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Open Educational Resources…making the impossible possible. | sineadwhitty
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Open Educational Resources…making the impossible possible. April 30, 2016. April 30, 2016. The topic of OER took me back a few years. It got me thinking about the time my then employer decided to create a new course to train language teachers. The devil is in the detail they say and the ‘detail’ here is that we needed content for 72 lessons in a variety of languages and in a range of levels, from beginner to advanced. All of a sudden our wonderful course plan seemed to evaporate before our eyes. ...Not o...
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Digital Me | sineadwhitty
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April 29, 2016. April 30, 2016. Ironically, although I’ve taught online and blended courses for almost a decade, and encouraged all my students to feel the fear and actively use the VLE anyway, I’m not the most ‘connected’ person in the world. I have very few Apps on my phone and apart from the weather and a newspaper I can’t seem to get any of them to work. My professional profile is on LinkedIn. And it is nice to stay connected and to grow my network as I meet new people. Then, we ‘ adopted. 8216; him&...
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Collaborative Learning – No Man is an Island | sineadwhitty
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Collaborative Learning – No Man is an Island. May 5, 2016. Topic 3, Collaborative Learning and Topic 4, Mobile and Flexible Learning. Addressed collaborative learning and outlined ten factors for success. Interestingly, being graded for collaboration wasn’t one of them. The following are the main factors that matter:. Certain skills may need to be taught in order for the group to succeed. These skills may vary depending on the individuals, their prior knowledge and the task at hand. Digital liter...Given...
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Overall Reflection | sineadwhitty
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May 7, 2016. May 7, 2016. Image CC0 at http:/ www.pixabay.com. A note about the image -this frog could be me. She has kept her head above water (just about) and the butterfly represents my thoughts as shaped by ONL161. The butterfly is ready to take flight, just as I am preparing to put my thoughts into action as we take our leave of the course. One of the key points made during the course was the importance of support and in my PBL group, support was there by the bucketload! I’m now making regular...
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May | 2016 | sineadwhitty
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May 7, 2016. May 7, 2016. Image CC0 at http:/ www.pixabay.com. A note about the image -this frog could be me. She has kept her head above water (just about) and the butterfly represents my thoughts as shaped by ONL161. The butterfly is ready to take flight, just as I am preparing to put my thoughts into action as we take our leave of the course. One of the key points made during the course was the importance of support and in my PBL group, support was there by the bucketload! I’m now making regular...
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Digital Literacies | sineadwhitty
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April 29, 2016. April 30, 2016. There are so many aspects to digital literacies it’s no wonder that it’s plural! The well known Jisc infographic, ‘ seven elements of digital literacies. Captures a lot, except perhaps, that these literacies need to be taught. The myth of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants has been well and truly busted by David White with his theory of digital residents and visitors. In my PBL group, for this topic we also discussed Doug Belshaw. What stood out for me in all of this i...
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April | 2016 | sineadwhitty
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Open Educational Resources…making the impossible possible. April 30, 2016. April 30, 2016. The topic of OER took me back a few years. It got me thinking about the time my then employer decided to create a new course to train language teachers. The devil is in the detail they say and the ‘detail’ here is that we needed content for 72 lessons in a variety of languages and in a range of levels, from beginner to advanced. All of a sudden our wonderful course plan seemed to evaporate before our eyes. ...Not o...
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Connecting and Networking | sineadwhitty
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April 29, 2016. April 30, 2016. Photo by Ryan McGuire at Gratisography.com. Week 1 of ONL 161 has been all about connecting and networking. We connect to the course material and to each other via Google drive, WordPress, Adobe Connect and Twitter. Setting up blogs, Google plus accounts and twitter handles was not new to a number of participants, but it was a huge learning curve for some of us. All of us in the PBL group could relate to elements of this week’s scenario, so we had plenty of inspiration for...
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New Beginnings | sineadwhitty
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February 10, 2016. Excited and nervous to start the ONL161 course today. It has been lovely to meet facilitators and other participants from KI and KTH. Looking forward to learning a lot together! Having felt lost setting up rather basic functions, am now feeling rather accomplished at all that I managed to connect to, with help from my new colleagues. A real example of ‘it’s not what you know but who you know’ 🙂. Looking forward to the weeks ahead! One thought on “ New Beginnings. Collaborative Learnin...
