Elfgren's teaching blog

I have learnt quite a lot during the ONL course that I've been following for the past couple of months. I have learnt more about digital tools than I expected and I've had the opportunity to test several different tools. However, I don't see myself using them so much during my teaching, since my teaching is mostly not of that kind. They are, however, very useful in workshops, group work and other collaborative environments. I could let my students use e.g. Miro or Mural for some project work but since we do not have a license for this, I'm a bit reluctant. These would have been nice tools for them to have though. Now I think that I'll suggest using Office 365 och Google Docs along with Zoom. And I hope that LTU will get licenses for these kind of tools in the future, now that we're doing it all online. These last few months, I've realised that breakout rooms in Zoom is also a really nice tool for collaboration, both temporary and more permanent since you can

The five stage-model (Salmon, 2020) does not work directly in my courses since none of them have an important social component. Of course there is a social aspect to all learning, but the social part in physics is sort of in the back seat. However, I agree with the first two parts. It's important to clearly present to the students how the course is structured; where they can find the information and what is expected of them. This is something that I always go through during the first lecture and it's even more important to do so in a digital context. For example, I always walk them through the Canvas-room (Canvas is our learning platform). I show them where everything is and I open the documents so they have seen them as well. The socialising part is generally not necessary in my courses since the students generally know each other since they are in the same study program. Also in the bigger courses, the students are generally divided in groups with respect to their program so

PLN means Personal/Professional/Passionate Learning Network (Oddone, 2019). For me Professional makes the most sense since this is a professional activity, though I can also see the merits of Personal since it's me as a person how is engaged in this. Every discussion about pedagogy is really simultaneously a collaborative learning and part of a PLN. Most of my PLN is local and face to face. I discuss pedagogy with my colleagues in physics at the department, Nils, Magnus, Andreas and Corina. At the division level I talk to Marcus, Lars, Mikael and Petter. At the department level I discuss a lot with Niklas and as a PL (Pedagogical Leader at LTU), I discuss with Oskar, Janne, Malin, Karin, the other PL's: Olle, Inger, Susanne, Diana, Björn and Andreas. These networks are somewhere betwen communities and networks. We share common goals but we still work largely individually. Then there are also pedagogy conferences, both internal at LTU and external. I am currently following two o