WEBINAR - APRENDIZAJE EN LÍNEA Y COMPETENCIA DIGITAL EDUCATIVA

Hey there,

Today I would like to talk about a webinar that I was lucky to attend few days ago. The speaker was María Jesús García (@mjgsm), our ICT teacher at the university. The topic was "Aprendizaje en línea y competencia digital educativa".

First, María Jesús gave us a link where we could sign up in the conference. Next, the Institut de Formació Contínua - IL3 sent me an email confirming my inscription.

I did not have to do anything until the April, 24th, the webinar day. The Institut de Formació Contínua - IL3 sent me another email explaining how to enter in the webinar. I had to download a programme and add a extension in Google Chrome. Easy peasy.

Once inside, the conference took about an hour where María Jesús talked about the following aspects:

First, she explained what INTEF is. INTEF is a great website with a great variety of digital courses for teachers in order to improve their digital competence. There are courses for all kind of needs. Some of them are short for those people who do not have enough time. Others are very complete. And there are a lot of different topics that you can work. As I mentioned before, all of them are online and, the most important thing, free.

The different types that María Jesús mentioned were:

• Edupills: it is an app to improve your digital competence with short tasks of 3-7 minutes.
• NOOCINTEF: they are experiences that take more time than a edupill but not more than 3 hours. This activities are only opened during 10 days.
• MOOCINTEF: here you need to spend more time than NOONINTEF. These tasks take among 3 or 5 weeks.
• SPOOCINTEF: here the learner is free learn when he has time. They are opened and you can complete the different tasks step by step without preassure.

This courses are not going to certificate training hours but you are going to get an insignia of your digital knowledge.

Finally, María Jesús explained a project that has been developing with her team for a lot of time. The Teaching Digital Competence Portfolio. There, you can your digital competence evidences and you will have a level from the Common Framework of Digital Copetence. The name of the levels are the same of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, from A1 (lowest level) to C2 (higher level).

From my point of view, María Jesús and the rest of their partners, are doing and excellent work developing this kind of platforms and courses. ICT is not the future, it is the present. And all of us, as teacher, need to know how to apply them in our class. I do not hesitate to use these courses in the future to improve my own digital competence. Because learning is a precess and teachers can not be conformist. We have to learn during our whole life.

Hope you like it! ;)