Radio Scriptwriting Course on Healthy Communities
August 16th is the start date for the online course on healthy communities and it’s coming up fast! If you haven’t signed up for this year’s competition and course yet you need to do so before Friday August 20 if you want to participate.
Please go to www.scriptcompetition.farmradio.org to sign up
The Sansa MP3-player awarded to participants who complete the online course.
All participants who complete the online course for the Radio Scriptwriting Competition on Healthy Communities will receive a certificate and a Sansa MP3-player with built-in microphone and radio. Broadcasters can use this little device in the field to record interviews with farmers and other community members.
To be eligible for the prize and certificate, you must complete all course assignments. This includes submitting your story idea and focus statement, the team tasks, and the quizzes. You must also submit your script at the end of the course.
So don’t wait any longer. Sign up now for the competition and the online course. The online course starts on August 16th 2010.
What is an RSS newsfeed?
RSS means “Really simple syndication”. It is a simple way for you to get a quick list of latest story headlines from websites and blogs as soon as it is published, without having to visit the websites or blogs.
The benefits of the RSS newsfeed on the blog site:
As a way to help you save time online and to provide a quick list of latest health stories in Sub-Saharan Africa, Farm Radio International in collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning has created a health newsfeed on our blog site.
It gathers all the headlines of current stories on Health, from different websites, so you don’t have to spend hours online searching for this information.
The Health newsfeed is definitely a time saver!
How to use the RSS newsfeed on the blog site
To access the health newsfeed, you have two options:
1- You can click on the RSS symbol “HEALTH NEWS” located on the right side of the competition page. This will take you directly to the health newsfeed page; or
2- You can check the headlines which will be featured daily in the newsfeed just below the title “HEALTH NEWS”. If the headline looks interesting to you, all you have to do is click on the headline and you can read the whole story.
*Please visit the RSS feed on the blog site, to learn more about Health news in sub-Saharan Africa.
If you haven’t yet signed up for the competition and would like to receive a CD-ROM version of the course in time, please sign up as soon as possible. It will take several weeks for you to receive the CD-ROM version by post and we want to make sure you have it by the time the online course begins on August 16th.
Please indicate when you sign up that you want the CD-ROM version. And remember to include your mailing address.
Sign Up Now
Today, Farm Radio International is launching the Radio Scriptwriting Competition on Healthy Communities. On this website you will find all the information you need about the competition.
An online training course, starting August 16, will help participants write their scripts before the competition deadline of November 1, 2010. A number of prizes will be awarded to the authors of winning scripts. The best scripts will be published in English and French and distributed to hundreds’ of radio organizations across sub-Saharan Africa.
We invite you to sign up for the competition!
Press Release (PDF): Launching of the Competition
