Topic 1: Online participation & digital literacies

Reflections of week 1

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Jonas Tana

Concluding all the discussions and reflections our group engaged in during the first topic on online participation and digital literacies would result in a short novel. Therefore, I have decided to only reflect upon the categorization of individuals in visitors/residents, or even natives/immigrants. In our group we discussed and reflected that labeling is in this … Continue reading Reflections of week 1 →

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Marie-Louise Eriksson

So, this weeks topic for me has been about putting myself and my own experiences into the context, for example a framework such as DigComp 2.1. In my work as a teaching librarian I´m familiar with different kinds of frameworks and we use them regularly. But one day as I looked on the picture on […]

Digital Visitor or Just Silent?

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Leo Hatvani

During the OpenNetworkedLearning course we have been examining the continuum between the digital visitors and residents supplemented by the continuum of personal versus institutional use of different technologies. In this text I will take a look at one of the most commonly discussed aspects: social media platforms. My impression is that some of the leading motivations … Continue reading Digital Visitor or Just Silent? →

Social Media – your positionality may have you believing “bad publicity” is real.

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Kelly Maroon

During the very first topic exploration for the ONL 192 course, we were tasked with unpacking and investigating a specific, provided scenario that sounded quite “close to home” for many of us. The scenario positioned an online user accessing an online education course for the first time and feeling a variety of emotions about it. […]

Online participation

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Eva Guan

My first time to use internet can be dated back to 1999. At that time I first got an email account and sent emails to my pen-friends in the US. Slowly I learned to use internet to look for information and other social media. I was very keen om learning new staff online until about […]

Exploring Digital Literacy

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Michelle Coates

Topic 1 focused on digital literacy. I am still trying to figure out how this blog is supposed to work, and connectivity can be problematic at times. But I hope that I am moving in the right direction. Navigating digital platforms is something that takes time to master properly. Working full time does not allow […]

Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies (ONL192)

Posted on October 12, 2019 by Siv Jönsson

Reflections on digital literacy During these 2 weeks I have learnt a lot about digital literacy. Yes, what is it? :-). In our group we decided to dig a bit deeper with respect to i) the student and teacher perspective, e.g. how to get all students onboard given different initial capacities? and to ii) the … Continue reading Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies (ONL192) →

Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies (ONL192)

Posted on October 12, 2019 by Siv Jönsson

ONL and Metacognitive Learning

Posted on October 12, 2019 by Donna Stanton

photo credit: Luis Alfonso Orellana on Unsplash I’ve been lucky to join a good group in the open online course called Open Networked Learning (ONL). We are joining from Brazil, Finland Germany, South Africa, Sweden and the US. Some people are Open Learners; others have university affiliations. For the past two weeks, my ONL group (the Eleveners) … Continue reading “ONL and Metacognitive Learning”

My digital journey: past, present and future

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Susan Gamache

My fellow teachers have often asked me why I am so keen on designing and teaching online courses. To me it’s about flexibility, access, inclusion and 21st century working life skills. After all, digitalization is what allowed me to complete my master’s degree fully online while having a full time lecturer position at the university, […]

Cyber me

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Marja Elonheimo

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 […]

Digital distraction in class

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Patrik Holm

When investigating Topic 1 in the ONL-course I stumbled upon a problem I’ve been thinking about in the classroom. The problem of students being tempted to use their electronic devices for off-topic activities and thus draw attention from the learning activity at hand. I found an article by Neiterman and Zaza (2019) where they investigate […]