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Books, Books and More Books
Ever since I was a young girl, I loved to read. My parents used to say that I carried a book everywhere. This hasn’t changed but rather than carry a book, I carry a library. Having all your books on one device is both a blessing and a nightmare. Confronted with so many choices to read, […]
Social Learning. Whatever THAT Means!?
Some time ago at a learning conference I was eating my lunch, happy with the knowledge that I had secured a comfortable lounge seat so that I didn’t have to stand to eat. One of the participants came over to me and we started a conversation. She heard my presentation on how to use Twitter […]
Hanging Out in Google…As You Do…
This morning at work, I grabbed my laptop and dashed downstairs to the ground floor. To others, it’s an escape out of the building. For me, it’s where the free WiFi is so that’s where you’ll find me. We have a bank branch downstairs that has free wifi around its direct vicinity. I’m sure they’ve […]
My New Look Website!
Noticed anything different? Activate Learning Solutions has a new look. I deliberated long and hard about creating a new website. I explored the pros and cons; calculated costs; read the risks but in the end what won was that people were getting to know me as….ActivateLearn. So I had to ditch the temporary living arrangement […]
I Love an A-Ha Moment
This week I had the opportunity to present at the Learn@Work Conference at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney. I recall the conference organiser asking me “what will you talk about?” when he called me up to invite me to speak. At the time, I couldn’t think straight because the office was noisy. The first […]
Learn@Work Conference
Rather than write a blog post I’m being lazy), I thought I’d Storify the tweets and include my reflections within them…. Day 1: Monday 11 November 2013 Day 2: Tuesday 12 November 2013
Reflections of Exploring Personal Learning Networks MOOC
Five weeks ago, I started the Exploring Personal Learning Networks cMOOC with enthusiasm and expectation. Jeff Merrell (@JeffMerrell) and I had organised to meet via Google Hangout to have a chat about this but of course, our firewall prevented that from happening as it was during work hours. Instead, we talked via teleconference and I […]
Becoming a Digital Leader
Yesterday I attended a Becoming a Digital Leader workshop at the Old Treasury Building. It was a pilot program developed by Leadership Victoria with Cynthia Mahoney from Cynthia Mahoney Associates and its objectives were: To explain the potential impact of digital media in driving change and achieving objectives in the workplace and the community Explore […]
How To Pitch The Value of Personal Learning Networks to a CEO – Wise or Folly?
After four weeks of participating in the Exploring Personal Learning Networks cMOOC, it has come to this. Our pitch to the CEO on the value of personal learning networks. In fact, through the various readings, discussion and activities of the previous three weeks, we have been building up to this point to undertake the following […]
One Small Step for Us, One Large Step for our Team
This week we had our People Day. Over 400 people across Australia in the Human Resource function travelled to Melbourne to gather and hear our Leadership Team talk about the challenges of the future and how we can work together to face them. Although I will not go into detail here about what was covered, […]
Week 2 of Exploring Personal Learning Networks To Help Me in My Job
This second week of the Exploring Personal Learning Networks cMOOC was about defining Personal Learning Networks – and let me just say, there were LOTS of definitions. So much so that in all honesty, it confused me because I was getting bogged down in the details trying to grapple with everyone’s definitions, explanations and reflections. […]
Random Thoughts on a Wednesday Night – Passion And The Workplace
For those who know me, know I don’t sit still. My mind is always ticking over with something, making plans, organising something or experimenting with some new app or software. Even quiet times at work you’ll find me reading articles, commenting in blogs, participating in tweet chats, doing MOOCs, listening to TED talks, podcasts or […]
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 […]
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 […]
What I Learned in September: What’s the Point of Sharing, Really?
In a way, I’m glad that this month is nearly over as I learned about myself. There were happy times, angry times, frustration and elation. The highlights of the month was attending the LearnX Conference in Sydney with two colleagues as it was an opportunity to meet others in Learning and Development in Australia, but […]
What Did I Learn Today?
This morning I saw a tweet from @MattGuyan who had forwarded a tweet from Nick Leffler (@technkl) about promoting “What did You Learn Today?“ #lrntoday I thought, “why not!?” What a great way to be mindful of what I do in a day and take note of what I learn at various moments of the […]
Week 1 of How To Teach Online MOOC – Everyone’s a Teacher…
It’s a tenuous time at work as we await the announcement of repoints to roles so the MOOC work outside of work hours has been providing me with the mental stimulation I need. This week marked the end of the first week of the How To Teach Online cMOOC. Reading some of the blog posts, […]
From Paper to Pad – iPad Caricatures
What do you think? Does this look like me?? At LearnX, B Online Learning had asked Kumar, a caricaturist to come along and draw caricatures of delegates attending the conference. “We go to conferences and get little take aways, knick knacks but we wanted something a bit more memorable and something that you can […]
LearnX Day 2 My New Source of Truth Dynamic Video Solutions
Bobby Sharma, Training Specialist from Commonwealth Bank talked about Dynamic Video Solutions and how they implemented it into the bank in particularly around business projects. The CBA has 52000 employees with a domestic and international presence. The Dynamic Video Solution (DVS) was brought in as a meansto train wide dispersed group of contractors who need […]