Internet training for Journalism lecturers begins

Journalism lecturers from three universities in Tanzania are attending three days training designed to enhance their ability to use internet in journalism training organised by The Finnish Foundation for Media and Development (VIKES) in collaboration with University of Dar es Salaam.

In the first day of the training, the 15 lecturers from University of Dar es Salaam's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Open University of Tanzania (OUT) and Tumaini University have said that they expect that the training would help improve their teaching.

Lecturers also had several specific expectations. The trainer, Mr. Peik Johansson from Finland who is also VIKES Africa Programme said he hopes the training would help the lecturers incorporate internet into journalism teaching and therefore make journalism teaching more participatory.

Among the topics taught in the first day included statistics of internet users, growth of internet in Africa and in Tanzania. Participants noted that there was an increase of internet users in Tanzania from 2008. Participants discussed reasons for the increase.

 Participants were also taught how to open blogs and each participant created one.