In January I set a challenge.
- Make a resolution to find out how to use 10 new tools this year (say one a month) and how they might help with your personal productivity, professional learning or development, or for use in education or training, or in the enterprise for performance support or workforce collaboration.
- Write a monthly blog post describing your experiences with your new tool.
So how did you get on?
It’s time to write a post reflecting on the whole experience and what impact it has had on you and your professional development. Please place a link in the Comments section below. It will be interesting to read your thoughts.
A number of people took up the challenge, and their blogs are listed below.
- Amy’s Classroom
- Tech 2 Teach 2 Learn
- Tech Talk for Teachers
- Creative Design of Learning Experiences
- David Kelly
- Lasagna and chips
- Virtual Learning Space
- tubarks
- A learning cafe
- Cafe Chat
- Barbara Fillip’s Knowledge Management Blog
- Exploring Learning
- Stepping Stones
- Learning Lately
- Homo Competens Blog
- Stephen Lowe’s Portfolio
- news@mmlc
- Business critical learning
- Prevention Geek
- Curious David Redux
- link2learn
- Sallie Draper
- Little lessons in learning
- 10 tools with Roy
- Christine Hipple’s PLP
- Ipsum
- laurarobertsonsite
- All Across Learning
- Evalu8forms
I may not have stuck exactly to the challenge of writing one post a month, but I did get a lot out of this. Thank you Jane. http://amysclassroom.edublogs.org/2013/12/28/challenge-2013/
Amy wrote about the challenge in her blog post at Amy’s Classroom http://amysclassroom.edublogs.org/2013/12/28/challenge-2013/
“For me Twitter turned into a major life change. I connected with more people than ever before. I had my first art proposal accepted. I ended up interacting with people I met via Twitter. And my experience led me to many ongoing volunteer projects where I have met others who have opened up so many doors. I am truly part of my community and I owe it to my technology skills.”
Susan Stamm has written her final post on her blog Little Lessons in Learning, http://susanstamm.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/wrapping-up-jane-harts-2013-challenge.html
First, thank you for presenting such a wonderful challenge. Sometimes it just takes the right “nudge” to help us focus on our own development vs constantly focusing on the daily fire drills.
My progress was posted periodically here: http://businesscriticallearning.com/category/10tools/
Although I didn’t cover the intended ground, this was a great experience. So good that I am committing to re-evaluating my focus for 2014 and challenging myself further.
Thanks for lighting the fire.
Amazing how the year has been flying…. I did one tool challenge (youtube playlists) http://joitskehulsebosch.blogspot.nl/2013/01/10-tools-challenge-making-youtube.html
And still using playlists! Then I gave up on blogging the tool challenge but I’ve been testing new tools with other groups of people, for instance powernoodle and more network analysis tools. Sometime you have to try a tool with a group of people I guess. http://joitskehulsebosch.blogspot.nl/2013/11/tools-for-social-network-analysis-from.html
It would have been easier if I had known an easy way to follow the other challenge participants without following all their blogs…
Apart from realizing exactly how much of a challenge this was, I realized that it’s important to align the tools to what you’re trying to accomplish (rather than just take on a tool for the sake of it, as I had been). http://wp.me/pEfI8-nY
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