The online course is already off to a great start. After two days there is a lot of activity and discussions on the training website. It’s not too late for you to take part in the online course!
The Scriptwriting Competition on Smallholder Farmer Innovation in sub-Saharan Africa is a great opportunity for you to connect with local farmers and share their successful techniques with a broader audience. So far, over 160 participants from across the continent have signed up for the competition!
All those who sign up for the competition are eligible for a free, online training course. The course will improve your scriptwriting skills and help you research and write a good, story-based script. The course was launched on August 24 and will run through October 16.
If you would like to participate in the course, make sure you have signed up for the competition and received your username and password, then go to www.farmradiotraining.org and log in to start the course
August 24th is the starting date for the online course and it’s coming up fast! Remember to log in to the course site and tell us if you want to participate or not.
If you signed up for the Scriptwriting Competition you will have received an e-mail with your username and password to the online course website. You need to go to the course website www.farmradiotraining.org, log in, and let us know if you want to participate in the course. It’s very simple, once on the course website find the link “Click here to let us know if you would like to participate”, click on it and then select “Yes”.
(If you have trouble finding the link it is the second link you can click on, underneath “Everything you need to know about the Scriptwriting Competition Course”.)
Two weeks ago, Farm Radio International launched the Scriptwriting Competition on Smallholder Farmer Innovation. So far, 65 participants from more than 20 different countries have signed up for the competition. Good luck to you all. Please note we will only accept one script per participant! However, there can be more than one participant per radio station or organization.
Each participant can submit one script for the competition and this script must be an original piece of work written specifically for this competition. It must be in English or French, be between 500-2000 words, and include references to information sources used to prepare the script (e.g., farmers, agricultural institutions, NGOs, documents, etc.).
You have until November 1st, 2009 to submit your script, so there’s no need to stress. In a few weeks (August 24) the online Scriptwriting Competition Course will start. If you follow the course you will learn how to create inspiring radio pieces about smallholder farmer innovation and write them down in script format.
You can read more about the online course on this page.
