Yesterday was the first class of the Mural citizen journalist project.

We got to see the very basics of video.

But one of our students, Cacau Ras, who already has a good experience in video producing, already produced a little teaser of the first lesson.

If he's coming up with things like that by now, I wonder what he'll be doing next.

Next week, we'll come up with some different video tasks for all the students to undergo.

I'm looking forward to it.

In this last weekend me and assistant trainer Fabiano Angélico concluded the in-presence part of the AT&T funded course Digital Tools for Public Service journalism.

It took place from Friday, the 20th to Sunday the 23rd at the newspaper Folha de São Paulo’s training room.

We did it...but actually, not yet. It was very tiring, we had some very long days of work, consumed a good deal of coffee and didn't have that much of sleep in the last few weeks, but I hope it will have been worth it.

We've nearly concluded the very last Unit of the AT&T sponsored course Digital Tools for Public Service Journalism. Right now, we are only going to correct whatever bits need to be changed and then we should be ready to roll.

We have, so far, received 75 applications of candidates with a somewhat diversified profile.

But, no, it is far from over.

Those who've watched the TV show "Friends" might recall that the characters never knew exactly what was the job of one of their best mates, Chandler Bing.

Well, for well over a month I knew how it was to be in Chandler Bing's shoes, although, on my behalf, I must add that what I am doing is far more exciting than working in a data processing job, like Chandler.

First of all, there isn`t a title, as I had in the past: correspondent, producer, reporter, none of those fit the mould.

I had, and still have, to come up with a tagline, which went something along these lines:

" I`m recruit