WEB2.0 Training Workshop in Winneba, Ghana

In view of the relevance and Importance of web2.0
tools for development, the Winneba Open Digital
Village in conjunction with Rescue Mission Ghana is
organising a three day  intensive training on Web2.0
tools for development.This event is scheduled from the
10th to the 13th of December 2007.
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Technological innovation is taking place at a breathtaking pace. Many of them are for free or very low-cost interactive Web tools continuously emerge that can enhance the ways we create and publish information and the ways we collaborate and share resources.

Web 2.0 workshop will focus on emerging social, business and technology developments that utilize the Web as a platform and define how the Web will drive business in the future. What began as a focused gathering on the implications of the Web becoming a platform has transformed into an industry event focused on the latest Internet innovations—the services, applications, businesses, and models—that are redefining the way companies do business and how people live.

Objectives
* To understand what Web 2.0 is about and discover new web 2.0 tools
* Get formal training on knowledge and tools of web 2.0 tools
* Learn how individuals, businesses and other organizations are using Web 2.0.
Strategies/methodologies
* Formal presentations
* Demonstrations
* Hands on exercises
* Development of Individual project portfolio
Topics to be covered
* Introduction to Web 2.0
* Theorizing Web 2.0.
* Social networking (My Space, Face book, Etc).
* Blogs, wikis, and user-generated content.
* Changing social, cultural, and political identities.
* Social software and social media: design, technologies, tools, and
techniques . . .
* Video shooting and editing.
* Video blogging and pod casting
* Digital imaging and uploading
* New models of social and political collaboration and problem solving.
Blogs or Web logs
Collaborative real-time editor
Commercial social networks
Social guides
Social book marking
Social citations
Social libraries

Who to attend?
Administrators
Web designers and web masters
Teachers and Educationist
Graphic designers
Journalist
Authors
Editors
Publishers
University students


Resource person
Ebenezer Malcolm
Kafui A. Prebbie
Prince Deh

Nathaniel Heller