WEBINAR: MOBILE LEARNING AND DIGITAL COMPETENCE FOR EDUCATION

Hello everybody,

Today, I'm going to talk about my last ICT lesson. It was a different lesson because we didn't go to the university as always, we did a Webinar instead! 

And what is that? "A webinar is a live web-based video conference that uses the internet to connect the individual hosting the webinar to an audience, the viewers and listeners of the webinar from all over the world."
In this case, the webinar was called: "Mobile Learning and Digital Competence for Education" ands carry out by our teacher:  María Jesús García San Martín ( Twitter: @mjgsm). 

So we had to register in the conference with our personal information, and minutes after we get an email with the link to get in the webmaster. It was quite easy follow the steps and at 18:00 pm the conference started and we could watch María Jesús talking about many interesting things.

In this webinar she was explaining the different online training courses for teacher that you can find in AprendeINTEF where you can improve your digital competence.

The Intef courses can be divided into:

Noonintef: This courses take 3-4 hours 

Moocintef: Takes 3 or 4 weeks.

Spoocintef: Let the students learn when they can.

And probably, the different one Edupills. It is a micro-learning app for teachers, aimed at enabling teachers to acquire or develop digital skills in a simple and fast way. So you can learn anywhere using your tablet or mobile phone. All of we have a phone, so this one became very interesting.

At the end, María Jesús talked about the Portfolio for the Digital Competence of Teachers. We had already heard about the portfolio, so this was not new for us.

The Portfolio for the Digital Competence of Teachers is a digital service for certifying your competence. There you upload your digital competence evidences such us your blog, digital projects, badges...and you have to relate it with a level from the common framework. Like in the language competences, they are: A1,A2,B1,B2,C1,C2. So they have used the same references. 

The portfolio help you to know your digital competence level and also to certificate it.

We live in the technologies world, so I consider extremely important to have a certification of your digital level.

To conclude, in my opinion the webinar was quite interesting, not only because it was another way to have a lesson, also because I discover new interesting things about how to develop and improve my digital competence. I think that like we do with the languages, it is important to have a certification of your digital competence as well as to be updated and be aware on your own learning. In the time that we live now, and we as teacher, should keep training and knowing about the new resources that the technologies give us. So making this courses and using the portfolio are great opportunities to keep developing our competence.