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These resources look really helpful and are broken into the stage you are at in life. 

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My preferred 4MAT Learner Style profile is in Quadrant 4.

See below from my assessment last week.

Your most preferred quadrant is 4. You are a Type Four Learner!
Your least preferred quadrant is 2.
Your watching/doing score is -3. You are on the reflective end of this continuum.

• I take in new information by sensing and feeling (I trust my gut).
• I make new learning my own by acting on what I feel will work for me.
• I like to learn by trial and error and self-discovery.
• I work best when I am on my own creating new things and ideas.
• I connect to new experience by hunching what might be done with it.
• I need to understand the possibilities of application beyond the original topic.
• I like to connect ideas.
• I want to do things that resonate in me.
• I like to show other people what I know.
• I love to take risks.
• I have a good ability to sense positive, new directions for things and ideas.
• I thrive on challenges and crises.
• I work to build trust by being open.
• I tackle problems by trying out many possibilities.
• I often reach accurate conclusions in the absence of logical justification.
• I love change and am very flexible and adaptable.
• The more I learn, the more I come up with new questions.
• My favorite question is, “If?”

For those who favor “Fourness”

• Look for the possible applications and ramifications of what you are learning.
• Pursue opportunities to create your own project; but be sure to develop realistic objectives and timelines.
• Learn to better order your life with some solitude and quiet reflection.
• Use your social strengths with others to create dynamic learning environments.
• Create study/discussion group opportunities for difficult material.
• Whenever possible, present what you have learned to the larger group. This verbal activity will enhance and deepen your understanding.
• Find applications of what you learn in society to satisfy your desire to make a mark on the world.

TYPE four LEARNERS find the following helpful when learning:

• creating skits
• videos
• other non-traditional ways of learning

If you are a Type Four Learner and feel the need to stretch, try step-by-step procedures with proofs.

Get yours online here.

Dear friends, This is a note let you know that I have resigned from my job in the Telstra Social Media team to pursue my passion for education and training. It’s been an amazing almost 3 years with Telstra and I’ve learned a huge amount about the world of corporate communications and social media.

As many of you have witnessed, I have been building my empire and studying solidly throughout 2011-2012. After countless hours of deep thought and planning I have to make this step in a new direction now to really shine doing what I love. 

I will continue building my education business, return to part time study in 2013 as well as working part time and freelancing. 

I know there will be challenges and I am excited at the prospect. I look forward to spending more time with my kids and having the flexibility to seek out new opportunities which can allow me to make a difference in the lives of young people.

I’d like to take this opportunity to invite you in on my journey and let you know some of the services I am offering.

• Instructional design
• Augmented reality
• Game based learning design and development
• Tutoring in digital citizenship, media and information literacy
• Web, blog and mobile site design and development
• Social media strategy
• Social Media and reputation management
• Online community management
• SEO (search engine optimisation),Adwords, Facebook and LinkedIn ads
• Project management

As I will be working from home and in co-working spaces around Melbourne, you will be pleasantly surprised at my hourly, day and project rates.

Please do keep me in mind and pass on my details to your networks where appropriate.

Thanks and wishing you all the best with your dreams and aspirations in 2013.

You can contact me on Facebook, via my website brendanokeefe.com or simply call me on 61 3 9018 7340

Make it so.

The Power Of Persuasion from Phil Wylie

The Purpose of Education from Steve Wheeler