On Saturday 15 June I attended the Rotary District Governor Changeover night to welcome in the new District Governor of our Rotary District 9810 (which covers the south eastern and surrounds of Greater Melbourne). Recently I resigned (hopefully, temporarily) from Rotary as my workload was too great and I felt that I couldn’t give it […]
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EduTech 2013 – A Curated Montage
EduTech 2013 was held in the city Australians affectionately call, “Bris-Vegas” because frankly, it’s absolutely nothing like the other exciting city in the US. However, with a major educational technology conference at the Convention Centre, we could have been mistaken. I don’t know what possessed me NOT to carry my laptop to the EduTech Conference. […]
#OCTEL Week 6 Timely and Effective Assessment
I feel as if I’ve been a bit late with this week’s assignment but also a part of me saw that it was about assessment and I’d be lying if I said I was happy about it. I know that assessment and feedback is critical in our field but in my experience in the corporate […]
Is Learning and Development Really Dying?
I’ve been reading many articles and blog posts that have an urgency about them regarding the impending death of Learning and Development function in corporate organisations. Admittedly when I read these, my heart races a little faster. I have this anxiety to catch up with the latest theories and tools in the field so that […]
Learning Design in Australia: Is It Mature Enough?
On Thursday 23 May at 12 -1:00 pm (AEST) I have been invited to be on the panel of a Learning Cafe webinar titled, “Learning Design in Australia: Is It Mature Enough?” The panel will explore various questions such as: What is the current Learning Design approach and process used in your organisation ? Have […]
Week 3: Designing Active Learning for #OCTEL
What was the last time you learned anything? I’d say I’m actually learning ALL THE TIME and to keep a track of it, I write monthly blog posts where I write down what I learned that month and how I have applied it to my work. You can read what I learned last month. This […]
Social Learning in Business
Mid last year, I registered for the ‘Gold Package’ on the Social Learning Centre, UK to undertake all their courses. That registration was “worth it weight in gold” (pardon the pun) in my professional and personal development in the last year. Certainly I have mentioned them in this blog many times so it goes to […]
Social Learning Gets the Guernsey at Team Day
As the last two weeks of my current contract draws to a close, I’m trying to wrap things up and hand over the last bits and pieces to my colleagues. After 15 months as an instructional designer on this major transformation project, I’m leaving with a tinge of sadness. But this role has defined me […]
Designing Learning in the Digital Age – Reflections Of the Day
The following post is a collection of notes and thoughts taken at the Designing Learning in the Digital Age workshop. ***************************************************************************** What do we mean by disruptive? Clayton M. Christensen, “Disrupting Class” mentions that we need education to be rebuilt. A. The Changing Learning Agenda: From formal to informal Mass to personalised learning Competitive to […]
One Day in the Life of Me…
One of the assignments of the “Social Learning in Business” workshop run by the Social Learning Centre is to keep a journal reflecting on my day or two. Rather than scribble it down on a notepad, I’ll write my thoughts on my blog here. (In some parts of the world, this day hasn’t happened yet […]
What I Learned in February
February has been a busy month for me. Hectic actually. Besides the client work, I explored other contracts (inside and outside of my current organisation), as well as continued my professional development through various MOOCs and the Social Learning Centre UK. What I’ve noticed is I prefer my learning to have some immediate application to […]
#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 […]
The Move from Face-to-Face to Online Learning
Lately there’s been a real push at work to consider alternatives to delivering facilitator-led programs into online formats. There’s various reasons for doing so but the main ones are to make our content accessible to our interstate colleagues. Another reason is that an impending move to new building does not guarantee that we’ll have our […]
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: […]
Is Story Telling a Dying Art?
I love listening to stories. In life, you’re either a story teller or you’re not. Some people have the gift of the gab but I’m not one of them. Unfortunately, that talent is not in my kit bag but I wish it was. So instead, I happily listen to others recount their stories and try […]
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 […]
The Downhill Run to Christmas
November is a funny time for me at work. Not funny as in ha ha – but funny is in ‘strange limbo time’. To say that 2013 was an utterly hectic, busy and ever-changing year is an understatement. This year, in this contract alone, I have experienced more emotional ups-and-downs, uncertainty, tension and anxieties than […]
Flexi Desking Kerfuffles…
Today’s significant adventure at work was the move to get everyone to flexi-desk. I recall a few years back that it was impossible to obtain permission to work from home. It was treated with suspicion, colleagues would glare at your audacity for even asking and there was always some snide comment from someone, “sure, yeah […]