Saturday, February 4, 2012

Final feedback on what we are taking home

On the final day of the training, the participants filled in an assessment questionnaire and also published some postings giving feedback on the training, whether the training week met their expectations and was useful for them in their daily endeavours as editors or as trainers of the new generations of journalists to come.

According to the questionnaire replies, the participants were all pretty happy about the intensive week we’ve had, although some wished that the training would have been even longer, and others complained about the slow speed of the network on some of the days.

Below are some of the comments from the blog postings of the participants.

Rose Haji from UN Women and also coordinator of the Community Media Network of Tanzania says that her expectations for the training were met by 99 percent. In her opinion the training was well blended with theory and practice, interactive and full of fun. “It was really adult learning”, she says.

Bestina Magutu, news editor at TBC, also says that the training was enjoyable and easy to follow. Key lessons she drew from the training included smart internet searching, the use of adding web pages to favourites for easy recording, several new websites to use, knowledge on plagiarism and how to avoid it, and links to inspiring blogs of young women in neighbouring Kenya. (Links to these blogs can be found on the right.)

Joyce Shebe, news editor at Clouds FM, admits that before the training she was lazy in searching and reading the web, but from now on she will improve her work and find new material as much as she can.

Eleuter Mbilinyi, subeditor of The African, says that he has learnt a lot of new and basic techniques that will be very useful for him and all his colleagues back at the media house.

Sylvia Mwehozi, editor of Radio Mlimani, the student radio station at the University of Dar es Salaam School of Journalism and Mass Communication, says that the first thing she will do when she gets back to work is to open a blog for Radio Mlimani so that in the future people can access their stories also online.

Njonjo Mfaume, journalism lecturer at the same university, tells us that he has now officially launched his blog, which will focus on journalism resources and target both journalism students, trainers and journalism practitioners.

Masembe Tambwe, weekend editor at Daily News, writes especially about the last day of the training week, which was like “the icing of the cake of the training”, thanks to the nice audience provided by the famous blogger Maggid Mjengwa.

For Kiswahili readers, please find the comments of Furaha Maugo of Mwananchi here and the comments of John Daniel, Raia Mwema, here.

I also want to thank all participants for a great week with lots of debates and joking and laughter. Thanks to MISA-Tanzania and especially Cecilia Mng’ong’o and Gasirigwa Sengiyumva for facilitating the event and to Andrew Marawiti for the good pre-training preparations. Thanks also to the IT support and catering at TGDLC. Many thanks also to the Embassy of Finland in Dar es Salaam for good cooperation and to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland for the funding of the whole internet training programme.

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