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Monthly newsletterUNDP Project “Capacity Building for Internet technologies Development and Promotion in Uzbekistan” Contents:
NEWS:1. Events and announcements.• Project’s partner-schools won “The best school website” contest. On December 29, in the UZINFOCOM centre building a ceremony of presentation of prizes to winners of a series of contests was held, which was organized by Centre on the threshold of New Year, including “The Best school website” Contest. According to results of general voting, three schools – partners of Project were recognized as winners of this contest: Nukus Gymnasium #1 (1st place and super-prize – personal computer, website: http://nukus1.connect.uz/), Termez School #1 (2nd place and prize – digital photo camera, website: http://termez1.connect.uz/); Tashkent city Sergeli district school #300 (3rd place and prize – scanner, website: http://www.sch300.edunet.uz/). Overall 24 applications were sent to this contest from secondary schools, lyceums and colleges of Uzbekistan. Centre specialists admitted that it was hard to make decision, because they should have kept objectivity and at the same time take into account that participants were not professional designers and programmers, but school students. Prizes and presents were delivered to Computer Classrooms of schools, where winning sites were created. All winners also were presented with certificates. In addition, during the ceremony the winners of other contests, such as: “The best logo for www.uz”, “The most active participant of UZINFOCOM forum”, and “The best idea on protection from spam” were announced. Congratulations to all winners! • Participation of the Project staff in the international conference. . From December 11 to 15, Project Manager Vadim Navotny and employees Dilnora Azimova and Tamara Shevchenko attended an international conference on Internet development held in Kiev, Ukraine. The primary goal of the conference was to share and exchange ideas and experiences for managing web-based projects. • Around 40 teachers throughout Uzbekistan successfully completed the First Distance Learning Course. On December 5, the first group of teachers successfully completed Distance learning on courses “Project methods in school education” and “Modern lesson” organized in cooperation with the Avloniy Central Institute of Professional Development for Public Education Officials. These courses directed to the realization of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan “About creation of public educational information network of the Republic of Uzbekistan ZiyoNet” and among the first events, dedicated to the Year of the improving of capacity of educators on ICT use. The main prerequisites for participation are the basic computer skills, knowledge of using Word, Excel and e-mail. Distance learning courses began from October 5, and during eight weeks subject teachers, curriculum specialists of different categories performed control works on learning materials, answered questions and participated on forums with teachers from different regions and experts on using project methods and electronic resources in school. Participation in courses has greatly improved teachers’ computer skills, increased a creative approach of teacher to conduct lessons, caused for generation of new ideas and projects. Upon completing of learning, were received 24 questionnaires, which showed that participants improved their skills on using computer and Internet from 20 to 90%, including experienced users. All participants think that it is an effective way to improve qualification and it should be widely applied in teaching. As a result of Distance learning course, participants received new knowledge, gained new learning methods, and developed their independent and analytical thinking. In addition, they learned how to complete effective lesson plans on their subjects. All participants were presented with certificates. • Gratitude letter from Japan. General Director of Asia/Pacific Cultural Center for UNESCO (ACCU, Japan) Sato Kunio highly appreciated the kind co-operation of Project in studying and disseminating learning materials on Environment (PLANET 3), and expressed his gratitude to Project management for warm hospitality to ACCU Center staff members during their monitoring visit in Uzbekistan. In addition, Sato Kunio wished to cooperate in the future and submitted Package of Learning materials on Environment for school students. He also emphasized, that Children’s Forum on the Internet conducted in November on the topic of “UNESCO Educational Projects” with the technical support of Project and with the participation of ACCU Center representatives was particularly interesting and fruitful (http://www.connect.uz/children_forum/index.php?showtopic=835). • Interschool Resource Center has enlarged its activity. IRC, which mainly functioned only in Sergeli district of Tashkent city, has expanded its activity and stepped out to the City level. Resources of the Center, which gathered the most progressive and creative educators of district, now are available to teachers from other districts of Tashkent. Teachers, who actively participated in the Resource Center’s activities are always aware about pedagogical and other news, have a real opportunity to take part in different Internet-projects and contests. From now IRC is located in the building of Tashkent State Institute of Professional Development for Public Education Officials in Yakkasaray district of Tashkent. 