This post shares my personal experience as a participant of the Web 2,0 Learning Opportunity organised by the CTA. You are most welcome to give your views and comments!
A surprisingly nice atmosphere for learning
Trainers did their best to organise great sessions of tutorials for different themes on Web 2.0 selected by the CTA. They really created a cosy atmosphere at the computer lab of the Faculty of Agriculture for participants to feel at ease and to grasp the beauty of the different Web 2.0 tools and techniques. With their ice-breaking session at start and their energizing sessions in between, the atmosphere remained really lively, funny and interesting!Lively and eager Participants
The majority 25 participants present at the training workshop on Web 2.0 come from different agricultural institutions, including the Rodrigues Commission for Agriculture. A few also included stakeholders from the private sector, the media and even graduate students.
The participants were told that the selection criteria had been made by
the CTA as their applications were screened amongst many others and they should feel privileged that they were among the 25 selected candidates. This really encouraged us and boosted up our confidence.
Democracy Wall and Meta Cards
This is the first time that, as a participant, I have been acquainted with this famous democracy wall, which the
trainers placed in the corridor next
to the room, whereby the participants had use meta cards to share their
ideas/opinions/thoughts on the training based on the following titles: I learnt, I discovered,I suggest,I felt and I noticed.
This interesting exercise really benefits not only the organisers, but also the participants who have the opportunity to, after each session, post their comments and views on the workshop. This gives them the feeling of contributing actively to the training workshop and puts their mind at work! 
Meta Cards were also used by the participants after each session, as a recap. They were asked to stick on the wall the use they would make of the web 2.0 tool they discovered. The funny side has been to guess or notice what colour of meta card we would be using next!
This great thinking method gives us the opportunity to formulate a brief and concise use of each of the web 2.0 tools we are learning and how we can, after the learning course, best put them into practice.
However, as a video showed, two hands are needed for Development using Web 2.0, one hand being the web 2.0 tools themselves, and the other, being the people/community themselves. This is one most important key factor for successful development using web 2.0, and thus sensitisation and massive training should be given, on how web 2.0 really benefits the community and encourages collaboration.
Course Contents achieved till Day 3
- Background info on Web 2.0
- Search Engines - Search and Advanced Search on Google
- RSS Feeds, Google Reader and iGoogle
- Remote collaboration and Google Docs, Google Form, Wikis
- VOIP and Skype, Google Chat
- Blogs
The beauty of Web 2.0 tools and the challenges faced
Web 2.0 tools as we are discovering and learning during these 5 days, have been designed to really facilitate communication, information sharing and collaboration as they are user-centered and friendly to use.However, as a video showed, two hands are needed for Development using Web 2.0, one hand being the web 2.0 tools themselves, and the other, being the people/community themselves. This is one most important key factor for successful development using web 2.0, and thus sensitisation and massive training should be given, on how web 2.0 really benefits the community and encourages collaboration.
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