This week we had our People Day. Over 400 people across Australia in the Human Resource function travelled to Melbourne to gather and hear our Leadership Team talk about the challenges of the future and how we can work together to face them. Although I will not go into detail here about what was covered, […]
Week 2 of Exploring Personal Learning Networks To Help Me in My Job
This second week of the Exploring Personal Learning Networks cMOOC was about defining Personal Learning Networks – and let me just say, there were LOTS of definitions. So much so that in all honesty, it confused me because I was getting bogged down in the details trying to grapple with everyone’s definitions, explanations and reflections. […]
Our First Meet Up with Third Place
All products mentioned in this post are not endorsements, nor are they paying me to say so! I was looking forward to last Thursday night. It was going to be the first meet up for a new Meetup group for Melbourne learning professionals. As an introvert, organising something like this is a big deal for […]
Random Thoughts on a Wednesday Night – Passion And The Workplace
For those who know me, know I don’t sit still. My mind is always ticking over with something, making plans, organising something or experimenting with some new app or software. Even quiet times at work you’ll find me reading articles, commenting in blogs, participating in tweet chats, doing MOOCs, listening to TED talks, podcasts or […]
Exploring Our Personal Learning Networks
I think I found my new cMOOC hit. After Educational Technology MOOC #etmooc, I searched high and low for a connectivist MOOC that could give me the same ‘highs’ as I had experienced with this one. I was looking for a MOOC where I could apply what I learned to my work immediately, but also […]
Third Place in Company & Conversation – A Place Where the PLN Gathers
This year will go down in my professional life as “The Year I Met my Online Personal Learning Network and Lived to Tell the Tale (Ad Nauseum)”. On average, every month I have met at least two people from my wider personal learning network whose connections I made through Twitter, LinkedIn or Yammer. I would […]
What I Learned in September: What’s the Point of Sharing, Really?
In a way, I’m glad that this month is nearly over as I learned about myself. There were happy times, angry times, frustration and elation. The highlights of the month was attending the LearnX Conference in Sydney with two colleagues as it was an opportunity to meet others in Learning and Development in Australia, but […]
What Did I Learn Today?
This morning I saw a tweet from @MattGuyan who had forwarded a tweet from Nick Leffler (@technkl) about promoting “What did You Learn Today?“ #lrntoday I thought, “why not!?” What a great way to be mindful of what I do in a day and take note of what I learn at various moments of the […]
Week 1 of How To Teach Online MOOC – Everyone’s a Teacher…
It’s a tenuous time at work as we await the announcement of repoints to roles so the MOOC work outside of work hours has been providing me with the mental stimulation I need. This week marked the end of the first week of the How To Teach Online cMOOC. Reading some of the blog posts, […]
From Paper to Pad – iPad Caricatures
What do you think? Does this look like me?? At LearnX, B Online Learning had asked Kumar, a caricaturist to come along and draw caricatures of delegates attending the conference. “We go to conferences and get little take aways, knick knacks but we wanted something a bit more memorable and something that you can […]
LearnX 2013 – Best Bespoke Custom Learning Environment at Telecom New Zealand
Agents@Home project helped establish agents working from home model and presentedby Bridgette Dalzell who is Head of Alternative Resourcing & Learning at Telecom NZ. Effectively, they had to create a virtual workplace and learning environment for agents who would never see the office environment! Telecom NZ partnered with Inspire Group to create this program. Challenges […]
LearnX Day 2 My New Source of Truth Dynamic Video Solutions
Bobby Sharma, Training Specialist from Commonwealth Bank talked about Dynamic Video Solutions and how they implemented it into the bank in particularly around business projects. The CBA has 52000 employees with a domestic and international presence. The Dynamic Video Solution (DVS) was brought in as a meansto train wide dispersed group of contractors who need […]
LearnX 2013 Strategies for Applying the Flipped Classroom Model
Bob Lee and Jim Recker spoke on the Strategies for the Flipped Classroom Model for Business Learning at LearnX through a live online event on Go To Meeting so that we could see it in action…(although they did mention it was ironic that they were lecturing to us via this medium….) “Business learning has replicated […]
LearnX 2013 Strategies for Applying the Flipped Classroom Model
Bob Lee and Jim Recker spoke on the Strategies for the Flipped Classroom Model for Business Learning at LearnX through a live online event on Go To Meeting so that we could see it in action…(although they did mention it was ironic that they were lecturing to us via this medium….) “Business learning has replicated […]
LearnX 2013
It’s not everyday that you get the opportunity to go to a learning conference with your colleagues. I jumped at the chance when I was asked as they were going to receive an award for the best accessible eLearn course at LearnX. As it was in Sydney, a city I don’t like to visit often, […]
Possibilities Are Endless in a Networked World
It’s 4:50 am on the morning of the Australian elections. While our current Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his contender, Tony Abbott are probably up at the same time anxious about today’s result, I have been tossing and turning in bed thinking about other things. Namely Jane Hart’s (@C4LPT) Social Workplace Continuum. Now why would I […]
Week 0: How to Teach Online – the new MOOC on the block
After a nice long holiday, it didn’t take long for me to get back into work and into an organisational restructure. However despite all that, life goes on. Despite turbulent times in Learning and Development, it’s a good time to continue learning and do a MOOC or three. (a) Teaching with Moodle (started on 2 […]
Sometimes You Just Need to Meet Your PLN Face-to-Face
I’m back! Did you miss me? After a 5 week holiday with my husband @TigerTex1 we are now back home, over the jet lag and begrudgingly settled into our routine of work and home. We did a Trafalgar guided tour of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland. We saw beautiful countryside and rugged coastlines. […]
All Quiet on the Blog Front
It’s going to be a bit quiet here for a while – well, not until Monday 12 August when I will happily report a Learning and Development tweet-up from London -so standby for some photos too. I’m excited to meet up with my Twitter L&D peeps next month in person! (That’ll be my Twitter story […]
Show Your Work: Twitter for Professional Development Live Online Events
Some time ago, I ran a couple of sessions of Twitter for Professional Development to my Learning and Development colleagues in my current workplace. The aim was to share how I use Twitter to grow and connect with a personal learning network and to learn new trends happening in our profession. The sessions were conducted […]