The University of Namibian in conjunction with the the Netherland-based Technical Central for Agriculture and Rural Development, CTA have introduced the five day Web 2.0 for development Training Course currently underway in Windhoek, Namibia.
Simunza Muyangana, an International ICT and Web 2.0 and Google related platforms is the facilitator of the training course. Most participants are academics from the University of Namibia's Media Faculty and a number of media professionals from the industry.
The course has exposed the participants to so many ICT related tools that makes their daily social and communication interaction easier - which include, twitter, skype, facebook, delicious, feedly, blogs, vlogs, google drive, book marking and tagging etc.
The trainees who are envisaged to be trainers of the trainers have discovered so many useful tools that can improve their professional and social lives. For instance, lecturers can now make use of google drive which enable them access to a particular document and moderate, edit and mark it, especially the student theses. Only mandated lecturers plus the specific student can have access to a particular thesis and all involved can trace the amendments to the document.
At the same time, scholars can also publish their theses online and invite particular groups or individuals to view them in a protected format such as read-only and pdf formats. They learnt about creating survey forms which they can use to finding our about a particular issue in their environment, such as the salary increase percentage as such a form enables employees to give their input accurately and allows the feedback to be classified in a percentage formats through graphs etc.
The participants created own google maps today and inserted directions depending on what spots they want to indicate to their target groups. It's such a fun training course as much as it can also be a bit challenging as many of the participants are being exposed to some tools for the first time.
The participants learnt about creating their own wikis and enable others to have access to them through read only, edit and commenting space.
The training course which started on Monday, 27th January and ends on Friday, 31st of January 2014.
Simunza Muyangana, an International ICT and Web 2.0 and Google related platforms is the facilitator of the training course. Most participants are academics from the University of Namibia's Media Faculty and a number of media professionals from the industry.
The course has exposed the participants to so many ICT related tools that makes their daily social and communication interaction easier - which include, twitter, skype, facebook, delicious, feedly, blogs, vlogs, google drive, book marking and tagging etc.
The trainees who are envisaged to be trainers of the trainers have discovered so many useful tools that can improve their professional and social lives. For instance, lecturers can now make use of google drive which enable them access to a particular document and moderate, edit and mark it, especially the student theses. Only mandated lecturers plus the specific student can have access to a particular thesis and all involved can trace the amendments to the document.
At the same time, scholars can also publish their theses online and invite particular groups or individuals to view them in a protected format such as read-only and pdf formats. They learnt about creating survey forms which they can use to finding our about a particular issue in their environment, such as the salary increase percentage as such a form enables employees to give their input accurately and allows the feedback to be classified in a percentage formats through graphs etc.
The participants created own google maps today and inserted directions depending on what spots they want to indicate to their target groups. It's such a fun training course as much as it can also be a bit challenging as many of the participants are being exposed to some tools for the first time.
The participants learnt about creating their own wikis and enable others to have access to them through read only, edit and commenting space.
The training course which started on Monday, 27th January and ends on Friday, 31st of January 2014.
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