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Learner productivity with Google
Digital literacy is a term that has gained currency with the rise of digital technologies. For the literacy and numeracy teacher it adds another level for learners to...
Working (TOO) out loud
Videographer Erin only made one mistake. She laughed at the store manager in whose store we were shooting our elearning resource A-roll. The veins expanded even more,...
Hands on for workshop presentation simplicity
Workshop presenting is a tough gig. Be it that big international conference, a masterclass for peers, or a quick 1 hour filler for internal staff. Audiences demand new...
From Red to Purple
What a fabulous turn out for Red, thank you all so much for joining us. Here are some images and thought provoking opening and closing, and some middle, lines...
Social eLearning
Social Media and Learning for Business and Training - Yum Studio eLearning People now control how they consume media and what messages they care to hear through social...
Hawk Man Cometh
One of the most difficult things to capture on screen is passion. I had no trouble with this bloke. Mickey Gee has passion coming out of his ears. And that...
To heck with suspense
To be a good writer, apparently, you need to be a good reader. I reckon you also need to be a good listener. At Yum Studio we are always writing; whether it be posts,...
Event Tweeting – Avoid being a repeater station!
Here at Yum Studio we love twitter and we love events (art, technology, sports etc.) and we love TV. Put these together and you've just doubled, sometimes...
Footy is back and so is “Micks Footy Blog”!
Here at Yum Studio, we love to write! Video scripts, elearning resources and scenarios, historical memories, art pieces you name it. You ask - We deliver! We...
We’re All Winners
What a fabulous party, thank you all for coming. And thanks to those who took time to vote, five seconds work for a glittering prize... not bad. And the fabulous winner...
Yum Studio 86th Oscars Party
The fabulous fabulous awards season is upon us, and while we hate to brag, Yum Studio has again a nomination in every category. You believe? Want to win glittering...
Radio Springs Eternal
You simply must do yourself a favour and visit the Radio Springs Hotel at Lyonville. We did, and fell in love, with it, not each other, that happened quite some time...
3 Ages of Moodle
Moodle is a fantastic Learner Management System of that there is no doubt. Learning organisations can often struggle with Moodle implementation in determining...
Six Reasons
There are many reasons to visit beautiful Ballarat. Some reasons are so totally fresh, others are as old as time itself (well after the swamp was reclaimed)....
8 RTO Concerns about eLearning and how to overcome them
I’ve been fascinated by New Year discussions by RTO (Registered Training Organisation) personnel in various online traps around short comings with a type of...
Mick’s Cinema
I love films, I love going to the cinema, I love the rituals, I love the slow all-encompassing dark. For me, it's as much about the experience of viewing, as the...
Top 10 2013 Songs rocking the Yum Studio
A myiard of sounds have passed through the studio in 2013 as we recommitted to rockin to now as well as old sounds. Here are our top 10! Mickey Gee's Top 5 Tunes #1...
A Most Fabulous Film
The film of the year for me is one that was a complete experience. A cinema that dripped fabulousness, a film that opened my heart like a hot butter knife, a...
Fail daring greatly
Pres. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt seated on lawn, surrounded by their family; 1903 I'm not usually one for inspirational quote sharing, for me it diffuses the...
Louise is an author…
Self-publishing is like anything else in the new tech field - it's free, relatively simple, but will only work if you drive it. Technology is about people, it's...
Daisies were Chained
In the best possible way of course - those daisies can be tricky. "Daisy-Chaining Robots was a full day masterclass in Social Media for creative businesses, run June...
Daisy-chaining Robots
Over the last three months it has been such a joy to train people in the use of the fabulous ArtsAtlas, an online portal for artists to showcase their work, find their...
Crazed amplified somnambulist
Creativity is like El Nino and La Nina – interplay of idea drought and flood. Framing visions to a personal, political or spiritual context. We all have a number of...
Framing the past
While discussing music over the weekend, I recalled the work of Pete Frame who created "Family Trees" of the movements in, out and between various rock bands and scenes...
Love Claire
Here's a letter from someone I trained a million years ago... Lovely to hear from you Claire. Dear Erin, Many, many years ago before my age of my “computer...
