4th Penplusbytes Global Online Course in ICT Journalism (April 20 to July 20 2012)

Online training opportunity for journalists in the area of ICT Journalism. Participants will be exposed to the wider context of ICTs assisted journalism including how these technologies are impacting on the world of journalism, how ICT can be used in producing stories and how to manage change process in using innovative ICT tools.

To enquire about this course, send an email to training AT Penplusbytes.org

Global course in ICT Journalism topics for week 2 and 3

tools of our trade - topics

1. Introduction to ICT tools for journalism
2. Digital Convergence
3. Media Convergence
4. Computer Assisted Journalism
5. Using Geographic Information System in Journalism
6. Publishing platforms
7. Content Management System
8. Database Management System
9. Maths and Stats for the newsroom


then tools of our trade(part two) looks at some online tools


1. Website, chat, email and instant messaging
2. Feeds – RSS, Widget, New Tracker, Content Tracker
3. Blogs
4. Wiki
5. Podcasting
6. Twitter – twitter pic, twitter chats, saving twitter as pdf, hash tags (power point)
7. Video sharing (power point)
8. Infostructures and Social networking (power point)
9. Online documents, Online Collaboration tools and communications