The new, fully digitised facility

The new, fully digitised facility is stuffed with brand new all-in-one, flat screen desktop computers, an overhead projector, a bluetooth speaker, midget recorders and all basic a The Board of Mass Communication has described as nonchalant the attitude of HNDII students of the Department in accessing the newly established Multimedia Studio. pplications for multimedia production, all housed in an air-conditioned room with a strong Internet connectivity. At the unveiling of the new studio last August, the Head of Department, Bello M. Beli described the facility as rare opportunity for students to be drilled in the hands-on experience of digital media production and techniques of online journalism. Yet, nearly three months into the training, the Studio Manager, Jibrin Ibrahim, a digitally savvy young man is not optimistic that the current set of students accessing the studio will turn out trained and motivated multimedia producers, judging from their attitude to the training. He recounted that, "besides their weekly scheduled groupings for two hours studio tutoring, the students never sought to book time for personal practice." As a result, the Multimedia and Online Journalism course lecturer, Isah Yahaya noted, "they often appear completely lost of their last studio excersice since they would not practice their previous lessons till the next class." Meanwhile, in an address to the students before they take their first supervised test today, the course masters reminded them of the need to take their practicals seriously as it is going to count more of their total score in the course. Reporting for the Twilight, Isah Y. A.