MIFF Opening Night
We are screening yum's project MIFFtales throughout the Melbourne International Film Festival so managed to wrangle some tickets to Melbourne night of nights.... MIFF...
Foolish and hungry
Love him or loath him you can't deny Steve Job's impact on our techy type world as the driving force behind amazing successes Apple and Pixar. I'd have to say I'm a bit...
Edublog Awards 2010
My Nominations for The 2010 Edublog Awards are: Best Group Blog: http://www.cbloggers.org.au/ Most influential tweet / series of tweets / tweet based discussion:...
yum TAA learners become eLearning Stars – Why not you?
yum's latest group of learners studying the TAA eLearning electives from the Diploma of TAA have just about wrapped up their study with their final assessment delivered...
Private RTOs showcase eLearning development
ACPET has engaged yum's Michael Gwyther as an eLearning mentor for participating private Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) for the past 8 years. Last week at...
pd dispenser #3: personal projects
righto outta the slot next is Ji Lee speaking at the 99% Conference. by day Ji is the Creative Director at Google Creative Lab and by night/in his spare time (?!)...
so long, farewell. auf weidersehen, goodbye…
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” - Semisonic’s song Closing Time today is my last day as a yummy... kinda sad really but exciting at the...
@cbloggersproject
CBloggers Project, an initiative by JB and the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA), invited 20 young people from around oz to converge on the...
nerds, nerds, everywhere nerds!
a fortnight ago I ventured into strangely familiar territory. a land that your everyday people get very confused by... Armageddon firstly it sounds a bit daunting, and...
Halt! I am Gravatar!
Well all rugrats/reptar references aside i thought i would write a little something about gravatars. Due to some new improvments to the yum blog, made in an effort to...
pd dispenser #2: drive
this little snack from the pd dispenser will probably appeal to anyone who is a visual learner (like myself). this video is from the RSA Animate series and...
Adobe digital publishing wrap
Well nothing like a break down to the big smoke to top up the old creative tank. The fuel of choice late last month was the Adobe Digital Publishing workshop in...
An evening of freedom and Richard Stallman
So I'm still coming down from the crazy William Wallace "Fight for our FREEDOM" moment, I backed it up by paying for some open source software. Seems strange that I'm...
Arresting Audiences
I went to a really interesting summit from Film Vic about audiences which was pretty unique as it hasn't really been discussed in such a way before. Usually media...
FrogFace or Web 2 and Bio Diversity
yum was invited by Helen Thompson from the Centre for eCommerce & Communications (CeCC) to support their work in the BCG Wildlife Ponds project. Still in its early...
pd dispenser #1: inspiration
wanna jam in some digestible chunks of pd when you have a spare 15 minutes? sure you do. welcome to yum's all new pd dispenser; short videos gathered from...
Where has this year gone?
we are so very close to the end with VETis. it's hard to believe that there is only 4 weeks to go, we do have a nice 2 week break and then it's go go go until the end...
blog watch #7: must i paint you a picture?
blah blah blah...sometimes our reliance on text and talking gives me a white noise headache. yes, a picture paints a thousand words but it can also evoke memories,...
underground cinema
Last weekend a mate and i traveled back in time (1940s) to attend the latest underground cinema and it was totally fabulous... we had our fur capes, wide-legged pant...
Pimp My Site
wow what a great webinar we had the other day... had an apple theme but apples and oranges are often compared (you had to be there!). if you missed it you needn't worry...
God Bless America (and High Fructose Corn Syrup)
My boys and I (husband and 2 sons) have just completed a one month tour of the US of A and if my Facebook updates were anything to go by you'd think we'd eaten our way...
great media to take home… kinda
Applications for The CBloggers Project close THIS Friday! The CBAA is looking for young people from all around the country to become the inaugural group of CBloggers!...
eLearning Competencies – new course for semester 2
become an eLearning star? who me? Designing eLearning can really do your head in, so why not learn sitting down. “I learnt so much and had a lot of fun doing so. It was...
shilling wall achievement award
at the recent annual dinner for the Victorian ICT for Women our erin, creative director extraordinaire, was presented with an award recognising her significant...
