The last few weeks have been busy as the silly season wound down and the focus was to get back to work and look forward to 2015. I’ve been mindful that I haven’t been blogging as frequently and instead, my time being taken up with client work, catching up with reading of articles on the […]
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My Top Posts for 2014
There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same […]
How to Use Social Tools To Create Learning Experiences
Last week I delivered a webinar for a public service organisation who requested a presentation to their Learning and Development teams on how to use social tools to create learning experiences. I think it went well. (At least, I hope it did! The organiser did say that the attendees were madly scribbling notes and I did get […]
How to Wrangle WordPress – Learning Out Loud
I’m always a bit anxious when I get onto my WordPress site to do some maintenance. Why? There’s a morbid fear that when I press, “Update Plugin” that I will lose the content of my blog. Years of writing, reflections and photos gone at the single click of a button. However, there’s a paradox to […]
Learning a New Skill – Ukulele Dreaming…
On Friday night I made an impulse buy at JB Hi Fi. I joke to my husband that every time we walk into this store, Australia’s leading retailer of music, video, home theatre, communication and computer gadgetry, their share price goes up. Every time we leave the store empty-handed, the share price goes down. So […]
How to Build Your Peer Learning Network When You “Don’t Have Time”
I had a coffee with my friend Rebekah yesterday. Rebekah is an e-learning designer for veterinary educators and we met through Twitter. On the few occasions we caught up at a local cafe, our passions for social media for learning and development were evident. Our ideas tumbled out of us as we grappled with possibilities on how […]
Exploring Our Personal Learning Networks
I think I found my new cMOOC hit. After Educational Technology MOOC #etmooc, I searched high and low for a connectivist MOOC that could give me the same ‘highs’ as I had experienced with this one. I was looking for a MOOC where I could apply what I learned to my work immediately, but also […]
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 […]
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 […]
Week 4: Producing Effective and Engaging Learning Materials #OCTEL
This week was an interesting #OCTEL activity week that opened my eyes to some resources that I had otherwise not known about and which I could immediately apply to my workplace. The first activity was irrelevant for me as we had to look for a resource banks in the following sites and basically have a […]
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 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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
What We Can Learn from Craft Networks: Social Learning in Action
Last weekend, a small group of eight ladies from one of my Craft groups (I’m a member of two) hired out a beautiful house called The Retreat in Woodend, a delightful country town. Even though we meet weekly to share our knowledge and expertise in our respective crafts, we have these getaways to leave our […]
Personal Knowledge Management Workshop through Social Learning Centre UK
In September, I participated in the PKM Personal Knowledge Management Workshop through the Social Learning Centre, UK. On the site above, it defined Personal Knowledge Management as a “set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world & work more effectively.” The online workshop was moderated by Harold Jarche who provided […]
Different Perspectives of Learning by all the Players
This year has been an immense journey of personal and professional development for me. Coupled with a challenging project environment which saw me part of a Learning and Development team of 11 people on a cultural transformation program that had to rapidly develop learning solutions within serious time constraints, we were put through an organisational restructure. The […]
What I Learned about Social Learning came from….Knitters
Many of us have interests and hobbies that make us use our hands and inspire creativity and satisfaction from having made something from scratch. Whether it’s cooking, woodwork or painting, there’s a feeling that cannot be replicated by any office job. For me, it’s knitting. I’ve been knitting for over 35 years having started the […]
Personal Learning Environment (PLE) Conference 2012
On Thursday 12 July and Friday 13 July I attended the PLE Conference held at the Deakin Business Centre in Melbourne. It was a collaboration between Deakin University and University of Aveiro in Portugal. I had stumbled upon PLEs through a Twitter stream that piqued my curiosity and after a bit of research realised that […]