Hello again since some time of silence, which is due to very hectic days at the training and an annoyingly slow internet connection at the hotel where I’m staying.
Here’s now a short summary of the third training day, that we spent mostly on research assignments starting from simple and moving on to more complicated ones.
It was still relatively easy to find out the population of Iringa – after acknowledging that what I meant was Iringa town, instead of Iringa region. Finding this season’s top goal scorer of the UEFA Champions League was a bit more difficult, as the actual group stage is about to begin only next week, but the best scorer from the qualification matches (Andreas Cornelius, FC Copenhagen) was finally found on the UEFA website itself.
Probably the most challenging task so far was to find the height of the fourth highest mountain in Tanzania as the existing web resources about Tanzanian mountain peaks give contradicting results and no one in the class, including myself, had ever heard about Mount Loolmalassin, which seems to be the third highest mountain after Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru. Eventually, we agreed that Mt Hanang must be the fourth highest mountain (3,420 metres), which was at least confirmed by a Wikipedia article.
Meanwhile, the participants have also published postings and feedbacks on some of the main issues covered on Day 2.
Here’s a nice summary by Neema Rugemalira especially about the search tips discussed in class. Some of the search tips were also mentioned by Sakina Faru and Catherine Kemikimba.
Pascal Shao claims that “for the journalism lecturers, the training has been quite resourceful and they are now able to do research through the internet systematically. Above all, I believe the training helps the lecturers to assist their students to plan their literature searching and writing as academicians taking into account verifying information and avoiding plagiarism.”
We were also working on our blogs, going through different design options and how to add links to the texts. For more about the blogging sessions, see the postings by Frank Katabi, Harrison Kisaka, Joseph Mtatiro and Nuru Shao.
I also recommend visiting the beautiful blog that Ridhwan Msisiri has created with birthday photos about his sweet daughters.
Here’s now a short summary of the third training day, that we spent mostly on research assignments starting from simple and moving on to more complicated ones.
It was still relatively easy to find out the population of Iringa – after acknowledging that what I meant was Iringa town, instead of Iringa region. Finding this season’s top goal scorer of the UEFA Champions League was a bit more difficult, as the actual group stage is about to begin only next week, but the best scorer from the qualification matches (Andreas Cornelius, FC Copenhagen) was finally found on the UEFA website itself.
Probably the most challenging task so far was to find the height of the fourth highest mountain in Tanzania as the existing web resources about Tanzanian mountain peaks give contradicting results and no one in the class, including myself, had ever heard about Mount Loolmalassin, which seems to be the third highest mountain after Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru. Eventually, we agreed that Mt Hanang must be the fourth highest mountain (3,420 metres), which was at least confirmed by a Wikipedia article.
Meanwhile, the participants have also published postings and feedbacks on some of the main issues covered on Day 2.
Here’s a nice summary by Neema Rugemalira especially about the search tips discussed in class. Some of the search tips were also mentioned by Sakina Faru and Catherine Kemikimba.
Pascal Shao claims that “for the journalism lecturers, the training has been quite resourceful and they are now able to do research through the internet systematically. Above all, I believe the training helps the lecturers to assist their students to plan their literature searching and writing as academicians taking into account verifying information and avoiding plagiarism.”
We were also working on our blogs, going through different design options and how to add links to the texts. For more about the blogging sessions, see the postings by Frank Katabi, Harrison Kisaka, Joseph Mtatiro and Nuru Shao.
I also recommend visiting the beautiful blog that Ridhwan Msisiri has created with birthday photos about his sweet daughters.
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