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In gratitude
As the days of 2014 wind slowly to a close I've been thinking a lot about the goings-on of my business and work over the past year. Last year my friend Julia encouraged me to look back over 2013 and capture my successes and failures and it was such a useful activity...
From one course to another
Well, October went by in a flash, didn't it? I spent the entire month co-facilitating a blended model course in volunteer management with colleagues from Volunteer Victoria (my old workplace as well) and over the weekend I shifted from ramp-down mode on that course to...
Finding Ladies Learning Code
"Awwww, I want to learn how to code too!" Those were my 6-year-old daughter's words as I left the house yesterday morning on my way to a Ladies Learning Code meetup here in Victoria. I was going to an event just for women and she was disappointed that she couldn't...
Women in tech and learning to code…more
A couple of weeks ago I went to a Netsquared Victoria meetup event focused on Women in Tech. I hadn't been out to Netsquared in a while but the topic drew me and I'm glad I made the effort. First I had to find my way to Fan Tan Alley for the after work event, to the...
Training managers of volunteers
Today I was at Volunteer Victoria meeting with my co-facilitators for the upcoming Leading Volunteers: Foundations in Volunteer Management course. This is the blended model course that I was lucky to be able to develop in 2012 that has become even better over time....
What would I tell my 24-year-old self?
I got inspired the other day while reading a friend's blog post about what advice she would give to her 24-year-old self. It got me thinking about questions I answered to be featured on the UBC Alumni website recently about what I would tell my graduating self and...
Some ed tech tools to share
I've had some fun incorporating different ed tech tools recently into my work so I thought I'd share a few of them here with you. None of these are particularly new but still can be interesting to use in your courses or otherwise, so here goes: Storify Last week I...
She, with the beautiful voice – and life
This post has nothing to do with education or technology or facilitation or instructional design. It has nothing to do with work. It has everything to do with life. Earlier this month my family lost my aunt Linda from the world; she will be heartachingly missed. One...
Keeping calm and carrying on
I've always loved the motivational phrase "Keep Calm and Carry On" that the Brits used in posters to prepare the public for World War II. But truthfully, over the past few years of owning my own business and balancing it with working for an employer I haven't always...
Navigating “three Ts” of online facilitation
I've taught nine asynchronous online courses over the past two years, all of which were longer than four weeks each, and I learned something useful about online facilitation going through every one of them. As a result, here are "three Ts" - technology, time and team...