As the course comes to an end, it is time to look back to what I have learnt, and how I can bring them forward into my practice.A deep dive into teaching strategiesBeing new to teaching, this course gave me the opportunity to not just interact and lear…

ONL212 has come to an end! What I have really appreciated about ONL is that this course addresses questions beyond digitalization and the use of digital tools. I found myself engaging with more fundamental questions of pedagogy: Who am I as an educator? What are my own ideas about learning? How can I ensure that … Continue reading “Open Networked Learning Course (ONL212), Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice”

I was unfamiliar with online tools and resources in the beginning of the ONL212 course. I had never used tools like miroboard or Lucidchart – in fact I did not even know about the ‘annotate’ feature in zoom, although …

Digital Literacies: Before and After  In this post I will like to take a light-hearted approach towards Digital Literacy.  My PBL group discussed many approaches and its consequences of becoming digitally literate.  Based on the first sc…

Digital Literacies: Before and After  In this post I will like to take a light-hearted approach towards Digital Literacy.  My PBL group discussed many approaches and its consequences of becoming digitally literate.  Based on the first sc…

 Teaching Students to Drive their Brains!!!This blog is a product of the intense discussion and feedback of my PBL group on Topic 4.  Our PBL’s discussion has been published here.  I thoroughly enjoyed myself working on meta-cognition i…

     I created my first Twitter account and started to follow a few people on ONL212. Every day, it will show me some interesting news from the people I am following. The ONL212 community alwa…

When I started teaching many years ago, I received a variety of advice from well-meaning senior colleagues. “Don’t let the students walk all over you.” “Get some student feedback around the mid-term mark to see how you are doing.” “Don’t be too nice.” “Don’t assign too much material.” I don’t recall much discussion about overall … Continue reading “Open Networked Learning Course (ONL212), Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning – advice to my younger self?”

When I started teaching many years ago, I received a variety of advice from well-meaning senior colleagues. “Don’t let the students walk all over you.” “Get some student feedback around the mid-term mark to see how you are doing.” “Don’t be too nice.” “Don’t assign too much material.” I don’t recall much discussion about overall … Continue reading “Open Networked Learning Course (ONL212), Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning – advice to my younger self?”

At the start on the covid-19 pandemic, there are a lot of disruption and sudden changes to the education system or model that we were used to. Many of the courses designed to be done physically have to be converted to online/virtual. Truthfully, at that point of time, much of the so called “conversion” isContinue reading “Design for online and blended learning”