Monthly Archives: September 2012

Trials and Tribulations with the Overhead Projector

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Helen Blunden

I’m enjoying reading Donald Clark’s Plan B blog where he covers various instructional tools over the years.  Last night, I read his post on, “Overhead Projectors: The Trapezoid of Boredom” and a flood of wonderful memories of my early days … Continue reading →

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Personal Knowledge Management Workshop through Social Learning Centre UK

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Helen Blunden

In September, I participated in the PKM Personal Knowledge Management Workshop through the Social Learning Centre, UK. On the site above, it defined Personal Knowledge Management as a “set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our … Continue reading →

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My Top 10 Tools for Learning

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Helen Blunden

Everyone’s eagerly awaiting for Jane Hart from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies to publish her Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 (see 2011’s list here) and voting will close soon. I stumbled upon this list  and the heavens opened, the bright … Continue reading →

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A Turbulent Mind

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Helen Blunden

Lately I’ve had a turbulent mind. At the LearnX Conference a few weeks ago, it was described as being in ‘hyper-attention’ but I believe that this not the right definition for my state. Wikipedia describes hyper attention as a “cognitive … Continue reading →

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Different Perspectives of Learning by all the Players

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Helen Blunden

This year has been an immense journey of personal and professional development for me.  Coupled with a challenging project environment which saw me part of a Learning and Development team of 11 people on a cultural transformation program that had to rapidly … Continue reading →

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4 Things I Learned at LearnX

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Helen Blunden

Read the LearnX story by clicking on the Storify icon. This year has been a massive personal learning journey for me.  I have decided that my ‘old world’ thinking in learning and development is not serving its purpose anymore and … Continue reading →

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Alert! Not all Gen Y’s are Social Media Experts

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Helen Blunden

Last Wednesday night I was invited to speak to a District Rotaract meeting.  Rotaract is a not-for-profit service community affiliated with Rotary for 18-30 year olds.  Many years ago, I was a member of the Canberra South Rotaract Club and … Continue reading →

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