The beginning of the school year brings new practices and opportunities. If you are a teacher and do not yet use the digital services of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), developed through its FCCN unit, make them part of your daily routine.
In this article, We explain 5 steps to get the most out of these digital solutions and promote even more effective knowledge transmission.
#1 Take online classes
Through the Colibri, a web collaboration service, you can hold online classes and meetings with your students. Based on the Zoom platform, this solution enables the sharing of audio, video, text, images, and whiteboards, as well as participants' computer screens, making the work of teachers easier.
With Colibri, you will also have the possibility to record your classes, making them available later on Educast, a digital service developed by FCCN that allows educational content to be easily distributed and consulted online. The lessons can, therefore, be revisited at any time by your students for study purposes.
#2 Professionalize and publicize your students' work
In a context where the production of multimedia content is increasingly relevant, the FCCN Studio can be an ally in professionalizing your work and that of your students. This professional recording space allows the production of content for e-Learning projects, live or delayed Webinar broadcasts, photography sessions, product demonstrations, recording of radio and television programs, Podcasts or e-Papers.
After recording, disseminating completed work also becomes a goal for any teacher. To this end, Educast emerges, once again, as a solution, by allowing the editing and publishing of videos. Therefore, even after the end of the school year, the work will be available on the searchable portal at educast.fccn.pt!
#3 Transmit information in real time
For holding events, workshops or lectures, it can be useful to have the ability to transmit video, audio, and slides in real time. Through a simple web page, this is a possibility guaranteed by the digital service. Videocast.
With this tool, you can simply and securely stream video to thousands of people simultaneously, offering features such as social media integration and password protection, for example.
#4 Send large files
Photocopies are no longer a reality, and sending files online is now common practice in the academic and scientific world, particularly among faculty and students. Filesender FCCN's service addresses this need by allowing files up to 100 GB in size to be shared with up to 100 recipients, with the files available for download for 30 days. This tool ensures secure file sharing with your students, even if they are large.
#5 Discover new sources of information
The search for new articles and scientific publications is part of a teacher's daily routine, both for producing knowledge and for sharing it with students.
In this regard, there are FCT services that may be useful to you. Firstly, Online Knowledge Library (B-on)) offers unlimited and permanent access to thousands of periodicals and e-books published by some of the leading international publishers. Already the RCAAP is a single point for research, discovery, location and access to thousands of scientific and academic documents.
Finally, if you want to go back in time to gather information, go to Arquivo.ptThis service aggregates pages published online since 1996, making this information important for academic work or scientific research, as well as for creating case studies in the classroom.
Every year, this service also promotes the Arquivo.pt Award, an opportunity for teachers, together with their students, to develop work based on the information preserved on this site and be eligible to win up to 10,000 euros.
How to access these services
Whether you are a student, teacher or other member of an educational institution, access to all services is done through federated authentication (RCTSaai) and there are no usage costs for the national academic community linked to the Science, Technology and Society Network (RCTS).
If your entity is part of the academic or scientific community and is not yet part of the RCTS Network, see here how to join and access the network pre-membership form.
