books which were usually […]
On Virtual Facilitation
Back in 2013, I was working for the National Australia Bank and part of the Digital Learning Team responsible for the rollout of skills programs in virtual facilitation, virtual meetings and Learning How to Learn Online for the entire bank. Our team designed and developed the suite of these courses (I remember those Facilitator Guides […]
Adopt & Embrace Microsoft Teams – A Live Read
I don’t know if you caught the live reading on the Adopt & Embrace YouTube channel on Friday where founder, (and my boss) Paul Woods (@paulwoods) read from the first chapter of our book Microsoft Teams: A Manager’s Guide to Communication, Collaboration and Co-ordination with Microsoft Teams. We wrote the book as a team, using […]
Tips on Seeking Feedback in Language Learning
For the last year, I’ve been trying to learn French. Last year, much of it spent housebound in lockdown and unable to go outside into the world, I had more time to focus on picking up a new language skill and devoting lots of hours towards it. This year with the Christmas break in-between, the […]
Spaces for Listening
Yesterday I attended Spaces for Listening which was an hour-long facilitated session with Meredith Lewis (@DangerousMere) on Zoom. If you don’t follow Meredith on Twitter, then you should do yourself a favour and do so because she is not only creative and clever but she has a calmness about her that always gets you opening […]
Reinvigorating My Blog…and My Life
So one of the things I’ve been doing recently is doing a massive revamp of this website. You can’t see what I’ve done as it’s all ‘behind the scenes’ as I cleaned up a whole heap of plugins and also fixed up the database which was corrupted which created no end of problems for me […]
How Your Brain Works
Recently Megan Strant (@meganstrant) and I were walking the Elwood Canals (you can see what they’re like in the video below – thank you Megan for making me aware of this walk which I didn’t know about!). She mentioned to me about the importance of morning routines that help us set our day and give […]
Learning with Lupin
So I’ve been watching this show on Netflix and it is thoroughly entertaining. I’ve not heard of the character before but that’s because I’m not French. You could consider him to be a French Sherlock Holmes I had no idea they were books which you can download and find on Gutenberg (thank you to Paulina […]
Notes on Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman
I recently read Rutger Bregaman’s book Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There. Here is my review of his book: We are currently living in the best period of life and we can construct a society now with the best ideas – that strangely, aren’t new ideas at all. His big ideas are […]
Notes on The Old Man & The Sea
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” – The Old Man & The Sea – Ernest Hemingway Sometimes when you pick a book out of your shelf without preparation, without knowing what the book is about, or knowing what to […]
Barefoot Bowls, Beers and Burgers and a Sense of Place
Last year during lockdown, we were unable to get out of a 5 kilometre radius from our home due to restrictions and curfews to prevent the spread of the virus. Having this restriction for some months made me realise a lot of things about the friendships and relationships I have with my local community, neighbours […]