Business Trip to Uzhgorod!

On July 10-14, 2012 the Window on America Center in Lutsk coordinator Olena Pyshniuk took part in seminar in Uzhgorod.

«Window on America Centers: Using New Technologies to Reach a Wider Audience Through Mobile «Drive-Up Windows» was the topic of the workshop that gathered 29 Window on America Center coordinators throughout Ukraine.

The program was designed by Valentyna Pashkova, IRC Director, Natalka Yasko, IRC Assistant, Oleksiy Vasylyev, “Informatio Consortium” NGO Director, Douglas Morrow, ACAO,Peg Walter, IRO and others.

The schedule of the workshop was full with presentations. We could learn more about:

• Student Programming and Youth

             Douglas Morrow

             Uzhgorod WOA: Maya Tarasova

             Ternopil WOA: Iryna Drach

• Panel Presentation: USCCD program: pilot projects

            Vinnytsia WOA: Yulia Kashpruk

            Lutsk WOA: Olena Pyshniuk

            Donetsk WOA: Halyna Chupryna

• Skype based web conferences and web chats

            Luhansk WOA: Iryna Shestopal

           Dnipropetrovsk WOA: Svitlana Usenko

To speak on the topic Education in the USA was invited Victoria Mykhaylenko, Manager of the Kyiv EducationUSA Advising Center/Alumni Resource Center. During the presentation the present audience learned more about Kyiv EducationUSA Advising Center/Alumni Resource Center and its support for WOA centers in Ukraine About Successes and Challenges of EducationUSA Advising Center at WOA centers shared their knowledge Olena Pyshniuk, Lutsk WOA Center coordinator and Tetyana Luchkina Sumy WOA Center coordinator.

Moderators: Valentyna Pashkova, Oleksiy Vasyliev and Peg Walther helped the members of the workshop to receive information on the topic eLibraryUSA, a collection of 30 authoritative databases on a wide range of topics and for users of all ages, learned a strategy for self-learning the resources, ways to find the full-text, and ideas for using eLibraryUSA for programming.

The second part of the seminar was devoted to exploring ways Kindle e-Readers may be used to extend the collection of the WOA Center and for programming.

It was a great surprise for us when Lutsk WOA Center received 4 Kindles so now the WOA readers could use the

already downloaded materials on Kindles.

This new modern technologies in the work are very useful but not always easy and we thank the organizers of the seminar for being so patient and professional.

The seminar in Uzhgorod is our next step in building bridges of knowledge and understanding between two countries – Ukraine and the United States of America.