DIGITAL TRAINING OF THE TRAINERS DAILY DAIRY REPORT BY THE AUTHOR
DAY-9
It was our day 9th of the training. We went to Serena
Hotel to see the photo exhibition that was jointly organized by the National
Geographic & Internews. The day didn’t
start well as the dining hall of our Guest House was full of participants for
the breakfast and Management was unable to have arrangements for such large
number of people, my observation said they were not expecting that many people.
Cutting short my breakfast as our trainer was waiting for us
in the lobby, we manage to leave for the destination at 9:45.
The exhibition was nice and I feel wonderful to be there
meeting and seeing the work of Young journalist from FATA. Some of the photos
were very fabulous and depicted the true colors of our culture. the Chief of the party Internews- the host and USAID Director for Pakistan- the chief Guest deliverved their welcome comments and good words respectively.
Their works on photo shop was relevant to us and help us
recall our learning.
We were feeling nice but later felt tired and bored as there wasn’t
proper arrangement for seating and it was really difficult to concentrate while
standing for hours. Some of us really miss our training room where we do the
entire work sitting. Later we had lunch at Serena and left for our guest house.
The interesting part of our journey was the Participant who
counted himself twice, time and again. More prudent is the fact : he too belongs to the
same region I am from ;)
DAY-8
It was our day 8th, the day started with the
feedback there was little confusion regarding Proper usages of the terminologies.
We learnt their actual meanings and that which one is software and which one is
file. we were also told about the different specification of these softwares.
We, then, presented our themes, which were given to us to be devloped as an an assignment yesterday. during presentations we discussed the problems we
faced during preparation as some of us had chosen themes that don’t had multiple menus option and therefore wasnt been able to display the double menus bars at the top.
We were guided thoroughly how to choose a suitable theme according to our own choice. We also learnt how to set different options in a selected theme.
We were guided thoroughly how to choose a suitable theme according to our own choice. We also learnt how to set different options in a selected theme.
In order to have uniformity, all the participants were asked to
select a single theme. We all selected “Admirer” as it has multiple menus and support the news style of layout.
Later we learnt how to set layout, and colours in admirer. We also learnt how to embed video in our page, how to make gallery and add pictures to it. We also learnt how to set feature image. We also learnt how to set thumbnail for gallery. the different sizing display option was really wonderful feature in a gallery as previously we were doing this through Irfan viewer.
Later we learnt how to set layout, and colours in admirer. We also learnt how to embed video in our page, how to make gallery and add pictures to it. We also learnt how to set feature image. We also learnt how to set thumbnail for gallery. the different sizing display option was really wonderful feature in a gallery as previously we were doing this through Irfan viewer.
We also learnt how to have Audio plugin by downloading
different plugins. We also downloaded easy gallery, category excluder and face
book widget on our selected themes to have better content Management.
DAY-7
It was the 7th day of
our training. It started with sending the compressing of our whole dream weaver
folder proceeded by feedback which went unfortunately cut short due to certain
reasons. We then installed XAMP and Word press files on our machines. We were
guided through every step.
During Installation of XAMP, I
had a problem as my APACHE file wasn’t running which made me learn that the
port that XAMP always uses is 80 and during my Installation it was occupied by
the Skype. I learnt that it’s essential to have closed all other application
before running the XAMP. The problem was solved soon as the Skype was closed.
We were told that XAMP is the
software which is used to turn your machine to serve as server to host a word
press website from our machine or otherwise you can utilize some Host server to
provide you space.
We also learnt about the
different Data base like My SQL, Oracle Access, MS SQL and learnt that which
one is free and which one should be purchased.
In order to have the sense of
Users and database, we were shown the C panel of our university websites and
were shown what the role of Admin, subscriber and contributor is and were also
shown how we can make users and database, assign mail addresses, cheek
different columns and comments etc from PHP my admin, if the dashboard is not
working and we have to make changes.
We also learnt to put our web
files in htdocs folder in drive C of our XAMP folder and www folder if we are
using WMP. We renamed d tot our word press folder and placed it in htdocs
folder.
We later had data base for our
every user at our own university website and we were taught how to develop
theme with word press. We were guided how to select theme, appearance, devise
categories and make multiple menus.
We were given assignment to
select and update a theme having multiple menus at the end of session.
DAY-6
It was the 6th Day of
our training. As usual, It started with the feedback session and all of us explained our previous day learning . We later presented our
Assignments of the web pages we developed in dreamweaver software. We discussed the problems we faced
in during preparing the assignment like we were not able to have batch conversation
in Irfan viewer similarly we also faced some problems in managing cell padding and
spacing. We were re- explained the process how to do this.
Later we learnt how to download
the filezilla software and upload FTP file on to it with putting Host address,
username and password.
We uploaded all our work to the
internews website. We learnt always to upload to the Public html, always make Index.
Html, cares for the naming convention don’t give space starting digit. Always
put all the images in images folder, same for pdf and other world doc.
