Helen Blunden

Tue, 28 May 2013 23:04:55 GMT
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– OCTEL Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning (Week Six activities)

Here’s my blog post on week 6.  Admittedly, it’s pretty light on because with my experience in the corporate world developing programs related to sales, service, leadership or business related content, assessment is not a key driver or consideration for our clients – and for some reason, there’s a bit of fear about it as well.

http://activatelearning.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/octel-week-6-timely-and-effective-assessment/

Helen Blunden

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:16:41 GMT
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Here’s my recent blog post for Week 5 but it seems to have opened up memories of 1994 when I did a course in the RAAF.  I dug out my old course manuals and Learning Styles results of tests…. ah the memories…. http://activatelearning.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/week-5-platforms-and-technologies-for-octel/

Helen Blunden

Fri, 10 May 2013 23:37:16 GMT
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Here’s my entry for Week 4 which I enjoyed exploring Screecast-o-Matic and the iEthics simulation.  I explored how these tools could be used in the corporate workplace.  Definitely going to use them (or their ideas) with work with my internal clients.
http://activatelearning.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/week-4-producing-effective-and-engaging-learning-materials-octel/

Helen Blunden

Fri, 10 May 2013 02:26:52 GMT
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Hello everyone. My name is Helen Blunden and I work as a Virtual Learning Consultant in one of the big 4 banks in Australia.  You can find out more about me here http://about.me/helenblunden  This is my 4th cMOOC and introduced to it by +Gerardine Rudolphy 

My first cMOOC was #etmooc  which I thoroughly enjoyed but I’m also doing the Teach The Web MOOC and the #OCTEL  at the moment. It’s a lot of work but the beauty of it is that you can pick and choose what works for you to apply it to your work.Looking forward to learning more here ! 

Helen Blunden

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:59:32 GMT
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Hello everyone. Here are my reflections of Week 2 Understanding Learner Needs which gave me some food for thought about implementing these checklists not only for our learners but our clients (community managers) in our organisation.

 http://activatelearning.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/week-2-understanding-learners-needs/

Helen Blunden

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:26:48 GMT
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Hello everyone.  Here are my reflections for the first week activities, “Drilling into TEL Concepts” http://activatelearning.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/week-1-drilling-into-tel-concepts-and-approaches-for-octel/

Helen Blunden

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:22:31 GMT
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Hello everyone, 

My name is Helen Blunden and I’m a Learning Consultant at the National Australia Bank.  I work with the NAB Academy Virtual Learning Team so my background is not academic.  However, I see that I have lots to learn here in this MOOC about technology in learning (but I’d be looking at application in a business workplace).  

My first post with this week’s activities are here. http://activatelearning.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/week-1-introduction-to-octel/