Since yesterday noon we have been concentrating on fact-finding, searching for different facts and backgrounds, starting from very simple facts, names of capitals or presidents of different countries and moving on to finding contacts and checking facts or the spelling of names by the help of the search engine. It was a surprise for most of the participants to find out that Finland has a female president and nowadays also a female prime minister (in picture by YLE).Finding simple facts was easy, but for contacts there were even difficulties. To find the contacts to a health official in Karagwe district, you should not just google for “the phone number of karagwe district medical officer”. A better option would be to search for “karagwe district” or “karagwe hospital”. If you find your way to the website of a local hospital or the district administration, the phone contacts will most probably also be there.
If you want to call Barack Obama, search for the number from the White House website.
Many people here know that last night Tottenham was playing against AC Milan in the UEFA Champions League knockout stage. Especially for the sports editor in class, we made a search assignment to find out the end result and the goalscorers of the other Champions League match that was played yesterday. For this purpose, the right search words would be “uefa champions league”. On the UEFA website, you will not only find the answers to the assignment, but so much more additional information about the match statistics and the players, among them the Peruvian striker Jefferson Farfán (picture by Reuters), who scored twice for the German team Schalke to beat Valencia 3-1.Another assignment was to find out the reasons why the German defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigned last week. But now it’s time for the lunch break, so I will make a new post on that later... Stay tuned...
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