In response to the COVID-19 lockdown, we (the FSC BioLinks team) are venturing into the world of e-learning. It’s tricky to replicate our usual invertebrate identification courses online but we’re going to try to find ways to keep teaching everyone all about the wonderful world of invertebrates even whilst we’re all stuck at home. Firstly, we thought we’d try running some “Virtual Meet Ups” to help us keep in touch and keep learning.
These are informal online/live meet ups on Zoom, which are around 1 hour long. In each meet up we have a guest speaker joining us, who gives a 30 minute presentation on topics such as invertebrate ecology, easy to ID species/groups, or projects/recording schemes we can all get involved with whilst at home. These are interactive sessions so there’s opportunities to ask the FSC BioLinks team and the guest speakers any questions you may have, we’ll also give a quick update on the FSC BioLinks project and our future plans for other meet ups and e-learning opportunities.
We’ve been blown away by how popular they are, how quickly they book up and the long waiting lists of people trying to get a place. Now we know they work and are popular, we’re going to start increasing the capacity of these meet ups so hopefully everyone can join in. FSC staff are welcome to join too – simply sign up following the instructions below.
We announce all of our events, including these, via our e-newsletter, so please sign up here if you haven’t already. Please note: booking is essential through the FSC BioLinks events webpage as we have a limit on how many people can join the meet ups at a time.