DAY-5
The Day 5th begins with the introductory session of participants with Michael Macaulif who he is Resident Journalism Advisor for InterNews. He told about the partnership with three KPK Universities and future development and made clear that these TOTs are very essential to ensure that spirit.
The session then started with the feedback on previous day activity, each one of us shared his/her retention and chalked out what have been learned.
We first learned how to use Mask Layer in photo editing to add effects to the picture. We also added mask layer to a photo and uploaded it to our blog. We learned about Use of different Filters to add various effects to picture to make them more dramatic like render, noise, distort, sketch, texture, etc. After practicing it, we also learnt how to blend two images together.
Second remarkable learning of the day was Dream viewer. We started our session on Adobe Dreamweaver by installing it on our computers. We were guided through each step in installation. We learnt how to develop web pages professionally using the Dreamweaver. We learned about the different options, tools and buttons available on the user interface like code, split and design.
We also learnt how to maneuver different HTML files, how to Insert Tables with different sizes, columns and rows, how to merge the cells in a table, how to adjust and readjust height and width of main and the inner table, how to border and then eliminating the borders lines of Tables to make page more beautiful, how to Insert Images in the tables and add pages to the buttons so one can surf through different pages from any of the page of website.
DAY- 4
It was our 4th day of the training yesterday. Like usual the day started with the feedback from previous day learning and we all presented our feedbacks. It was a useful activity and our recalled our learning through feedback and also learnt from others presentations the things we missed in our ones.
The day begin with the installation of Adobe Photoshop and Irfan viewer software, we were guided through the whole steps in downloading both the software.
We worked on Adobe Photoshop first and learnt about its interface, navigation bar, toolbar and property bar and use of different buttons over there. We learnt what are Raster graphics and Vector graphics, their values and properties.
We were guided to make banner and buttons in Adobe Photoshop where we learnt the use of differentlayers, and how work on each layer and chain them Apart of this we also learnt how to set properties for layers, how to duplicate them, how to chain them and the conceptof RGB color temperature and Aspect Ratio.
Similarly we also learnt about the quality of picture and colors and how the pixels work in an image. We leant what is dpi and why to set it at 72 and in order how to set the Picture quality at 70 to 80 % to accommodate space and achieve quality as well.
We also learnt how to set picture quality in Irfan viewer, how to set batch conversation.
DAY-3
It was our 3rdday of digital training yesterday. I was bit drowsy in the beginning however get fine as the day progressed.
·The day began with the feedback session on what we learnt on day 2nd.
·We also presented our html pages we developed as an assignment.
·Then, we learnt what social media is for journalists how Facebook and twitter can best be utilized for the purpose.
·We were given example from across the world where twitter has been used as an important journalistic tool.
·We also learnt about the other social media tools used for story writing, presentations and networking like tumblr, google+, storify, vuvox and prezi.
· We also discussed how journalists can use social networks for News.
·We also had a theoretical session yesterday on what is blog followed by a practical session where we learnt how to make blog, how to set theme, make posts, how to publish it.
· We also learnt how to put labels, Permalinks, locations and to integrate another page on blog and other dashboard functions like settings for comments etc.
DAY: 2
It was our 2nd of the training yesterday. The whole session was based on practically working over the HTML i.e. hypertext Markup language, we learnt how to design and create a html page with the use of tags.
We learnt
·How to put & close html tag
·How to put & close body tag
·How to put & closeimage tag to insert picture
·How to put & close paragraph tag and the way to align them left, right and center
·How to put & close font tag
·How to put & close bold tag
·How to put & close table tag & set its properties like width, height and background color for cells and rows
·How to put & align tag
·How to put & close rows tags
·How to put & close columns tag
·How to make order list and out of order list withtags
·How to connect two Html pages together
·We also recorder audio clip and edited it
·We were given an assignment to make an html page having certain specifications
DAY-1
It was our first day of training. We discussed the scheduled of this training. Our trainer Asif Iqbal asked the participant whether they want something to be excluded or included in the schedule; everyone was pretty convinced with the contents.
We started our learning by a power point presentation of what is web journalism all about we asked questions about this which were answered.Later we discussed different examples of this with our trainer.
We also learnt the ethics of cyber journalism. We discussed what is accuracy, honesty, copy right, plagiarism, sourcing, why and how not to distort photos and videos, difference between advertising and information, label, opinion, privacy, balance and fair play, juvenile and victims of sex crimes, criminal suspects, corrections, independence, linking decisions, principles and values etc. the trainer discussed each pointwith the participant and gave suitable examples. We were also guided to download cyber-crime law code from Supreme Court of Pakistan’s website.
We were also taught how to download and use Skype. We learnt how to fill form, make privacy setting, and add contacts to Skype and how to integrate it with Facebook, how to share screen and have conference call.
We also learnt about the web layout, what is color theme, which colors are commonly used in web designing and lay out, we learnt what is header, banner, top navigation,side navigation, how the buttons varies according to size, we also learnt what are different tabs and how they help in utilizing same space for huge information. We also learnt what is grid and how many columns are conventionally used in web layout. We were also shown different web layouts from New York Times and other main news websites. The differences in design were discussed in detail.
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