By Yasmin (translated by Binka) | Online education course Coordinator
Dear donors,
How are you doing, now that 2021 is safely launched? We hope you are looking after yourselves, and looking forward to a better year - even if things continue to be tough right now.
It's exhausting, isn't it? But it really does look like better times are coming if we can just hang in there.
And one of the things that helps us hang in there is making plans for a better tomorrow. So we've been busy structuring our next online course for Environmental Leaders. One of the many things that covid19 taught us was to be creative about adapting our programs, so after the success of our first online course, we've come up with the blueprint for the next one, which we plan to hold in February.
After listening to the feedback from our first cohort, we're making a few adaptations to our course delivery. We're going to experiment with uploading two pre-recorded classes every week, which students can watch in their own time. We'll then have one "live" class with plenty of time for discussion in breakout groups. We'll also have other activities and resources available in the google classroom, along with assignments to be turned in to the course coordinator at the end of every week.
Here's the course content we'll be covering. We'll start with an introduction to non-profit Iracambi: who we are, what we do and why? We'll then move into the concept of environmental leadership, what it is and how we can do it. Next come the modules on climate change, covid 19 and the connections between the two. This raises the whole question of environmental degradation and then the good news: environmental restoration. The last modules deal with how to get involved in activism at local, regional and international levels. Then we'll look into a real-life case study: Mining and the Environment and see what lessons we can learn from it.
We're so excited about the next course, and we are deeply grateful to you, our wonderful donors, who make it all possible! We’ll keep you posted as things progress, and if any of you has any tips or suggestions on running online courses, we’d love to hear from you! (You can find us on the Iracambi Facebook page or contact us at cursos@iracambi.com.)
In the meantime, please look after yourselves. We’ll talk soon!
With much rainforest love,
Yasmin and the Iracambi Educators
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