e-volunteer - demonstrate a skill (EV)

Videos are need to demonstrate skills in a variety of areas.
 

Arts and craft videos provide a useful alternative to schools-based activities and can provide ideas for creative things to do while schools are closed during the pandemic.  Our partners have asked for demonstration videos for activities such as learning how to weave, leaf-printing, painting, making models using waste materials, designing pictures using seeds, sand etc, making collages - and any other creative activities we can suggest.  They are unlikely to have access to coloured paper and paint, though they may have other locally-made alternatives, so ideas using natural materials will work well.  If you have skills or an interest in any aspect of arts and crafts you can share this skill with others and help to develop children's creative skills.

Videos to demonstrate aspects of active learning can be used by our partners in the classroom or for home-based activities.  Demonstrations of simple Science experiments would be very much welcomed.  Active learning strategies for Maths would also be welcomed - for example to teach counting, addition and subtraction, fractions or angles in a triangle.  Any games or activities for language learning are always much appreciated.  If you have experience of teaching, or if you have children at school, you will have lots of ideas for learning which could be shared on a video.

Maybe your skills are in business or office work - our partners would welcome training videos on any aspect of business development, for example how to write a business plan, how to do the accounts, how to design a website.  Coaching videos on aspects such as writing a job application and interview techniques would also be very helpful.

We are building  an online library of videos specifically for use by the projects we support.  We are guided by our local partners as to which skills would be most useful for them to see demonstrated. And we in turn will guide and prepare you.

 

Click on the links below to see some of the videos volunteers have made:

and click here to see children in Cambodia using the colours video in an active learning lesson

Lack of volunteers during the pandemic means that schools, community centres and local businesses are in danger of missing out on the skills regularly shared with them by volunteers travelling to the projects.  

School curriculums in the countries where we work rarely include creative or performing arts, so volunteers are frequently asked to share skills in areas such as art, crafts and music.  Schools and other child support projects have few resources for creative work, but children and their teachers love ideas for stimulating creativity and are very resourceful in finding ways to make use of what resources are available.

Science are often taught as fact-based subjects with little opportunity (or equipment) for practical experiments.  Volunteers travelling to the projects have frequently provided ideas for active learning across the curriulum which local teachers have been keen to use with their classes.

Teaching methods still tend to be based around the textbook, and with large class sizes and few resources there is little opportunity for active learning.   

Many young people in developing countries dream of starting up their own businesses.  Lack of technology until recent years means many teachers of business courses and many older people in business have little knowledge of contemporary business skills such as designing and using a spreadsheet, making a business plan, producing a Powerpoint presentation or designing and maintaining a website - all essential skills for the modern world and ones which volunteers frequently help local people to develop.

All these areas of learning are less likely to be developed while volunteers are not able to travel to projects to share their skills with local people.
 

Whether you are a person with business and administrationskills ,a professional teacher or classroom assistant, someone who enjoys arts and crafts or someone with a talent for music, we can certainly use your help in this initiative.  You can share your skills, experience, talent and enthusiasm with people in many countries around the world, all from the comfort of your own home.

To see an interview with volunteer Karen, who made a video about planting seeds, click here
Volunteer Bob made a video showing teachniques for online language teaching - to watch the interview click here

£30 per video

how your money is spent
£10 project contribution - this will be split between the the projects that use your video

£20 is a management fee to people and places - this includes liaison with the projects to establish which skills videos are appropriate - liaising and briefing with you and the administrative work of loading and distributing the videos 

This e-volunteering project is costed per video 

If you require resources for your demonstration video you will need to cover the cost of purchasing these resources yourself