Well – its time nowPositive Thinking!
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Well – its time nowPositive Thinking!
Now the 2 weeks of the first ONL202 topic “Digital literacies” have almost passed! The work in our PBL group has been fun and rewarding, and it feels like I have known the group for longer than I actually have. Exploring the topic has certainly taken some time but the activities of these past weeksContinue reading “My first blog post-Topic 1”
He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.” Thomas Jefferson Education is all about enlightenment – enlightening each other through sharing, collaboration and feedback. Openness is central in education. Today, we have Internet, it gives us a great … Continue reading “How do you share your resources?”
Formal or NonFormal THAT’s the question!! I made this at home &n…
Dear reader, I have to step up my blogging. It appears no one was interested in my musings in the first entry. There was only one like which was from a colleague of mine out of pity. The only comment he gave me was “it comes across as passive aggressive”. It is painfully clear IContinue reading “Learning blog utopia or dystopia?”
I continue my learning experience on ‘Internationalization‘ and ‘Language policies‘ through the pedagogical course ‘YA2 International and Collaborative Environment‘ provided to the personnel of the University of Helsinki. Our group-assignment this week was to write a blog on a topic of our choice, but related to language diversity. At the University of Helsinki, the official … Continue reading Multilingual co-teaching is time consuming but might be worth the time…
Now that I am not able to attend any of the synchronous meetings of my group it feels like being a ghost group member. So I started to wonder whether this ghost-like feeling extends to online education overall. From an instructor perspective there is a long-standing discussion on how an online instructor comes across, as […]
To be honest, this topic has surprised me in many ways! I did not know anything about digital literacies, though I thought I was part of the digital world. But I was almost completely wrong… A great exercise for you to be as surprised as me is to create your own “Visitor and resident map”.Continue reading “Topic 1: Online participation & digital literacies”
I was LATE? Yesterday I promised to be a lot of things today – one was to beON TIME
Today, perhaps more of our time is spent on online interactions compared to those taking place in ‘real life’. Hence, the This week’s topic (i..e, online participation and digital literacies) was interesting and relevant for both educational and personal reasons. The first activity for this topic was the webinar by D. White who held anContinue reading “On Spaces and Roles”
So, how can place be brought into online learning in sustainability? This is the question I wrestle with today.
Tomorrow it’s ONL-time I will be… I will TRY to beOn timePreparedFocusedSmartOrganized?Tomorrow