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- Subject: n-1-4-020.09
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- Russian Educational Network Established
- by Patarakin Evgeny* <jenja@mdkc.botik.yaroslavl.su>
-
- In late November, a research group on Computer and Educational Strategy in
- the Program Systems Institute took the first step of establishing a new compute
- network for education in Russia. This network now exists as the "Uchcom" assocn
- and UCHCOM BBS: (085)359-8304.
-
- UCHCOM focusses on many different facets of education: Administration,
- Physics and mathematics, Informational technology for language learning,
- Cognitive psychology, MultiMedia, and Logo Media.
- Logo Media is the most advanced activity in Uchcom because Logo (LogoWriter) has
- actively been used in educational programs of our International Children Computer
- Camp (ICCC) since 1988. In 1991 and 1992, we used network communication in many
- Logo projects:
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- o "Space Voyage" ("Chat" idea was implemented)
- o "The Computer Theater" (Teleconference idea was implemented)
- o "MicroWorlds" (Correspondence idea was implemented)
- o "Fantastic World" (Mention idea was implemented)
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- All of these projects were based on the idea that when telecommunication really
- comes to the classroom it means firstly that children have opened to world, and
- only secondly that the world has opened to children.
-
- The main aims of Logo Media in UCHCOM BBS is to support a distance logo leaning
- and telecommunicative logo projects. Now these working projects are:
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- o Animated Cartoons about ancient Greek myths.
- o Games in the Logo environment.
- o New Scientific Logo microworlds.
- o Work of art album. (This is an idea of the St. Peterburg Logo group who have
- created a very good looking LogoWriter album about their own city and the cits
- of the Gold Ring of Russia.)
- o Computer Logo Theater.
-
- We hope that within the framework of any projects in our logo-teleconference, new
- ideas, shapes and procedures will be created and changed.
-
- The Uchcom association and Uchcom BBS are supported now in the different region
- Russia: Pereslavl-Zalessky, Nizhny Novgorod, Moskow, St. Peterburg, Omsk, Cheljb
- insk. We hope that in near future our informational system would be reproduced
- in some of these regions and our activity would be more independent.
- Unfortunately, members of our association can only connect with the worldwide
- Internet education community only by a gateway.
-
- Additional information about Uchocom and its projects can be obtained by Email
- directed to: <jenja@mdkx.botik.yaroslavl.su>
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- *International Children Computer Center, Program Systems Institute, Russia
-