A very late update on Thursday session

Here’s a late update about what we did on Thursday, when the network in the whole country was so bad, that I wasn't even able to reach the internet in the evening. The reason was that there had been a breakdown of the Seacom underwater cable somewhere in the Red Sea and all internet traffic in East Africa was affected.

During the day, we however managed to do quite a number of fact-finding exercises, again starting from simple ones and moving on to more complicated, such as the number of medals won by African athletes in the London Olympics of 2012 and to find out what were the main points of the Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo in her already famous book Dead Aid.

Here’s a summary by Zuhura Selemani about Day 4, and here’s another posting by Nurdin Selemani. They both say that they were impressed by the exercises which helped them improve the way they search for facts and backgrounds from the web.

Others explained how they learnt how to narrow the search by choosing the right search words and how to use some more advanced search options, such as narrowing the search by dates or language. Here’s the posting by Asia Khalfan, and here’s another commentary by Scholastica Mazula.

For the stories written about Dambisa Moyo, here are the links to the texts by Nurdin Selemani, Zuhura Selemani and Scholastica Mazula. For all other stories, see the links to participants’ blogs on the right.