Responding to another blog :)

<a href="http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/2011/10/any-ideas-on-how-to-teach-social-media.html">Sarah Stewart: Any ideas on how to teach social media without a computer or internet?</a>   My thoughts! (and practising how to do this :) )

Pages & a To do list / page.

Well that sorts that out.  The pages are static and you can't post to them like on the home front page. ok ... well for now I'll leave my to do 'page' but need to reconsider if I even need pages if they are not going to be 'interactive' ....  Hummm and I do know I could start another 'to do blog' ...  hummm I might have to think about that :)

Add a page to a blog

DONE!  Nothing like starting with a success :)  Humm 2nd edit. OK 50% success ... added the page - now just how to post this comment to THAT page and not this home one ....  hummmm

(thinking, scratching head and looking for ‘instructions’) ...

Oh ... I found you (again)

First up!  Thanks for the comments from the beginning of the year! As anonymous said “didn’t know anyone had been here” .. and getting back in was an a bit of problem .. BUT seems to be sorted now.

And ...

Sarah “serendipity” is one of my favourite words ... and I hope some of the things I posted on your blog about your current project were of value?

Clarrisa “Pragmatism . . .sounds like translational research”  - Ummm maybe? What is ‘translational research’? ... (will have to google that later J

Lee – pleased you like it!  So did I when I heard it and yes it was committed to memory J

Thanks Chris and Aditya for well wishes and thanks Rajettan for the links and info.

Well now I found my way back into my blog 3 things:

1. I registered and did NOTHING on the Facilitating Online Course in 2011.  So disappointed in myself that I let ‘life’ once again take over my true desires.

2. Well here is to .. Again starting again and

3. It fees like I have lost the last 4 months. I know I have been incredibly busy but how can it possibly be June already.

And I’ll answer that myself for myself ... It is June ‘already’ because ... each day has 24 hours and x number of days (ie groups of 24 hours) has passed. 

I always remember a wonderful older gentleman at some time management seminar saying ...

No one can manage time because time just is.  A second, a minute, an hour, a day, a year .. is and will always be exactly the same.  It is 1 second, or it is 60 seconds to equal a minute, or 60 minutes to be 1 hours ...  or 365 days to be a year (and then he made a joke about the pesky days in a month and leap years) ... BUT his point was ... ‘Time’ doesn’t go faster or slower and no matter what we do we can not manage or control or influence it. We can only control our actions within the concept of time or influence our own internal perceptions of the passing of time ....

I understand and agree 100%.

So could those minutes, days and weeks that I lost .. please come back because I don’t think I always controlled my actions or influenced my perceptions efficiently or effectively enough.

That being said, I really need to action the rest of this report in a very controlled manner over the next 4 hours (right after I just update a post on another important point!)

Hope you all have a GREAT Saturday afternoon

Talk more soon

Cheers Kathleen

PS while I so remember his message I am sorry I can’t remember his name. But I guess that is the sign a good presenter the information is more important than the person ... What do you think?

And so it begins ... (Again)

What a start to the year!  I am still digesting the experiences over the last week or so with the floods in Queensland and indeed the continued flooding around Australia.  As such, this post will not be about that; except to say, my heartfelt sympathy to all who have lost so much and even those of us who have lost a little (in comparison).

This post is just a ‘getting back into it’ post and to confirm I have made plans to be part of the Facilitating Online Course in 2011. http://wikieducator.org/Facilitating_Online . Now whether I will be informal, facilitated or formal, I haven’t yet decided, but I love the options and the accessibility of the experience.  I have heard such great things about this course that I am looking forward to getting into it.

I hope to blend, or maybe utilise is a better word, the skills of online facilitation with activities required to operate my (assessment only) RTO.  In particular, I am thinking about activities such as validation and moderation, industry engagement and the enrolment / induction process. 

I also want to build and enhance my PLN / PLE, digital identify and capture my professional development in such a way that is useable (showable?) for Auditors in order to demonstrate currency and competency.  

I am going to link my learnings and activities in the course to my ‘under construction’ eportfolio as well further strengthening other professional relationships and associations.

The plan is to do all this, while helping my adult children get back on their feet after their house flooded and continue to do the work that pays the bills.

It is going to be a big year! There is a lot I want and need to do and achieve but, funny enough, I am looking forward to it.  

Oh and I also hope for lots of ‘blue skies’ for all of us.

YAY .. it's back ..

Wow Cool!  My blog is back and now to get back into it!