Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 2 October 2017. Monday 2 October 2017 Today I share a bit about myself and how I help people build and create personal learning strategies. I talk about how all learning is personal and methinks I will need to recustomise this video and share it […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 9 October 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 9 October 2017. Monday 9 October 2017 Today I wrote a blog post from a draft since 2013 called What Do I Suck At. At the time of writing this blog post, I didn’t feel ready to share the outcomes of this little experiment I […]
What Do I Suck At?
I am going through all my DRAFT posts that are sitting on my WordPress site that have long gone unpublished and I came across this one that was written in 2013. At the time, it made such an impact but I was too fearful to publish it but now that I read it again, I’ve […]
Ticking Off The Dreams List
I’m someone who likes to curate various blog posts and insert links, posts, graphics etc into them in WordPress but I may not hit the Publish button. So there’s a steady collection (and building) of DRAFT blog posts. This morning while doing my monthly clean up of the back end of WordPress, updating plugins, checking […]
Work Book Clubs As Social Learning Experiences
I’m putting it out there. I don’t understand people who say that they never read books – or even worse, “never have time to read a book”. They may as well say that they don’t value their own growth and personal development. The easiest way to learn something new and incorporate it into our lives […]
Chatbots in Learning
Recently I had my first experience of chatbots in learning. Note: If you can’t be bothered reading all this, scroll down to the bottom of the post and watch my video instead. I had been curious about these little critters (not exactly a critter but how could you deny that this little robot on the […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 25 September 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 25 September 2017. Monday 25 September 2017 Today I talked about Link Rot which was a new concept I had discovered in my research for my curation presentation. I go through my process for how I plan my presentation and redo my mind map opting […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 18 September 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 18 September 2017. Monday 18 September 2017 Today while waiting for a family member to have a day operation in hospital, I decided to work out from the hospital cafe to prevent me driving back and forth from home. On the hospital walls, they had […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 11 September 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 11 September 2017. Tuesday 12 September 2017 Today I share my process for how I am planning and preparing my presentation on Curation in Learning for LearnTech Asia 2017 in Singapore in November. I talk about how I used Mind Meister to create a mind […]
Curator Panics Over Link Rot
For the last week, I’ve been working on my presentation on Curation for Learning for LearnTech Asia and had a panic attack. I hyperventilated slightly that had me reaching for my ventalin. While I was away last week, I had been thinking how I could plan and prepare for this presentation so that it was […]
Time Out for a Week
I decided to take some time out for a week to not sweat the small stuff. Recently I have been anxious about the fluctuating nature of my work and how I’ve been spending a lot of time not only thinking about this but also creating various different content such as e-books, resources, presentations and workshops […]
What I Learned at VidCon
Now that I’ve had some time to sit and think, I’d like to share what I learned at VidCon. For those of you who don’t know, VidCon is the world’s largest conference for YouTubers and vloggers or as their website says, “For People Who Love Online Video”. I heard about VidCon through some people I follow on Snapchat. […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 28 August 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 28 August 2017. Monday 28 August 2017 I started the week out with experimenting with my remote clicker. I was pulling together some of the equipment that I was going to take with me to the conference later this week and wanted to experiment with a […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 4 September 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 4 September 2017. Monday 4 September 2017 Today I talk about my work as a learning consultant and how it’s important to be continually learning. I take on a serious look and deliver this snap story without much fan fare that is my usual manner. I […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 21 August 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 21 August 2017. Monday 21 August 2017 Today I met with Ai Zhang who is a Public Relations professor and who I admire for her passion and enthusiasm in sharing her love of pedagogy using social media. We used Facebook Messenger to meet online as I […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 14 August 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 14 August 2017. Wednesday 16 August 2017 It was a relatively quiet week this week where I just took time to rest and relax. I do have my days where I cannot face the computer or write out blogs, create vlogs or do much at […]
Using Social Media As Work & Learning Portfolios
I’m a great fan of social media and love to explore their functions and applications. In particular, using social media as work and learning portfolios. Apart from sharing aspects of your day to your friends and family, social media can be also used to: Build a network Show and share our work Engage in online […]
The Mechanics Institutes
I’m no stranger to libraries. In fact, one of my delights is to check out different libraries in my local area and become a member. While some people accrue credit cards, I seem to have an increasing collection of plastic library cards that I like to fan out like a deck of cards to unsuspecting […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 7 August
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 7 August 2017. Monday 7 August 2017 In this personal learning snapstory, I was inspired by the story of Rachmaninov, a Russian composer whose first symphony was a public flop. The result was that he then went into depression for four years because he felt […]
Changing the Learning and Development DNA
Changing the Learning and Development DNA was a great theme for this year’s Learning and Development Unconference. I have been attending this event in Melbourne for the last few years. Hosted and coordinated by LearningCafe, a “community of forward thinking learning professionals interested in frank discussions about current issues and trends in learning, performance and knowledge […]