Last week, we had Team Week at our company and it’s a chance for us to get together (either physically if there’s no COVID or online, if there is! ?) to discuss different aspects of our work and plan for the quarter ahead. I look forward to these because it’s an opportunity to see the […]
Dealing with the Naysayers and Nitpickers
One of the things I say to people when showing and sharing their work and learning publicly, openly and transparently is to get ready for the naysayers and nitpickers. Unfortunately, they’re just part of life if you end up sharing your work in online public spaces. They pop up every now and then but don’t […]
On Self-Critiquing
Yesterday I filmed a short book review about Nassim Nicholas Taleb on his book, Skin in the Game. Although it may look like I create the footage in the one go, usually it involves a lot of stops and starts where I wait until I get into some conversational flow in front of the camera […]
Without Feedback There Ain’t No Learning
For a while now I’ve been thinking “without feedback, there ain’t no learning”. Why? As you know, I’ve been learning French. I started this year taking a more self-directed approach to the language before realising that I can’t escape the fact that I need to speak it – and by speaking I mean having someone – […]
Importance of Feedback When Using Video
Many of you already know that for some years since 2016, I have been showing and sharing my work and learning out loud using Snapchat as the video editor of choice. Since early 2019, I stopped using Snapchat because it came too glitchy on my phone. When I first started using it over 4 years […]
This Week’s Snap Stories of Personal Learning Week of 3 April 2017
So Snapchat is proving to be a handy tool to capture my thoughts and reflections while I’m back at work full-time and don’t have time to blog. However, don’t be under any illusion that I’ve left my blogging and will take on vlogging – far from it. Think of the vlog as a temporary measure to […]
Seeking Feedback
Okay, everyone you can relax. This is NOT a post about Snapchat. (That’ll be the next post). I just wanted to share with you a short blog post. Yes you read right. Short. (It’s not lost on me that I’ve wasted an additional 39 words to get to this point…I just can’t do short!) Well […]