Welcome to Month One of Voices of Our Future

by Jennifer Ruwart | June 2, 2009 at 12:01 PM

Jennifer Ruwart

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Dearest Correspondents,

The magical day has finally arrived and off we race to the frontiers of new media!

Similar to the application process, you will receive regular notifications from World Pulse (and our partners) that will guide you through the training program over the next five months. These notifications will include information such as updates about the program, links to the learning material and assignments, case studies, and discussion questions.

Without further delay, let's dive in!

It is my absolute pleasure to introduce you to Cristi Hegranes, Founder of The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World. It is an honor to work with Cristi on the training portion of this program. Cristi will be introducing herself in separate post. Please extend a warm welcome to Cristi, who is joining us on our journey.

This first month focuses on news, ethics, interviewing, sourcing, and the World Pulse Voice. We have broken the learning material into two chapters. Chapter Two will be posted at the beginning of next week along with your assignment. On Thursday, Cristi will invite you to join is a lively discussion about the art of journalism.

Until then, please continue to connect with your mentors, set up Skype and PayPal accounts, and, of course, read the learning material!

With love,

Jennifer, Cristi, Elsie, Scott, and the World Pulse Team

Comments

At last, am so excited. Thanks for what must have been so much hard work to put this together Jennifer.

I love the WOW! right next to your picture. You look like you can accomplish anything. I am eager to witness the discussion that will begin tomorrow.

Jennifer Ruwart
Global Business Development Officer, The Press Institute

Oh, I am glad it is finally starting! Thanks again to everyone and really look forward to this!

Maria

I saw your comment about the OpEd Project. We are so fortunate to have such incredible partners. I am glad to see you got the chance to check them out.

Jennifer Ruwart
Global Business Development Officer, The Press Institute

I am so happy the time has come finally,Thanks very much everybody for all your efforts

Here we go
Busayo

It's hard to believe the time has finally arrived. It is an honor for all us to be working with such a dynamic group of women, like you. Thank YOU!

Jennifer Ruwart
Global Business Development Officer, The Press Institute

i was thrilled to find my learning material and the assignment for the week. thanks so much for all you do for us.
With Love
Gifty

Hi, Gifti! Cristi will be starting a lively discussion tomorrow and then the assignment will be posted next week. Until then, enjoy the material and the discussion. I know you will have a lot to contribute.

Jennifer Ruwart
Global Business Development Officer, The Press Institute

Hi Jennifer, unfourtunately Nigeria is not on Paypal what do we do now?

I think we will likely use western union then. I'll follow up with an email.

Jennifer Ruwart
Global Business Development Officer, The Press Institute

Jenny,
i also encountered the same problem with my Nigerian counter part. No Ghana on Paypal. what do i do?

We will likely use Western Union then. I'll ask you for more information when we are ready to send your stipend.

Jennifer Ruwart
Global Business Development Officer, The Press Institute

Hi again Jenny,
i seem nopt to grsp something well. please what is the link to the classroom? i need to find out what is going on and if there any assigments without waiting to be sent an email. is it possible this way?

Alos with regards to assignments, do we need to still use VOF plus a number? If i understand well, this week you have already sent the learning material and assignment which should be sumbmitted by 9th. We will have a discussion with Cristi and then another assignment for week 2?

Many thanks for the clarifications.
Gifti

Hi, Gifty

I've also responded to your email, so between the two I hope we answer all your questions!

—Here is the link to the Classroom: http://www.worldpulse.com/pulsewire/programs/voices-of-our-future-classroom
I recommend that you bookmark this page for future reference. Do you know how to bookmark? If not, I can send you instructions.

—We did not post an assignment this week. There will be approximately three assignments per month:
A short writing assignment
An article
A PulseWire assignment

The short writing assigment for this month will be posted next Tuesday.

—The first conference call will be with Cristi next week Thursday, 12:00am PST. I'll be sending out details tomorrow or Saturday.

Jennifer Ruwart
Global Business Development Officer, The Press Institute

Hello Jenny,
I do not know how to bookmark and would be grateful if you could send me instructions. Thanks.

i received a learning material about Women empowerment and we are suppose to write a 500 long essay on Women empowerment. i think i got it on the 2nd of June. The instruction is to submit by 9th June Could it be for a different group then?

Also, i am only familiar with GMT not PST. what is the conversion please? i don't feel comfortable asking you million questions a day . forgive me.
with love, Gifty

Hi, Gifty!

1. Bookmarking VOF Classroom:

In explorer, bookmarks are called "favorites." Here is a short video that demonstrates how to add a favorite.

If you use Firefox, follow these steps:

Go to our classroom.
Click on "Bookmarks" in your browser toolbar;
Select "Bookmark This Page;"
Confirm you like the name of your bookmark;
Decide where you want to save it;
Add tags if you wish; and
Click on "Done."

2. The assignment that you are referring to is an optional "assignment" that was posted by another PulseWire member to keep the Applicants group active. How confusing! I am creating a "Frequently Asked Questions" document and will be sure to include this one!

3. You can ask me as many questions as you need. PST is Pacific Standard Time. A great resource is timeanddate.com The city you will want to select to see what time it is PST is Los Angeles.

Jennifer Ruwart
Global Business Development Officer, The Press Institute

Jenny,
i am grateful to you. i have been able to bookmark and the asignment issue is clarify. i was really confused. it is clear now.
do have a great weekend.
With Love,
Gifty