Bookmarking and other practical skills to share

The participants have opened their blogs and made their first postings, introducing themselves, listing some of their expectations from the training and writing summaries of what we did on the first day of the training and what they liked or disliked.

Nurdin Selemani, deputy chief editor of Radio France International Kiswahili service, wishes that the training will help him and others a lot, because in Tanzania many journalists don’t know how to use the internet effectively to communicate quickly with the rest of the world.

Zuruha Selemani, journalism lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, says that her main expectation from the training is to acquire skills, knowledge and experiences that she can share with her students and colleagues at the school of journalism.

Athumani Shariff, lecturer at Dar es Salaam School of Journalism, expects to receive new knowledge of the internet in order to be able to train his students in new media technology. At the end of the day, he says, “this will help the society to get the right information”.

George Baltazary from Time School of Journalism says that he has about 500 students to teach. What he liked most during yesterday’s training was to learn how to bookmark web pages (or add them to favourites, if you’re using Internet Explorer) to easily find them afterwards. Also clearing the page history was something new to him and most others.

Maurice Manda from the Royal College of Tanzania says that he liked that the assignments were very practical.

For compact summaries of what we did yesterday, see the postings of Hamisi Kibari, subeditor of the Habari Leo newspaper, and Jane Mathias, subeditor of Nipashe newspaper.