This was a question posed to me today by a colleague about the impact of staff seeking answers on the web or on our Enterprise Social Network such as Yammer. The particular example was “what if they ask a question on say, credit policy and the answers that come back to them are actually wrong […]
Can You Make Your Learning Connect? Week 1 of #CLMOOC
I don’t know and that’s just what I’m about to find out. Thanks to my Google+ and Twitter pal, Gerardine Rudolphy who alerted me to this cMOOC called Making Learning Connected. “Making Learning Connected (#clmooc) is a collaborative, knowledge-building and sharing experience open to anyone who’s interested in making, creativity and learning. Over six weeks we will play […]
Awarded the Rotary International Vocational Service Leadership Award
On Saturday 15 June I attended the Rotary District Governor Changeover night to welcome in the new District Governor of our Rotary District 9810 (which covers the south eastern and surrounds of Greater Melbourne). Recently I resigned (hopefully, temporarily) from Rotary as my workload was too great and I felt that I couldn’t give it […]
A Corporate Mini-MOOC on Digital Literacy Skills…An Idea Growing in My Head
For a while now, I’ve been teasing out an idea in my mind about rolling out a mini-MOOC in our organisation. After reading Ignatia de Waard’s eBook MOOC Yourself , watching the Google Hangout with Jay Cross and Dave Cormier and completing various MOOCs, I thought that it was high time to start applying this in the corporate […]
EduTech 2013 – A Curated Montage
EduTech 2013 was held in the city Australians affectionately call, “Bris-Vegas” because frankly, it’s absolutely nothing like the other exciting city in the US. However, with a major educational technology conference at the Convention Centre, we could have been mistaken. I don’t know what possessed me NOT to carry my laptop to the EduTech Conference. […]