Ever since late last year, I’ve been revisiting my old work, blog posts, and references sitting in Evernote folders to do with connectivism and came up with the thought that, “social learning IS personal”. Let me explain. For the last few years, working as an independent consultant has been challenging to say the least. It necessitated […]
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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 […]
My Learning and Development Plan for 2018
After reading Simon Fogg’s blog post on all his learning and development plans for 2018, I started to think what my plans could be. I’m usually someone who plans everything – sometimes it’s not expressly written on paper or recorded online but it’s a mental note where I keep tabs on what it is I […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 18 December 2017
Here is this week’s snap stories of personal learning for the week of 18 December 2017. Monday 18 December 2017 Today I talk about a post I wrote called You Are Not a Thought Leader and how it got many people talking about it on LinkedIn and Twitter. I also do a bit of baking of […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 4 & 11 December 2017
Here is this week’s snap stories of personal learning for the week of 4 December 2017. Monday 4 December 2017 Today it was all about talking about modern workplace learning and introducting the work that I do as a learning and development consultant. Thursday 7 December 2017 Today I talk about Chelsea Peitz new book […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 27 November 2017
Here is this week’s snap stories of personal learning for the week of 27 November 2017. Monday 27 November 2017 Today it was all about my obsession with mindmaps. I woke up early one day and decided to mind map my entire business, products and services. Getting it down on paper and then MindMeister (the […]
What I Learned This Year
This morning I listened to the Good Practice podcast “What I Learned This Year” and it got me thinking about what I learned and decided to share my reflections here. Lesson 1: Knowing More About What I’m Willing to Stand For and Put Up With Working on your own is hard work and not for […]
An Experiment with Social Media
I’m doing an experiment with social media. Over the last few months, I’ve been getting overwhelmed again thinking about the new year and how to get more leads for work. I’m not going to lie, when you work for yourself, it’s SO tough. I’ve had days when I couldn’t get out of bed because it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Personal Reflections from LearnTech Asia
I’ve just returned from LearnTech Asia, the inaugural learning technology conference and expo in Singapore and decided to write some personal reflections. Let me tell you that my mind was a muddle so this is my attempt at getting things in some order. Before the Conference Initially, when I was asked by Conference Chair, Donald Taylor […]
Ticking Off The Dreams List
I’m someone who likes to curate various blog posts and insert links, posts, graphics etc into them in WordPress but I may not hit the Publish button. So there’s a steady collection (and building) of DRAFT blog posts. This morning while doing my monthly clean up of the back end of WordPress, updating plugins, checking […]
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 […]
Curator Panics Over Link Rot
For the last week, I’ve been working on my presentation on Curation for Learning for LearnTech Asia and had a panic attack. I hyperventilated slightly that had me reaching for my ventalin. While I was away last week, I had been thinking how I could plan and prepare for this presentation so that it was […]
What I Learned at VidCon
Now that I’ve had some time to sit and think, I’d like to share what I learned at VidCon. For those of you who don’t know, VidCon is the world’s largest conference for YouTubers and vloggers or as their website says, “For People Who Love Online Video”. I heard about VidCon through some people I follow on Snapchat. […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 28 August 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 28 August 2017. Monday 28 August 2017 I started the week out with experimenting with my remote clicker. I was pulling together some of the equipment that I was going to take with me to the conference later this week and wanted to experiment with a […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 4 September 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 4 September 2017. Monday 4 September 2017 Today I talk about my work as a learning consultant and how it’s important to be continually learning. I take on a serious look and deliver this snap story without much fan fare that is my usual manner. I […]