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Summer Challenges
In the last week I have joined two online challenges that appealed to my interests:
1. the 31 day challenge - to build a better blog - that is providing some really useful learning for me on how best to make use of my blog site as a personal web page
2. the Birth Order challenge - to connect with all members of the Digifolio network to find out whether they are first born, middle child, or last child. Some interesting revelations and some really interesting reading and presentations.
a timed challenge seems to motivate me - would that work for those we mentor? - I wonder
1. the 31 day challenge - to build a better blog - that is providing some really useful learning for me on how best to make use of my blog site as a personal web page
2. the Birth Order challenge - to connect with all members of the Digifolio network to find out whether they are first born, middle child, or last child. Some interesting revelations and some really interesting reading and presentations.
a timed challenge seems to motivate me - would that work for those we mentor? - I wonder
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Permalink Reply by Colleen Hodgins on -
I like this as an enhancement to the concept of just in time learning and having it chunked so that I can schedule it and put aside the time. However as a practitioner I need to align this in some way with my current delivery and to sell myself on this personal learning and somehow work out how it fits in with my facilitation role and where it can contribute to my learning community (ies). This is what motivates me.
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Permalink Reply by Carole McCulloch on -
Colleen Hodgins said:
Absolutely Colleen, that's how I got involved with the 31 day challenge - Building a Better Blog - it fitted my business plan to provide myself with a more concise and engaging website for me as Coach Carole - I therefore was happy to commit some time to it. As a facilitator of several communities (like yourself) I thought that it would provide a very focussed and enjoyable activity at the beginning of a project or as a refresh to an existing network.I like this as an enhancement to the concept of just in time learning and having it chunked so that I can schedule it and put aside the time. However as a practitioner I need to align this in some way with my current delivery and to sell myself on this personal learning and somehow work out how it fits in with my facilitation role and where it can contribute to my learning community (ies). This is what motivates me.
Therefore I'm planning to design something like this for my mentoring services in 2009 e.g. for the community coordinators and managers in my Hume group in NE Victoria. Personally I think that it should be a shorter rather than a longer time frame e.g. 5 - 7 days - but spread according to the preferences of the participants.
What do others think?
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