iSchools writers attend online writeshop

Twenty-nine faculty members from 26 SUCs throughout the country participated in the Online Writing Techniques Training-Workshop conducted by the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) on November 14-16, 2007 at Hillside Resort, Tiniguiban, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.

The three-day training aimed to provide basic skills in documenting the activities of the iSchools Project.

Ms. Luz Rimban and Ms. Yvonne Chua, both journalists and faculty members of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, discussed the following topics:

Day 1: The Online Environment and Newswriting
Day 2: Headline Writing, Photojournalism and Feature Writing
Day 3: Opinion Writing and Blogging


Exercises were given in every session and sessions were followed by workshops. The first workshop was on newswriting where the participants wrote a news story about their respective iSchools.

The second workshop was on photojournalism where the participants edited photos (cropping and resizing) using Adobe Photoshop and put captions and keywords. The second output of the workshop was the actual taking of pictures considering the elements discussed and uploading of the edited photos with caption/cutlines to www.flickr.com.

The third workshop was on writing a feature story that accompanies the news story. The participants were instructed to write the title, the summary and subheads if needed and to list the internal and external links as well as the interactive elements.

The final workshop was on blogging where the participants created their respective institutional blogs and uploaded all the revised outputs of the workshop.

Western Philippines University (WPU) hosted the training-workshop.