“The online format of education is not an obstacle to the development of students’ creative skills,” according to the teachers of the Foreign Languages Theory and Practice Department. Despite the complexity of distance teaching and learning, teachers find ways and means to make the learning process not only useful, informative and most informative, but also entertaining.
One such example is the so-called “virtual journalism”, in which students are encouraged to create their own news report. This task was given to 4th year students as a final creative video project in the discipline “English for Special Purposes”. The assignment was to write their own news report within a suggested topic, as well as to record video of their “television news program”.
Students managed to fully reveal their creative and journalistic talents while completing this assignment. Many students visited museums and significant places of the city for this purpose, interviewed famous personalities and deeply studied journalism. Moreover, the students showed their acting talents, playing various characters in the news feed, tried the role of a sign language interpreter and brilliantly demonstrated their talents in video editing.
