I came across this interesting Digital Storytelling Project today (hat tip Bankelele!). The project aims to help the Undungu Society and the street children they work with get their voices heard through voices and pictures. Please visit the blogs and encourage the young authors to keep expressing themselves. It is very rare that young Kenyans (especially the underprivileged) get the opportunity to express themselves and tell their stories from their point of view. An aside: given all the hullaballo around the high school riots, wouldn’t it be great to have something similar targeted towards high school kids – maybe a group blog where they can tell us what’s really bugging them (and for those who think that these are kids that just need to be caned, wait until 2012 when they are young frustrated adults with unresolved issues and anger at the “system” which we all admit sucks and just because we put up with it and “suffered” doesn’t mean that they should – well put Keguro).
AOB: Is it just me or is the Nation revamp a very poor imitation of the Standard one? The site is taking forever to load, I and the organization of the stories is just terrible (where’s the cutting edge?).
KP I can’t agree with you anymore on the new Nation online edition comment. The Nation must have tried to imitate the new Standard look but I think they did not get it right. They have all these graphics all over the place that are slow to load with some sections either missing or hidden somewhere else. My special section is “Op/Edâ€. This section is still online but missing some articles. The Blogs section is also still available but some contributions are missing too. I bet it will take me/readers a while to get accustomed to this new look..
Talking of the new Daily Nation online, have you guys tried switching to the new Face Book? It’s also confusing but you tend to get used to it much faster as long as you spend more time knowing where things are located. Just like any other new technology – the more time you spend playing with it, the more you become comfortable and knowledgeable.
Right on Vince!
Def. agree about the Nation redesign. The huge photos don’t work with the broadband available in Keyna. The Standard has done a fine job with their redesign and mobile site. What happened to the East African site? In the rush to change everything, did they forget to get it up?
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times have changed. back in the day when we needed to send a letter to some chick or dude in another school we wrote a letter and mailed it. at the earliest it took a week. nowadays all you need is to send your chick a quick text confessing your love instantaneously. better still you can text the radio station from Kapenguria and have the dj ‘big up’ your girl in Kitui. So now we tell the kids that they can’t have cell phones. Talk about taking a 15 year leap back in time. Its time we rethought the role of technology in todays educational system.
Another thing, some of us were so bad we really needed to be caned. If there are kids out there half as bad as I was who have had the rod replaced by a timeout. Then we will have bigger problems in 2012 than ‘young frustrated adults with unresolved issues and anger at the “system‒.
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