Principles of Writing - Especially In Journalism

Principles of Writing - Especially In Journalism

There are 10 principles of Journalism. The principles are very important when a journalist or a person convey a story either by telling or writing a story.

The first two principles are important when the person is Gathering information.

1. Verification

         Verifying the accuracy of the information you get.

2. Objectivity

          Not favoring one side over other.

The next four principles(principles 3 to 6) are important when Telling a story.

3. Originality

         Creating or innovating something new.

4. Completeness

         Full story, not lacking any side/part of it.

5. Transparency

        Making the story clear to readers.

6. Fairness

         Telling both sides of the story without any bias.

The last four principles(principles 7 to 10) are important to Make an impact on people.

7. Restraint

          Stopping yourself from writing a bad "breaking" news.

8. Humanity

          Being kind and sympathetic to people.

9. Accountability

          Taking personal responsibility for actions or mistakes.

10. Empowerment

             Speaking, writing and giving power to those who do not have power to speak.

Islamic Scholar - Zulfiqar Ali Quraishi

Islamic Scholar - Zulfiqar Ali Quraishi

 

Zulfiqar Ali is a Islamic Scholar, Mufassir e quraan, Mufti, Imaam and Kateeb of Masjid, Doctor(homeopathic) and Teacher. He was born in 1982 in Multan, Punjab Pakistan. He has done a M.A in Islamic Studies, Darse-e-Nizami, Adeeb arabic, Aalim arabic and Fazil arabic. He has also done some Computer courses and Motakhassis filfikh(Mufti course). He has work experience of 18 years in different fields starting as a tailor when he was 16 years of age. He joined Dawat-e-Islami Karachi Pakistan firstly for his education, then for other purposes such as teaching. He also worked for a researching institution affiliated with Dawat-e-Islami Karachi for around 7 years. Currently He is teaching at Raza foundation School Karachi beside that he has a teaching experience of 5 years for different institutions.

As Zulfiqar Ali is a Mufti, Islamic Scholar and Imaam of Masjid. He has written some books on different topics. Link of his Books: 

www.scribd.com/user/238618895/Zulfiqarquraishi\

He also writes blog posts to share his learning and thoughts. Link of his blog:

http://doctorzulfiqar.blogspot.com/


He records the videos of his speeches at the masjid, where he is the Imaam. Then he uploads the videos of his recordings on YouTube and Dailymotion. Link of his YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcAGIXas3JZgxJluL-gEqQA\

Link of his Dailymotion channel:
http://www.dailymotion.com/dm_524e3724db266

He has a Facebook profile. He accepts questions about Islam, Research, Teaching and multiple other topics. Do add him on your Facebook profile. link of his Facebook profile:

https://www.facebook.com/zulfiqar.quraishi.1?fref=ts

His Facebook Profile picture is his own photo. Facebook Profile Picture:

Do share his Blog posts, videos and this blog post to get everyone learn through him online. 

Open Education Resources(OER)

Open Education Resources(OER)

What is Open Education Resources(OER)?

     Open Education Resources(OER) is an online tool to get Education through different courses, videos and software. Which are available on different websites.

    A list of 15 websites which are available on Internet for Open Education Resource:

1. Coursera   

    Take Free Online classes from 140+ top universities and educational institutes.

Link: https://www.coursera.org/

2. TED

               Technology, Entertainment and Design(TED) is an event where the world's leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration.

Link: https://www.ted.com/

3. Future Learn

        Join people learning together at Future Learn. Enjoy free online courses from top universities and specialist organizations.

Link: https://www.futurelearn.com/

4. Khan Academy

 Take control of your learning by working on the skills you choose at your own pace with free online courses.

Link: https://www.khanacademy.org/

5. EdX

Edx offers free online courses and classes from the world's best universities on various topics.

Link: https://www.edx.org/

6. Moodle 

Moodle is a free Open Source software package designed to help educators get effective online education.

Link: https://moodle.org/

7. MIT Open CourseWare

Start Learning Today! Online Courses, Advance your Career, Audio/Video Courses, Online Textbooks and Translated Courses.

Link: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

8. OER Commons

Open Educational Resources(OER) is a dynamic digital library and Network created to join dedicated educators.

Link: https://www.oercommons.org

10. Education for Weebly

 Learn in minutes by using simple interface.

Link: https://education.weebly.com/

11.  Canvas Network

 The Canvas Network offers free online courses and classes from the world's leading universities. Enroll now to get started.

Link: https://www.canvas.net/




12. Curriki

 A community for teaching or studying. Create, Share and Explore high quality content. Start now.

