Build your own document camera

Many teachers are forced to switch to teaching online these days. Many are also working from home. In this scenario many educators are producing educational videos and sometimes you want to be able to show a drawing, an equation or something else which is not easy to produce digitally on your computer. A nice little […]

Online learning tools and practices – uncertainty, ambiguity and power

A worried student was the protagonist of the first topic scenario in the online connected learning course I am taking. Were I myself worried? Unsure? Uncomfortable? And was it because of the technology? Or because of working with people I have never met? And not only working, but also having to collaborate and produce aContinue reading “Online learning tools and practices – uncertainty, ambiguity and power”

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Digital literacy and creativeness in a crazy world

What I have witnessing right now while taking this course is a digital explosion in the Higher Education. From being used by online teaching lecturers, the closing down of Universities around the world has forced everyone into the digital tools and rooms. More and more are are forced to climb a very steep learning curve in a short period of time to accommodateContinue reading “Digital literacy and creativeness in a crazy world”

Introduction

My name is Leonidas Matsakas and I am working as Senior Lecturer at Biochemical Process Engineering at Luleå University of Technology. I am currently participating in the Open Networked Learning (ONL201) course and this is my blog.

Topic 1 Reflection: Risk of DPOD, anyone?

I checked out Beetham and Sharpe’s (2011) theoretical framework, Jisc. I looked for a definition of digital literacy and found this: “Digital literacy looks beyond functional IT skills to describe a richer set of digital behaviours, practices and identities. What it means to be digitally literate changes over time and across contexts, so digital literaciesContinue reading “Topic 1 Reflection: Risk of DPOD, anyone?”

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Oral exam on distance

Yesterday I performed an oral exam with the first four students in one of my courses, in the course Creative Concept development (M7016T) the assignment is plan and document a three-day creative workshop for a specific team (based on different scenario…