(foko) blog club

Last Saturday, Foko crew was in action again teaching blog and new media to IST students. The IST (fr) is a renowned private institute located in Ampasampito (not far away from downtown) that proposes several fields of studies to its students.

Stéphane was contacted by the one of the first responsables of the event and she asked him if Foko could hold a workshop in their cybercafé prior to their official graduation ceremony. In an ordinary day, students should pay to have Internet access but for this time it was for free. Then, we, as zealous volunteers, arrived there at 7:30am (I was a bit late in fact) ready with brochures and handouts about blogs, twitter and … Foko of course .

The first group arrived an hour and a half later after we spent our time brainstorming how we were going to manage it and sticking Foko posters in some strategic (lol) spots of the block. I stood next to the main door to invite people to get in because they were a bit shy at the begining “Is it here … the workshop on blogs?”. And because of this shyness we had to send Pati and Ariniaina to make them aware that it is warmer and more interesting inside

The workshop went well in a good ambiance and the connection speed didn’t spoil it too much. We noticed that few of them were more curious than the others and that led Andry to jump on the basic uses of Twitter (yes, they wanted more and more) after being through with Wordpress.

What surprised me during the workshop was these ladies, I guess they are teachers, whom Ariniaina and Affick took good care of. And according to what I overheard, they had a lot of questions. The room was not wide enough for the students and somehow made (some of) them go away before the end of the workshop. But the good thing is they asked for another workshop.

I’m waiting for the list of the new IST bloggers to put it here but meanwhile you can have a look at the photos taken during the workshop.

[Update] Here is the list of the IST bloggers

http://fichristel.wordpress.com
http://njaranga.wordpress.com
http://quiidam.wordpress.com
http://ramelolive.wordpress.com
http://sorohitra.wordpress.com

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