Bold Without Boundaries – Extending Learning Beyond Time and Location
I sit here in front of my laptop watching the twitter back channel (#naspa13) and wishing I could have been at the NASPA 2013 Conference in Orlando, Florida. I could have met some of my twitter...
View ArticleHow to Use Social Media and Personal Learning Networks for Self-Directed...
One benefit of formal education is that students are provided guidance throughout their learning process via the curriculum of their studies. Students are given materials and resources to study from...
View ArticleLearner’s Mindset In the Workplace
Do you ever think about your “learning objectives” when you have a new project or when confronted with challenging situations at work? Do you ever assess/reflect what you learned after? This is a...
View ArticlePreparing for a Career Yet to Be Invented
Even the most skilled and brightest futurists in the 1990′s could not have predicted the upcoming massive changes in the first decade of 2000 in higher education brought upon by consumer technologies...
View ArticleMy Professional Reading List for 2013
This year has been an intense learning experience for me. It was a year of learning driven by curiosity, the need for background information for projects with folks I met via social media, and in...
View ArticleReframing Technology in Student Affairs
Technology can be scary for some. The prospect of technology potentially replacing one’s position in an organization is even more scary. This is one of the reasons as to why advances brought upon by...
View ArticleSelf-Reliance and Career Development
I have had several mentors and sponsors who have guided and advocated for me throughout my career. For this, I am very grateful. There is no way I would have advanced in my career without the help of...
View ArticleYear in Review – Professional/Memorable Moments of 2013-2014
Academic year 2013-2014 was a year filled with accomplishments and memorable events that impacted me professionally and personally. It was a year of connecting and working with new students, UCSB...
View ArticleSix Ways to Build Confidence In the Workplace
I believe that as a manager/leader, one of our most important responsibilities is to build leaders and to build productive colleagues by providing them the environment to think for themselves and grow....
View ArticleCohort-Based IT Leadership/Management Program for Higher Ed
This post contains some of the ideas I will be proposing to our HR department as an officially endorsed training program to address two issues I see present on our campus IT community. These two issues...
View ArticleMy Knowledge System – A Visual Diagram
Learning is fun, isn’t it? It should be. One can learn from anyone, anywhere, and in many ways. Technology has made it so much easier to learn and connect with folks around the world. Through...
View ArticleMy Professional Reading List 2015
Another year of professional growth and learning. As a significant of my time went to my MBA (IT Mgmt Specialization) course work in 2015, I was not able to devote as many hours to reading about other...
View ArticleConquering My Fear of Public Speaking
Do you have a fear of public speaking? Do you get anxious and nervous days and even weeks before you’re to speak? I certainly was for most of my life. When I was in elementary school, I pretended to be...
View ArticleHow I Passed My CISSP Exam
I passed my Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam on November 20th, 2018. It took me 50 minutes to answer 100 questions. I am sharing this blog post as resource to...
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