This is the follow-up message to our 1st meeting in September 2018
You can browse this digital letter by scrolling down. It wraps up the most important points brought forth in our meeting, presents upcoming events (see Timeline below) and compiles general snippets of (scientific) information that might inspire your digital teaching approaches. Most important of all is the fact that this meeting was only the BEGINNING of our exchange. We all thrive on challenges and love to learn from one another's approaches.
Headlines in button format can be clicked on to direct you to the original websites.
Are you someone who teaches online or adds online elements to your courses? Join us and share your experiences/ questions with us!
Attendance: Together, 28 people attended our inaugural meetings and thus represented very diverse parts on the spectrum of digital teaching at our university.
PURPOSE: Our UofL group came together to first of all GAIN A SENSE for the things THAT HAPPEN in our online or blended teaching environments. Most of us clearly see the need for more exchange with each other to inspire our teaching. Those of us with more experience highlighted the necessity for basic understanding of effective and critical digital pedagogy to make sound decisions for the future.
COORDINATION: Joerdis Weilandt from the Teaching Centre will contact the leads for the upcoming sharing and mentoring interactions.
UPCOMING EVENTS: Our plan is to meet in frequent intervals to share our perspectives and experiences. With a little luck, we can start our peer-sharing session as early as October 2018. Those meetings will be informal discussions and/ or hands-on session led by one of your peers who will presenting an example of her/ his teaching practice as the base for our discussion. The intention is to capture specific pedagogical techniques or tools to make accessible (e.g. video or pictures tutorials) after an event has taken place as well.
Information (books, websites, articles) worthwhile your perusal
Connect with Peers (INTER)nationally
Lorraine suggested a shared session at SITE ('re 5 top strategies to teaching online) for those of you who would be interested in attending the 30th annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education. This society represents individual teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education and faculty/staff development.
Next year’s theme is “Moving Mountains in Digital, Blended, and Online Learning.” and the track themes are Teaching and Learning Practice, Open Learning, Leadership and Advocacy, Experiential and Life-Long Learning, Processes, Problems, and Practices, Effective Tools, Toys and Technologies, Research: Designs, Methods and Findings.
Joerdis attended the Writing Lab in Vancouver 2017 and was taken aback by the magnitude of this hands-on learning experience, that reverberated even long after the 4 days of workshop interaction had ended. There are usually 3 different streams - digital pedagogies/ literacy often being one of them. Registration will start in the Fall 2019
"Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other." Paulo Freire
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