This morning, a bit of sunshine was peeking out of the clouds and as it’s a public holiday (Melbourne Cup), it was anticipated that the weather would turn with more wind and rain again. So I quickly left the house to drive 5 minutes down the road to walk around Cheltenham Park and Golf Course.
Corellas on the Course
This morning I headed out to Woodlands Golf Course to have a bit of practice putting and chipping. It was the first bit of sunshine we had in over a week of constant rain and floods. I had to get out of the house to experience the sunlight on my skin. It was glorious! I […]
A Little Bit Changed
It’s been a wild ride these last couple of years, ones in which I wouldn’t like to repeat as the world experienced something that touched every single one of us in different ways. I’d be lying if I said that it hasn’t affected me on some deep level despite being luckier than most. It’s been […]
Your Alternate Life
This week a couple of people connected with me to tell me that they were taking up university studies to requalify into new potential new careers. I was happy for them as is always the case when people do something like this for themselves that sets them off on a new path of learning, a […]
Some Ramblings for Saturday
Recently I changed my approach to doing my videos really in an effort to reduce my use of multiple social media. Truth be told I wanted to get off Instagram which to be fair, I don’t like as a platform other to have it serve me up some French infographics of vocabulary and nothing much […]
Creating My Daily Stories Old School
This morning I decided to do my “work out loud” story using my phone camera and video editing software on my phone rather than using Instagram Stories (or in the past, I used Snapchat stories). The reason is that as I have an old phone (iPhone 6), Instagram is now becoming glitchy on it and […]
Happy 5th Birthday Adopt & Embrace
Happy 5th birthday Adopt & Embrace! I have been working for Adopt & Embrace for a little over two years now and it’s been a fantastic job working for a great team of people and for a business that espouses a focus on people and community. We are a B-Corporation and everything that we do […]
Resources I Use to Learn French
Many people on Twitter have asked me what resources I’ve been using to learn French recently. Others have also shared their own resources and apps they use to learn a language. I marvel at the huge amount of resources we have available – mostly free and readily available to learn a language. I have written […]
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 […]
Everyone is Talking Learning But Beware the Myths
So a funny thought has been swirling around in my head lately. It’s because I’ve been in a few situations with people outside my field of Learning and Development and on various conferences unrelated to this field, who are now talking about the importance of professional development. Given the pace of change that we’ve all […]
Women, Be Like Rita
Since subscribing to Netflix this year (yes, I’m a bit late to the game because I had tons of other content I was accessing – and well, basically, life….until COVID hit), I have been watching some wonderful shows. Sure, there are some crap ones on Netflix (oh boy, are there some shit shows on Netflix) […]
Reducing Screen Time
Last night I received a notification on my phone to tell me that my screen time had reduced by 10% this week. What wonderful news! I was on leave for the last week and used much of my time catching up with various chores around the house and garden as well as long stretches of […]
What My Cat Teaches Me About Myself
I love my cat. Let me introduce you to him. His name is Pud. He is about 5 years old and he’s been with us – his forever home – for the last couple of years. Every day I’m thankful that he’s come into our lives because he’s brought with it so much joy, laughter […]
What I’ve Been Learning About This Week – Using a Hand Held Microphone
Okay this week, it’s all been about learning how to use the hand held microphone. I’m going to be a Roving Reporter for Microsoft Ignite, a technology conference in Orlando on 4-8 November and along with my other 9 global reporters, we’ve been getting some hints about how to interview people on camera. I’m no […]
What We Can Learn from The Joker
Well if you haven’t seen this movie yet, what are you waiting for? Last night, my husband and I who love to go to the movies regularly watched this one and I was in awe. My husband is a huge Batman fan and keen collector of comic books, graphic novels and the movies. There isn’t […]
Working Through My Process of A Presentation
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been mulling over what I’m going to talk about at LearnTec2020 which will be hosted in Karlsruhe in Germany next year on 28-30 January. I was kindly invited to speak at this conference by Jane Hart whose work I have followed, shared and respected for many years now. […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for the Month of October 2018
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for October 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day. It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]
Back to Basics
It’s hard to imagine that four months have flown by since joining Adopt & Embrace as one of their Adoption Consultants on a part-time basis and it’s been an interesting, entertaining and educational ride for me. When I think back to what I have learned in my time there, it comes down to these two […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for the Month of September 2018
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for September 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day. It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]
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 […]