Saturday, April 26, 2008

Development of women's web paging skills in King Abdulaziz Unversity


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Today, I attended a session by Dr. Arwa Al-Aama. She is an instructor in King Abdul-Aziz University. Her session was about service learning which means learning from the society services.


Students (females) produced projects of web paging for several non-profit institutions as campaigns. The main purpose of such programs is to make students learn by doing. Indeed, the program resulted in wonderful benefits for the students, instructor and clients. At the end, there were three winning projects and each student was rewarded with a recognition letter from their clients.


One of the "Corporate social responsibility" program's main clients was Savola group, which rewarded those students who authored the company's web page. The students, the instructor and the client all evaluated the program. This is a great start for women to begin developing web pages in professional and non-professional manners (e.g. constructing web pages could be a hobby). Although students found some obstacles while collecting data from clients, they still worked to reach their goals of that program.


Personally, I think this type of projects like this should be given in all colleges and universities for the students, instructors, colleges and communities to benefit. Instructors in schools or colleges must make use of use programs in coordination to their curriculum.


Finally, this is an opportunity for all women to work and prove themselves in business and technology universe.

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