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Meet Tino (Topic 1 addition *g*)

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Swapping out the main character of our introductory video to ONL topic 1 only took half a dozen clicks in mysimpleshow - really no big deal at all. So here it comes: The additional version starring "Tino". However, our team member Lynette finally made me realize what I SHOULD have done to avoid the "Tina problem" in the first place. Stay tuned for what she came up with (for topic 2)! :D 

The Tina problem (Topic 1: Online participation & digital literacies)

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  We are getting started! I feel that during the past two weeks, PBL group 5 has been growing into a team while we were working on topic 1.  During our first meeting we had quite an animated, multifaceted and really engaging discussion about various angles from which to approach the scenario. The "focus" part of our FiSh document, however, quickly started looking a little bit less than focused, and we eventually decided that if we could not discard enough of what we had come up with to narrow our work down to one aspect, we might as well spread out and research various different ones simultaneously. Which is what we did from then on, and as it turned out, our different paths led us to a lot of common points eventually. We chose to create a "ThingLink" to present our findings as it allowed for enough space to present multiple facets of online learning and digital literacies in an easy to navigate, well-structured way. So far, so good.  As I was tasked with the "...

How about I write a post about blogging...

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Hello world!  This would be where I admit that I am a little wary of the concept of sharing what I have to share with an unknown audience of random people out there. Sharing? Yes, fine with me. New people? I am okay with those as well. But the entire idea of "everybody, come and see!" is just not... me. However, I am giving this a go, and, apart from this very first entry and warning, I am going to keep it matter-of-fact and hopefully focused on the subject.  So I am doing this course about Open Networked Learning. I am curious (this is interesting in a good way), and willing to give new things a go. Which is probably a big part of the point of being in this. I'll see how it goes. :) (<-- Yes, I use emoticons. A lot. Get used to it.) [Oh, and that profile picture of mine is about 15 years old and admittedly rather unserious. Blogger seems to have remembered it from when I used the predecessor, blogspot , as a "Bilderlager" for holiday pictures to share with ...