februari 2021 – chrifjaeonl211

Getting started

My expectations for this course (and some thoughts for the weekend).

Soon this week will be over and the “Getting started” week of ONL 211 will come to an end. This week I have started the blog, explored the ONL community space, read the course information and the most of all participants’ greetings and hellos. I have also tried to reflect on what my personal aims for attending this course are, and what I hope to develop during this spring.

Hopefully I will develop a better understanding of both the challenges and the possibilities of online education, and explore (more) ways to collaborate and communicate online. This week has been challenging in the way that all of this, the community and the blog is new to me. I can totally relate this to what some of my students went through the challenging days of March last year, when they were “thrown” into the online environment from one day to the other.- As they did, I will surely survive this experience better off.

Today the sun is shining and the weather forecast says the weekend will be sunny here in Karlstad. As for all of us, the time in isolation from family and friends during the winter have been hard for me, so I really look forward to meet my best friends for an outside taco-dinner this evening. Hopefully there will also be time for some nice walks (or maybe a run) in the sun during the weekend.

See you on Monday! Best,

//Christina

Hello from Christina!

Hi everyone.

So nice to be a part of this course, and I look forward to create a lot of new experience and new contacts.

I will start my blog by telling you a bit about me: My name is Christina, I am a senior lecturer in medical sciences at Karlstad University. My work profession is biomedical science, and I have a PhD in biomedical sciences from KAU (2013). I have been working here at KAU since spring 2019, before that I was working at the central hospital in Karlstad, at the department of clinical chemistry. Mostly with cancer diagnostics, but also with male fertility investigations.

I mostly teach anatomy and physiology which means the appearance and functions of the human body. My students are mostly nursing students but I also teach future sports teachers and sport coaches. I also teach independent courses and participate in commissioned education for assistive device technicians. Besides this I also work for the faculty office as an educational coordinator.

Before Covid-19, most of my teaching was campus-based, besides one independent course that were online-based. Since March- 20 (as for all of us I guess) most of my work happens online. My experience in distance education is based on the platform Canvas, and using Zoom for meetings and lecture recordings. Attending this course I look forward to expand my knowledge about online teaching and learning, both theoretical and in practise.

Best regards //Christina