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 […]
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Studying Children in Kindergarten
Last week I started another MOOC and in all honesty, between this #etmooc, #edcmooc, full-time job and family commitments, I’m struggling to squeeze it all in. However, true to my nature I do the best that I can and from what I’ve learned from MOOCs already is that, “don’t let them overwhelm you!” What has been […]
#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 […]
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 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 […]
Can Someone Turn Off Email, Please?
(I’m not endorsing any product mentioned here today – purely my own views) My usual Sunday morning routine is to get up nice and early, make myself a cup of tea and a bowl of cereal and then sit quietly at the dining room table surfing through my tweets on my iPhone. This morning I […]
Trials and Tribulations with the Overhead Projector
I’m enjoying reading Donald Clark’s Plan B blog where he covers various instructional tools over the years. Last night, I read his post on, “Overhead Projectors: The Trapezoid of Boredom” and a flood of wonderful memories of my early days in Learning and Development. I had a love/hate relationship with these babies. The grey, heavy […]
A Turbulent Mind
Lately I’ve had a turbulent mind. At the LearnX Conference a few weeks ago, it was described as being in ‘hyper-attention’ but I believe that this not the right definition for my state. Wikipedia describes hyper attention as a “cognitive style due to a generational shift in youngsters, therefore, having a short attention span, needing […]
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 […]
Alert! Not all Gen Y’s are Social Media Experts
Last Wednesday night I was invited to speak to a District Rotaract meeting. Rotaract is a not-for-profit service community affiliated with Rotary for 18-30 year olds. Many years ago, I was a member of the Canberra South Rotaract Club and I remember that time fondly because I made friends in a town away from home, […]
Acting like a Director for a Day
Today was an interesting day. I packed my trusty tripod and my JVC video camera and made my way into work. It was going to be a day where I was going to film subject matter experts talk about their area of expertise to create a podcast for learning purposes. Prior to the session, I […]
Social Media Day Saturday 30 June 2012
Last weekend on Saturday 30 June, in about 481 cities around the world Social Media Day was celebrated. I partook in this “little” event and attended my first ever, Unconference. I really didn’t know what to expect as I parked the car in a tiny side street behind Richmond station and walked a short walk […]
Is There any Agility in ADDIE?
I’m currently working as a member of the Learning and Development team in a transformational project in a major corporate in Australia. It is the first time that I have been involved to deliver learning solutions for a business project as my main experience has been with rolling out enterprise wide learning solutions without the […]
Personal Development in a Technology Restricted Workplace
Over the last couple of years, one of my own personal development goals was to explore and use a blend of technologies that could be implemented into learning programs that I design and develop for my corporate clients. I’ve been lucky to be one of these people who have been in the learning and development field […]