Friday, 18 February 2011

DIGITEST 2011 TEACHERS' SUMMIT UPDATE

The 2011 Digitest Teachers Summit commenced yesterday February 17, 2011 at about 10.00am with an opening session.  Ten participants and four Resource Persons were present at the ceremony.

The organisers introduced themselves and thereafter informed participants of the reasons they decided to put together the annual Teachers Summit which is geared towards strenghtening the capacity of teachers on Information & Communication Technology.  The focus for this year's summit is on Social Media Skills for schools and Database Management Applications in schools  
DAMILOLA (introducing MS Access to participants)
                                           
The first session was on Social Media Skills  where Rotimi displayed his mastery of the use of the Blogger.com application.  This application enable users create a mini website free.  The app has interesting features which include the fact that it is easy to manage by an individual, entries can be made with ease, videos/characters and graphics are easily posted.

Participants had a hands-on training which was quite interesting.  Those with an existing google e-mail account were able to create their blogs, while others who do not have google account had to open one.  This is compulsory for anyone to use the blogger.com application.

The next person to take on the participants was Damilola.  She did an intro to the world of MS Access, highlighting the capacity of the software and its superiority over MS Excell.  MS Access is basically for collection/storage/analyzing of data and retrieivng the information in various useful forms.

DAY 1 EVENTS IN PCS
 The programme continues today and ends tomorrow Saturday February 19, 2011. Remain posted

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