Thank you all for an intensive, inspiring Journey!

One of the most important thing I’ve learnt during this excellent course is to Read Through all the introduction text and films… as I was “thrown in” short before the course started, I missed a lot of text, films and readings. I didn’t really understand what to do before the connecting week. Because of that, I asked lots of questions that I could have figured out myself from the really great and clear introduction. I really didn’t see even that it was a film under the getting started picture.. . Pity.

But anyway, during the time I learnt a lot about being more digital, developed my ability to participate in Zoom meetings, even on my phone while walking home in the dark and snow, send my own zoom-link to the group, been topic leader with Donna twice. Thanks Donna for taking the notes! Learnt to use hyperlinks, make links from the presentations and record meetings, use Google Drive-, docs,!  Learnt the basic use of Padlets, Pictochart, Prezi and Mural. All technical tools that I definitely will use further on in my work! Thank you all group members for that knowledge sharing! I feel it’s really good to have all the topic readings for the future, to go back and remind- or actually read more about what’s coming up in my future teaching journey. It was impossible to read it all- but super for my own library and the possibility to share with my colleagues when we together will develop our courses. Also to have a better base to be able to support our teachers at KI.

As a learner I like Models of all kinds. It helps me(visually) to remember and better understand different pedagogic theories/thinking. I’ll try to put them all together in a big overviewing model, as I think all of them are parts of the whole idea of course design, both blended and fully online.

One tricky thing was the Tweet chats. It was very difficult on the laptop to follow and see the questions, responses- all in a messed up order. But still quite fun.  Might have been easier on the phone?

I also improved my English I think.. It was quite difficult in the beginning but in our smaller break out groups, (See Saad’s Fork-Joint Model) I felt more comfortable to talk. And- My Group 11- The Eleveners, have been SO nice, polite and supporting during the whole journey! 

After Topic 1, we lacked some members that fell out and some never joined us, so we were asked to merge ourselves with group 6- who also had the same problem. So from then we had two facilitators, Greg and Thashmee and two co-facilitators Annika and Grant. We also got our new members Jo and Stefan. I think no one hesitated from being merged and we felt like a warm new group from the very beginning. The facilitators could share their participation which gave them less work(?) and greater flexibility to change meeting times etc.

I would like with all my hart to thank my group for your assistance, contributing, tolerance, humour, warmth and deeply collaborating so everyone could feel like an important piece of puzzle. I will definitely remember our Mural when we all tried, at the same time, to fix the last text- we spent 2½ hour to get it all there (but Stefan was the one who made the layout for us) and then zoom record it all, save it and upload it!

Thank you Anya, Donna, Saad, Stefan and Jo as well as our co- and facilitators who provided us the scaffold and the course team- you are all my new PLN- Personal Learning Network!

See you Eleveners in Whatsup!!