PIA Slates Multi-Media Workshop For Info Officers

The regional office of Philippine Information Agency 6, Iloilo City will hold a Multi-Media Workshop for Information Officers/Community Development Information Officers (CDIOs), and Tourism and Planning Officers of agencies and Local Government Units (LGUs) from all over Western Visayas on Dec. 4-6 this year. It will be held at the Iloilo Grand Hotel, Iloilo City.
The training is geared to enable participants to acquire basic skills in newsletter preparation, use of digital camera and power point preparation.
Atty. Ma. Janet C. Mesa, PIA Assistant Director-General for Visayas said that technology has caught up with the demands and challenges that the public information officers (10) of various government agencies have to face everyday in relation to their tasks and responsibilities.
"It cannot be denied that much of the bulk of the work an Information Officer has to do needs the use of electronic media. For those IOs who had been trained in school on the use of the gadgets, the job can be easy. For those who have been in the service for many years, learning electronic media can be uncomfortable and slow".
ADG Mesa emphasized, the PIA considers it an important responsibility to help the IOs/CDIOs by providing them with knowledge and skills to produce their own materials for public presentation and information dissemination purposes. So the workshop was conceived to primarily equip the participants with even just the basic knowledge and skills to use electronic media, as well as to enhance skills in writing.
Registration fee for the live-out workshop is P1,300.00 per participant to cover snacks, lunch and some training materials.
Requirements for the workshop include samples of newsletters produced, feature and news stories written, hard copy and in transparency for Overhead Projector of news and features.
The workshop modules include News and Feature Writing for Publications – News Valuing and Editing; The Agency Newsletter – Concept and Production of Interesting Newsletter/Gazette; Digital Camera Use and Photojournalism; and Power Point Presentation – Concepts and Techniques.
Outputs of the training will be presented on the last day of the workshop on Dec. 6, the last day of the workshop and the holding of year-end evaluation of CDIOs/IOs. (VGVillanueva) /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com