VET in Schools (VETiS)
we've already hit the half way mark for the year and it's holiday time for us in the VETiS, which is a partnership between yum and the Highlands LLEN. yum brings...
blog watch #6: on the blogwagon
some of our clients and friends have taken a leap into the vast and fascinating blogosphere and i wanted to share their efforts with you. a couple of these intrepid...
current yum enews: april!
We want to keep you in the loop with what's been happening around the yum studio and beyond. Keeping it short and sweet, we want you alerted but not alarmed by giving...
Blog watch #5: blook this way
well I wasn't sure when i googled "blook" that what I was hoping for would come up...but it did! so what was I hoping for exactly? well a word to describe the...
Go Avatar Yourself!
Recently there's been a lot of hype lately with the movie Avatar, my VETiS Creative Industries (Media) class have been learning how to avatar various people. It's a bit...
they came, they saw, they BLENDed
wednesday the 24th of march saw the yum crew host Commerce Ballarat's BLEND event. this is an opportunity for Ballarat locals under 39 in business and leadership to get...
current yum enews: March!
We want to keep you in the loop with what’s been happening around the yum studio and beyond. Keeping it short and sweet, we want you alerted but not alarmed by giving...
2010 e Learning competencies kick off
We were thrilled to have 12 crew from around Australia last Tuesday night in Elluminate to kick off our biggest yet public delivery of the TAA e Learning competencies....
a brand new year
thursday 11th of feb marked the return of the VETiS Creative Industries (Media) class. after some careful and crazy amounts of planning I think it's going to turn out...
yum font on DaFONT
Well after a few weeks of twiddling our thumbs wondering when DaFONT would approve our font submission we finally received an email advising us of the good news...
Blog watch #4: Whimsy X Voyeurism
What do you get when you cross these to things together? This nice little blog check my shelf I'd say. Shelves, we've all got at least one of them and here is a place...
Nerd Camp/Conf! Envy
Nerd camp has been one of those things where it's become a bit of a tradition for the nerds of Australiasia to go on an annual pilgrimage to the host city for...
blog watch #3: Off the beaten track in the Big Smoke
twothousand, threethousand, fourthousand, fivethousand, sixthousand no I'm not parachuting...these are in fact a family of cool blogs all about Sydney, Melbourne,...
current yum enews: January!
We want to keep you in the loop with what's been happening around the yum studio and beyond. Keeping it short and sweet, we want you alerted but not alarmed by giving...
Don’t mess with me…I’m Sarah Sconner *ggrrrrr*
They came, they saw, they pushed each other over quite a bit. And so it was for the Ballarat Roller Derby League's first ever bout, The Derbytante Brawl. It was a...
blog watch #2: seth godin
anyone working in marketing or business in general is likely to have heard of seth godin...if not you're about to. this blog watch is all about his very successful blog...
resident nerd diaries #2
I've seen some occurrences the past couple of weeks (hence the delay in my nerd diaries). The most comforting thing I've seen is the sense of family/community when it...
iPhone app of the….THE END! 64ish APPS!
Well this is it! no more iPhone apps of the week! I've had some fun and decided to leave it to the experts at apple to guide us down the road of application knowledge....
you wouldn’t take a clipboard to a party…
or would you? twittering, facebooking, blogging and surfing until we blew our minds, sarah & erin presented a workshop yesterday to about 30 people. we used twitter to...
banging on the eLearning drum..
want to learn sitting down? yum has just this second announced another eLearning course for this year. and even though its only JUST been announced we are almost full....
blog Watch #1: the start
Just thought it would be good to share some blogs that I like and highlight people who are getting it right...in my humble opinion anyway. First off is The Sack. What...
iPhone app of the week: Morse-it
Morse-it: Well cant exactly remember why or how the topic came up at a recent function but the bet was made that there was an iPhone app for morse code....and well here...
resident nerd diaries: #1
As the "Resident Nerd" at yum, I feel that I need to prove that while I don't fit the look of the stereotypical nerd I do hang out with them and do VERY nerdy things. I...
iPhone app of the week: Shake&Share
Shake&Share: Well a simple one this week as i have been pretty busy and haven't been killing time browsing the app store. So this fun little app is kinda the first...
iPhone app of the week: Roshambo
Roshambo: OH MY GOD! BEST APP EVER! OK so after my NZ holiday i was thinking of some search queries for the app store....hmm why not rock paper scissors? As me and my...
