Sunday 31.7.2016
No previous experience or nautical archaeological courses were required to apply to the fieldschool. That was good for me because I did not have any! In Finland this type of fieldschool experience would be impossible to obtain, because all divers doing hands-on archaeology on wrecks must have a degree in nautical archaeology. Shortest certification programs take a few years. Amateurs can look but not touch. No wonder that very little work is done.
Before the Mazotos fieldschool started, we all needed to complete a specially tailored NAS elearning course Underwater Combined. It consisted of NAS Introduction to Maritime Archaeology and NAS Underwater Archaeology courses.
Lessons were implemented in Moodle, and worked relatively well. They included textual learning materials as well as short videos and simple practical problems. Each lesson was followed by a short and easy quiz. There was also a summary exam at the end of the first course. Obviously we were not taught to be masters of anything, but just given rudimentary basics on which to build up in the fieldschool. I think this was a very good way to guarantee at least some common baseline knowledge for all students in fieldschool. Also, it would have been waste of time to cover all this material by the fieldschool instructors.
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| NAS ELearning Course Underwater Combined (https://moodle.nauticalarchaeologysociety.org/) |
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