I haven’t written much in my blog about what I have been experiencing in lockdown and in all honesty, I have no idea why. When I think about it, I keep thinking that my Twitter feed is enough to tell you how frustrating it has been because it hasn’t been consistent. In the first lockdown, […]
Learning Power Automate
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of personal learning during lockdown in the following topics: Professional: Power Automate (as a starting point to understand flows and automations BEFORE I learn and build any Power Apps) Active Campaign (campaign marketing software that uses a lot of automations and in some way glad to learn Power Automate […]
Re-Assessment During Covid
This time of isolation and lockdown has been an eye opener where I have re-assessed a lot of things in my life. To be fair however, I think this re-assessment has been happening for quite a while for me, at least the last few years. The pandemic has simply confirmed my actions. Where in the […]
How Effective Are Newsletters as Personal Learning Resources?
A couple of days ago, Ramses Oudt @rroudt tweeted an excellent question on Twitter that generated a discussion concerning who writes newsletters focussed on learning how to learn. You can see the thread here which has some recommendations although I might add that many of them aren’t about tips, techniques and strategies for learning how […]
Learning Is a Mindset
This week I reflected on an event that made me feel very uncomfortable but in hindsight, my mind made it into a mountain than a molehill it was. I have been learning French for a while now and doing it in my own way through creating my own personal learning plan which I have blogged […]
My Top Ten Learning Tools for 2020
It’s that time again where it’s time to list our top 10 learning tools for the year and submit our responses to Jane Hart’s annual Top Learning Tools survey. Why not take the time to consider what tools you use on a daily basis to learn from and with and share your results too? I’ve […]
The Artist’s Way
Have you heard of “The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity” by Julia Cameron? The book was published many years ago in 1991 and was written for people who may have experienced a block in their creativity. It’s a 12-week program that enables the reader to rediscover their creativity and curiosity through reflection […]
What Would a Future Office Space Look Like?
This is a question that a few of my friends and colleagues have been asking. It’s a weird question to ask admittedly because I have been working from home for some years and cannot even contemplate ever going back to an office for the rest of my working life. The period of the pandemic thrust […]
Choose Your Own Adventure
Last night we sat down in front of the television with no plan other than to chill out. I had some knitting to do so I turned to my husband and asked, “Can we watch a movie?” I’ve been finding that sometimes I just want to watch a short movie that doesn’t require bingeing on […]
Couch to 5K
One of the activities I began during isolation when the world was cooped up in their homes was a daily morning walk – a long one at that for a full hour and many times, an hour and a half. Throughout this time, I continued to work three days a week so remote work was […]
Is 2020 over yet?
I feel it’s been ages since I have written here and I think it’s partly because I can’t wait until 2020 is finally over. We’re only in June and already I feel that it’s been a long drawn out year that has left me – and many others – feeling worse for wear. I keep […]
Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights – Book Notes
Why did I read this book? Gifted book Saw people talking about it on my Twitter timeline People rave about this book and wanted to see what the fuss was about. Initial Thoughts Entirely all story based from current and historical stories of advances in different fields from politics, history, medicine, police, finance. First story […]
Discover 2 Learn
In the early days of COVID when countries all around the world were going into lockdown, I was approached by Jane Hart (@C4LPT) who I have long since admired and respected in the field of learning to be part of her idea to create a website of curated learning activities for people in lockdown. This […]
Reflections on Personal Learning – Week of 10 May 2020
Beside my desk at home, I have a list of questions that were created by Kenneth Mikkelsen who wrote the post on The Best Leaders are Constant Learners. Every week, I glance over to it and make a mental note to use it as a means of self reflection for the week. After all, I […]
Reflections About Personal Learning This Week – 3 May 2020
Beside my desk at home, I have a list of questions that were created by Kenneth Mikkelsen who wrote the post on The Best Leaders are Constant Learners. Every week, I glance over to it and make a mental note to use it as a means of self reflection for the week. After all, I […]
Reflections about Personal Learning This Week – 26 April 2020
Beside my desk at home, I have a list of questions that were created by Kenneth Mikkelsen who wrote the post on The Best Leaders are the Best Learners. Every week, I glance over to it and make a mental note to use it as a means of self reflection for the week. After all, […]
Frequently Asked Questions I Get About Microsoft Teams
I was being asked similar questions about the use of Microsoft Teams for collaboration and remote working so I decided to collect all the questions and create a resource for answers in the Wakelet. I’m blown away with the massive response to this collection. Thank YOU! Sometimes you just never know if what you share […]
Creativity During Isolation
Despite this time being difficult for many, one of the things I have loved to watch online is the explosion of new people who are now sharing more than ever. Both on LinkedIn and Twitter, my timeline now is abundant with different voices with content that is being shared and retweeted of not just […]
Learning Microsoft Power Automate
One of the Microsoft products I wanted to learn more about was Power Automate which used to be called “Microsoft Flow”. It’s the equivalent of If This Then That or Zapier that allows for workflows to be automated. Sometimes I found myself doing repeated tasks online and I figured, why shouldn’t I just automate them […]