Zambia Focuss.Info Post- Workshop Survey

The Zambia Focuss.Info Workshop that took place on12th June , 2010 was aimed at raising awareness among lecturers, researchers and individual professionals working around global development research and cooperation on what web 2.0 tools are, their advantages and how they can be used. The other area of this workshop was to promote new ICT skills amongst the workshop participants such as the use of tagging and social bookmarking, subscriptions and syndication, blogging, online video/image sharing as well as group productivity and collaboration tools. The implementation of the initial Zambia Focuss.Info Workshop plan was also aimed at promoting the Focuss.Info Initiative to the participants by having a network of Zambians working in the development research realm contribute to the network and actively save their favourite electronic resources on the internet.

The workshop participants were given a short questionnaire with five questions only. The responses are a way of improving the organisation and execution of future workshops. Below are the questions from the questionnaire with some of the answers that the participants gave. 

Questions about the Zambia Focuss.Info Workshop 

1. What did you enjoy most about the workshop?

• Besides the coffee and the biscuits, lunch…it was very educational/enlightening. I can’t get enough of delicious.com’s convenience! Also, being introduced to new social networks (e.g. twitter) was a good experience.

• The workshop brought together people from different backgrounds and institutions. Its a good way to learn

• Learning how to use social bookmarking tools like delicious. A very useful tool. I also enjoyed the presence of the other participants and the interactions

• The focuss.info initiative is a good project. It will enable people share useful and resourceful information.I really like delicious. I have a yahoo account and didnt even know about the existence of delicious

• For me, i enjoyed learning how to put my information in form of bookmarks online via delicious though i didnt get to practice that because of poor internet. I hope i can still get to practice what ive learnt

• I enjoyed the presenatations. They were not too long and they were clear

    2. What did you learn from the workshop that you now use in your work or anticipate to using in your 

        work?

• How I can keep track of my bookmarks using delicious.com and have access to them regardless of where/which computer am using. Talk about convenience!

• Social bookmarking  which has been relatively new to me has been a learning experience.

• The training that I got during the workshop such as uploading materials online, photo sharing

• Social bookmarking using delicious and how i can easily carry my bookmarks everywhere i go as i can now save them online and not in my browser like before

• With the training in web 2.0, it has given me basic skills on how to upload materials onto the internet and how i can use web 2 tools for networking

• With basic skills that I acquired, it proved to be easy for me to upload content online such as photosharing and keeping a list of my favourite sites online although the internet was very bad

   3. Was there anything about the workshop and the presentations made that you did not understand?

       Please provide specific examples.

• No
• No
• Honestly there is nothing I can point a finger to
• No

• No

  4. What is the most valuable thing you learned through workshop (knowledge or skills)?

• The delicious initiative is pretty smart! Kudos to whoever came up with it.

• Information exchange through the internet; my ability to use modern/new ICT tools such as web 2 has increased

• Bookmarking my favourite site. Its a pitty the internet connection was very bad during the workshop

• Browsing the internet to search for information and saving my bookmarks online. But internet was too slow and very bad

• I learnt a few tricks from this workshop which i hope to use in my current work. Social bookmarking seems like a very helpful thing for organising information

• The most valuable things I learned were both knowledge and skills. Even if I had to buy a computer, the knowledge and skill I acquired through the workshop is important. I didnt know there was so much one could do over the internet. Its important for those who have these details to share with those of us that dont know.

• I enjoyed RSS. I think it is very convenient, being able to chose what updates to recieve from what sites..that is convenient

5. What other specific comments do you have?

• More people need to know about these tools.
• It  would be good if another workshop or followup meeting could be organised.
• Next time invite more people who may need to know about web 2 tools and what information sharing networks exist out there such as the Focuss.Info initiative
• Please,next time choose a venue with better internet. The internet was really bad
• The presenter has been very knowledgeable on the issues and tools outlined in the workshop programme and her presentation was good. I was happy.



Comments

[Aaron Komani]

One month down the line and im still excited about the conveneince of delicious.com ! I can't wait for the next workshop...and what other tools i'll be enlightened about! Kudos madam Chimika!

[Richard Santos Lalleman]

Dear Aaron Komani - Could you please share your Delicious account with us?
Kind regards - Focuss.Info Coordinator

[Aaron Komani]

Dear Richard, my delicious account is http://delicious.com/komanizmail

[Chimika Lungu]

Thank you Komani for the encouragement and for participating!

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