Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning (that is, what I’m learning and how it applies to work). I use Snapchat as my Working Out Loud tool that captures my thoughts and reflections during the day in a chronological order. I also use it as a channel to inform, educate and inspire others […]
Curiosity in Learning
I’ve been thinking about curiosity in learning lately. In particular, why it is that I can become obsessed with some subject matter and not others. You may have seen my latest obsession with maritime history focussed on the Royal Navy between the years 1787-1790. That’s pretty specific, isn’t it? It’s like I have some crazy […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 26 June 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning. It’s been an incredible week learning about Australian maritime history, Convict Settlement, Podcasting, Personal Productivity and how different cultures use Social Media. Monday 26 June 2017 First day of a new week and it’s all systems go. In today’s snapstory, I look like something the cat dragged […]
The Enigma Around Social Learning
I’m convinced that there’s an enigma around social learning. Recently I presented at the eLearning Instructional Designer’s Meetup and I had a massive realisation. Learning and Development don’t really understand what social learning is and the business doesn’t care much about it. It was confirmed by a quick survey I created and disseminated on Yammer […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 19 June 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning. Monday 19 June 2017 On Monday 19 June I decided to snap about CollabTechFest a collaboration conference focussed on enterprise social networks. Of course, I wasn’t there (sometimes attending conferences can be very expensive so I limit my attendance preferring cheaper alternatives – namely connecting with […]
A New Personal Productivity Planner
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been trialling out a new Personal Productivity planner and I’m scratching my head about it. In all honesty, I’m not entirely convinced that it’s the best way to manage all projects and tasks…but I could be wrong, it’s still early days yet. How Did I Start This New Method? […]
Melbourne Learning Summit
Yesterday I attended the Melbourne Learning Summit. It’s a meetup group for Melbourne based Learning and Development professionals that are hosted by the group members for the group members. The topic of the summit was “Building a Learning Culture”. I found out about this group recently through an ex-colleague in the organisation, IAG I finished […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 12 June 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning (and what I’ve been working on) for the week starting Monday 12 June 2017. Monday 12 June 2017 Well, it was the Queen’s Birthday public holiday. Usually, on weekends and holidays, I don’t snap. Just as well because they’d be really boring. They’d be of me […]
What’s Marketing Got to Do With Learning?
Yesterday I had the honour being the invited guest on Social Chefs, a social media marketing show hosted by Christian Karasiewicz (@ckroks) and Nick Rishwain (@NickJRishwain). Now you might be asking what has this got to do with learning and development? I was asking the same thing initially so after checking out some of their […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 5 June 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning week of 5th June. Monday 5 June 2017 Today is the start of International Work Out Loud Week. I talk about what is working out loud and why we need it as well as talk about my curation course. Tuesday 6 June 2017 The night before I […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 29 May 2017
Here is a rundown of this week’s snap stories of Personal Learning Week of 29 May 2017. Monday 29 May 2017 On this day, I talk about how I like to play with the various Snapchat filters as well as talk about the Vincent Van Gough exhibition I attended over the weekend. I surmise that […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 22 May 2017
So here is a run down of what I was working on and learning in the week of 22 May. Monday 22 May 2017 I was reading a book that was recently published by an ex-McKinsey consultant called the Mosaic Principle which talked about neogeneralism. In this video, I share a bit about what neogeneralism […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 15 May 2017
Monday 15 May 2017 After Portugal’s win in Eurovision, I start my week with the winning song and then quickly delve into the research that I have been doing on Snapchat. I have been reading some academic papers on how this tool is being used as some background for an upcoming presentation to vocational educators […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of Monday 8 May 2017
I’ve been consistently snapping various educational pieces on Snapchat however, the same cannot be said for what I forget to save at the end of the day. I must get better at remembering to SAVE my videos at the end of the day or else they disappear after 24 hours and just like that, they’re […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 1st May 2017
This week I continue my snap stories of personal learning and reflections on Snapchat. Wednesday 3 May 2017 Today is all about Work Out Loud Wednesday and I talk about a presentation I did for my colleagues on Digital Curation. I was asked to present a short session with the team on content curation. I […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 24 April 2017
So I continue to share my thoughts and reflections on this week’s snap stories. Monday 24 April 2017 The day before we commemorate our Servicemen and women who have fought in the wars, I briefly mention my own service days. Wednesday 26 April 2017 Today I talk about how I pitched an idea at work […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of Monday 17 April 2017
So I continue to collate my thoughts and reflections on this week’s snap stories. Tuesday 18 April 2017 Today I talk about who I am and what I do and explain in full what working out loud is. I talk about Sarah Stahl, a digital marketer who is doing a 25 day learning out loud […]
Have You Tried Facebook Live Yet?
Have you tried Facebook Live yet? For those who don’t know, Facebook Live is a live-streaming application that sits within Facebook and to date, the only people who are actively talking about it or promoting it in any way are social media marketers. The rest of us haven’t decided whether it’s something that we would […]
Documenting, Not Creating
This morning I watched Gary Vaynerchuck’s 2016 video called Documenting Not Creating. That video and conversations with Sarah Stahl and seeing what she is doing with her 25 Day Learning Journey on Facebook Live and LinkedIn and some other people across social networks, seemed to meld a few things that were swirling in my head. For […]
My Top 10 Learning Tools for 2017
So here’s the thing. After Zuckerberg’s announcement today at F8 Developer Conference, I reckon that in say, ooh, maybe 2020 the way he’s going, he’s going to be everything to everyone and there may not be the Top 10 Learning Tools anymore…. It may just be the Top 1 (and Only) Learning Tool which will […]