The fourth day of our Internet Training

As the training goes on it becomes more interesting and attractive. People are becoming more enquisitive in learning more and more new things especially on our blogs.

The day started by visiting various websites using the simplest way of copying the title of the material you want to search in our work and then pasting them to google site. So, we visited Aljeezera.com, Inter Press Service News Agency, and MISA-TAN. Later, we learn on how to create links to our postings.

Before lunch we had an exercise on reaching different websites phone numbers and addresses. We came across Zain Tanzania, Media Council of Tanzania, tanzania National Parks, The White House, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Tanzania, and Information Officer of Amnesty International.

The today’s demonstration continued to be very useful to my knowledge. The knowledge added value to my academic life.

Immediately after lunch we came to the journalistic practical assignments. We learn on how to edit information while cross-checking and getting reliable information in the internet. Unfortunately, it is not just the matter of getting information from internet but checking the accuracy of the source of the particular report and facts. Sometimes, people come to trust information from the internet while there is a chance of editing and adding any information for instance in the Wikipedia. So, it is better to cross-check our information basing on its accuracy and reliability.

At the end of the internet training we had an assignment to do on writing features on the given topics: Barack Obama and early years; Albinos in Tanzania; Nestle Boycot; World trade Centre Building 7; Climate change and Mount kilimanjaro and Binyavanga Wainaina. We are supposed to search for the materials relevant to these topics and write a good feature story about one of the topic picked.

This brings a challenge because the idea here is to find out whether participants can effectively utilize various relevant websites in searching the facts about the given topic. Moreover, the issue of plagiarism came in, so participants who will write using both English and Swahili languages should be very careful because will also link to the original documents. This also come to my attention to those who will use Swahili language because one can translate information as it is and that is plagiarism too.

Thank you very much Peik for the days we spent together in this internet training. I wish to continue with this spirit of being enquisitive to the contemporary issues going on in the world. Hope to continue seeing participants blogs because this is just the beginning and not the end, and death of our blogs.