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 […]
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What I Learned In April
I cannot believe how quickly the months go by this year but in all honesty, I’m secretly thankful for it as it brings me closer to our overseas holiday! This month has been a bumper learning month for me. I started a new role with the Virtual Learning team that saw me help, assist and […]
Week 2: Understanding Learners Needs
This week in #OCTEL, it was all about the learners – but I wasn’t so sure. With a background in learning and development, understanding learner needs is not new to me. I’ve done many needs analyses in my life so it comes part and parcel when designing any course but my thinking was focussed on […]
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 […]
Week 1: Introduction to #ocTEL
Just because I’m a sucker for punishment, I joined another 10 week cMOOC called Octel: The Open Course in Technology. (Actually, methinks I was on such a high with the Educational Technology MOOC #ETMOOC which recently finished that I just wanted to recreate that ‘buzz’ again). David Hopkin’s writes more about this course here. As […]
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 […]
What I Learned in March
Where did this month go? I don’t know about you but does it feel like the months zip by? Some of you may know that I’m on the Michelle Bridges 12 week Body Transformation Program. Michelle Bridges is an Australian personal trainer and marketing guru who has transformed health and lifestyle in Australia. She is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
My Top 10 Tools for Learning
Everyone’s eagerly awaiting for Jane Hart from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies to publish her Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 (see 2011’s list here) and voting will close soon. I stumbled upon this list and the heavens opened, the bright light shone down and illuminated my darkened mind for the first time. This was exactly […]
Game On! Learning About Gamification on a MOOC
Some time ago I attended a Personal Learning Conference in Melbourne that was conducted jointly through Deakin University and the University of Aveiro Portugal. I was the “odd man out” being the only one from corporate attending a conference in a sea of academics – but I didn’t mind. In fact, that conference turned out […]
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 […]
Book Review: The New Social Learning by Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham
Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before. Last week, I overheard a colleague say that she saw a post on Yammer regarding a customer service situation that occured in the company. She communicated this to the Change and Communications team sitting near her and queried […]