Last year I stumbled upon this great concept called Blog Secret Santa. The idea is that you register on the website to gift a post to someone’s blog and in return, you get a post placed onto your blog. On the 5th of December, you ‘ll find out who you’re writing for. Before Christmas Day, […]
A Way To Work, Connect and Learn in Your Job
Many who have been following my blog, know my love of MOOCs – the connectivist kind. Having completed many of them in the past few years, they have been instrumental in my broadening my own personal learning networks (PLN) but also giving me the confidence to use, explore, play and apply different social tools in my work. (If […]
Always Look on the Bright Side – Tuesday Teachings for WOLWEEK
After an hour long walk this morning (yay! I made time for my walk!), shower and brekkie I jumped onto a train and travelled into town to work out at the NAB Village (a co-working space) before my first client site meeting. I was excited to be presenting a webinar on the Benefits of Social Networking. Pulling […]
My First Day of WOLWeek – Monday Mayhem
I was startled awake this morning. Someone was ringing the doorbell at 5:30am. I opened the door and in bolted my husband. He was angry that the taxi he had booked to drive him to the airport had not arrived and he was going to miss his flight. He had been standing outside the house […]
How to Use Social Tools To Create Learning Experiences
Last week I delivered a webinar for a public service organisation who requested a presentation to their Learning and Development teams on how to use social tools to create learning experiences. I think it went well. (At least, I hope it did! The organiser did say that the attendees were madly scribbling notes and I did get […]
My Brain is Full: Knowledge Week in Melbourne 2014
Last week I participated in four different events as part of Melbourne Knowledge Week. It was the fifth year that this event brought together entrepreneurs, designers, artists, tech geeks and experts in the fields of arts, science, medicine, business and the community. This year I decided to focus on my main goal and that was to […]
The Quiet Before the Storm
Such a dramatic title for my blog post but alas, there’s no storm. Christmas yes, but that’s not a storm…more like a tornado when we realise we haven’t done the Christmas shopping. What Have I Been Working On? These last few weeks have been quite busy for me. As well as working on the development […]
I Love an A-Ha Moment
This week I had the opportunity to present at the Learn@Work Conference at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney. I recall the conference organiser asking me “what will you talk about?” when he called me up to invite me to speak. At the time, I couldn’t think straight because the office was noisy. The first […]
Learn@Work Conference
Rather than write a blog post I’m being lazy), I thought I’d Storify the tweets and include my reflections within them…. Day 1: Monday 11 November 2013 Day 2: Tuesday 12 November 2013
Reflections of Exploring Personal Learning Networks MOOC
Five weeks ago, I started the Exploring Personal Learning Networks cMOOC with enthusiasm and expectation. Jeff Merrell (@JeffMerrell) and I had organised to meet via Google Hangout to have a chat about this but of course, our firewall prevented that from happening as it was during work hours. Instead, we talked via teleconference and I […]
Becoming a Digital Leader
Yesterday I attended a Becoming a Digital Leader workshop at the Old Treasury Building. It was a pilot program developed by Leadership Victoria with Cynthia Mahoney from Cynthia Mahoney Associates and its objectives were: To explain the potential impact of digital media in driving change and achieving objectives in the workplace and the community Explore […]
How To Pitch The Value of Personal Learning Networks to a CEO – Wise or Folly?
After four weeks of participating in the Exploring Personal Learning Networks cMOOC, it has come to this. Our pitch to the CEO on the value of personal learning networks. In fact, through the various readings, discussion and activities of the previous three weeks, we have been building up to this point to undertake the following […]
From Paper to Pad – iPad Caricatures
What do you think? Does this look like me?? At LearnX, B Online Learning had asked Kumar, a caricaturist to come along and draw caricatures of delegates attending the conference. “We go to conferences and get little take aways, knick knacks but we wanted something a bit more memorable and something that you can […]
LearnX Day 2 My New Source of Truth Dynamic Video Solutions
Bobby Sharma, Training Specialist from Commonwealth Bank talked about Dynamic Video Solutions and how they implemented it into the bank in particularly around business projects. The CBA has 52000 employees with a domestic and international presence. The Dynamic Video Solution (DVS) was brought in as a meansto train wide dispersed group of contractors who need […]
The Downhill Run to Christmas
November is a funny time for me at work. Not funny as in ha ha – but funny is in ‘strange limbo time’. To say that 2013 was an utterly hectic, busy and ever-changing year is an understatement. This year, in this contract alone, I have experienced more emotional ups-and-downs, uncertainty, tension and anxieties than […]