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Workshop for Mothers in Ahmedabad
Posted by Administrator (admin) on May 28 2008 at 9:31 AM
FAT, in partnership with Zeal Education, Ahmedabad, organized a workshop on "The Internet and Web 2.0" for Mothers in Ahmedabad on 24th and 25th May, 2008.
Often it is seen that mothers, both homemakers and working, feel lost when their children and husbands talk about technology. Most mothers don't feel comfortable using the computer and the Internet. They feel embarassed to ask their children to teach them and are afraid of making mistakes. With these points in mind, a two-day workshop was organized by FAT and Zeal Education, Ahmedabad, for mothers to introduce them to the Internet and motivate them to use it. There were nine participants in the workshop and none of them had used Internet beyond Email and Instant Messaging, with most of them never having used the Internet at all. The workshop was facilitated by Sunayana Sitaram.
The workshop began with a session on Email and Instant Messaging. The participants learnt how to create their own Email account, and learnt how to send Email, send attachments, organize their Email by applying labels, search their Email, create filters and so on. Most participants did not have an Email account and were very excited when they created their first!
The sessions that followed were on browsing, using websites like wikipedia, wikimapia, youtube, flicker, etc., searching for information in the Internet, socializing sites, blogging, tagging and bookmarking, and online security.