TOPIC 5 ONL
A confession of a traditional teacher with previous almost no digital literacies
Looking back on my personal journey with my first course in Open Networked Learning it has been both a tough and a fun race -and extremely timely due to the global pandemic. Could I prior this course imagine I would get mails from different parts of the world with questions about how to go on-line education? Not that many, but for ex. from my South African colleagues (relevant here as my first Blog was written in Whembe district in Northern South Africa) that we would switch to On-line learning. But that so soon be able to provide content replies!?! No, I could not have imagined that. Thanks to the specific ONL21 course I did with pride!
The three levels of involvements
I wish to analyse and understand why I felt the course was on-the-edge of overwhelming in its demands. Getting started and Connecting weeks were fine, Topic 1: Online participation and digital literacies was Ok, I coped. Thereafter Topic 2: Open Learning – sharing and openness, also was ok pace and I learned a lot, attended webinar and wrote my blogs as a good student. Thanks to the reflection week I felt I could continue with dignity since it was a lot at that time, but it was always almost too much thi time but it peaked in Topic 3.
Next topic was Topic 4. Design for online and blended learning, where I re-call we discussed a lot in PBL13 how to stay on-line post COVID19. From being somehow too sceptic to ONL when starting this course, in this topic my tranferation took place! I could suddently imagine myself staying online from now! ONL really openes op for possibilities. PBL13 did a film about a rhetoric speech about the pros of ONL and I happened to get that part from the FisH document that was most close to my heart, about on-lines advantages to keep ONL concerning global courses – and I started to fly aways in dreams what could be reached in the future if well planned…
Evaluating myself I recognize early I had to priorities to sustain this race and keep track on the course (due to my working situation/the COVID19 situation). I learned about the three levels of involvements in the course and put the second level, the PBL group meeting and work, as my priority. Gradually I managed to attend the first level; the ONL201 comity spaces. I attended first one webinar, followed by a Tweetchat and thereafter only the final webinar, all comprehensive.
The Learning Blog-reflection
What I thought would be most easy (these blogs) was a headache, but I can’t really explain why. Time will show if this is something more than a once-a-life-time-experience.
But now, right after the course, what is most striking is how I upgraded my ONL significantly. Writing those lines I wish to extend my thanks to my skilled group mates in the PBL group 13 and the facilitator Gregor and co-faciltator Marie-Louise. I will remember you – it was with you I did my first Zoom-actions; my first “share screen”, recordings etc, and already now I hade done it weekly in courses!”
Thanks to the course organisers, thanks to all involved!
Best wishes,
Vanja
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