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Learning Together By HELPING The Student blogging competition!

You’d think I’d know better after the 31 Days To Build A Better Blog and Comment Challenge but NO! Why? Because I know how much everyone benefits from these Challenges.
So when Miss Wyatt told me she had adapted the concept of these challenges to organised Blogging Competition specifically for student and class blogs I [...]

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My Quick Start Tips for New Twitters

It’s easy to forget how intimidating Twitter can be to new users once you’ve used it for awhile. So here are some of my quick tips to getting started using twitter.
Setting Up Your Twitter Account
If you’re not currently using Twitter reconsider! Twitter is an incredibly powerful tool for your personal learning, connecting [...]

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Using Your Google Calendar To Help Manage Workload!

Using my email inboxes as my To-Do-List went so well yesterday I even managed to get through work tasks that I really hate and have a bad habit of delaying for weeks. Which made me think “How could my new skills to ensure I complete these tasks more timely?”
My solution ? Create events [...]

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Getting Your Gmail Account Under Control And Working For You!

I’ve never been able to control my email accounts! Regardless of my actions emails flow in leading to major email infestation.
James’s explanation of how he uses his email accounts as his “to-do-list”; archiving emails that have been actioned immediately and keeping those that need follow up labeled in his Inbox has helped me to take [...]

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Listen To The Wisdom Of Your Network

Thanks to everyone who helped me demonstrate the power of personal learning networks for my presentation yesterday. Your comments, tips and advice were THE essential part of my presentation because I wanted to demonstrate a personal learning network in action to show how it extends our learning and reflection beyond what is normally achieved [...]

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The Messy Aspects Of Blog Cleaning

Don’t you get frustrated with mess? I do! But I’ll procrastinate how I can clean up the mess until I can’t take it anymore. Only then will I take action.
Today was my blog cleaning day! I’ve finished what I can but still not happy (are we ever totally happy with blog cleaning?). [...]

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Importance of eating out

Mmm yep I love my food but more importantly it is great to meet f2f people who I have been interacting with in the online world.
Last Thursday I managed to catch up with Alex and his daughter. Poor Alex, on the previous day, had traveled non-stop for 15 hours through the outback of Australia, [...]

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Importance of going Camping

Yesterday I had a fantastic day at BarCamp Perth. Initially I was reluctant to go because I am not a programmer and the program looked very techy. Reality was good mixture Web 2.0ers and programmers with excellent opportunities to network and learn f2f with people of similar interests in our own community, and who [...]

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Importance of Staying Home

Lets see – at home. Can clean house? Wash dishes? Wash clothes? Do gardening? Or I join an Elluminate session and watch Philip facilitate an interactive online professional development (he shows the participants in the virtual classroom what to do then they have to do it on their computers e.g. set up their [...]

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The importance of getting out

My friend Phillip worries that I do not get out enough, so I convinced him to let me visit and watch him facilitate professional development for his Learnscope project (titled iTubes YouTubes) at AMES at West Coast TAFE (they offer English for Migrant courses). He was a bit concerned as to whether I would [...]

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