We use Medium.com to organise our publication full of information about climate policy and citizen lobbying. Mostly, we write: How-to guides: Practical tips on lobbying, using tech, and all the other stuff we do. The Policy Playbook: Short reads on climate policy, in particular carbon pricing. Field reports: Success stories and…

At CCL, we use the group chat app Slack to organise everyone. After you complete a welcoming call, you’ll get access to cclaust.slack.com. Why do we use Slack, not email? Group chat allows us to organise the glorious mess that is CCL in a way that allows everyone to see what everyone else is doing. …

We seem to be running more and more online learning programs about online learning, which is kinda weird and recursive. But fun! During this past year, we have seen an explosion of online learning happening. We’ve done a bunch of our own, and supported many to do theirs. …

Here is how we think about and lay out an online/offline course. At its simplest a blended program is part video lesson, part workshop, all people figure out things together in groups. Hat tip: We have stolen all our good ideas about structuring learning and building experiences from Simon Kavanagh…

Most academic courses have reading lists. They often start unashamedly with the professor’s latest book. They are the beacons of truth, lighting the runway astride the runways of our intellectual endeavour. The main problem I have with them is how damn linear they are. Everyone starts at the same point…

Or: Why TED Talks aren’t education, YouTube is junk food, and Masterclass ingrains social inequality while selling democracy. If you know where to look, there are serious issues with platform-based online learning (i.e. paying a monthly fee to access a learning on the internet.) Treating education as a gym membership…

This one’s a two-parter. Take a good hour to do this well, and if you run out of things to do, go for a walk and write some notes. Process #1: ‘Hot seat’ feedback. Put one person in the “hot seat”, with everyone facing them. Take 10 mins per person to focus on that individual…

Very few of us are taught how professionals interact online. This stops us from having smooth interactions with the working population, and if you’re not comfortable with this stuff it’s hard to feel confident and bring your best self to the work. Here’s my top 5, especially for folks entering…

v0.1: We’re building some (surprisingly sophisticated) video education technology to support our new work across Southeast Asia this year. Here’s a Spotify playlist to make this big ol’ post more fun. This post contains: The basics of the Fitzroy Academy; We are doing a ‘capital G Good, capital T Thing’; We are…