This morning we split into two groups. My group, for those who arrived on Wednesday, focused on the first practicals dealing with document preparation within Google Docs and Slides, writing web pages with HTML and then creating CSS and JavaScript files to improve style and functionality. We also generated key pairs using Puttygen and emailed public keys to the system administrators keeping the private keys so that we could login and transfer files securely to the workshop servers later on. George led the system administrators on setting up an email service on all workshop servers.

In the afternoon group members worked together to complete setting up of the web servers, starting appropriate processes and securely uploading files using the WinSCP application.

Teaching modules included server housekeeping, and introductions to HTML forms, Perl, MySQL and phpMyAdmin.

After three days of groundwork, it was time to discuss what the group projects should and could contain. The following are desirable in each project:

• a clearly defined and communicated purpose
• an example of data collection using a form
• reports from the data gathered using the from
• complementary information related to the site purpose
• appropriate graphics to improve the effectiveness of web pages

Suggestions were raised for possible projects as follows.

• Nigerian Education Facts. This could contain a survey to assess public views on aspects of education in the country. Summaries of answers from all those submitting responses could be displayed while also displaying related actual facts.
• Nigerian Education Equality. A mini version of a working school assessment form accompanied by complementary pages outlining the process by which the Federal government is enabling a consistent level of quality education for all scholars.
• Nigerian Education Excellence. Perhaps a short online questionnaire for teachers undergoing training to test their awareness of the skills required to communicate competently and professionally using digital media with complementary information pages that outline some basic principles that could enable teachers to deliver and share learning resources more cost effectively and set standards of excellence that would be propagated to other teachers and pupils.

At the end of the day, we were reminded of IYFTPYPTF—If You Fail To Plan You Plan To Fail. Time to get the thinking caps on!