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Extension practices in lives on social networks

Abstract

Extension, along with teaching and research, constitutes one of the pillars of the University, configuring itself as a space for promoting actions aimed, above all, at community service. In this sense, given the benefits arising from its implementation, even in adverse situations, such as those arising from the context of a pandemic, with the suspension of face-to-face activities in educational institutions, extension practices must have their operation maintained, even if under limitations. Based on this premise, this article aims to present the development of extension practices with the support of digital technologies, through the promotion of "lives" on social networks. It is about the sharing of data resulting from the conduction of two extension projects, coordinated by the authors, professors of a Literature Course at a public university, whose dynamics were adapted in compliance with the guiding guidelines for remote education. Aimed at the continuing education of teachers in the area of ​​languages, these projects sought, on social networks, alternatives for the production and dissemination of content, enabling the maintenance of their training proposals. Mobilizing theoretical-methodological assumptions that deal with university extension and the intersections between teaching and technology, the analyzes are based on the exploration of the procedures adopted in conducting extension practices in digital environments, considering the authors' perceptions regarding the evaluation of promoted events. The results point out, above all, the fruitful shift of “live streaming” resources from the entertainment sphere to the educational, university and extensionist sphere.