For online teaching and collaborative work, these are great times. Many of our colleagues and institutions are sharing their work, and helping each other in this stressful situation. Sharing is caring and the essence of what teaching is. Unfortunately, many colleagues and organizations are not aware of or forget to share their material in a […]
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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 […]
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Topic 3 (ONL192): Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning
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The topic In this topic ‘Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning’, our PBL group were interested in the term ‘connectivism’. I particularly enjoyed reading the original article on this by George Siemens from 2005. There were so many aspects included in the founding of this –ism that…
Testing iframe
Here some text. And now the iframe:
Where am I in this digital world?
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The Topic 1 subject was about online participation and digital literacies. We had an amazing webinar with David White, and in our PBL group we discussed about advantages to use digital tools and how to became a digital resident. …
Open pedagogies: Transforming and empowering learning
The open movement has been defined as: An informal, worldwide phenomenon characterised by the tendency of individuals and groups to work, collaborate and publish in ways that favour accessibility, sharing, transparency and interoperability. (Couros …
Webinar series on the state of Open Education in Finland, Germany and Sweden
Today on October 8, OERInfo together with ITHU and their Finnish counterpart will kick off a series of three webinars on the topic of Open Education. It is my pleasure to give some personal perspectives from Sweden and in seven minutes trying to summarize what the current state is. Wish me luck! 🙂 Here are […]
#ONL192 reflections from a course organizer
We are in the fourth week of #ONL192, a truly connected course, in which the participants are asked to write reflective blog posts and in which the participants can connect their blog to the course homepage. Although the requirements of the course do not require to blog for another week, there is a massive amount […]
One for the books: Schools need libraries too!
If you travel in library circles, an article published across various Fairfax publications on the weekend has been doing the rounds in your social media this week. The ‘cleverly’ titled: One for the books: The unlikely renaissance of librar…
Inquiring towards Innovation
As an educator, librarian, researcher and learner, I have engaged with and taught about inquiry learning in many ways. Valuing openness and access, I share some of this teaching online; here you can see the most recent iteration of LCN616 Inquiry Learn…
School library collection development: It’s not as simple as you might think
This semester, I have been lecturing in the unit EUN617, Managing and Organising Collections as part of the Master of Education (Teacher Librarianship) course at Queensland University of Technology. From the outside looking in, collection development s…
Participating in OERu’s “Digital literacies for online learning” [#LiDA101]
Last month I registered for the course “Digital literacies for online learning”, with the focus on Learning in a Digital Age (#LiDA101). In the beginning we were asked to establish our Personal Learning Environment (PLE). The definiton in the course is: “A personal learning environment refers to the range of tools, communities and websites you… Read more »
We create our future: Why we need to embrace critical digital pedagogy
Why do I believe we need to embrace critical digital pedagogy in the design and experience of learning and teaching? Perhaps it is because I don’t want to live in a future like this: Science Fiction Fact? How would such a future come to be? A fut…