It’s that time of the year again to submit for Jane Hart’s Top Tools for Learning. I’ve been doing this every year since 2012 she created this annual program which has now become a record of how the tools for my personal learning have changed over the years. This year has been a complete flip […]
Curated Tidbits for The Week
Lines and Symmetry: The Death of Jean-Louis Trintingnant This week, well known French actor Jean-Louis Trintingnant passed away at 91 years of age. He was the topic of our French conversation group so I had to quickly look into his work only to realise that he was in classics such as 1950 And God Created […]
Curated Tidbits
Beware of Facebook’s Metaverse ? It’s why I detest the concept of Meta being used by Microsoft for the workplace. Virtual reality isn’t bad per se but when it goes to the hands of the few who start to use it for nefarious purposes, that’s where it goes to crap. Like pretty much everything else. […]
What Did You Miss in February?
Thanks to the deletion of social media on my phone, the removal of notifications and a bit of insomnia thrown in, my mojo for writing, creativity and learning has come back! Yay! It’s been a MAD writing month with some creativity thrown in where I am now on a fictional travel adventure around France in […]
On Virtual Facilitation
Back in 2013, I was working for the National Australia Bank and part of the Digital Learning Team responsible for the rollout of skills programs in virtual facilitation, virtual meetings and Learning How to Learn Online for the entire bank. Our team designed and developed the suite of these courses (I remember those Facilitator Guides […]
Thread Helper
I like investigating new tools that help me with my work and learning. I’ve been using Twitter for many years and in recent times, I have been strongly deliberating whether to stay on it or leave. It’s true that I have made many friends on this platform and build a great network of people around […]
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 […]
Random Morning Thoughts About Information Served Up to Us by AI
Every morning, I go for my walk and like to listen to podcasts. Usually these make me think about something or another and send me down rabbit warrens to explore. This week I decided to listen to Learning Uncut the podcast by Michelle Ockers (@michelleockers), Karen Moloney (@karenmoloney) and Amanda Ashby which was on “Democratising […]
Weekly Rapts
Welcome to Weekly Rapts Every week I come across some exceptional articles, books, videos, tweets and other stuff that captures my attention and inspires me to action which could be to write about a blog post; have a conversation about it with someone; create something from it; escape down a rabbit warren to learn more […]
Profiles in Knowledge Series by Stan Garfield
I was honoured and privileged this week to learn that Stan Garfield (@stangarfield), a prolific writer and expert on the topic of Knowledge Management for many years, did a post on my work for his Profiles in Knowledge series on LinkedIn. You can read the article here. I am a great admirer of Stan because he […]
Don’t Kill Off Delve
It’s Friday morning at 11:29 am and I’m still in bed rubbing the sleep in my eyes and brushing off the crumbs of the toast I had this morning. Since 7:30 am, I’ve been doing Lynda.com courses on tips and tricks of Windows 10, On Demand File Synching and other things that take my fancy […]
If I Can Turn Back Time
“If I can turn back time, I’ll do it all again…” sang Cher. Yesterday while taking a break from a knitting frenzy, I checked my Feedly account to scan through some of the titles from blogs I follow. One blog by Digital Sociologist Mark Carrigan (@mark_carrigan) is one which I make time to read because not […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of Monday 23 October 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning commencing 16 October 2017. Tuesday 24 October 2017 Today I go through the Learning Maturity report and am aghast at the lack of commentary and research around social learning. I talk about the MOOC I finished on Modern Workplace Empowerment, a visit to Facebook Offices in […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 2 October 2017
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 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 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 […]
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 12 June 2017
Here are this week’s snap stories of personal learning (and what I’ve been working on) for the week starting Monday 12 June 2017. Monday 12 June 2017 Well, it was the Queen’s Birthday public holiday. Usually, on weekends and holidays, I don’t snap. Just as well because they’d be really boring. They’d be of me […]
Are You Doing the MOOC or Focussing on the Platform?
I admit it. I’m the type of person who likes doing MOOCs. I didn’t say that I finish all of them however. The idea of enrolling into an online course, view the content, network with some people then decide whether you’re going to stick it out for its duration – or not is actually quite […]