Thirty-five writers tapped from various State Universities and Colleges (SUC) from all over the archipelago will converge in the coastal City of Baybay, Leyte to undergo the Basic Online Writing Techniques (BOWT) training workshop from April 21-24, 2010.
The three-day workshop, hosted by the iSchools Project in cooperation with Visayas State University, will aid SUC writers in capturing the impact of the iSchools experience. At the end of the training, SUC writers will be expected to produce articles that chronicle the project's contributions to its recipient schools.
With three implementation runs tucked under its belt and another one at hand, the iSchools Project is close to its goal of “bridging the digital divide” by delivering internet laboratories and ICT literacy training to 1,000 public high schools all over the Philippines.
“We are fiercely proud of our project's contribution to school communities around the country,” declares Antonette Torres, iSchools project manager.
“The challenge now,” she adds “is for the writers to produce quality stories from the field, that best relay our message to a national-- even global audience.”
To meet this challenge, the iSchools Project tapped renowned professionals in the fields of journalism and photojournalism to develop workshop sessions targeting the specific needs of its 35 SUC Writers.
Two-time National Book Awards for Journalism awardee Jose Torres, Jr. will lay down the groundwork by reintroducing the concepts and practice of news and feature writing. With these basics covered, Torres will teach the writers how to tailor-fit their work for an online readership with a session on online writing.
To appeal to the more visual reader, a session on photojournalism will be led by respected photographer Jimmy Domingo-- who also lectures at the Photojournalism Program of the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University (ACFJ) and sits at the board of the Philippine Center for Photojournalism.
The BOWT is just one among the series of Content Development activities developed by the iSchools Project aimed to generate material for the web portal it will launch during the National ICT Month celebration this coming June.
The iSchools Project is one of the flagship projects of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) under the ICT4BE Program. Recognized at the 3rd Government Technology Awards in Bali, Indonesia, the project aims to integrate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education. With an annual budget of P350 million, it has provided training modules and increased ICT access in public high schools, making it the most comprehensive initiative of its kind in the Philippines. Now on its 4th year of implementation, the iSchools Project has provided these services to 1,000 public high schools nationwide.
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