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"At the Amún Shéa Communications Club we demonstrated that practice is the most effective form of learning, it makes us productive, as well as opening many opportunities for growth, because we learn by doing"  Elisa, eighth grade student.

After survival, communication is the most basic and vital of all needs, there are tools that help us find and enhance the skills necessary to promote opportunities for economic, social and personal development through quality education , this should reflect the importance of strategically communicating not only the results obtained from the tasks and school assignments but rather that the students are immersed in the productive work, in the world of communications.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are one of the examples that better illustrate the new methodological changes for learning by competences, these evolve and go from being an object of learning independently to being part of the curricular objectives as a learning facilitator tool. In this way, it is intended to achieve the productive application of ICT with the introduction of Learning and Knowledge Technologies (TAC), focusing on innovation and continuous improvement in the processes of learning, evaluation and organization.

In Amún Shéa, the implementation of interest clubs enhances the abilities of students in various areas and the communications club is the tool that allows the management and involvement of Information Technologies (ICT) in the learning process. Teachers fulfill the role of providing and providing tools that allow them to manage knowledge to strengthen their skills and life skills and regardless of what they want to do in the future, communication is essential in all areas. The students demonstrate through the Club the potential to create, manage, organize and translate their ideas, which later become content in the new virtual communities.

Amún Shéa communications club is responsible for the production of advertising material for social networks, promotion of new learning techniques through the use of audiovisual material, short films, infographics and internal communication content for the flow of information.

Strategic communication in education is about an educational revolution that fulfills the objectives of special attention that provide students with the relevant learning spaces for their integral development. The communicational tools brought to education can be converted for Amún Shéa into the catapult of good actions, through campaigns that provide educational contents of the different ways of transmitting knowledge in virtual communities, facilitating the exchange of information by converting young people in change managers using ICT by the TAC, all this incorporated in the Personal Learning Environment (PLE), which characterizes Amún Shéa's learning process.

Amún Shéa seeks that the use of communication technologies goes beyond the domain of a series of computer tools, it is intended that students acquire the skills to create photographic material, informative infographics, documentaries, short films, coverage of events, reports that give to know research and trials.

Verenice, eighth grade student, "Being in the Communications Club is an opportunity in which I learn and experience new things, with which I gradually open the doors of knowledge, for this 2019 I have many expectations, I want to focus on the editing of videos, photography and publicity material, with the aim of acquiring diverse alternatives that promote the interaction of knowledge ".

"The Club is a very important learning space, not only is it the opportunity to use tools that help us boost communication, it also contributes to the formation of values such as unity, patience, teamwork and love for what is done. , in the club I found an opportunity for my future", says Lenin, a ninth grade student.

Students who participate in the club have a broad vision of their aspirations for the future and are aware of the importance of using communication tools for the success of their life projects.  This is what Veronica, an eighth grade student, says: "It has been an enriching experience that helps me expand my knowledge and encourages me to actively participate in the learning process of different forms of expression and even better knowing how to apply the right way technology in learning ".

Providing tools to the Amún Shéa Communications Club is one of our main objectives, we are a dreamy and visionary team that aspires to build an equipped space where students have the resources and tools such as cameras, microphones, computers for editing, lighting equipment, audio and video production, as well as having Software according to the needs.

Thank you for contributing to the development of the communities, with your contribution to open learning spaces in order to promote the economic and social development of families in the north of Morazán through education.