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Engaging The Unwilling Learner – Live Blog from #LT12UK

Mark Berthelemy – Capita Poor outward comms from ‘us’ Poor intrinsic motivation to listen to the poor comms (from the learner) We put too many infrastructure blockers in place! Possible solutions to that, may be? Leave blockers in place and … Continue reading

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Guilt

So I’ve spent a week concentrating on G+ now and I’ve made a few observations. It’s much quieter in there than it is in Twitter. I’m not saying that’s a good or bad thing, it’s just quieter. I know that … Continue reading

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Desperately seeking….

…. (nope, not Susan) Innovation That’s my aim for Learning Technologies this year. I’ve spent the last couple of years attending/speaking at the Learning Technologies conference but if I’m honest, I haven’t really taken the time to dig into the … Continue reading

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Twitter to G+

So it’s been a whole weekend since I decided to step away from Twitter and concentrate my energies in G+. As with most reflective exercises, the first weekend has presented me with nothing that I didn’t already know, but it … Continue reading

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A change is as good as a rest

For some time now, I have been reflecting upon my use of Twitter. Over recent months I have found my Twitter stream to contain little, if anything of true value to me personally. It’s either been stuff that I ‘get‘, … Continue reading

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Recording your Skype calls

A couple of days ago I received a tweet from Di Dawson asking if I had screenshots or video files from any virtual classroom sessions that I had previously facilitated for a programme that she was putting together. My unfortunate … Continue reading

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My top 10 Learning Tools for 2011

It’s that time of the year again folks when Jane Hart is reminding us all to submit our ‘Top 10 Learning Tools 2011/of the year’. This is something that I contributed to for the first time last year and it … Continue reading

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Think campaign…

Regular readers will know that my previous Organisation made the transition from outsourcing it’s self-paced elearning modules to bringing them ‘in house’ almost 2 years ago. Once we had sourced the software my Head of Department insisted that we launch … Continue reading

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I got it wrong….. Or did I?

I recent attended the eLearning Network event ’10 things every learning designer should know’ and whilst the event gave me a few ideas to mull over, what really had an impact on me was a chance conversation that I had … Continue reading

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Gearing Up For Learning Live

A few months ago Don Taylor  asked me to facilitate a session at the IITT’s Learning Live conference, a request that (as always) I jumped at  for a number of reasons; there are the obvious ones: An opportunity to meet up … Continue reading

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