Blogging Workshop
The Department of English & Communication organised a Workshop on Blogging on 16th May, 2022 from 11:15 am – 12:30 pm via Google Meet platform and was streamed live on the College YouTube channel. The session was conducted for the students of F.Y.B.Com. The Resource Person for the workshop wasDr. S Susan Deborah, In charge Department of English, MES College of Arts & Commerce. 180 students from FY BCom attended the session.
The aim of the workshop was to acquaint students with the nuances of Blogging its importance and uses in the modern times.
The workshop began with a welcome address by Ms Samiksha Vengurlekar, Assistant Professor in English. The workshop was well divided into two sessions. For set induction the students were tested for their previous knowledge on Blogging. The speaker insisted on making the session an interactive one. For part one, through a PowerPoint presentation students were elucidated the importance, types, benefits and areas of Blogging. At the end of the session the participants clarified their doubts with the Resource Person.
For the second session, the question ‘why should one open a blog’ was addressed. This session proved to be more of a practice session where in five different blogging sites viz. Blogger, WordPress, Vix, Medium, Tumblr were suggested. Being an alluring blogger she demonstrated her own Blog sites to the audience, sharing her own experience in blogging. Students were also suggested different topics to start a blog, with the help of a few highly recommended blogs on the internet. She also suggested ways to make the blog attractive by adding photos and videos, followed by the demonstration of the same.
The Resource Person also enlightened them on how they can earn through blogging if they have about a million followers. The sessions were interactive and the Resource Person could keep the participants engaged till the end. All the queries raised by the students were answered to the best of their satisfaction.
The session was compered by Brionna Noronha, Student of FYBCom Div C and Ms. Pragati Raikar, Student of FYBCom Div C proposed the Vote of Thanks.