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Project narrative
Title: Andrey Petrovich Kiselyov Project URL: www.uvk2.artn.ru/kiselyov Category: Local Leaders 5 students, 14-16 years old worked together to complete this CyberFair project on 16 March. They have participated in CyberFair in the following years): have not participated. Classes and Teachers: Narzyaeva I. U., Petrova N.P., 9V&10A classes. E-Mail contact: uvk2@artn.ru School: Voronezh Education Complex named after A. P. Kiselyov Our School's Web Site: www.uvk2.artn.ru Bibliography and Citations: Bibliography
Project overview
1. Description of "Our Community" Our School is located in the city of Voronezh. It takes a night trip by train to get from Moscow to Voronezh. Voronezh is more than four hundred years old but there are few historical sights because during WWII the front line went through the city and it was almost completely ruined. Voronezh is the capital of the Black Soil Region, a cultural and industrial centre. I has got a number of higher education establishments and research institutes. School students have got very high scores in the Experimental United National Exams particularly those in Math for three years running, the students of our school being among the very best. About 1,500 students study in our school, strictly speaking a complex consisting of Pre School, Primary School, Secondary School of General Education, Secondary School Specialized in Math and Science, Lycee, Arts School, Gifted Children School. Our school was named after A.P. Kiselyov for its successful teaching Math in 2002. Since that time our school students have been researching his creative work and life. So many interesting facts have been discovered that we feel it necessary to publish the information. 2. Summary of Our Project Our project involved the students exploring the life and creative work of an outstanding Russian teacher of Math whose activity influenced the life of his countrymen greatly and students involved in the process of publishing the information. The project began with brainstorming what way the information should be presented on the site. The decision our students came to was to condense the information and present only the essence of it in English and to present more detailed information concerning the dates and names in Russian meaning that we could translate it into English for those who will get interested in some particular facts. Our students shared information on the Internet with the local community. They produced a web project with many scanned graphics and photos, focused on report writing in English, increased their research skills using books, the Internet, visiting museums and listening to many dedicated teachers when they visited our school or we visited them. 3. CyberFair Theme Four years ago our Education Complex was named after A.P. Kiselyov for the achievements in teaching mathematics to students. Since then we have been doing our best to learn about the life of this great man and make it known to other people. E.g. every year Kiselyov conference dedicated to the studies of his textbooks and works in methodology is held at our school with great success. In our school there is a museum where you can read his books, look at the photos from his family album. After having researched the materials connected with his life and work we feel that they are an the perfect example of influence a man can have on future doing enthusiastically his work now. Working with the materials we realized that a dedicated teacher can do a lot uniting his pupils and inspiring them to achieve success in their lives and improving the life of people around them. When Math was taught at secondary schools using his materials their students were charmed by the beauty of Math and Science and chose to connect their life with Science and Engineering, their work influencing the Soviet breakthrough into Space in the 1950-s. Spacerockets designed then continue delivering cargo to the spacesation nowdays being a link between our past and our future. 4. Our Computer and Internet Access A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home: 60 % B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom: 24 in 2 class rooms C. Connection speed used in the classroom: 11 5 KB per second D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet: 3 years E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional): 5. Problems We Had To Overcome Time pressure was the most urgent of our problems. All of us think that we just had a little time to do this project from the beginning because we learned about the possibility to take part in the project only a month ago. In order to overcome the "time pressure" problem, we have to make good use of every moment and arrange the procedure of work. We did our research continuously and we have learned lots from the research process concerning distributing tasks, arranging our time, cooperating. One of our greatest challenges in working on this project was learning how to work as a team. We overcame these obstacles with teamwork and combining all our knowledge of computers to help each other. Difficulties on designing the web pages were not so pressing. Sometimes we have problems on how to design the web pages. However, these problems were solved after we discussed them. The most serious problem was FTP failure the evening we were going to hang our site and we had to be very inventive to solve the problem. 6. Our Project Sound Bite Our goal is to educate our school and community (and hopefully the world) that inspiring and uniting helps make this world a better place. The project has allowed our students to see that hard work , and dedication can inspire people changing their life. Working together on a common goal, with everyone contributing to their best ability and at the end creating a website that can be shared by millions makes a terrific ” hand-out” argument in favor of inspiring and uniting. After this activity, the students’ skills to use computer have improved. We have some reflections after this activity: We should make good use of our time if we have lots of things to do. We should complete the things step by step. We can't do things without planning in advance. If we do things without playnning, then we'll fail easily, or it'll cost much more time to finish the job. 7. How did your activities and research for this International Schools CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards? Questions to Consider Our project helps to understand how people can influence the life around them, so thus to understand the process of the development of society deeper Working at the project we learned to look for information and to process it, to write reports in English, enlarging our vocabulary and drilling various grammar structures. We considered our group to be a consolidated unit the success of which depended upon the successful work of each its member, helping each other. We have learned how to cooperate working in groups, planning our work ahead. This project makes a good chance to practice skills acquired in English, Computers in “hands on” situation We have discovered that that the system of education is a product of long development and dedicated people contributed to it making our process of studying easier It also gave us an excellent insight into sharing information around the World Wide Web and how to develop a Web page and send Email, which is a part of the subject Information Technology. We would like this project to become a sharing with other children around the world, by people contacting us via our email address, after enjoying our Project. We learnt lots more about making Web pages and we look forward to making even more. We learnt how to scan graphics in Photo DrawV2 and Photo Impact and then sharpen and compress them.
