desislava ivanova, acting director of the vidin district library
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PRESS RELEASE
“Training for elderly people in basic computer literacy and internet skills was launched in Mihalaki Georgiev District Library on 13 October 2010. The training is free-of-charge and targets people aged 55+, current and future library readers…”
11 October 2010Vidin
as covered by the media
Our initiative
Our first trainees...
...in their first training class!
Why did they come to us?(Based on feedback forms)
To acquire useful knowledge
To become self-confident
To be able to contact their families and friends...
OPENING OF A TRAINING CENTER
OPENING OF A TRAINING CENTER
FOR VIDIN DISTRICT
FOR VIDIN DISTRICT ANDANDCOMPUTERIZED WORKSTATIONS FOR USERS
COMPUTERIZED WORKSTATIONS FOR USERS
UNDER THE GLOBAL LIBRARIES – BULGARIA PROGRAM
UNDER THE GLOBAL LIBRARIES – BULGARIA PROGRAM
23 February 2011
The mayor of Vidin Rumen Vidov opened the new information center under the Glob@l Libraries – Bulgaria Program
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“I am convinced that in this way we foster our fellow citizens’ integration in the information society”, said the mayor of Vidin
EASY and equitable access to information: a 80-year old woman from Vidin – an excellent grade participant in the computer literacy training. // V i d i n (Vidin), No. 16, 28 Feb 2011, p. 8.
The information center was officially opened in the library and certificates were awarded to basic computer literacy training graduates.
TRAINING for elderly people... // V i d i n B r i d g e (Vidin), No. 41, 14 March 2011, p. 6.
... in computer literacy and internet skills is taking place at Mihalaki Georgiev District Library in Vidin.
What we taught them
How to search information
online
E-mail and online chatting
How the computer operates and what we need to know about it
How to work with documents
Creating, opening and saving documents Formatting, previewing and printing documents Text formatting
Analogous to the regular mail, only electronic Advantages:
Quick delivery; Saving the message until the recipient opens it; File attachment; File storage space.
Practical assignments Go to the website www.abv.bg Register a new free e-mail account. Compose and send an email to an email address, specified by your
neighbor. Read the received messages, if any. Sign out by clicking on the Sign out button.
Writing real-time messages to one or more persons simultaneously;
Video conference call.
Practical assignments
chat = бъбрене
Log inLog in Skype.Skype. Initiate a conversation in pairs on the Initiate a conversation in pairs on the topic “What was the most helpful thing I topic “What was the most helpful thing I learned todaylearned today?”.?”.
Send each other the pictures Send each other the pictures we took during our previous we took during our previous lessonlesson..
Log out from the chat and make a video connection.
What did a training lesson consist of?
•Lecture section •Practical assignments•Q&A session
80-годишната видинчанка Параскева Тодоранкина получи грамота за
начална компютърна грамотност
With a positive attitude toward new information technology…
Inquisitive, motivated...
What else?
The statistics shows that 50% of the population of the district town used the electronic census option...
We provided training facilities under the “I Can More” Program.
Our most recent initiative is “A Reading Room in the Open”.
Thank you for your attentionThank you for your attention!!
Desislava Ivanova Desislava Ivanova
Mihalaki Georgiev Mihalaki Georgiev
District Library, Vidin District Library, Vidin
ContactsContacts::phone:phone: 0888 864 979 0888 864 979e-mail: e-mail: [email protected]@abv.bg