Yes after this activity we need to understand how maneno works

Its intresting to know that this web tool exists

Today a group of students from a school in Nairobi came with their teachers to join the workshop. They spoke about the advantages and disadvantages of new technology and performed a short drama that showed the benefits of new technology and childline. We also saw two videos they produced.       The children were well spoken and had a great sense of humor. I was impressed by how well they acted in the drama and by the way they addressed serious issues with a touch of humor.

We had a fun time with the some children from a Kenyan school coming in and talking about the use of mobile phones in their lives. Here's a shot of a couple girls using Flip video cameras to do interviews.       

One of the great things about workshops, meetings and conferences is not the "scheduled" time when there's one person talking to many. It's the times when you get to pull away and talk to others who are there. The times between.       Here are some more pictures (more on Flickr):              

Here is a picture or two of the boys and girl at work in their presentations at the Social Media for Social Change workshop. You may not see them but Ken, Juliana and Erik were all in there somewhere :-)

Ahaaa!! yesterday was an awakening day and a day to judge your skills and levels of knowledge of the cool things happening in the world. Just afew key learnings I should share       1. Blogging!! this has been mentioned very often but somehow you let it pass and never try to understand what this is all about but we discovered this an electronic form of a newspaper atticle of this sort but this time without bearacratic processes like editors before they publish. This is seen by everyone in the public domain.ahaaa!! This kept me thinking!! what is it that we do that needs public viewing..is it advocacy issues like Learn Without fear that would generate views and ideas from the public or you could even do an open public research on particular issues.. By the way you are able to create your own blog for free on a number of blogging sites like Maneno.org, wordpress.com, blogger.com, livejournal.com and tumblr.com.       You can generate any blogging Topic!! Let me know what your thoughts are.. Thats Blogging for you. watch the space for what twitter is all about and this whole mobile and Mapping idea its amasing

David Ngigi, our young videographer at the Social Media for Social Change meeting in Lukenya, gives his opinion:              

OK I'm trying to upload some photos again.       but no luck with the photos. "the file type is incorrect".       Is there something special i have to do to post a photo? It is under 750 and smaller than 500 as requested....       I will write on my blogspot blog also and link back and forth....       http://lindaraftree.blogspot.com

Anastasie, one of the attendees from West Africa (Togo) from Plan International in Senegal gives a short one minute talk for the social media for social change (SM4SC) workshop. She gives here opinion on why social media is a good thing, and can make a difference in African youth.