100% pure new zealand
Well a change is as good as a holiday and in this case its both. Having just got back from New Zealand I'm finding it a bit hard to get back into the swing of things...
iPhone app of the week: Star Defense
Star Defense: Well there's no wonder this game is at the top of many peoples list for best tower defense game of late. I think we all have played this style of game at...
iPhone app of the week: DHD (a must for stargate fans)
DHD: Haha ok so this weeks app is just for some fun. Any Stargate fans out there? Well i happened to find a DHD (Dial Home Device) simulator! Yeah that's right you can...
iPhone app of the week: Dexigner
Dexigner: Well yet another design related app this week. Dexigner application is extension of the popular website of the same name and has up to date information on...
biz of the year
well the champers were on hand, okay it was red, and the atmosphere was packed with noise, colour and a palpable excitement. and that was all just at our table... and...
iPhone app(s) of the week: Kern and other “Games for creatives”
Kern: Well why wouldn't i have this app? Any designer should....i mean games based around design elements and principals, whats not to love? So after stumbling upon...
iPhone app of the week: WordPress
Well due to the fact that everyday i keep finding myself explaining, to yet another person, why my new iphone is the BEST THING EVER i decided to start posting my...
golly gee willickers, batman whatsa webinar? g
Well...putting it simply a webinar is a seminar or conference that happens on the web. So far this month I've been to two! The first was for mysmartgreen and the other...
sitting down and sipping wine isn’t hard… or is it?
a lot harder than you think! i sit on a stool, glass of wine next to me and i'm looking out the window enjoying the view at Main Bar. it's freezing cold outside and i'm...
virtual worlds, reluctance and openness
I went to a Virtual Worlds in Tourism talk the other day and it was interesting to see the differences in opinion between the researchers from the areas of Tourism, IT...
horizontal scrolling websites
Just read a very interesting, and inspiring blog on Horizontal scrolling websites. Check it out at 27-horizontal-scrolling-websites P.S already got a concept in mind ;)...
lets get twittering!
yum is on twitter! We blame it on Triple J as it seems like every second word we here listening to the radio all day is twitter. So yum is officially jumping on the...
influenza a(H1N1)
Well a big weekend, maybe longweekend? Or Extended-Longweekend? Anyway with Thursday and Friday of work here at yum, and cruising in the penthouse at the Paramount you...
first ever yum wrap for sae ra
"So this is my first ever yum wrap... and what a daunting task! I have no clue what I'm supposed to write but I thought I better start with a bit of an introduction of...
the end of an era
It was the best of times…it was the worst of times…and so ends my traineeship with yum productions. The best? Working on digital storytelling projects with the...
muay thai…
Well this time around the word wrap seem to have taken on a completely different meaning considering iv recently start doing Muay Thai (Thai Kickboxing) and have saw...
playtime with Design Victoria
as the yum creative director its playtime for me, so I love to get out and talk about what yum does and I had the opportunity to do so recently at a Design Victoria and...
life to fast?
It’s nearly the end of the year… so I rock up to yum in October and I’ve done a bit of work and all of a sudden it’s time to go out for a yum end of year Christmas...
lets begin…
I’ll begin with an introduction: My name is Holly, I have recently started working at yum productions. I honestly didn’t know what to expect coming to yum. What I did...
passion to cars
From passion to cars, never had one about the other but they have a way of imposing themselves. Recent car related events remind me of Aloysius my Fav car, a baby...
bound for a long day
With ‘failed morning alarms’, ‘R.I.P car batteries’, and pages and pages of document layout ahead of me it was bound to be a long day. Coupled with the ongoing...
finding a great image
Passion is finding a great image and being able to do that, as work is a joy. Recently I've been working with a client who gave me a full back stage pass to tell their...
first month down
first month under the belt here at yum productions and many more to come. With the first job being that of the yum websites redesign I was thrown in the deep end of a...
mentoring trainers…
Mentoring trainers around the state in using e learning tools is an exhausting business. Last week I've looked at video, podcasts, and learner management systems and...
digital storytelling
Dallas digital storytelling project. Every Wednesday for the last 6 weeks Mick and I have been tearing down the Western Highway to Dallas, in the northwestern region of...
