Virtual Tools for Real Mobilities

                                                                                 Sărata-Monteoru

                                                                                  Training Course

                                                                            19/05/2022 – 26/05/2022

 

From the 19th of May until the 26th, Boghos Avetikian had the opportunity to go to Romania, for the training course titled “Virtual Tools for Real Mobilities”. The aims of the training course were to teach current and future youth workers how to use digital methods and tools for Erasmus+ projects in three key areas. Those being the management, preparation and its implementation.

Joined by participants from Spain, Poland, Portugal, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey, North Macedonia, Latvia and others, Boghos learned how digital tools are not only useful for say, using a projector and presenting knowledge to participants in room, but it can go much deeper and much more interactive than that.

One example of engaging the audience is by competition, power by, say, Kahoot, whereby participants can use just their phones to compete in quizzes against each other which is a method of using competition to teach something, all without even downloading an app.

After icebreaking, bonding and learning all this information, participants were then divided into groups of mixed nationalities to come up with project ideas that make use of said digital tools. Boghos’ group consisted of 2 other participants from Lithuania, one from Poland and another from Romania.

The group came up with a project titled “Cultural Heritage Childhood Games (CHCG)”. This project had the idea to take place in a cheap city in Greece, where outdoor amphitheaters are abundant and in a warm month. The idea was to archive and document childhood games us, our parents and grandparents used to play outside and make amateur documentaries out of them in order to archive them for future generations. After all, children nowadays tend to grow up in front of TV’s and videogames and such outdoors games are slowly disappearing. The project idea made sense, because phones nowadays are capable of recording incredible 4K 120fps footage, in insane quality and video editing has become easy for the common man.

Other groups came up with projects for upcycling, marine ecology and preservation of past food recipes.

“Virtual Tools for Real Mobilities” turned out to be a useful and successful project. Boghos Avetikian will ultimately use what he learned in this project when he is set to become a facilitator in an upcoming project in Cyprus in the month of September.