First day of Training on Investigative Internet Journalism in OUT - Mbeya Branch

The training session began at around 10 am with the introductions from all the participants explaining who where are they and where are they from that is, their work station, specializations and most importantly, the expectations of each participant was crucial.

In the first day, I learned some of important things pertaining to Internet Journalism that one needs to know before getting in to serious business.

I learned the basic steps towards creating a blog especially if you have your Google mail account already in which you simply go to Blogger and then enter into your account and then command ‘create new blog. More importantly, I learned briefly how investigative reporting may use internet.

Moreover, I further learned that you may sometimes receive or required to receive a confirmation code as the provider may want to prove that you are real human being and not a robot! This is done after you have been requested to enter or reveal your mobile number and you will be called to be given that confirmation code.

Once you enter that code the work will continue to the next stage which is to create the blog and then you may view.

In this first day of training http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbeya I liked the way our Facilitator took us step by step with clear explanation and emphasis on each important step towards accomplishing this first day objectives.

I am afraid that I am not in a position to say that I disliked any of what has been taking place in the first day, to me all were meaningful and each step and contributions from other participants meant a lot to the workshop.

What I can say that I learned is that, everything is possible once you follow the proper procedures and steps towards accomplishing any task that is what happened and I managed to understand what Investigative Internet Journalism is.

Some of the concrete examples about research assignments, search tips or discussion in class may include among other things the fact that even in the face book, one can find important tip to make some follow up.