CTA-ARDYIS

CTA-ARDYIS
Transition in the making

Friday 11 March 2011

...Was that all? Check this out!

Witchcraft as Mr Chisenga calls has refused to let us go! Imagine working on the same document at the same time, doing the editing while you watch where the other is editing, chat, change the document to another form like PDF, isnt that magical? Web2.0 hasnt ceased to amaze me and I know this feeling will last.... They call this Google Docing....or isnt it?

Have got so many usernames, and yes passwords and my right index finger hurts.. Tha tappings have been too much.. I have never worked this long on a computer for a week before... Isnt this enduring the transition? You bet so! Rebeka is enjoying all this to the bone and proudly feels she can apply this specifically to her field, related fields and crosscutting issues... You needed to see her evaluation form....

Friday will take us through the exchange programme...Yeah, we ought to share as you never know who faces and/or  faced similar  problems to yours and how they deal and/dealt with them...

Thereafter, the cultural centre.... This I have to see first lest I start lying and the Chinese Restaurant Visist,,,,, Chip, chop xxxxxx... guess I keep up to the food and the eating method... I will have to cope with all this when I get there,,,,

Will keep you posted... And you follow me to Malawi because my "transit" continues.........

Thursday 10 March 2011

Thursday ends with PING, Mozillabird and PBworks....

...........I am Pinging, pinging and pinging!!!!!!! A day cannot end any better than this.. With Ping I can now send a single post and all my facebook friends, my fellow twitts and bloggists are informed... Isnt this magic, I think and this makes my transition fantastic....

Mozillabird is another magic, you can read your mails comfortably.. from your email here they come and you can read them. Do I need internet connection? From what I got No, but need to find out... uhhmmmm....

And the transitor also proudly says she can do more than Wiki. She can now individualize her Wiki (Personalize it, thats the word they are using), add writers, Editors and Readers to her list.... Tihs is getting more than super!!!! Not only to me but as you follow me you will also find this superb!!!!

......... And Rebeka can Wiki Wiki... I love this

Its the fourth day in the Web2.0 training session and guess what? Rebekah can Wiki! I have ever read Wikipedia notes, sometimes edited and more often used the information. All along was ever surprised why I couldnt get the authors name and I could reference them as unknown and undated (Too Bad, or isnt it?).. Today, the 10th March, my question has clearly been answered. No name of authors, all we do is collaborate, collaborate, share, edit and yeah, have arguements to enrich our knowldge. I like everything about it... Justin is really doing it. Along the same line blogging continues, editting and making it flowery and its looking fabulous in the eyes of the author and hope in your eyes too.

And I cannot forget my KAYCO facebook profile... Cant get a good picture to put on it but I know I will before friday.. Just check me out!

Later

Accra Ghana- So I can Twitt, do advanced facebooking and Blog! Hey hey!!

Its my fourth day in Ghana and my third day in the Web2.0 for Dev class. I love it! I can now twitt and blog and facebook. And you may be surprised if I never facebooked before, I do, but I was surprised at what facebook is beyond what I know i.e. beyond chatting, posting entries and knwowing others birthdays.

Rebeka can also blog! wow! I am more than happy that someone can search and find me somewhere as writer of my story. For your information I am Malawian where specialization is greatly embraced. The twitting, blogging and advanced facebooking is left to Information Technology(IT) specialist and as an Agricultural Economist I only do my Economics stuff. Frankly, I have ever heard of the twitting and blogging and the questions I had were what for? and so what? Why? firstly because I am not an IT student and secondly because I didnt know what importance they had and how much it would cost me to have such an account ( taking into consideration that internet costs in Malawi are exorbitant).

But now here I am, I can do it at the snap of my finger, twitting, blogging, controlling my facebook account, "WHAT A TRANSITION". I am even about calling myself: Economist cum IT Specialist.Twitt-facebooking was also there, new aah! but I can do it now.. That was not all for the day, remember on Tuesday I told you about RSS and Drop box? They came again in colour: RSS in facebook and I should guess in twitter as well, Dropping the folders while I work on them, share and have Fun!!!

As if that was not enough, Rebeka created a facebook for her a Community Organizatio to be based in her Village; Kaporo Youth Community Organization (KAYCO).... I like this! Its still under modification and so will talk much about it later in the day or tomorrow because the transition goes on....

Keep in touch with me and you will luv my transit......

Wednesday 9 March 2011

heya!

hey Rebekah :)

My Experience in Ghana- CTA-Web2.04Dev brought me there!

Am at Kotoka (Ghana)Airport and being checked, I breath a sigh of relief because my 12hours or so journey is finally over. Court Gardens beckons me first and there I am and its a sunday. The place is hot like some lakeside districts of Malawi. Never been here and its all fun.

Monday comes, the opening protocal is followed, group fotos are taken and the rest then the main business starts.Everything on the programme seems almost new to me except for facebook and the word google. I like this to the bone because now I know I am here for business.

The Realy Simple Syndication (RSS) and eish! the drop box, am like wow! whats this. Its already a marvel on the first day and I cannot imagine whats coming next. My interest in ICT skyrockets and for the first time I wish I was an ICT specialist. In Malawi, everyone is known by what they do, your interest cannot be recognized unless you have a certificate for it. Being an Agricultural Economist I am known as such and to them thats all...

Now the blogging, hey hey hey!! I like it. Am now an IT specialist in the making and that why you are watching me here...

The story continues to friday.... Will keep you posted