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Hello and thanks for visiting! Been away for a week in the Red Centre of Australia.  An amazing and remote place.  Stayed in the first hotel for years where there was NO internet access at all. Also, recently went on a 6 day trek in Tasmania to walk the Overland Track!  (check out the photos). Hence one week of silence because where we went no road or mobile signal got near. Back on the button now.

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The site also contains articles and presentations and a discussion forum that isn't quite the buzz of the nation I had once hoped it would become.

 Keep in touch!  This is my LinkedIn! MySpace and YouTube rolled into one.  Well that's an exaggeration maybe, but you see the point I am making.

Happy browsing!  Happy downloading and I look forward to your contributions. The more you do, the less I have to!

Find out more about the Learning Leaders Academy which Elliott Masie and I ran  10th - 12th March 2008. 

 

 

 

I was in Orlando with Elliott Masie in October doing some sessions at Learning 2007. The post conference Learning Wiki is a model of how to capture learning before during and after the event.  It is a great online resource worth exploring.  

Previously the entire conference  was recorded on video, photos and text and the resulting website is a mine of brilliant information. It is a model that we should all follow. Big temperature change from Lithuania. See below.   Log on to the Masie Site there is always something new and interesting.

 I followed my boxes (see the blog) to Australia in May 2007 for my sabbatical (back in April 2009) and one of the first things I did after arriving was run a series of workshops across the country on Leading Innovation with a Colleague John Mitchell.He is one of the best known and most respected vocational education practitioners in Australia. If you want to see what  went on, download the brochure from here if you would like more details. The series finished in Perth in 25th June 2006

 

 

There is a book to go with the series too, called New Leadership for Innovative Organisations . It is on sale on the IBSA website for $24.95 AUD

 

 

 

 

 

I was in Lithuania in February 2007 working with small companies that want to expand internationally. As you can see it was quite cold. That is the main railway station in Vilnius and I am rather hoping that the train will arrive soon. When it did the windows were taped shut and the heaters only just managed to penetrate the cold interior. I had a third class ticket (£2 for 100 km) and I now know what third class rail travel is all about. Slow and cold but not uncomfortable.

 

HOT NEWS (1)

New Masterclass in Sydney in January 2009. 

OLD NEWS (1) 

Las Vegas for LMS 2007 .  460 people talking about LMSs and learning.  Such as expert group assembled in one place the world has never seen before (apart from LMS 2006). And all recorded for posterity. Check out the link.

OLD NEWS (2) 

I was speaking at the AoC NiILTA Annual conference in Leeds on the 20/21st March. It is called e-volution the future of learning and the programme worked very well. More details are here or in this link.  I am talking about C21st Learning and I thought it would be good to try and stir things up a bit with some discussion points here. Also,this article I wrote for HR Magazine HR Magazine in December is useful background.  Your posts are more than welcome.  They will help me shape the presentation.  I speak straight after Barbara Ganley form Middlebury College in Vermont and you can check out her bgblog here.

 OLD NEWS (3)

Don Taylor got me for the 'what do you do to keep fit' meme.  I, of course, was very pleased to be asked again.  So I did it.

My first was:  5 things you don't know about me: 

By the way the 'untrue' one from Donald's list (imho) is his middle name of 'Horatio' .  I swallowed the Turkish stuff and the time in Africa and the superhero nonsense wholesale. Mine are all true! I name, to continue the game around the world:

John Mitchell,Donald Clark , Elliott Masie ,  Jay Cross and Nic Price.