We are approaching the end of this course, and to summon it up, I intend to go through my blog posts as well as having a look at my fellow students in the PBL11.
Firstly, I wrote a blogpost called “Online skills in the making”, wherein I outlined some of the newly acquainted tools and concepts that I had been introduced to recently. Some highlights: This blog. Padlet. Mentimeter. Conceptual map. I also wrote about the pedagogical portfolio that I am herding during this period. David White´s seminar on “Online Literacy” and John Johanssons dito on “Self determination theory” were inspirational talks during this period.
Later on, I wrote a blogpost that I called “Deciphering the ONL structure – first attempt”. Honestly, at this point I found the ONL structure quite hard to decipher – as it is both vast and somewhat complicated. My attempt to decipher the structure led to this graph:
An attempt to understand a course structure.
I wrote this in the blog:
So, after a couple of weeks in the “Open Networked Learning” course, I again find myself grappling after a visualization of the plethora of online-tools that we are using within the course.
A bit later, still in March, we were to make a graph built on David White´s ideas of mapping tools to the personal and the institutional. This is what I came up with:
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At the end of March, I wrote a blog post called “Openness in Education – a Reflection. My point was that
Openness in Education could be seen as three different strands:
- Teacher – Student
- Student – Environment
- Person – Person
During April, I was the lead together with Nadia Caldes – in our PBL group. During this time I got acquainted with the Miro – and also with how to try to organize our communal work. I wrote a blog called: Topic 3: Learning about “Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning
Later on, as earlier mentioned, I was struck with an overwhelming health issue as well as surgery, which made it hard for me to follow the work in the PBL. However, I tried to catch up on my own, and wrote the blogpost:
Topic 4: Pondering upon “Design for online and blended learning”
And this leads us to this final blogpost – that is a summon-up.
What, then, will my future practice be – based on what I have learnt during this period?
Surely, I will have an eye open for new tools and new ways of interacting online with students and colleagues. I guess that I was somewhat stuck in old habits as well as an idea that we cannot really make the current situation much better. This is an idea that I by now have abandoned.
Carl Unander-Scharin, June 14, 2021
