Many people have asked me what I have been doing now that I’m out of the corporate world and smack bang into the freelance consulting world. It’s now been four weeks out of a 9 to 5 job and the best thing about my new lifestyle is that I don’t have the dreaded commute every morning battling […]
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Does Learning & Working Out Loud Help Graduates?
Well I guess we’ll find out soon enough…. Last week I had the pleasure of presenting to our graduates on Yammer. I was asked by the Graduate Committee to run a virtual classroom for our graduates to encourage their use of Yammer. The committee wanted graduates to learn how to use the tool so that they had a way […]
How to Cycle in Puerto Rico when You’re Not There & It’s 6 Years Ago
Many may not know (well you do now), that I’ve been blogging since 2005 about various things unrelated to learning, work or performance on my Ramblings blog. In fact, Ramblings was more of a movie and book review site, with lots of knitting and travel stories, posts about Demis Roussos, Greek politics, cat gifs and a […]
My Reflections of the Australian Institute of Training Development National Conference
Last week I travelled north up to Sydney to attend the Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD) National Conference at the Australian Technology Park. I hadn’t planned to attend the conference but when an invitation from eLearning Provocateur Ryan Tracey landed in my inbox asking me to be a member of one of the panel sessions, […]
From Contractor to Consultant
Three weeks into my reduced hour work week (3 days) and all I can exclaim is, “What just happened?!” I now work in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays on my current contract until it ends in June. Meanwhile Wednesdays and Thursdays are at home reserved for my consulting work with Activate Learning Solutions. […]
Serendipitous Connections Lead You To a Better World
It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks since my last post. I think that I should scribble notes into my note pad every time I have an engaging and mentally stimulating encounter with people so I don’t forget what we talked about. Even better, I wish I could bottle their passion, enthusiasm and explosion of […]
From Employee to Contractor to Free Agent to Who Knows What…
I’ve been quiet on the internet this weekend for a deliberate reason. I needed to get back some time to myself. I needed to switch off the noise and sit back and reflect on my life and my next steps. Let me add, I did get a lot of work done in the garden and […]
Third Place Community
Third Place is a social networking and co-working community of people who are interested in all forms of learning and who come from a variety of industries and sectors. It doesn’t matter if you’re a student, a freelancer, contractor, or employee of any company, small or large, there is always a place for you to join […]
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 […]
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 […]
Can You Make Your Learning Connect? Week 1 of #CLMOOC
I don’t know and that’s just what I’m about to find out. Thanks to my Google+ and Twitter pal, Gerardine Rudolphy who alerted me to this cMOOC called Making Learning Connected. “Making Learning Connected (#clmooc) is a collaborative, knowledge-building and sharing experience open to anyone who’s interested in making, creativity and learning. Over six weeks we will play […]
A Corporate Mini-MOOC on Digital Literacy Skills…An Idea Growing in My Head
For a while now, I’ve been teasing out an idea in my mind about rolling out a mini-MOOC in our organisation. After reading Ignatia de Waard’s eBook MOOC Yourself , watching the Google Hangout with Jay Cross and Dave Cormier and completing various MOOCs, I thought that it was high time to start applying this in the corporate […]
Week 1: Drilling Into TEL Concepts and Approaches for #OCTEL
This week’s entry on reflections of Technology and Learning Concepts and Approaches for the OCTEL MOOC have been interesting. In particular one video about how dentists are trained to drill a tooth through the use of sophisticated simulations. I hate going to the dentist at the best of times. When I’m in the chair, my […]
The Face-to-Face Course Has Renewed Hope But In Disguise
Or does it? Last week I attended a facilitator-led workshop. It was one of the worst training experiences I’ve had in a long time. I also didn’t like how my post was overly critical of the workshop. I realise that there are many vendors in the market who are experts in their content and who […]
My Experience of a Face-to-Face Course After So Many Years – The Hope has Faded
Today I attended my “first ever in years”, face-to-face workshop with an actual external facilitator! I thought it was worthy to tweet first thing this morning while sipping my coffee… Things like this don’t come up often in Learning and Development but in the words of a colleague in the training room today, “I’ll take […]
How to Promote Twitter for Professional Development to Your Colleagues and Other Stuff
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged and I’ve missed it. Now that my husband is out in town at the Linkin Park and Stone Sour concert, it was an opportune time to sit at my computer and finally get my thoughts down. I haven’t had time to reflect much on my work recently as […]
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 […]
Coaching Framework To Be Rolled Out Across Organisation
For previous story see here. Today I visited the corporate headquarters of the company I work for to discuss my new coaching framework. I had developed a ‘specialist coaching’ framework and a blended learning program that gives subject matter experts to skills to transfer learning on-the-job without the need for any classroom training. I came […]
When Learners Fly the Coop
For the last few months I have been working with a business team in my company responsible for their cross-specialisation as part of a cultural transformation change initiative. When I first started working with them, the team only had two subject matter experts who had been in the organisation for some years and knew all […]