Yesterday I experienced an adventure. For the first time ever, I had a 5 minutes long presentation in English, at the international conference EDEN. I was invited by Alastair Creelman, who hosted the workshop Collaborative literacy in staff development, to talk about my experiences of being a participant at the ONL course. This is what I said.
The workshop focused on virtual mobility and how staff can be prepared for this. Questions like -What barriers are there and how can we overcome them? and -How can we develop collaborative literacy in our staff? were discussed. We used a Padlet as a common pin board. Me and Francisca from Holland, who also participated in the ONL course, attended the workshop via Adobe connect. We had some difficulties to hear what the other participants were saying but it was a fun and challenging experience.
One thing that we did hear was a participant who talked about how to prepare colleagues for virtual collaboration by creating safe bubbles. For most of us it is scary to go public, to be judged by others and to dare to take the step out of our comfort zones. Which could be a necessity to experience new things. If the gate to that experience can be opened in a safe and friendly community as the ONL course is I think that is great. I do believe that participation in the ONL course can open up new horizons for lecturers professional world. I hope that some of the participants at the workshop got inspired to try out the next ONL course. It is an experience you don’t want to miss!
Oh dear! I miss you too. I miss you all. I miss the ONL community.
What a great presentation! Congratulations. Keep up Annica.
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Thank you Nour! ❤
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At a MOOC conference in Graz earlier this year we discussed whether closed or restricted groups (safe bubbles) could actually help open education by letting uncertain learners step back from the open environment to work in small groups, possibly in their own language. See our Padlet from that workshop at https://padlet.com/alacre/emoocs2016
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Thank you for sharing! After reading on the Padlet I think that the first experience (like premature baby steps) should be in safe bubbles since collaboration in digital environments can perceives as daunting. Hopefully, that first experience is positive so the person is ready to plunge into more “open” spaces for collaboration to gain even more literacy.
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My blogpost on this week’s workshops in Budapest – a mixed experince! See https://effectivewebinars.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/the-challenge-of-hybrid-webinars/
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Thank´s for your comment. I´ve read your blogpost and we can agree on that the experience can be mixed but all in all I think you have to keep on doing it.
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