I wake up this morning to the news that Zuckerberg has about 30 million followers on his new app called Threads. Remarkably similar to Twitter, it wasn’t surprising he’d copy this app. After all, he did it with Snapchat to create Facebook Stories. If you have an Instagram account, all your followers move over instantly. […]
I Don’t Need to Tweet This
Thanks to David Hopkins for this excellent headline as I copied it from his recent blog post. (I hope he doesn’t mind). I’ve been reading his blog posts for some years and his recent one resonated. Many of his posts seem to me, to follow the same questions that I had been going through for […]
The Twitter Scramble
I permanently deleted Twitter on 21 June 2022. Now, to my amusement, I read the blogs of people in my networks or articles about what’s happening on Twitter, I see the mad scramble as they go through the same questions I had gone through those months ago. There’s a mad scramble to save or archive […]
Musk Owns Twitter Now 💩
If there’s a time to get off Twitter, it would be now. Ever since leaving this platform (and LinkedIn, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram too), when I keep thinking of all the time I spent on it, (for what real purpose?). I cringe. I feel that I’m so much better off without them. I should have left […]
I Permanently Deleted Twitter
I deleted Twitter on Saturday. I sat there on the kitchen table and clicked ‘Permanently Delete My Account‘. It was a weird feeling especially since I’ve been on it since 2007. After the archived tweets arrived in my inbox, it was time to delete Twitter once and for all. Under the Tweets section or the […]
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 […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning January 2019
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for January 2019. 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 […]
What I Learned from Running OneNote Training
Thread by @ActivateLearn: “I’ve been running Training these last couple of days (and will be doing again today) for a client’s organisation and their employee […]” #OneNote Never Miss a Blog – Subscribe to Receive a Monthly Email Email Address First Name Last Name
What Being Part of a Fake News Channel Has Taught Me
Every week, our team @cammysutra6 @NickJRishwain @ChelseaPeitz @desherb @JoAnnKrall @Baierman @DCPlateKing create fake news show @CNTnewschannel I play Aussie Foreign Correspondent Sharon (Dont Call Me Shazza) Breaknews. This week I report on Venezuelan crisis from my roof. pic.twitter.com/8U7jj1I2YX — Helen Blunden (@ActivateLearn) February 2, 2019 Being part of this creative team of peers taught me […]
When You Realise You Are Wrong – A Twitter Thread
In the last couple of days, I created a twitter thread about a coffee catchup I had and how I was dreading going because mistakenly, I thought this person had a personal issue with my line of work. Here’s how it went. Today was interesting. Breakthrough. I listened while she talked about herself & her own […]
The Wonder of Working with Creative Teams
I’m working on a fake news channel on Snapchat and here I put some reflections down on the value I’m receiving from being part of this creative team. The Wonder of Creating with Teams This blog post by Helen Blunden was written in Melbourne, Australia and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Never […]
Let Go of the Negativity
Recently I wrote a post about my word for the year being “Focus”. Ever since the Christmas break, I’ve been thinking a lot about this word and what activities I need to do to get back on track with my own personal learning journey and revisit my PKM (personal knowledge mastery process). Last year was […]
Learning is Connecting: Reflections of Learning Lab 2015
The Vocational Development Centre hosted Learning Lab, a mini Digital Conference for Vocational educators at the Melbourne Convention Centre on Thursday 5 March to showcase, promote and apply new tools and technology in the classroom. Here are my reflections on how I planned my Twitter session and how I could have improved on it for […]
How Do You Start Out in Twitter? Find the Why First
Yesterday I conducted a webinar on “Getting Started in Twitter” for the VET Development Centre. The centre provides and supports the professional and educational development of vocational trainers, managers and staff through access to events, seminars, conferences and webinars. You can see some of the offerings in their Events Calendar. I was first introduced to the VET Development Centre […]
How To Connect With Our Audience (or Customers): A Lesson from the Arts
Last night, we saw the new musical production of Les Miserables at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne. We bought a souvenir program and wandered up the stairs to seek out a comfortable lounge to relax before the show started. I flicked through the program and read the short biographies of the cast and was surprised to […]
Are You a Twitter Wally?
Here’s a nifty little tool for your next conference or workshop. It’s called TweetWally. I liked the name. Wally – hence I thought it was worth 15 minutes of my time playing around on it. Okay 5. With Australian vernacular, a “wally” is someone who keeps making mistakes but it’s said in a friendly, endearing […]
How Aligned is Learning and Development to Business – an #OzLearn Tweet Chat Tues 8pm AEST
On Tuesday night I will be moderating a live Tweet chat for @OzLearn and hope anyone in learning can join us on Tuesday 11 March at 8:00pm AEST on Twitter. Simply go to Twitter, search on @Ozlearn at that time and join in on the conversation by adding #ozlearn to all your tweets. This month, we will […]
How to Build Your Peer Learning Network When You “Don’t Have Time”
I had a coffee with my friend Rebekah yesterday. Rebekah is an e-learning designer for veterinary educators and we met through Twitter. On the few occasions we caught up at a local cafe, our passions for social media for learning and development were evident. Our ideas tumbled out of us as we grappled with possibilities on how […]
Show Your Work: Twitter for Professional Development Live Online Events
Some time ago, I ran a couple of sessions of Twitter for Professional Development to my Learning and Development colleagues in my current workplace. The aim was to share how I use Twitter to grow and connect with a personal learning network and to learn new trends happening in our profession. The sessions were conducted […]
How to Promote Twitter for Professional Development to Your Colleagues and Other Stuff
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged and I’ve missed it. Now that my husband is out in town at the Linkin Park and Stone Sour concert, it was an opportune time to sit at my computer and finally get my thoughts down. I haven’t had time to reflect much on my work recently as […]