International project Professions of the Future

Project initiators

• Lyudmila Serkyh (Afanasyeva) - coordinator
• Yevgenia Kudryavtseva - coauthor

Project annotation

This is a pilot project, in which were invited to participate those educators (with their schoolchildren teams), who are Master teachers or alumni of the Intel "Teach to the Future" program.

We anticipate 4 teams to start collaborate here: 2 teams from Russia (students already study English for few years) and 2 teams from English-speaking countries.

Project description

Due to the proposed activities students’ from different countries will get to know more about the importance of IT-specialities and will be trained in collaboration work on Web 2.0 services.

Project dates

Approximate Time Needed: 5 weeks

Project phases

Unfortunately, due to several reasons - cancellation of school days in Samara (Russia) for 3 weeks, some difficulties in Scarsdale school (Pakistan), etc. our project in January was closed. --coordinator Lyudmila 07:39, 18 февраля 2010 (UTC)

1 phase. Acquaintance. All 4 teams have written about themselves on their pages. Now we can see faces of Samara school 133 team and Andover team, great!

2 phase. Important IT-specialities. Every team wrote their story, some answered on other teams questions. Interesting essays, questions and answers from every team were published on this page: Professions of the Future/IT-specialities

3 phase. Video interviewing an IT-specialist (of the chosen above speciality). Getting permission from the interviews specialist to upload video to YouTube. Uploading video to YouTube.

4 phase. Special features of one IT-speciality.

5 phase. Feedback

Participating teams

Team Name (hyperlink to the wiki page here)	City, Country	School name, web site
School133	Samara, Russia	School №133 http://www.sc133.ucoz.ru
MTL Samara	Samara, Russia	Medical-Technical Lyceum http://www.smtl.ru
Andover Team	Andover, Kansas USA	Andover Middle School http://www.usd385.org/vnews/display.v/SEC/Andover%20Middle
Scarsdale team	Lahore,Pakistan	Scarsdale International School
Team 5	Country	School

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