Project elements
1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project? We used * 6 IBM compatible PC; * video and digital still cameras as well as Olympus digital still camera; * digitizers and scanners Mustek 1200 CP; * computer software MicroSoft Office, ACDSee, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Graphics Suite; * Voronezh State University Library, School Library; * books: 1. A.P. Kiselyov “Geometriya. Stereometriya”. St. Petersburg: “Specialnaya Literatura”, 1999 2. A.P. Kiselyov “Sistematicheskii Kurs Arifmetiki”. Oryol: “Orlovskii Gosudarstvennii Universitet”, 2002 3. F.S. Avdeev, T. K. Avdeeva “Andrey Petrovich Kiselyov”. Oryol: “Izdatelstvo Orlovskoi Gosudarstvennoi Teleradioveshtelnoi Kompanii”, 2002 * the School museum of A. P. Kiselyov; * oral interviews Bityutskaya, Larisa. Personal interview. January 17, 2006. Creating each Web page we used HTML programming as well as the standard editor “Front Page”. While scanning the illustrations of E. Kiselyova’s canvasses we had to scan them by parts due to their large size and then we did a scrupulous job of matching them. All necessary tools are located in two computer rooms where we have computer classes. Entire tools and technologies were donated to our school in accordance with the state program of secondary schools computerization. Photoshop proved to be the most valuable tool for us because we had a lot of work connected with scanning and processing images. Besides to process text documents scanner and Word and Front Page editors were used. 2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person. The project allowed us to be ambassadors for our school participation in a CyberFair project. The community of students and Math teachers of the Voronezh Region has become aware and very proud of the work that the school students have done. Many have phoned to ask for our URL. The staff of Voronezh Teachers’ In-Service Institute and Voronezh State University came into our school and offered words of praise for the project. The friends from other cities admired the job our school has done share the materials about the outstanding teacher. We have shown it to many visitors coming into the school to participate in Regional Kiselyov Conference held on 11 of March 2006 and they were impressed with the quality of work of the students. It has been a very rewarding experience. Especially, taking into account that we had to work simultaneously at several pages to have problems with saving. Fortunately, we learned to deal with such problems. 3) What has been the impact of your project on your community? We are sure that our project made a difference at least it influenced its creators much making them realize a lot of ideas and acquire skills necessary to cooperate with people. The site is sure to be helpful for the people of our community to learn both about their great countryman’s contribution in teaching Math and developing our community. Besides, other people around the world can make sure once again that hard working dedicated people achieve success making the world a better place. Thanks to our work we have established new relations with graduate students of Voronezh State University carrying out research in the field of teaching Mathematics and started cooperation. 4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers? The technical staff at our school board supported us by making sure the network was up and running and holding our hand when the technology wasn't cooperating. When it turned out that FTP just didn't function Lopushanskaya N.D., a deputy principal, did her best help us with hanging the site. We also thank our providers for fixing all those problems and giving space for our site. 5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional) Working at our project we clearly realized the truth of the following words: "Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes." Peter Ferdinand Drucker.
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