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On 21st August 2016, a CTA franchised Learning Opportunity on Web 2.0 and Social Media started at the Digital Library of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University.
This programme is supported in franchise mode by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), Netherlands. Participants are drawn mainly from the University community with a few participants coming from other universities.
The general objective of the Web 2.0 Learning Opportunities is to improve the skills of academicians, researchers and development actors in the use of a variety of Web 2.0 applications for information retrieval, collaborative generation of content, information sharing and effective and cost-efficient communication.
What the Programme covers:
- Introduction to the participatory World Wide Web (Web 2.0) and to Social Media;
- Search Magic: How to conduct advanced multilingual online searches;
- Information Self Service: How to get selected information served to you via alerts and RSS feeds;
- Remote collaboration: How to develop content remotely using wikis and Google Docs;
- Online mapping: How to locate your organisation and your projects on an online Map;
- How to communicate voice over the internet at no cost;
- Online publishing (micro-blogging and blogging);
- Professional / corporate social networking (LinkedIn and Facebook);
- Web 2.0 self-instruction (introduction to iMARK)
Web applications give us a new freedom to express our potential.
Web applications enable us to:
- Collaborate without having to be in one location
- Make our own maps without being cartographers
- Publish our own stories and opinions without being formally trained journalist
- Make calls using the internet without the exploitation of GSM providers
- Discover colleagues and students who plagiarise.
- Even socialise without having to leave your office
