Topic 5

It started in september...

...I started to get a hang of it in october...

...I was a bit lost in october...

...and finally figured it out in december, and it´s over already?

Has it really been that long?

This course has really been a mind opener for me when it comes to PBL- work.

I´m glad the home page Onl172 is still there. I belive I will come back to it during the spring for ideas and inspiration. 

I will use the ideas I´ve got in my next course. My first PBL work with students will be in a campus course. I’m so enthusiastic from the experience I do not want to wait until my next online course with students, so I start right away.

I have a bit of a problem at the moment to find "topics" for my PBL-groups. It is quite easy to find things to discuss, but not all turns out to be good problems and within the subject we study. I have had a meeting with my co teachers and they liked the idea - so here we goooo!

Without the PBL group's support I had not gone through with the course. I experienced the start of the course as overwhelming. When I'd to catch up with it above all other work. At the beginning, it felt inconvenient to book two PBL meetings each week, but today I see the benefits of it. I know I will miss our group. I do not think my students have experienced that so far, they miss the study group at the end of the course. I'm going to work at that! We in our PBL group share course content but also concern and success.

When it comes to using technology with my students it is a must. I have most of my teaching online, with only three days at campus with the students in a 7,5 Hp course. I am all ways on the lookout for easy tools that will make learning easier. I do believe that my students will do what I do and not what I say, so to teach great teachers with online skills I have to be a teach great teachers with online skills.

Appointing a leader, or two, to each meeting is also something I bring with me. With the lead it becomes the group's responsibility for the job to be done not the facilitators. To give the group the choice of tools to use and push for testing new ones is great. Forcing us to blog - I do not think I had ever tried otherwise. Oh, my they really did it! This course truly is "From awareness to participation, student engagement in an online environment."

This course has really showed me the true meaning of collaboration. It not mine and yours, it´s ours. With the support of the group I have learned new tools to integrate with my own students.  Oh, we did have some online lectures and reading besides the group work – somehow that is knowledge that just kind of slipped in there through group work. I am amazed.

And now we have come to an end... Or perhaps a new beginning.

Our PBL group have scheduled a reunion and I'm counting on being able to take advantage of the group as I get into my "new-old" role as a teacher.

At first the apples fell and we made a presentation.

Then the leaves fell and we had our first topic.

As the water froze me and my peers took on topic 2.

By the time of the huge snowstorm my friends in PBL1 and I was having a blast. Making copies of childhood photos.

And, yeah there was topic 3 - the favourite one!

As the snow fell we took selfies and worked with topic 4.

And then it was time, no more falling...
Topic 5

But we'll meet again.