The day begin at 05:30am as usual, some people have been created with the alarm clock in their head and I am one of them. Physical exercise is what is needed to make your body ready and fresh for the day, so I had to warm up a bit. There after washing and breakfast follows.
After breakfast we had to walk to Niek's place. His place is not far from our hotel, at least we get used to the city and we can walk by ourselves to certain places without being lost, I believe it a great achievement, isn't it? It is a five minutes walk from our hotel to Niek's place, he was ready and we drive all the way to his office.
Niek's office is outside the town, he told us that that place has been build from the past five years, almost building looks new and some are still in construction. Niek's office is in fifth floor of the building where there are some other five Information Technology related companies, owned by young entrepreneurs.
Lets get into a really business now, we started by discussing and going deeper into web 2 technologies, today we spoke about RSS (Really Simple Syndication), an RSS documents are called feeds or sometime channels, RSS is the means of accessing many website or web contents from different sites into one page, the RSS feed can be read by RSS reader. Most common example of RSS includes my.yahoo and igoogle.We discussed and practicing RSS using igoogle.
The next thing was about tagging and creating a profile of the information I liked and enjoy reading using a del.icio.us one of the most famous tagging tool, we discuss about it and we even watched some video of how to go about with it. There after we came to work it, we created our profiles, add networks and people that we can all share what we find interesting. This tool can only be used by people with yahoo accounts and it can also be used in TPSC by academic staff with the similar specialization to easier browsing and sharing information among themselves.
After del.icio.us we learned about wikis, tools that are available in the internet not for personal advertising for for profiling, this could be used to speak about about facts about somethings, organizations, people and much more.. but be carefully not everything you can write can be made available in wikis. the good thing about wiki is every one who has an account in wiki can edit what is posted provided it is a fact about what is written for this we are guaranteed of have a precise information about that specific topic. We can say, wiki is like a collaborative website, that anyone can edit, add or delete some contents from it the reason behind is to maintain and keep only the truth about certain topic. Wiki are considered to to be the largest and well know source of information. We learned about wiki and practicing to create one for TPSC, Alexander succeeded to make one for TPSC, it is up to TPSC staff to create accounts in Wikipedia that the get to add and edit the content in the article about TPSC.
Here comes another experience, lunch time.. office-mates and neighboring offices people take time to go buy lunch together and sitting together in a common room for lunch and discussion, this is a very cool experience as majority of neighbors get to know about each other and sharing experience, I think this is something which could be done at TPSC to create closeness and sharing of experience and knowledge.
After lunch we had discussions on technologies that could make TPSC appreciate ICT and make use of it, we agreed that Wordpress could be used for TPSC website and IRC while Moodle could be used to facilitate e-learning. Niek created us sites that we could us to practice and appreciate the utilization of Moodle and Wordpress. We even discussed about issue and how to make TPSC staff make full use ICT in training ans assessments, this could be a bit tedious but it has to be done. The idea behind is to start with younger people then older ones as younger people are almost ready for the change compared to older people, with this tactic we can create a frame work for others and others will follow by seeing how things works.
After this session and discussion it was a time for relaxation and gym, Niek took me to the gym, I had a rally great time in gym. The day ends up here.
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