The workshop ‘I research and publish proven and cool content’ ends

The workshop “I research and publish verified and cool content”, developed this week, was intended for teenagers from 13 to 18 years old.

This one activity Its purpose was to motivate new generation use the documentary heritage that rests in the National Library Ernesto J. Castillero R.

It was a workshop to awaken curiosity and desire for more information about historical events, according to the organizers.

They are taught or reinforced the basic principles of journalism, such as writing, consulting valid sources, organizing information, interviewing and disseminating what is constructed.

In this workshop we talked about January 9, 1964, the Invasion and the Panama Canal.

In addition to access to the valuable documents of this house national memory As part of the workshop, after the event of December 20, 1989, the young people visited Briseida Bloise, who was the director of Albrook Camps; Manuel Rivera, collector and researcher of military issues in Panama; Dr. Aristides Royo, former President of the Republic, current Minister of Canal Affairs and negotiator of the Torrijos-Carter Treaty; Orlando Acosta, director of the Panama Canal Historical Remembrance and Dr. Rimsky Sucre, hero January 9, 1964.

Construction knowledge Its main ingredients were surprise, admiration and recognition of shortcomings. It was very exciting for the youth to be close to such outstanding sources as Royo, Sucre, Bloise, Acosta and Rivera.

They admired them as soon as they started listening to them; but they the same revealed characters how amazed they were when they noticed the enthusiasm and intelligence coming from the young audience.

After two weeks of receive tools and with sources of information at hand, each participant produced a written or audiovisual product on one of the three topics covered.

They are presented at the closing a course in front of the authorities of the National Library and special guests.

The papers will be published in social networks from the Ernesto J. Castillero R. National Library.

Facilitators

This year, editor Karen Bernal, audiovisual producer Mariana Chacón and journalist Dayana Rivas were the presenters on behalf of the National Library.

The National Library It usually uses a theme as a common thread to guide participants in the learning process.

An approach that is generally framed by relations between Panama and the United States.