Elfgren's teaching blog

https://www.mural.co I haven't tried this out yet but I've checked two videos. It seems nice for brainstorming with several templates. You can even include a timer and vote. You can group objects and export. I've got myself an account so now I can start trying it out. Students could use this in project work and in reflecting in groups. We could also use this to let students introduce themselves.

Here is my map of my online presence as described by White (2014a): I didn't get so much directly out of this exercise. I use quite a lot of online applications and I'm not so much a producer of content or comments, which I already knew. I found it a bit unclear if the x -axis was about visibility or interactivity  or if it's public or all of it. However, it made me reflect on the purpose of online exercises and the distinction, which was nice. Does the exercise give me any new insights about myself? Do I feel inspired? Have I learned anything new? Can I use this? How? In education, we can move more towards engaging students digitally, which is something they are used to. This is especially interesting how with Covid-19 and all the digital education we have. This can be done through gamification, which I have used in my system of Bonus Assignments, Pettersson & Bolldén (2020, p 167). Another way is to use online collaboration tools such as Google docs, Mural, Padlet or ...

I have done some testing of Padlet , which we tested in the ONL-course  and also in my university's pedagogical course. The map-tool seems nice for introductions. I could use that in my educational program when I first meet the students so that we can get a feeling for where people come from in Sweden. The Time-line could be used for age but this seems a bit irrelevant in many cases and slightly intrusive. In a subject like history I image that it'd be a great tool. I didn't find the other tools so interesting but I guess they are ways to organise the content a little bit. It's a quite simple collaborative tool but I'm not sure what happens if two people edit the same object at the same time.