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A Strange Crochet Mantle

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Andrea Korens

As the costume designer for our Strange Crochet video production, and taking inspiration from Dr. Marti Cleveland-Innes, teacher as bricoleur, I gathered old materials and brought them together in new ways. Working with these new media, in a different scale, I was clumsy in something that had felt natural to me before. I was forcedContinue reading “A Strange Crochet Mantle”

On Stuckness and Superpowers

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Andrea Korens

Watching the recorded webinar for topic 4 (Design for Online & Blended Learning), I am aware of the privileges I bring from my background area of expertise. Teaching in, and administering an applied program, so many of the principles described explicitly by Dr. Marti Cleveland-Innes are intuitively and implicitly part of my practice. In normalContinue reading “On Stuckness and Superpowers”

Product VS Process

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Andrea Korens

I have been thinking a lot about Product vs. Process in the education world. I find great joy in helping student transcend their results-orientation, if only for a moment, perhaps because I find it so hard to transcend myself. I do this both consciously and intuitively, through curriculum and instructional design, assessment practices, and modeling.Continue reading “Product VS Process”

Focusing energy

Posted on April 18, 2021 by Andrea Korens

Whenever I meet with my group, I feel inspired, refreshed, energized. It’s exactly what I was hoping for, but I don’t have the time to devote myself as much as I’d like – and it leaves me wondering what on earth I’m doing with my time. These days it’s 2-4 evening meetings a week, plusContinue reading “Focusing energy”

Focusing energy

Posted on April 18, 2021 by Andrea Korens

Topic 2. Lights and Shadows of Open Education

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Cristina Paniagua

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom George Washington Carver The introduction of the Internet changed the world as we knew it. Today we can access any resource from any location. Education is not an exception. Some assert that online courses carry the potential to revolutionize the boundaries of modern learningContinue reading “Topic 2. Lights and Shadows of Open Education”

Collaboration, Facilitation, Safety

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Andrea Korens

For the past two weeks I have been facilitating topic 2 – Openness and Sharing – with my partner. I am trying to spin the swirling threads into some cohesive meaning. In my work, I approach projects with a need to tie them up with a bow. My work begins with an anticipated arrival, itContinue reading “Collaboration, Facilitation, Safety”

What was the topic, again?

Posted on March 21, 2021 by Andrea Korens

A whirlwind couple of weeks, in our first ONL topic – I had to look it up to refresh my memory: Online Participation and Digital Literacies. In some ways I felt like I lost sight of the topic as we navigated new collaborative relationships and figured out a new tool… in other words, while weContinue reading “What was the topic, again?”

A challenge is more inspiring than a recipe!

Posted on March 20, 2021 by Christian Coenen

All in all, it was a packed two weeks that we worked very intensively on topic 1. To be honest, I think we started too late to focus and prioritize based on the Fish document. The first meeting fell on the same day as the plenary webinar and we tried to orient ourselves based on“A challenge is more inspiring than a recipe!” weiterlesen

Systems, lifeworlds, and sacrificial lambs

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Andrea Korens

When we make things out of fabric, we know the strengths and limitations of the material and work with them. Even more interesting, we turn the limitations into strengths. We emphasize linen’s creases and felt the wool. The other day I read about Orsola de Castro’s take on clothes moths – she leaves a ‘sacrificialContinue reading “Systems, lifeworlds, and sacrificial lambs”

Systems, lifeworlds, and sacrificial lambs

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Andrea Korens

Strange Crochet

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Andrea Korens

Our ONL group has named itself Strange Crochet, I am naturally rather pleased and I love working in metaphor besides. I must figure out what strange crochet means to me. I found this clunky quote, which was rattling around in the back of my mind: “The educational achievement is not to make the strange seemContinue reading “Strange Crochet”