I’ve been having a lot of fun with Digital Storytelling this week because it’s allowed me to be a bit more creative. Last Sunday I took a road trip to Lorne, a seaside town on Victoria’s surf coast. I used it as an opportunity to take some photos but when the #etmooc activity was related […]
True Stories of Openness – The Challenge is On
This is a first. Not only will it be the shortest post I have written in my blog – but there are two video podcasts! Alan Levine (@cogdog) wants our stories about how sharing on the web has helped our lives. He wants to know what happened to you when you shared something on the […]
#etmooc What I Learned in January
Warning – Long Blog Post – go make yourself a cup of tea… This is going to be one of my monthly posts to cover off on various professional development activities I’m have started, in progress or completed. Before you ask, “how do you squeeze it all in?” let me just say that I seem […]
How Do You Make Your Learning Visible? #etmooc
I recently completed the Professional Learning Portfolio workshop through the Social Learning Centre. Split into two components, the first phase covered: An introduction to learning portfolios Learning portfolio tools and platforms – institutional and personal The basics of a professional learning portfolio Setting up your own professional learning portfolio The second phase covered the following: […]
A Little Bit About Ourselves – Our First Activity on #etmooc
Our first assignment for #etmooc was posted today and we have to write an introductory post about ourselves and why we are doing the course. So here goes…don’t laugh. And no, don’t ask me to talk about Westham or the Tigers. I have decided to do a short presentation of photo and audio snippets followed […]
And It Begins….#ETMOOC
Tomorrow I will start the long anticipated Educational Technology MOOC #etmooc (my first ever cMOOC). The course was designed and developed by Professor Alec Couros and his merry band of contributors. I’m quite excited to be involved in this MOOC. My only experience of MOOCs is completing an xMOOC on Gamification by Coursera and I […]
2012 – A Year In Review
Lately it seems that many bloggers are writing their last posts for the year and invariably, they’re called, “A Year in Review”. Who am I not to jump on the bandwagon? I’ve summarised my best posts for the year below but I’m going to start from April 2012 as prior to that, all I seemed […]
New Ways of Looking at Old Methods
Last week at our fortnightly Learning and Development team meeting – the last one for the year, we had one of the more robust team discussion we’ve had in many months. The aim of our meetings are to update what everyone is working on and as we are a relatively new team, to communicate what […]
What I Learned in December
I’ve decided to write a blog post every month on what I learned for that month so welcome to the first installment. The idea came about recently during one of my nights of insomnia when the brilliant blog posts swirl around in my head only to have the words abruptly halt when I’m in front of […]
I’m a MOOC Dropout and…not so Proud
I had the best intentions. Truly, I did. When I first heard about MOOCs, the concept intrigued me so I decided to register for the Coursera Gamification course. Imagine my excitement starting a course with thousands of others around the world. I made a commitment that no matter how hard it was, I was going to stick […]
eLearning Conference – Converge 2012 – Friday 23 November 2012
To Infinity and Beyond [Michelle Lomman, Ian Rorke from Chisholm Institute] This presentation was about an initiative set up to create a community aimed to take the fear out of eLearning. The problem: There was a body of educators reluctant to engage in the online environment. The first thoughts were: “The first thing we had […]
eLearning Conference – Converge 2012 – Thursday 22 November 2012
Thursday 22 November 2013 Sorry got to figure out how to get my mug shot off every page on WordPress site….must be annoying for the reader (just ignore my photo on the right). Here are my notes taken from the Converge eLearning Conference Day 1. Please excuse the brevity of the notes but I’m not […]
What does L&D Need to Succeed in the 21st Century?
Last night I hurried back home from my weekly Thursday knit group to hear Donald Taylor (@DonaldHTaylor) talk about a topic near and dear to my heart. “What does L&D Need to Succeed in the 21st Century?” I’ve been in L&D for over 23 years but I have noticed that it’s only been in the […]
eLearning Conference – Converge 2012
It took a while to decide but I finally bit the bullet – I registered for Converge 2012. Of course this means that some of my nephews and nieces will go without Christmas presents but my professional development comes first 😉 (Okay okay, you know I’m only kidding). With these conferences, when you look through […]
Social Media for Professional Development
Recently I completed another workshop from Jane Hart’s Social Learning Centre called ‘Social Media for Professional Development’. As an avid user of social media for some years now, I was interested to do this workshop because there’s always something new you can pick up from the materials or participants experiences. The workshop delved straight into […]
Take Control of Your Own Professional Development
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reflection lately over my professional life and overall, I have been quite lucky to have been given lots of experiences across a wide range of industries. It’s made me the person I am today but now in my early 40s, I sit and think, “what’s next on […]
Personal Knowledge Management Workshop through Social Learning Centre UK
In September, I participated in the PKM Personal Knowledge Management Workshop through the Social Learning Centre, UK. On the site above, it defined Personal Knowledge Management as a “set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world & work more effectively.” The online workshop was moderated by Harold Jarche who provided […]
4 Things I Learned at LearnX
Read the LearnX story by clicking on the Storify icon. This year has been a massive personal learning journey for me. I have decided that my ‘old world’ thinking in learning and development is not serving its purpose anymore and I need to step out of my comfort zone of the learning and development field […]
Game On! Learning About Gamification on a MOOC
Some time ago I attended a Personal Learning Conference in Melbourne that was conducted jointly through Deakin University and the University of Aveiro Portugal. I was the “odd man out” being the only one from corporate attending a conference in a sea of academics – but I didn’t mind. In fact, that conference turned out […]
Reflections of TedX 2012 Future Leadership Event in Melbourne
I’m glad to say that I’m not a Ted virgin anymore. Sometimes I think that I’m “behind the 8-ball” with a lot of things – I simply don’t jump on the bandwagon with everyone else. I’m the one who watches other people jump over each other to get onboard that wagon, watch it squeak past me and if the wheels or people dont […]