Leena Katto

A wrapup of ONL212

Posted on February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 by Leena Katto

“All good things come to an end,” my dad used to say when my kids wouldn’t have wanted to leave from summer cottage or other nice places. This came to my mind when ONL212 ended. The last blog post has been waiting for its arrival for too long, but…

Learning design as a key competence for a teacher

Posted on December 14, 2021February 8, 2022 by Leena Katto

As a child, I dreamed about being a teacher. What I thought planning teaching would be like, was that a teacher would tell children new things and then give them nice exercises they could practise their new skills with. And of course, an exam wou…

How to scaffold sutdents’ collaborative work

Posted on November 23, 2021February 8, 2022 by Leena Katto

Photo: Jason Goodman, UnsplashIn the third topic it was my and a colleague’s turn to moderate our PBL group’s work. We worked as equal moderators though my role was officially a co-moderator. I had recently been in facilitator training held by Mukamas …

Don’t hide your resources under a bushel!

Posted on November 2, 2021February 8, 2022 by Leena Katto

Photo: JesusLeal, PixabayDuring the last two weeks, we took a look to open learning and sharing through great webinars and discussions. At the moment, open sharing is a thing in Finland too as the Library of Open Educational Resources has been opened. …

Where am I online and when?

Posted on October 25, 2021February 8, 2022 by Leena Katto

The first topic of this course was online participation and digital literacies. That included one webinar and a tweetchat hosted by David White and Jörg Pareigis. In the webinar White put us to think about our online presence: are we visitors or reside…

We got connected!

Posted on October 4, 2021February 8, 2022 by Leena Katto

Week 2, the connecting week, is now over and we are moving towards Topic 1: Online participation & digital literacies.The last week was interesting. It was lovely to meet all our PBL group members online and get to know each other a bit more. …

Let the journey begin!

Posted on September 21, 2021February 8, 2022 by Leena Katto

I recently enrolled and was accepted to the Open Networked Learning iteration 2 of 2021! I don’t know about you but I’m excited!The course is now going through getting started week and I already feel that even though this course makes my autumn qu…