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| | 13.12.2011
Saratov | |
ICT Skills Spell Better Opportunities for Whole Families
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Spouses Aleksei and Olga Mashkov signed up for Digital Literacy training at the Tvoy Kurs Center of Saratov State University together, as a family. Realizing that life in the modern hi-tech society requires good computer skills, they decided to upgrade their own digital literacy level. As the result they got integrated into the modern information culture and discovered new financial and social opportunities. | | | | 05.12.2011
Ribinsk | |
Life Has Become Much More Interesting!
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Galina Volkova used to teach PE and coach sports at Rybinsk Teacher Training College. In August 2011 she retired and decided to do something different. The knowledge and skills she acquired during the digital literacy training at the local Tvoy Kurs Center changed her life by giving her a whole new perspective on the future. Despite her advanced age, she bought a laptop computer, began practicing her new digital skills, and soon went into business. | | | | 27.11.2011
Moscow | |
Touring the World with Tvoy Kurs
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Valentina Nevolenko teaches German at a rural school. When she was younger, she used to travel abroad, and it made teaching much more interesting both for herself and for her students. Now traveling has become a much more difficult proposition, but, thanks to Tvoy Kurs, Valentina Nevolenko has learned to take virtual trips around the world, taking her students along and making her classes truly unforgettable. | | | | 16.11.2011
Moscow | |
Right on Target
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After completing the Digital Literacy course at her local Tvoy Kurs Center, special ed kindergarten teacher Svetlana Lisovskaya, who works with visually impaired children, not only optimized her own work by digitizing all the documentation, but also developed and launched her own website “Looking at the World with Joy” on issues of children with visual impairments. The alumna also plans to start a counseling blog for parents of visually impaired children. | | | | 22.10.2011
Naryan-Mar | |
Young Leader of the Year becomes Tvoy Kurs Volunteer of the Year
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High school senior Pavel Koskov from A. P. Pyrerka Nenets boarding school in Naryan Mar is an excellent role model for many of his peers. A recipient of the Presidential Education Award and the winner of the regional Leader of the Year contest, this Tvoy Kurs alumnus trained fourteen people in basic digital literacy skills during the summer vacation that he spent with his family in the tundra village of Indiga. | | | | 23.09.2011
Ulyanovsk | |
The Hope Club for an Active Lifestyle
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The team members of the Hope Club for senior citizens, all alumni of the Tvoy Kurs Center at Ulyanovsk State University, took third place in the regional contest for local community clubs in the nomination “Digital Literacy.” As their pre-contest assignment, they submitted a presentation “Hope Online,” describing the team and demonstrating the diversity of their interests and talents. During the live contest round they used the computer to create a promotional flyer for Tvoy Kurs, complete with a poetic jingle of their own writing. | | | | 19.08.2011
Tambov | |
Seminar in Online Safety Helps a Mother to Keep her Son from Unwelcome Influences
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Thanks to the knowledge and skills acquired at a seminar in online safety, Larisa B., a Tvoy Kurs alumna from Tambov, was able to pull her ten-year-old son away from some very shady “friends” he had met in a local online chat. | | | | 14.08.2011
Tambov | |
Tvoy Kurs Opens Up Small Business Opportunities
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After completing her Tvoy Kurs: Digital Literacy training, Galina Spitzyna, an unemployed single mother from Tambov, took a course in ICT technologies for business and launched her own small company. | | | | 12.08.2011
Saratov | |
Digital Literacy for an Alumna’s Entire Family
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After completing her Tvoy Kurs: Digital Literacy training, Galina Komissarova from Saratov became an indispensable helper to her children and grandchildren in planning their summer holidays and recreation. | | | | 10.08.2011
Tambov | |
Tvoy Kurs and a Successful Career: from a Packer to a Commercial Director
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Ludmila Kaverina, a twenty-seven-year-old resident of Tambov and a vocational school graduate, was too apprehensive about computers and continued working at a low-paid job until personal difficulties compelled her to seek an entirely new career. Her first step towards a new life was to sign up for a Tvoy Kurs: Digital Literacy course. |
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