Link: http://www.curriki.org/

13. Openstax

Free Educational Resources. Now you can transform.

Link: https://openstax.org/




14. B2t Learning and Training

Courses provide learners the opportunity to apply analysis. Interactive workshops allow students to practice the techniques.

Link: https://www.b2ttraining.com/




15.Sakai

 An open source course learning environment used primarily by academic institutions.

Link: https://sakaiproject.org/

These are the 15 websites which are available to get online education. You can share your experience of online education in the comments box below.

How to Create Twitter Account

How to Create Twitter Account

What is Twitter?

 Twitter is a Social Media channel which provides real time information of What is happening in the Surroundings of the Earth. Twitter is mainly about your choice. You choose What do you want to see? If you want things about sports. So it will show you things about sports. It will apply on any topic you want to see.

How to Create Twitter Account

 To create your account on Twitter. You are required to enter 4 details about you to  create your Twitter account.

1.  Full Name
2.  Phone number or Email address
3.  Password
4.  Username

 Firstly, Your Full Name consist if your first and last name. Secondly, You have a choice to enter your Phone number or Email address(after clicking "email instead"), After that, Your Password should contain some special characters, symbols or numbers like &,$ and 123.

Username and "@"

 Your Username should be a unique name. Which should not been used by anyone before. Like email addresses only 1 account can be made on 1 name. It is the same on Twitter. This restriction is very useful. Because it makes it easier to find someone with his/her unique username.  The username will begin with the sign "@" like my account @salmankhamosh. 

   

 After entering these 4 details your Twitter account will be made. Now Twitter will welcome you and will give suggestions about who to Follow on Twitter. Then you will be able to search anyone on Twitter with his/her username starting with "@".

Important things on Twitter

 There are 4 things which are important to be understood before using Twitter.

1.  @ = A way to search or mention someone.
2.  Hastags "#" = Key words designated by the sign "#"
3.  Tweets = Posts or Messages containing up to 140 characters
4.  Retweet = To share or Forward someone's tweet.

Hashtags "#"

   Hashtag "#" is like Magic. It will help you to search on Twitter about different topics like #twitter, #books and #vacations. You will see different things about the hashtag you have searched.  Through hashtags "One tweet can reach thousands, If not millions, of people across the Earth."

 What is Tweet and how to Tweet?

 In Twitter there is a feather sign which is used to start writing your tweet. A tweet is consisted of maximum 140 characters.

 In Tweet you can add Hashtags or mention someone with his/her username starting with "@"


 If you want to have notifications about my other posts. Just leave your Email address in the Comment Box. Thank you.

Power of I Can in life

Power of I Can in life

  All people in the Earth living a life do have good and bad phases in their life. When good and happy phases occur people tend to enjoy their life, On the other hand, when bad phases occur people become sad in their life.

  These 2 patches arrive because of use of the statement I Can and I Can't. Use of I Can have the ability to led to happy and good phase in life. Whereas saying I Can't led a person to bad phase of of his/her life.

  Life of a person is like a bus stop. Where the person has to wait for the right bus to reach his/her destiny. The person should go in the first bus that arrives at the bus stop. He/She should wait for the bus to arrive which will led the person to the destiny.

 The use of statements I Can and I Can't at the wrong time can led to different results. Saying I Can when the wrong bus comes can led to undesirable destiny. At that time the person should have said I Can't. 

 Similarly when the correct bus arrives at the bus stop. The person should say I Can to reach his/her desirable destiny.

Power of I Can

Power of I Can

The statement I Can is very powerful in different aspects of life of a person in our Earth. Mostly I Can changes the life of a person. If a person is thinking that he/she Can't do something or most importantly Can't believe in himself/herself. Then the person just have to remove the "'t" from the statement "I Can't" to make it "I Can". By removing it the person will start to do 2 things or will have changes in his/her life. 

1. I Can Believe in me.
2. I Can do Anything.

  Activity:

     To make your I Can't into I Can I have a basic activity for the readers. This activity is meant to be done in groups. You can make a group of friends to play this activity. Which is explained in steps below:

1. Take 1 page of paper.
2. Cut it into 3 slips of same size.
3. Write 1 thing that you can do the best on each slip of paper. like " I Can walk on my hands."
4. Now fold all them equally.
5. Now mix your slips with friends' slips.
6. You and your friends take 3 slips randomly from the mix.
7. Now each of you will find whose slip is this by asking questions.
8. Now each of you will tell every body you 3 different I Can statements.

This activity can be played individually. IN this way that you will write 3 things you learned on a particular day. Then at the end of the week of month. Compare your slips. This practice will be very helpful for you to find out positive things about your ownselve.

