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Inner self: Okay,Mari, Thank for being honest and sharing your thoughts, Good luck and bye bye for now.

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Okay, let`s measure in numbers. If I take the scale of 10 levels. I was on the 3rd level, now I feel I am somewhere on the 7th level. Also, I am looking forward to design mini - online course, this would probably get me on the 8th level. 😊

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Inner self: To sum up our talks what do you think where were you at the begging of this course and where are you now?

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Hm, this is a difficult question. I would probably challenge myself to use one more online tool. As there are chances that once I am used to it and know how it works it would encourage me to use them again.

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Inner self: What would you do differently if you were taking this course again?

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I think it won`t be a surprise, If I say Padlet. I really like this platform, it gives you so many options and opportunities to interact with people. It was new for me and I think I will definitely use this tool quite often in my future work.

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Inner self: What is your favorite tool that you have tried during these 8 weeks?

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I think yes, I am sure, I know all the basic skills/tools that is needed for teaching and assisting students in the classroom. I will definitely explore more of them when i will not have time pressure.

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Inner self: if I understood correctly you are familiar with most basic skills that is needed for online teaching?

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No, I can not agree with this. I think that I am not lazy, this is just sometimes you make choices, what works better for you, what is your teaching style etc.  I think I can not be great in everything; It also depends what kind of tool it is. If it requires much time and energy, I can trust other people to make it instead of me. I am not against using online tools in teaching, I am talking about who is going to make them. If it is not time consuming and I think it is worth to invest my energy I would do that, if not then task division is a good thing I think.

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Inner self: Do you think this is because you were a bit lazy to test some new tools?

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Definitely yes, I know that they exist and I know when and how I can use them,  I think that`s very important. However, if I know that it takes much time, I prefer to work on task division and ask someone who is better in this tools, and I would work on content, which i definitely prefer.

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Inner self: Would you say you will use it in your future work?

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Yes, I was writing the posts, and it was more practical for me. There was one time, when I created the story telling kind of video with one of our classmates and it was good. It was fun to work in pairs and also I find it enjoyable to use online tools may be not every week but time by time.

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Inner self: But you were anyway answering the weekly questions

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Ohh yes, I tried to avoid this but okay I will try to tell you why. We were asked (often it was optional) to use multimedia online tools to respond weekly forum questions. There was several reason why I was not active to use them quite often. Firstly, because of time.  It was taking much time and energy from me.  I was thinking which one was more important for me, to use this time to get familiar with more content or use it for understanding how certain online tools work.

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Inner self:  I know you well and I can see that you are avoiding talking about online tools. Tell me, what happened?

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Yes, I do. As I said above, weekly topics were new and I am now more familiar with theories which is directly connected to digital world and online teaching. For example, seamless learning, Ubiquitous learning, Community of Inquiry Framework (CIF). As I was not paying much attention to online teaching before, I was not thinking whether dominant theories (cognitivism, behaviorism, constructivism) were considering online space in its explanations of learning and teaching. I can now see more clearly the role of integrating online spaces in learning /teaching theories and that they need updates in this area.

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Inner self:  could you tell me something about content and new theories. Do you actually remember any of them?

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I have done one online course before, but it was small and was not well organized. I think because of this I had some pessimistic attitudes towards online teaching. Although, during these weeks, I had some `rethinking online teaching` happening in my mind.  I think that we can not stop people to develop and invent new digital tools. This is something that is already happening, what we can do as educators is to control this resource wisely and ethically. I see online classes as an addition to the offline courses, however I can also see its huge capacity to benefit those, who are in a position of being outside of formal education because of different reasons

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Inner self:  nice! Back to the question. What do you generally think about online teaching and online space?

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Haha, well, I think at least you should believe me that this is only compliment. If I wanted better grade, I would probably make a video: D

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Inner self: Is this compliment or you just tried to bribe Andreas?

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I liked how the course was structured, content was relevant and I liked that Andreas posted overview of the topics each week. I was reading articles and then seeing what was Andreas` general thoughts about it. You know that I don’t see teachers’ role as a technician only, that’s why I appreciated seeing his positions about certain topics. I realized that openness and honesty is something that I really appreciate in educators. In general, I think his presence was balanced and created kind of feeling that he really exists and is not someone who is only talking from the screen.

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Inner self: Nice, well, I know what you did, I would like to hear what did you like most?

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Hi, yes, that`s true. Well, in general I like it. Every week new topic was introduced by Andres (you know, our Greek lecturer), together with suggested readings. During each week we would write posts on the forum, which was related to the weeks` topics and allowed us to interact with other classmates’ ideas and reply to their forum posts. This included using multimedia elements and familiarization with different online tools.  As a part of assignment, I also made the list of online tools, which is useful for learning and teaching adults online and offline.

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Inner self: Hi mari, I have heard you are doing an online class about “Teaching Adult Education Online”.  8 weeks has passes, so I am interested where are you now? and what do you think about this online journey?  while responding to some of my questions, may bey it will be helpful if you have Kolb`s learning cycle in mind.