Portable Learner, n. An individual who carries their knowledge and skills in their memory or in their social networks, spec. so that it can be employed in all sorts of circumstances.
20,000 feet above Deer Lake, Newfoundland.
Thanks for visiting my website. It’s a personal site that has been around in some form or another (mostly another) since 2002.
I spent a few years working in various clinical and research laboratories, which triggered a lifelong fascination with science, technology and community. Fortuitously, remarkably, this experience was deemed a sufficient entree into workplace learning and development. I love this field, and I care deeply about designing educational experiences that not only increase knowledge or capacity and ROI, but also further inquiry, enjoyment, and a sense that learning can be personally relevant and rewarding. In 2005, I returned to school to get my Masters in distance education. I am contemplating a PhD.
I once penned a comic strip. I used to be a freelance writer, but now I blog instead. I also have a few publications of the peer review sort. My favourite superpower is shapeshifting because I think it offers a extraordinary lifelong learning opportunities.
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Portable Learner, n. An individual who carries their knowledge and skills in their memory or in their social networks, spec. so that it can be employed in all sorts of circumstances.
20,000 feet above Deer Lake, Newfoundland.
Thanks for visiting my website. It’s a personal site that has been around in some form or another (mostly another) since 2002.
I work for Canadian Blood Services, where I manage a variety of educational activities like Transfusion Medicine and Blood Tech Net.
I spent a few years working in various clinical and research laboratories, which triggered a lifelong fascination with science, technology and community. Fortuitously, remarkably, this experience was deemed a sufficient entree into workplace learning and development. I love this field, and I care deeply about designing educational experiences that not only increase knowledge or capacity and ROI, but also further inquiry, enjoyment, and a sense that learning can be personally relevant and rewarding. In 2005, I returned to school to get my Masters in distance education. I am contemplating a PhD.
I am involved in a few digital literacy projects like The Transfusion Reading List, Designing Procedures for Learners and Transfusion Profusion. I believe that learning does not happen in isolation in the classroom, but is rooted in our cultural arrangements. I maintain a visual, trans-disciplinary learning design scrapbook to explore the implications.
I once penned a comic strip. I used to be a freelance writer, but now I blog instead. I also have a few publications of the peer review sort. My favourite superpower is shapeshifting because I think it offers a extraordinary lifelong learning opportunities.
I am grateful to be part of the social media space. Here’s my doppler, Facebook, flickr, LibraryThing, delicious, claimID, and Twitter. Please come join me!
The background image is flame art, created by Joen Asmussen, built using Peter Blaskovics java-based Flame painter