{"id":656,"date":"2018-11-13T08:04:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T08:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onledtechy.wordpress.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2018-11-13T08:04:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T08:04:24","slug":"topic-3-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/2018\/11\/13\/topic-3-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Topic 3: Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this post, I thought it would be beneficial to focus on the questions suggested in the course:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>An occasion when real collaborative learning took place, that moved your own thinking forward<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Within my day-to-day working environment, I am constantly engaging with a team of academics. Importantly, these &#8216;academics&#8217; (in most cases) have their own particular realms of interest and work, including: business management, FP and IP education, teaching and learning, law, and humanities. This diversity sparks debate around our college&#8217;s approach to contemporary topics such as retention (the article by Ameijde, Weller and Cross, 2018, is fascinating) and general student support.<\/li>\n<li>Furthermore, in my other role as campus edtech I work with a team across campuses. This engagement broadens my understanding of not only my working environment, but also introduces a number of supporting and constraining factors that I might not have considered if limited to my working environment only.<\/li>\n<li>A particular example here would be the development of the Gauteng Regional Artefact, as part of our regional edtech conference held earlier this year. During this conference, vice-principals, edtechs, and other notable academic members worked collaboratively to develop an edtech training artefact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your own Personal Learning Networks \u2013 how have they developed and how they could be taken further<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>My PLN is both face-to-face (as discussed above in my working environment), as well as particularly internet-focused, with a number of different &#8216;channels&#8217;, some more formal than others, utilised to enhance a my learning in a broad array of areas. Examples include:\n<ul>\n<li>Extensive use of YouTube for tutorials, explanations, and additional material support.<\/li>\n<li>Khan Academy for lecture material<\/li>\n<li>Enrolling in MOOCs (through EDx previously) to enhance a new skill (programming languages in this case)<\/li>\n<li>Facebook, where I have previously asked for research input<\/li>\n<li>Twitter, where I follow a number of educational technologists and news sources<\/li>\n<li>My work environment, as discussed above<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reflect on how you can use technologies to enable your own networks for learning processes<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>As mentioned above, web-services (especially SNL), have been pivotal to my learning in a PNL-type manner. I have omitted blogs on purpose, as although I understand their significance, I have not (to be honest) utilised a blogging network to its full potential. This is certainly something I would like to develop in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this post, I thought it would be beneficial to focus on the questions suggested in the course: An occasion when real collaborative learning took place, that moved your own thinking forward Within my day-to-day working environment, I am constantly engaging with a team of academics. 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