Fundación Educacional Oportunidad's initiative seeks to share strategies, ideas and technological tools to enhance distance learning in times of pandemic.
Have you heard of Bitmoji, Genially, Powersoft, do you know how to create an animated gif to share in teaching materials, or perhaps how to use a teleprompter on your cell phone to record a video without having to memorize all the content?
Perhaps all these names sound very modern and technological, 21st century applications used by young people to communicate with their friends. And yes, it may have been like that. Until covid-19 arrived in our country and educational establishments had to close their doors indefinitely.
As it was, with students learning from home, teachers had to students learning from home, teachers had to reinvent themselves and learn how to use new and learn how to use new resources to make their online classes through platforms like Zoom or platforms such as Zoom or the material to be sent by e-mail or WhatsApp to be attractive, modern and motivating, How to do this?
At the request of numerous teachers throughout the country who participate in Fundación Educacional Oportunidad's We Learn early English We Learn, an early English teaching program of Fundación Educacional Oportunidad, was born. "Think Outside the Classroom", a digital campaign that seeks to share and teach how to use audio-visual audiovisual material, so that the educational teams have more and better resources to enhance the and better resources to enhance the learning of their students during the period of suspension of classes during the period of suspension of face-to-face classes.
The campaign considers three types of resources: tutorial sheets with thematic-specific technological specific technological tools, e.g., virtual feedback; FAQ videos to solve challenging feedback; videos of frequently asked questions to solve challenging issues for schools; and video tutorials entitled "An Idea in a Minute" for and video tutorials entitled "An idea in a minute" to share useful tools for distance learning. share useful tools for distance learning.
Paz Collao, head of the We Learn program at Fundación Educacional Oportunidad, points out that "The last few months have led everyone to innovate in one way or another. In the In the area of education, I am amazed at the tremendous adaptability of teachers. teachers. But individual creativity has its limits, and that's where collaboration is key. collaboration is key. This campaign was born to provide teachers with ideas and tools that involve the use of ideas and tools that involve the use of technology to enhance learning. learning. Distance education opens up new spaces and the invitation is to take advantage of the context, innovating to take advantage of the context, innovating outside the traditional limits of the classroom. the classroom".
The English teacher Claudia Gonzalez from the Jerónimo Godoy Villanueva school in the the commune of Paihuano, Coquimbo region, recently joined the campaign. "Thanks to her Thanks to her, I have been able to show a lot of resources that are quite interesting and that my students have loved. that my students have loved. For example, how to use Bitmoji to make a virtual classroom more entertaining. a virtual classroom more entertaining and with many pedagogical resources. In addition, I have just discovered in this same campaign a resource to create videos, that allows me to exercise with my students and make for example, pronunciation dynamics to expose them to pronunciation to expose them to dialogues and different exercises of oral expression that sometimes it is very difficult to that is sometimes very difficult to work on through online classes".
To find these and all of the campaign's resources by following Fundación Educacional Oportunidad Educational Foundation on social networks(www.facebook.com/FunOportunidad www.instagram.com/fun_oportunidad) or visit the website www.fundacionoportunidad.cl
And you, what are you waiting for to think outside the room?