2. Our trainings:• • Deputies of Oliy Majlis (Senate) of the Republic of Uzbekistan improve their skills in using ICT. In cooperation with the UNDP project “Enhancing Legislative and Institutional Capacities of the Parliament,” specialists of Project Azizbekov R. and Tsoy I. continue to conduct mobile trainings on usage of Microsoft products and principles of working with judicial and legislative bases for parliamentarians. Congratulations to two groups of participants, who have already finished trainings and received certificates. • • Medical officials from leading medical institutions attend trainings on Computer literacy. In collaboration with the project “Medical Information and Continuous Medical Education in Central Asia” and public organization Medicalexpress. (http://medicalexpress.uz), UzSciNet Internet-Center organized trainings for group of medical officials on “Basics of Computer literacy and work in Internet”, “Work with Excel”, and “Work on creation of Power Point presentations”. Until now, more than 40 medical employees of such medical institutions as the Clinic of Ministry of Internal Affairs, the 1st Republican Clinic, AIDS City Center, and SES MSO of Ministry of Public Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan attended the trainings. • Around 30 people attend trainings in the Regional CISCO Academy, where they learn CCNA programs. Students successfully pass examinations. During December, in the frames of CISCO Academy were prepared two trainers, whose tasks is the preparation of trainers for Local CISCO Academies on courses IT-Essentials 1 and IT-Essentials 2 courses. • ECDL/ICDL Testing Center News. ECDL Authorized Testing Center successfully has been functioning during a year, offering an opportunity to take an examination for users who would like to confirm their qualification of a user of office programs. During the work of the Center, three trainers were prepared, who took full examination packet and received status as a trainer. According to results of trainings, conducted during the eight-month period, course students took more than 40 examinations on this certification. Among them are representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Uzbekistan, employees of “Joint” representative office in Uzbekistan, Institute of Irrigation and Melioration. In future plans of the Testing Center is holding testing for Certification among Computer Science teachers from Tashkent schools and regions. • Tech Age Girls Finalists Teach Peers to Develop Websites. In December, TAG finalists taught around 40 peers to create websites. Most of them created their web logs and started learning the basics of developing web pages by using Adobe Photoshop program to edit pictures and Dream weaver program to create website. Girls decided to develop websites on themes that would help Uzbek audience, since there are not many websites available for speakers of Uzbek. 3. Integration of ICT into education:• Seminar – training for Biology teachers. On December 5, by the request of the Tashkent State Institute of Professional Development for Public Education Officials, at the Interschool Resource center building a seminar-training was conducted for biology teachers from Tashkent schools on the topic “Informational-computer technologies for biology teacher”. • Teachers learn to work with instrumental programs. During December, in the frames of given program, a cycle of trainings was organized for 20 teachers of Sergeli district. • Training on “Copyright and protection of electronic author’s resources”. On December 6, 12 leading specialists – media educators form Sergeli district participated in training that aims to learn how to protect electronic documents, placed in Internet. 4. Technical information• Statistical data on network use: During December 2006, network’s incoming traffic was 2 Tb and outgoing traffic
was 600 Gb. • Technical support. In December 2006, Project began the process of reregistering websites hosted on UzSciNet with the purpose of updating information about authors of these websites, removing unused ones and increasing information security of the server. To resume hosting of your website, please download an agreement from http://registration.freenet.uz, have it signed and stamped and send a scanned copy to freenet@uzsci.net. • www.edunet.uz site development. On the site of Interschool Resource Center more that 300 visitors per day.. 5. New resources:• New resources of Interschool Resource Center.In December, with the consultative and technical assistance of the Interschool Resource Center was created a row of new recourses. In the frames of program “Educational methodical web-projects” Uzbek language teacher Nigora Umarova created a site, devoted to the life and work on Uzbek folk writer Abdulla Kadiri (http://qodiriy.edunet.uz/).In the frames of “Multimedia Resources for Education” Center volunteers developed online tests-constructor Edunet-Tester in Russian and Uzbek (http://edunet.uz/tester), with the help of which teachers of Sergeli district created 50 electronic tests on different school subjects. In addition, on “Educational Database” program was conducted an organizational work on creation of electronic versions of calendar-thematic plans; in the appropriate section of IRC site (http://edunet.uz/) in free access and with the authors permission were placed 80 plans, catalogued according subjects. On the program “Media lessons” on the base of IRC were developed and organized eight multimedia lessons on physic, informatics and astronomy. • Resources created as part of Teachers’ Workshop. During December, as a part of Teachers’ Workshop 10 web logs and over 30 electronic educational and methodological materials for e-library (http://www.connect.uz/e-library.php) were developed and published. 6. Miscellaneous.• Publicity. On December 19, newspaper “Vesti Karakalpastana” published an article named “Women Committee Site”, created by students and teachers of Nukus Gymnasium #1 using the resources of the Internet and Computer Classroom (http://nukus1.connect.uz/wk/). The article covers prehistory and process of the website creation, and also includes an interview with the Deputy Chairman of Women Committee of the Republic of Karakalpakstan Gulshat Tursimuratova. Tursimuratova shares: “Creation of the website gives us an opportunity to broadly inform community on activity of Women Committee and will increase authority and effectiveness of our organization.” In December issue of Informational-analytical journal “infoCOM UZ” in the rubric “Among us-girls” was published an article of Project Curriculum Specialist Sayyora Rakhmankulova. This publication includes an interview with the Library manager of The Avloniy Central Institute of Professional Development for Public Education Officials Sofya Nuriddinova, gives an information about use of modern technologies in educational process by the teacher of Russian language and literature from Namangan School #1 Roza Kazakbaeva, as well as narrates about experience of finalists of “Tech Age Girls” program in the new “Believe in yourself!” program, which aims to help disabled women to gain computer and internet skills. In addition, the article provides information on useful links, created during the Project activity. 7. Photo gallery
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