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How do the residents of Frolovo meet a long awaited time of the year -- an interview
taken by Mariya Kudinova.
Get Online Week (GOW) is a European awareness campaign engaging and empowering people, especially
digitally excluded residents, to use technology and the internet. The campaign was supported
in Russia by the public libraries and thanks to the free internet and commuter access at
their premises and the Tvoy Kurs project many residents of urban and rural areas participated
in GOW. The Information center of the Frolovo library held a number of trainings and presentation
of the internet resources. Thanks to the campaign, people have used the internet for the very
first time. The GOW campaign took place in more than 60 municipal districts of the Volgograd
region. Veselov:
You are asking what I have learned here. To create folders, to type and to use all gained
skills and knowledge in practice. Program host:
In taking the first step on their way to the Internet surf the residents were supported
by campaign partners. Lukashevich:
Children are coming here to get knowledge. We create web-sites and web-pages, blogs,
forums for networking and thematic forums. We conduct digital literacy training, teach
how to copy materials to disc, how to record music and video. We study all of these things
gradually. It is twice as challenging is to teach grown-ups. You ask why? Because everything
is new to them. But, if a person is really interested he uses every opportunity to learn
more after classes or at home. Program host:
You involved your former alumni who wanted to try their hand at ICT management during
the GOW. During the Teach Your Family Campaign they helped their digitally excluded relatives
open a new fascinating world of the Internet. Efremenko:
There was a special interest from a young mother with an infant; she liked my idea that
her son should start practice foreign languages from the early childhood. She began searching
the Internet to find cartoons and audiobooks in English. Her husband (and father of a baby)
at that point was getting a second degree and the Internet resources helped him a lot.
Ρεκπες: Secret: My grandparents were much interested in Teach
Your Family Campaign as they need new information. My grandmother wanted to know how to find
information about weather forecast and my grandfather was interested in the sport news.
Program host: Traditional library seminars Babushki and
Dedushki Online, Women Online helped people with their first online journey and familiarized
them with ICT. Sokolova:
First of all I come here to check my emails. I and other ladies exchange needlecrafts,
we post the pictures of our needlecrafts to the Internet, boasting about our achievements
in sewing and embroidery. Program host:
It means communication channel, correct? Sokolova:
Yes, for communication. Program host:
And you also use the Internet to search new information?
Sokolova: Yes, information you are interested in. If
you are interested in something we just made a Yandex search and select what you need.
Program host: The Orthodox Christianity Word in Internet
seminar was conducted first time this year in Frolovo center as a part of the European
Get Online Week Vlasov:
Wise parents who are good in upbringing their children reasonably limit children's internet
surf and, of course, they are doing the right thing.
Program host: There was a great interest to it, these days
you can find any information in the Internet, but how do you know whether it is true?
Vlasov: We recently met here in the center, just talking
about the Orthodox Christianity online media, for example, the Slavianka online magazine,
I would call it an orthodox analog of the well-known the Rabotnitsa (Working woman)
or the Krestianka (Peasant woman) magazines. The Slavianka covers not only religious issues,
but also provides information and articles about marriage and family life for all people.
Online media -- is the Foma magazine, there are special editions for youth, which is very
important, for example the Otrok (Adolescent) which is published in Kiev, Ukraine, or the
Moscow Heir. One of the main orthodox online sources is
a web-site http://www.patriarchia.ru. As for the web-sites that provide diverse information
about the politics and interesting facts I could recommend two: http://www.pravoslavie.ru
-- a web-site of the Stetensky Monastery whose abbot, Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)
is well-known for his book Everyday Saints, and a web-site Orthodox Christianity and the
World - a wonderful independent resource that presents diverse information and points of
view of various people.
Program host: The Get Online Week campaign has come to its
end, but Teach Your Family Campaign continues and now the Frolovo library calls for young
IT volunteers, this will be a new trend in the work of a center.