Nobody ever said that the journey of a thousand miles would be without its bumps........
and we have already hit a few, ranging from internet connections crashing, email passwords being forgotten and most challengingly, the sign language translator not being able to make it to the workshop. The trainers from Social Media Exchange rallied to the challenge though, projecting a word document on to a blank screen and typing what they needed to communicate.
With an idea of the possibilities of the WWW, the SHG got together to start using Google as a search engine to research how to define disabilities, different kinds of disabilities and the ‘Right to Education’. We also sat together to nut out the aims of our blog and with this prepared, met with Social Media Exchange again, to learn how to set up our group blog and post to it.
Social Media Exchange gave some great examples in their presentation of people with disabilities who had started blogs and even some who were making money out of them. This interested the SHG a lot, as they idea of your work being a blog appealed to them.
The students were asked to come up with a name for the blog, so they each put forward an idea and voted on it. The final decision was, ‘It’s my right, don’t ignore it!’ With this name, we set up a blog and sent an invitation to each students’ gmail to allow them to post messages to the blog.
The blog was being projected on a wall, and it was great to see their faces light up when their self introduction came on line.
You can find their blog in Arabic at www.itsourright.blogspot.com
Following are the blog planning sheets we used.
Microsoft Word - 3.Blogstrategy
Microsoft Word - 4.Blogstrategy-Ar
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