Here is this month’s snap stories of personal learning for March 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 my work and learning – and also to see my progress towards my goals. I […]
Working Out Loud in Week 9
I am part of a Working Out Loud Circle hosted by Simon Fogg (@srjf) and we are currently in week 9. A Working Out Loud circle is a 12-week program and developed by John Stepper (@johnstepper). Participants meet online every week and go through a set of different activities and tasks to help them achieve […]
The Wonder of Working with Creative Teams
I’m working on a fake news channel on Snapchat and here I put some reflections down on the value I’m receiving from being part of this creative team. The Wonder of Creating with Teams This blog post by Helen Blunden was written in Melbourne, Australia and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Never […]
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 […]
This Month’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning January 2018
Here is this month’s (not a week which is usually the case) snap stories of personal learning for January 2018. Rather than do it weekly, this month, I decided to place them all into one post only and in future, I’m thinking to “storify” these (well, the Storify app is not available anymore but I […]
Working Out Loud Circle
I am part of my first ever Working Out Loud Circle this year hosted by Simon Fogg. It may be a surprise to many people that I have not been a member of a circle however, I have read John Stepper’s excellent book of the same name Working Out Loud along with sharing my work […]
What Business Can Learn From Fake News
What happens when a group of people who have never met in real life, create a fake news channel that inspires people around the world? The idea came from content creator, Cameron Murray (@CammySutra6) from Glasgow who, tired of the fake news and influencers in social media content marketing took matters in his own hands to create […]
Social Learning – It’s Not What You Think
A couple of weeks back I was invited by Brenden Carter, Creative Director and General Manager of Learning Hook to be a guest on their podcast. The invite was immediately accepted. I have known Brenden for many years and we even worked together for a while. I have the highest respect for his work because he’s […]
My Modern Professional Learning Kit
Jane Hart recently shared a blog post on the tools of a Modern Professional Learner ToolKit and I thought I’d share my own too. Trusted Web Resources My trusted web resources are my Professional Learning Network (PLN) on Twitter as my first action. Many times, I know the person I need to speak to and […]
Mind Map My Business
This weekend I decided to mind map my business. I had a couple of wonderful conversations with some peers who inspired me through their outlook and approach to work which aligned to my own personal values which made me question my approach to who I wanted to work for and with. For some time now, […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 20 November 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 20 November 2017 Monday 20 November 2017 Today I give an introduction to myself and then talk about the great project I’ve been involved with on a global collaboration with some others on Snapchat to create a fake news channel called CNT and thinking about […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 13 November 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 13 November 2017 – It’s WORK OUT LOUD WEEK! Monday 13 November 2017 Today I talk about moderating the Fishbowl Event on Learning Technologies and how I’m preparing for it. I talk about multitasking on Facebook, talk about undertaking an assessment on purpose and values […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 30 October 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 30 October 2017. Monday 30 October 2017 Today I share a full introduction on what I do and undertaking a coaching session with a client on how to use a mobile phone to create videos. Tuesday 31 October 2017 I complain about our slow internet […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of Monday 23 October 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 16 October 2017. Tuesday 24 October 2017 Today I go through the Learning Maturity report and am aghast at the lack of commentary and research around social learning. I talk about the MOOC I finished on Modern Workplace Empowerment, a visit to Facebook Offices in […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 16 October 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 16 October 2017. Monday 16 October 2017 Today I ponder whether I should buy a lighting kit for my videos. I was so inspired by Justine Leconte’s fashion videos and how simple and easy they are that I thought I could start doing those – until […]
Co-Working at the City of Glen Eira
I had the wonderful opportunity of being selected by the City of Glen Eira, my local council, to trial out a pop-up co-working space that they hosted at their premises in Caulfield. A small group of 8 local consultants and business owners were invited to be part of this Connection Economy Pilot. The council is […]
Making the Messy Unmessy – Experimenting with Mind Maps
I had the pleasure of meeting a long time member of my personal learning network, Sahana Chattopadhyay at LearnTech Asia in Singapore last week. I was always a fan of her wonderful blogs because she had the knack for pulling together different concepts by various people who wrote about digital transformation, future of work and […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 2 October 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 2 October 2017. Monday 2 October 2017 Today I share a bit about myself and how I help people build and create personal learning strategies. I talk about how all learning is personal and methinks I will need to recustomise this video and share it […]
Chatbots in Learning
Recently I had my first experience of chatbots in learning. Note: If you can’t be bothered reading all this, scroll down to the bottom of the post and watch my video instead. I had been curious about these little critters (not exactly a critter but how could you deny that this little robot on the […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 11 September 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 11 September 2017. Tuesday 12 September 2017 Today I share my process for how I am planning and preparing my presentation on Curation in Learning for LearnTech Asia 2017 in Singapore in November. I talk about how I used Mind Meister to create a mind […]