In the frame of
“Community’s young voice” project the members of our working group have
organized training on the theme of “New Technologies for the youth” in Vanadzor
city of Lory region. 14-17 years old youths who are interested in ICT and Media
journalism are participated in this project. The training is held in
Information Center of Vanadzor city. At the beginning of the training the
program with its aim and process was presented. By means of game the
participants got acquainted with each other and shared information about their
preferences and planned future career. The trainer presented the background of
information, computer and its usage. They had also a discussion about
those problems related to IT they had during the education process and tried to
find its solution. The beneficiaries had idea on advantages and disadvantages
of social networks. During the next trainings the participants had idea about
Google including its all elements and services, how to use gmail as a
communication system and what is “blog”, how to open and use it. They also had
discussion about formatting the computer, search and send elements of the
computer. As a result the participants made a presentation on IT by means of
their gained knowledge and presented them to monitoring group of the project.
At the end of the trainings individual tasks are assigned for the
beneficiaries that require much work to do.The trainings are
ongoing taking into account the beneficiaries suggestions on topics selection
and they are so interesting and effective that the children gave respond to
write this letter. I am Mary from Vanadzor community. On February 16, in the frame of
"Community young voice” project I was participated in "New
technologies for youth" training organized by "Young Journalist
Online Center" in Lory region. During this period I had some important
skills on computer. In pleasant and free atmosphere we got important and useful
knowledge on IT. I was very glad to have participation in this training.
I want you to organize such programs frequently and I am pleased to visit again
and participate in such similar programs and increase my knowledge on media. In
the frame of this program I gained different computer programs, learned
competently usage of internet resources, and how to keep computer safe from
various dangers and viruses.
