LATINA (course) report

What and how I learnt at LATINA Spring?

In this course I learnt to work with digital tools and content. I feel I have developed my skills on the web. I know more how to use digital tools and their applications, and nearly all of them were very new for me. I never thought it was already possible to create and share digital content so easily. It was a first step into this world. And I felt really engaged in it from the first moment. With some days of usage you can easily get adapted to them. I’ve seen that working completely on the web is possible, and is a reality.

I also learnt to create digital content which it means addressing to a virtual wide audience. So the real task was thinking about what I would say and how. If you want to get understood you have to be understandable. It engaged me in a process of sharing knowledge very interesting. I learnt to teach in the LATINA environment and learnt doing. Learning by teaching. Creating a learning resource implies using all possible formats to make it good. Images, the size of the text and things like these are important to take into account for the legibility and good understanding. It also implies having teaching techniques to make it more efficient, which I did not have but now I feel I know more. I worked in two ways: writing the resource and presenting it, and it allowed me to learn to pass on information through the web and orally.

I had the opportunity to use the audiovisual tools and software, which were new for me because I had never worked with tools like these. I learnt about filming and editing a video, and worked with the storytelling software, and it was very exciting.

It has also allowed me to know more about the subject of my project. It gave me a boost to research, reading all the information available on the web and discovering good resources. Because of it I know more about the semantic search. So I can say I learnt to do a research 2.0.

All in all it was an interesting course to understand more the present times we live in.