Yesterday, March 3, 2011, the National Campaign ‘Let’s Surf on the Internet’ - having Vrancea County Library as partner, continued with an "voluntary practice’ event in the Multimedia Room (located on: 4 Mr.Ghe. Sava Str.)
The multimedia rooms have been designated as telecentres for the National Campaign of digital literacy ‘Let’s Surf on the Internet’, sustained by EOS Foundation in partnership with Microsoft Unlimited Potential Programme and N.A.L.P.L.R – the National Association of the Librarians and Public Libraries in Romania.
Ran between 28th of February and 5th of March in various locations (City Hall Focsani, Vrancea Work Department and Multimedia Rooms of the Library), the Campaign ‘Let’s Surf on the Internet’ stopped yesterday at our new headquarters located on 4 Mr.Ghe. Sava Str.
The protagonists were 15 children from Danut Centre Brosteni, coordinated by Prof. Elisabeta Norocea and Jana Tigaeru, who have learnt from their elder friends the computer and internet secrets. 6 volunteer 9th grade students, from ‘Alexandru Ioan Cuza’ National College, coordinated by Prof. Constanta Coatu and Melania Patrascanu, the Educative Advisor, have learnt the kids how to communicate on-line.
Emanuela-Teodora Manolache, Elena Raluca Jugaru, Ana-Maria Matei, Andrada Tania Panaite, Andra Corina Popa and Mirela Filimon, along with their teachers and the librarians, have helped friends from Brosteni to create an e-mail and messenger account to keep in touch with them.
The protagonists were 15 children from Danut Centre Brosteni, coordinated by Prof. Elisabeta Norocea and Jana Tigaeru, who have learnt from their elder friends the computer and internet secrets. 6 volunteer 9th grade students, from ‘Alexandru Ioan Cuza’ National College, coordinated by Prof. Constanta Coatu and Melania Patrascanu, the Educative Advisor, have learnt the kids how to communicate on-line.
Emanuela-Teodora Manolache, Elena Raluca Jugaru, Ana-Maria Matei, Andrada Tania Panaite, Andra Corina Popa and Mirela Filimon, along with their teachers and the librarians, have helped friends from Brosteni to create an e-mail and messenger account to keep in touch with them.
The two hours spent in the Multimedia Room, who ended being not enough, were full of amusement, joy and agitation. The children recognized that most of them didn’t have a computer at home and that have surfed just a little ‘at Danut Centre…’. Otherwise.. sometimes at school. They were excited by the idea of communicating with other children, from another part of the country or perhaps outside the country. Through laughter and delicious cookies the accounts have been created and the communication on-line had its start! The high school volunteers created them a list of friends and the application was much practical when kids started to chat with each other.
What should we say? That we wanted, besides the campaign’s purpose, to socialize? To make new friends? To link sustainable relationships?
This meeting marked, among others, the beginning and the continuing of the real educative partnership between three institutions: the County Public Library, ‘Alexandru Ioan Cuza’ National College and Danut Center Brosteni, who desires to offer for the kids, educative and cultural alternatives.
The volunteers and the kids parted as friends, with promises from Prof. Norocea that they will come back to the Library, and promises from the volunteers and librarians to visit them at Danut Centre. We shared our ID messenger and e/mail addresses and with a lot of hugs and kisses, kids were hardly bear to go home.
The nicest part of the meeting was that the volunteer girls from the high school, the 6 wonderful girls, want to be permanent volunteers of the library and told to their fellows to come as well!
So basically… this is how new practical ideas and relationship get alive… at the library. Come on…to us! You can be practical!
Article written by Anamaria Cătănoiu – Coord. Foreign Language Center
Translated by Oana Zlatovici - volunteer
