The training ended well yesterday with group photos and final feedbacks. There were no technical problems during the whole day, so we were able to cover the planned programme with quite fast speed and without disturbances.
What we did throughout the day was to search for information from the web and practise the search tips I showed to the class earlier in the week. Starting from simple facts, such as population figures, contact information and names of Kenyan gold medal winners in the athletics world championships few weeks ago, we then moved on to more complicated search assignments, which needed some narrowing of the search by dates or language and by choosing the most appropriate search words.
Finding out the height of the fourth highest mountain in Tanzania was already a difficult task (Luhombero, Iringa, 2,576 metres), but later-on with some assistance most participants even managed to find an exact quotation on what presidential candidate Edward Lowassa said about water at Mbezi grounds in Dar es Salaam last week's Tuesday, in Swahili of course.
At the end of the day, we also had a session on plagiarism and copyrights issues before the participants wrote a short story about one of the given topics based on information found by searching from the web.
I will provide links soon to some of the stories. Meanwhile, you can visit the blog links on the right.
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