Art and culture department to soon start online classes in Goa

PANAJI: Keeping with the virtual training trend during the pandemic, the department of art and culture has pivoted its conventional teaching methods to adjust for online learning, allowing students to enroll in interactive courses.
“Due to the limitations in social gatherings, there are no cultural activities. As a result, we are training our staff to opt for online classes in this time,” director of art and culture, Sagun Velip, said.
The training is aimed at how the online classes are to be conducted through social media platforms like Skype.
Velip said that the department has begun training a batch of 30 teachers since last week. Of these, 24 are almost ready to begin the online sessions while the remaining are attempting to learn the system as soon as possible.
Once the training is done, online sessions of Bharatnatyam classes, Indian classical music lessons, western music lessons, drama and art classes will commence in the state.
Prior to the lockdown, these teachers who are with the art and culture department would otherwise go from school to school teaching music, dance and art lessons to students. Throughout the lockdown, these activities by its teachers were dormant.
“Now that schools have started, and students are getting a hang of the online classrooms, we are trying to resume art and culture classes as well in the best way possible, through our online classes.” Velip further said.