Third topic of the training was focusing on the teachers’ well-being but also the well-being of the community. This is something I have learned: 1) It was very interesting was to stop and think about what are we talking about when we are talking about well-being. Who’s well-being are we talking about? Is there suchContinue reading “On a journey to the communal well-being – topic 3: Developing teachers’ well-being skills”
On a journey to the communal well-being – topic 2: Supporting the development of students’ well-being skills
For the second topic of the course we are thinking about students, their well-being and how to support them to develop their well-being skills. This is maybe the most familiar topic of all these three. Not in a sense that I would have the solutions and answers to all the issues this important topic raisesContinue reading “On a journey to the communal well-being – topic 2: Supporting the development of students’ well-being skills”
On a journey to the communal well-being – topic 1: Developing one’s own well-being skills
Last week (or last month) I have started a Finnish course “Matka yhteisölliseen hyvinvointiin” which would be something like a journey to the communal well-being in English. I love participating that course in Finnish but why am I writing my journey diary in English? First of all, I work a lot in English so IContinue reading “On a journey to the communal well-being – topic 1: Developing one’s own well-being skills”
Leap of faith?
Our Open Networked Learning (ONL) course has come to an end and it is time to summarize the journey. Now it feels like we just got started and found our way as a group how to operate on it and I got used to the rhythm of the course. Earlier I used to be quiteContinue reading “Leap of faith?”
The art of designing online learning
During the past two weeks we have divid deeper into online learning and how to plan it. Until now have talked about more abstract level what is online learning and collaborative learning but in this topic we had to get more concrete in the terms of what does it all mean. In the beginning ofContinue reading “The art of designing online learning”
Learning together – for real?
When talking about collaborative learning and communities I just cannot think of any better examples than team sports. In addition, singing in a choir or playing some instrument in an orchestra or a band are alike to playing team sports because you have a group of people who are complementing each other. I have hadContinue reading “Learning together – for real?”
Openness in education
During the last weeks we have been thinking, talking and investigating the topic of Open learning – sharing and openness in our course and PBL group. The concept of sharing and being open has been quite natural to me. At least at my everyday work with my colleagues. Me and my colleagues are used to […]
Cyber me
In our ONL group, we have discussed a lot about the mutual feeling we seem to have: none of us is really comfortable with writing blogs or sharing personal thoughts or ideas with the unknown audience of the cyber world. We started to think that what is behind that uncomfortable feeling and how could we […]
My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new learning (related) blog. At the moment this picture above describes my thoughts. Kind of nothing but at the same time a lot. The idea or thread that I trust in most of the fields of life is […]
Me and myself
I’m just a really normal person, I think. So nothing special really. But I believe we all are amazing in our own ways. So I’m special, too. I’m working in an university and I think and talk about learning every day. And I love that. Just today I started an online course about online learning […]