Sanet & ONL172

Lessons learnt – future practice It feels ages ago that I started this ONL172 course on 25 th of September.  We all felt very confused in the beginning.  I started wondering in the first week if I would make it through the 10 weeks.  One of the most important things that I learnt through the course was probably to work together as a team.  I normally prefer to do work on my own, but we were divided into groups and had to work as a team.  I suddenly realised the value of teamwork.  Our hourly meetings were a brainstorming session from beginning to end.  We were from different backgrounds and our ideas inspired each other.  We had different people being the inspiration for meetings.  We made turns to lead the meetings. It was nice that it was not the same people who lead the sessions.  It helped to keep the energy levels up in the group. I encountered different tools that I can use in my teaching.  I will most definitely use these tools in my lecturing.  Up to now I only us

Design for online and blended learning My participation with the ONL course made me reflect on my own lecturing style.  My modules are all face to face tuition.  How can I develop my modules to incorporate an online learning side to it? Most of the modules at my institute of higher learning have a 10% digital component to it.  Unfortunately, most of my courses don’t have a digital component to it, it is still in the development phase.  Nothing is stopping me in the meantime to add a digital aspect to it. I can add a tool like Wikispaces to it to get the students involved with the module outside of their contact tuition time.  The Wikispaces page will be for each of my modules that have no digital component to it.  We do a continuous assessment during the module.  My plan is to do the continuous assessment on a digital platform.  I also want to get the students active in blogging to share ideas regarding different lesson units.  The process of blogging will hopefully stimul