Category: Productivity
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Some great resources for guiding how you create online content
I’ve just put my noise cancelling headphones on. I’m in my office so it probably looks a bit odd as my staff and our local students are around. However, I’m trying out a new productivity strategy: Block out everyone and focus on learning how to create online course material. Here are some great online resources…
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Why I Am Afraid of Email And The 7 Scary Things I Did About It
I am afraid of email I’m afraid of email. I had a bad experience. It might be because I couldn’t answer the nearly 10,000 emails that had accumulated in my inbox. The year was 2010. Or was it 2011. I can’t actually remember now. But the thing that happened was that I had a baby.…
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Who cares about literacy, numeracy, and other excuses for the crappy economy?
In 1996 New Zealand took part in the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS). This evolved into the Adult Literacy and Life Skills (ALLS) survey in 2006. Now in 2012, the survey has evolved again. The new acronym is PIAAC which stands for the Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies. The two earlier studies kicked…
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How to avoid work-related bipolar disorder
Some days I love my work. Other days I hate it. Love hate love hate. That’s usually the way it goes. On Monday I want to take over the world. On Tuesday I want to sell the business because I can’t stand it. On Wednesday, I’m on fire. On Thursday, I want to throw myself…
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It’s time to change your business model if you work in education
If you work in education or do any kind of training then chances are you work with a business model from last century. What’s more, you probably work with a model of education that dates from the century before. Or the one before that… Seriously. Perhaps if you’re like us, disturbing thoughts like these have…
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Working night and day
I don’t wanna work nights and weekends… I also don’t wanna work days either though…