Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice reflection
My heart is pained.
I cannot believe that THIS is the beginning!!
I walk away with an arsenal of topics, ideas, ways of thinking all worthy of further reading and research. I am also grateful for the lifelong friends I have made during this program.
What are the most important things you have learned through your engagement in the ONL course? Why?
I leaned a lot about myself and of how I learn. As I never quite enjoyed group work in my youth, I had to walk into ONL with two mindsets.
My engagement could have been better, but due to personal and professional issues I fell off and out the “wheelbarrow”.
What I leaned though is to be patient with myself. Plan better and communicate in a timeous manner. As a specialist soloist (prefer to and works well alone), this exercise really pushed me to be more vocal and visible.
Am I the only person who internally implodes a little when their name is called? #cringe
How will your learning influence your practice?
I am so excited to implement blended learning in a more mindful way. The links shared during webinars as well as through our groups, I realised that PowerPoint is not the be all and end all. I can now be more flexible, daring, and experimental in my teaching practice. Where my curiosity was like a candle in the wind, I now feel more focused, amped and confident.
What are your thoughts about using technology to enhance learning/teaching in your own context?
Graphic design is a technology-based subject/course. So we (graphic designers) are always infront of a screens. The big question is how can I marry the old school with the new school? I know the value of pencil and paper, the benefits of drafting ideas on a blank sheet before jumping onto Adobe software. Maybe, I should consider digital pen and pencil (pseudo traditional or analogue), that moves to a digital space where students can critique, advise and encourage one another.
Ultimately, we are visual communication-ists.
Lets see if rough work in a mock online presentation creates collaborative environments that are meaningful.
What are you going to do as a result of your involvement in ONL? Why?
I hope I can still get access to my groups blogs and FISH documents. In that way, when I am stuck, I can refer back and do additional reading. The big change for me is to develop exercises and/or briefs with an ultimate goal in mind. To critically ask myself why?
For example, why have students do group work where collaboration skills is what I want to achieve?
What suggestions do you have (activities and/or in general) for the development of eLearning in your own teaching or context?
My suggestion would be a way for one to customise student’s experience of the course. Using blended learning models and the different learning stations offers insight into how this can be done. It’s a lot of development work and requires a lot of trial and error however, the potential for stronger and more confident students is reward enough.
Overall, ONL was very challenging in a good and bad way.
Bad way: because one never feels like they fully unpacked the topics.
Good way: because this challenge was the conduit for my personal growth and change.
change you” Fred Devino.
This experience was very fulfilling, as it ignited my love for research and design.
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You know when you try to explain a feeling but you do not have the vocabulary to explain it?
Atelophobia – the fear of imperfection. The fear of never being good enough.
I am continuously moving past my fears of imperfections, Thank you ONL!!!!
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“For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;” 2 Timothy 1:7
#blessed
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