Facts about Gender Equality in Education

Facts about Gender Inequality in Education

           Materials which are used in Education purposes are generally not equal in representation of both genders.

    The Picture of different professions shown above is taken from a course book of middle school. In this picture as you can see there are 4 male characters and their profession. On the other side there are only 2 female characters and their profession.

   This inequality of gender in the course books can led to problems. It can give a thought that male do acquire more professions in the Earth.

  This picture is also representing that the male professions earn more money and they are financially better than the female profession. 

  For the solution checklist should be made for checking that the course is presenting equality in not only gender but in Religion, culture and standard of living between the students.

Some important Facts about Gender Inequality in Education

1. Around the Earth course books mostly consist of  57% to 80% of Male characters. Which represent Gender inequality in education
2. Teachers use the above course books in 70% to 95% of time of the Class room.

  For solving the issue discussed in some important facts, A teacher should adapt different stories from his/her own to bring gender equality.

Solutions of Gender Inequality in Education

Solutions of Gender Inequality in Education

         If You are Teacher or a student at Class room where both genders are studying. So these are the solutions to the Problems which were diccussed in the last post of the Blog. Link to that post : http://sh.st/Dafko 

1.  Equal Rules should be established for both male and female.
2.  While a female student is speaking. So the male students should wait for their turn and vice versa.
3.  Try to work in Groups of Gender Equality.
4.  The class room should have 2 leaders. 1 Male and 1 Female.
5.  A Teacher should not use Pronoun "GUYS". Instead of it He/She should use "Every body" or "Every One" to call the students.
6.  Teacher should give both genders sufficient time to finish their talk.

      Besides the above points, There are some other solutions as well. Which are presented in the form of pictures below:

   Sitting arrangements of the students should be made in a way that both male and female students get equal oppurtunities and advantages. On the left is the wrong way of sitting arrangements and on the right is the right way. 

   In the above picture. A way is shown to be used by Teachers to bring gender equality in Class room. The teacher should not stand still. He/She should move in the class.

Gender Inequality in Youth Education

Gender Inequality in Youth Education

Question for the Readers:

      Q=  Who talks more or make more noise in the Class room? Male/Female 

Link of the image: http://sh.st/DocSi

Answer:

             Answer to the question is tha Male talks more and make more noise in the Class rooms around the Earth. Because of some reasons. Which are:

1. Voice of male is louder and they make more fun with each. In this way male class rooms are more noisy than the female class rooms.
2. Culturally Female are very much shy to speak louder or make noise. They are also restricted by themselves

Problems:

      Problems that the Earth is facing due to gender inequality in education is that the generations that will be taking care of the Earth are to be trained by the current generation. So if they are illiterate the next generations will make a mess of the Earth. 

    

       For Example, Currently there are 122 million Youth in the Earth. Which is illiterate. Of which 61% are females. So that 122 million Youth and 61% females will become parent of the next generation. The children of that parents are the future leaders of the Earth.

Gender Inequality in Education

Gender Inequality in Education

      Gender Equality in education means same advantages and disadvantages for male and female and same opportunities of education either primary, secondary or higher should be provided to both genders. If same opportunities are not given or a gender is given some advantages in the feild of education then it is considered as Gender inequality in Education around the Earth

Why Equality is Important?

•     Because of the fact that if a male or Female is not given proper education So when that person will become father or mother of next generation of the Earth. So their education will have a positive or negative impact on the life of their child.

Question for the Readers:

      Q=  Who talks more or make more noise in the Class room? Male/Female

Link of the image: http://sh.st/Doz2f

Answer will be posted in the next post.

Land & Water

Land & Water

Land:

                  Our Earth is divided into 7 land masses, which are called continents, they are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. All these continents cover 148,647,000 sq. km. Which is 29% of total Earth's surface. The largest continent is Asia.

Link of the image: http://sh.st/Dofkt

Water:

                The 7 continents of the the world are surrounded by 5 major bodies of Water, which are called Oceans, they are the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Pacific. The largest Ocean is Pacific Ocean.

Link of the image: http://sh.st/DohO1

INFO:

The Earth

 INFO:

          The Earth is the third planet in distance outward from the Sun. Believed to be that it is about 4.56 billion years old. It is some 149,600,000 km away from Sun. It makes 1 revolution or 1 complete orbit of the Sun in about 365 days and 6 hours. Similarly, it rotates on its axis once every 24 hours.

  Earth's total surface area is 509,600,000 sq. km. Which is about 71% water. Its atmosphere consists of a mixture of gases, mainly nitrogen and oxygen.

 Link of the image: http://sh.st/Dotnj