BRAVO!!!!

At last the workshop has ended. It was a successful and a well organized workshop. Both the organizers and the trainer are experienced. They have given us the best knowledge on Internet and blogging. I’m glad that I have finally managed to open my own blog. I’m sorry for those who missed the training. But I will make sure that I share the knowledge I have gained on this workshop with them.TCHAOOO!!

Workshop members

These are some of my coligues on the workshop on internet for journalism.

THE WORLD ON OUR FINGER TIPS

The training on internet for journalists widened my horizon on newspapers and TV stations online. We visited a number of online newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations. Through the internet the word is now on our fingertips.

As a librarian and a trainer I will create a comprehensive index to Newspapers, magazines,Radio and TV stations online and publish it to the college website and to my blog.
Thanks to the organizers of this training for widening my horizon on online media. I will utilize the knowledge for the benefit of LIS students and Librarians in our country. I will also make sure that online media is featured in our next IL training.

CREATING BLOGS

This is the third day of our training on internet for journalist. This was the most exiting training I’ve ever had for the past nine months or so. We are in a new training center at Sinza Mori near Kijitonyama Hostels. It is a beautiful internet cafe with an air conditioned room. They have enough bandwidth so the internet is very fast.
We have a lot of practical on e- commerce. We did some practice on booking train tickets from the Finish railway corporation. We also did some practical on internet banking. CRDB and NBC banks were used in our practical.

Lastly we came to a very interesting part on creating a blog! I was so exited and happy because I successfully launched my first blog called Cossam Workshop.
I’m planning to create a blog for librarians in the country to exchange their experiences, knowledge and skills about their profession. I will help my students to create their own blog so that they can use it not only for learning and sharing knowledge but also for entertainment and creating awareness to the society on LIS issues in our country.

E-MAIL FOR COMMUNICATION

Today is the second day of our training. Our training was officially opened by the Deputy Provost for Administration. The DPA insisted on the role of media in provision of information to the society. She also thanked the organizer and the facilitator for the training. The official opening was accompanied by press conference.
We had a lot of stuff on internet for journalism. We have learned about mail for communication, plagiarism, e-commerce, journalism in the age of internet and the challenges and solutions to the problems facing media houses in the age of internet.

We learned about formal and informal mail communication, the rules for managing mails and the features of a good mail. The session was useful to me because I learned about flagging important mails and proper way of sending attachments.

The session on plagiarism was useful to me as a librarian and a teacher a teacher too.
The session on e commerce was so interesting and I discovered how the internet has changed our word.

INTERNET FOR JOURNALISTS WORKSHOP

I’m Getrude Ntulo, Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Library and Information Studies, Tumaini University Dar es salaam College Tanzania. I’m currently teaching different courses like Introduction to Computer, Information Sources, Sectorial Information Needs, Information Services to Children and other courses
I have conducted several Information literacy programmes at Tumaini University Dar Es Salaam College and other constituent colleges like Lushoto and Makumira University College.


The growth of Communication and Information Technology in the world has lead into information overflow where by people are surrounded by oceans of information yet they can’t make full use of it. They need to be trained on information searching so that they can make a full use of information from the internet.

As a trainer on information literacy, particularly searching information from the internet and using the World Wide Web as a source of information, the course on internet for Journalist will enable me to gain more skills and knowledge on the subject matter.

I’m expecting that from this workshop I will gain more experience, new knowledge and new techniques on using the internet as a source of information, a source of communication and a tool for information dissemination.

The workshop will be conducted for three days from 3rd -6th August 2009. Today was the first day of the workshop. It was very interesting though it was just an introduction. I was introduced to different websites where I can access the internet usage statistics; I was amazed by the findings from the statistics. These findings stimulated me to conduct a research on Internet usage statistics in Tanzania.
Another interesting topic which needs a closer follow up was on remote access. I was curious to know how I can access my computer at home while I’m at my working place or I’m on safari to a remote area like my home town Sumbawanga.

I also learned about mails. I was familiar with web mails only, but today I have been introduced to other mail services which are not web based.

I’m anciently waiting for the next topic which will be on blogs because I was interested on creating a blog for my class but I didn’t know where to start, so this workshop came in the right time.
I’m planning to create a blog for librarians in the country, particularly academic librarians so that they can have a communication forum for exchanging views, ideas and sharing experiences on their profession.