Digital Training 2

DAY 3

Day three started with the feedback of the previous sessions.  Every participants gave his/her feedback. Then the trainer checked the updated blogs of all the participants to check the quality of their write ups. He checked all the blogs one by one and gave his feedback for improvement of those write ups. His critical analysis was of real help for us.

After the tea session we were joined by a guest trainer for the photography session by Myra Iqbal a professional photo grapher. She held a long session with us , telling us about the basics of good photo journalism. She gave us insight in to the world of a photo journalist. It was a productive session.

After the lunch break we were assigned by the trainer to go outside in groups and make some photographs for our stories. We took photographs but the trainer was not satisfied with effort and thought we could have done a lot better. 

Day 2

The Second day began with the feedback of the first session. All the participant shared their experiences of the first day and what they learnt during that session.

After the feedback session the trainer started his presentation on web contents. He stressed the importance of online news contents. He gave suggestions on how to make online content more interesting and readable. He also guided us on how to support text writings with pictures and videos.

After the presentations we all critically analysed news websites of leading media organisations of the world especially Pakistan. The Newspapers discussed included Daily Dawn, daily The News, BBC , Express Tribune and The New Yorker.

Later on the trainer Alexander Michael assigned all the participants a task to develop a web story from a printed newspaper. The stories developed by the participants were later on discussed.

At the end of the day 2 the trainer asked all the participants to write a writeup of their choice for their blogs.

Day 01

Our first day of 2^nd digital TOT started with the welcome note. Our trainer from internews Asif Iqbal introduced us to our new Trainer Alexander Michael. We discussed the schedule of the training. He asked the participants whether they want something to be excluded or included in the schedule; everyone was satisfied with the content.

We started our session by having an overview of the last digital TOT. Our instructor wanted to have a look on our blogs and we shared our blogs with him and got different opinions on it over all he was satisfied with our blogs and suggested some improvements in them.

At the end of the day we practised stuff learnt during the first TOT. We uploaded text, audio and videos on our wordpress pages. 

The trainer Michael discussed general features of website journalism with us. We also discussed some news websites.

Michael the trainer then looked at the blogs developed by the participants during the first TOT, and critically analysed those blogs.