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How I Developed & Still Am Developing My Learning & Performance Personal Learning Network (PLN)

My PLN centers around learning and performance improvement. My background is in education as a former middle school math teacher which led me to be an Instructional Design Consultant. In order to be effective at instructional design, I need to be aware of how we learn and that not all performance problems can be solved

EME6414 Web 2.0 Based Learning and Performance – My Best of List/ Class Summary

During the summer of 2019, one of the courses I took was the online Web 2.0 Based Learning and Performance class with Dr. Dennen. The following is a summary and my “best of list” now that we are closing out and reflecting on all that we learned together. Web 2.0 The Internet started with Web

Does Your Family Have an Annual Family Reunion?

Now, That is a Family Reunion! This week, I have been in Maringouin, Lousiana for my boyfriend’s family reunion. Wow! I have never seen a family that is so dedicated to their family’s annual tradition. This year is the 51st year!!! That means for a whopping 51 years, they have religiously traveled from all over
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What Can We Do to Foster Ongoing Engagement within a LinkedIn Group?

Produsage Formula When you are producing or creating content and consuming or using/sharing content, we refer to this as produsage (Bruns 2007). Producing + Using = Produsage Produsage LinkedIn Group: Teaching to Training I created a LinkedIn group a month ago, Teaching to Training, which is taking the form as a produsage group. The group
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Exploring the Possibilities of Global Social Networking

This week, Dr. Dennen asked the question “Are we truly international?” I really got to thinking about the possibilities that we have not yet reached with global networking. Although I have several connections across various networks and communities that I associate with, I am sure there is so much more that I could be doing

How to Transfer Your Chronological Resume to A Functional Resume For Teachers Going into L&D

Finally, after several years of thinking, saying, postponing, I have had a good reason and excuse to create this video helping teachers see an example of taking a chronological resume and transferring it to a functional skills based resume. If you are anything like me, when I was a teacher, I used a chronological resume.

From World History Teacher to Technical Training Manager: Scott Luberto Says Stay Curious!!!

Scott Luberto, former Teach For America world high school history teacher turned, provides many great pointers for teachers who are in the shoes he once was in. Two key takeaways to his success are to always stay curious and to position yourself as a business partner with executives.

Learning to Use Content Analysis (CA) & Social Network Analysis (SNA)

Because I have recently been very interested in social network analysis, I decided to read the Gruzd, Paulin, & Haythornthwaite (2016) article “Analyzing Social Meda and Learning Through Content and Social Network Analysis: A Faceted Methodological Approach.” The following post documents and highlights my main takeaways in order to help me further process the content

What all do I need to learn & do now that I am a boat owner?

We bought a boat!!! We are boat owners! Now what? What all do I need to do to prepare for safety and fun? Oh, my goodness. There is so much that i can’t even begin to explain so this post will start to help me flesh out my to do list and I welcome advice

It’s Like Magic! How To Document Each of Your Twitter Posts… Like Cara North Does

My Twitter use is more frequent now… Some of us are new to Twitter may not have a need for this, but those of us who are regular Twitter users or intend to be may find this useful. My use of Twitter has evolved over time. It started slow and now has become something that

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