There’s always a shiny new toy– and with it the stampede to use.
Yes that was also me once too Nowadays I’ve learnt very slow, steady saves time and my sanity.
So I’m incredibly proud of the fact that I’ve never watched ANY Google Wave videos, read ANY tutorials and avoided every invite until I [...]
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Using Public Google Waves For Personal Learning
A Year Later And Are We Using Different Tools To Connect To Our PLNs?
One year ago I asked my network to complete a survey on Personal Learning Network.
The survey was used in a series of presentations and to build my PLN Yourself website.
Being a year later I’m wondering how much has changes? Are we using different tools to connect? Are the tools we would recommend to new people [...]
What Are Your Thoughts on Educational Blogging?
I’m doing a presentation next week for Alec Couros‘ s EC&I 831: Social Media & Open Education course and as part of it I’ve need to organise some required reading one week prior to the presentation.
I’ve been asked to focus on educational blogging and building personal learning networks so I’m hoping you can help as [...]
What Are Your 5 Top Web tools For Managing Your Workload?
As part of my presentations on Personal Learning Networks (PLN) I created a PLN Yourself site to help new people work through setting up their own Personal Learning network.
The site focuses on the top 5 tools for building your own PLN based on 196 responses in my Personal Learning Network (PLN) Survey.
This site has been [...]
Overview of Connected Trainer Workshop From Converge08
This post is a quick overview of The Connected Trainer workshop (45 mins) that I presented with Simon Brown at Converge08. Since the participants were shown an overwhelming number of online tools throughout the conference we decided it was better for them to reflect on they could become more connected.
Survey of Workshop Participants
Before [...]
Share Your Blogging Experience & Tips For Participants From Open PD
Great news!!! I’ve been asked by Robin Ellis and Darren Draper to talk about blogging with educators participating in Open PD.
Slight problem! Minor really — hardily worth mentioning but it’s at 5.00 am tomorrow morning my time (their local time of 5-6 pm US Eastern Time Zone on Wednesday April 9).
Time for a confession [...]


