Academic year 2011-2012

Projects’ goals and partners

The first project named DicDucFac (idea-leadership-project) was planned as a workshop that dealt with the application of modern social media (Facebook, YouTube, Gmail) for the purpose of self-promotion, free advertising via social networks, job search, job enrichment, and successful career transitioning.. The workshop was organized for highly-skilled computer literate unemployed youth to increase their chances for employment and self-employment. The project covered both the educational aspect of the human resource development (development of transferable knowledge and different skills) and socio-economic issues in fighting unemployment. It was realized with the local NGO – Croatian Slavic Society. It is described in Prezi:http://prezi.com/hisyj6jhjijz/dicducfac-ideja-vodstvo-produkt/ Moodle sitehttps://moodle.srce.hr/eportfolio/view/view.php?id=7632 and Google site: https://sites.google.com/site/dicducfac2357/home

The aim of the second project named Facebook workshop 65+ was to introduce information technology to older people through computer tutoring and workshops. Students in the project helped older people to gain access to, and learn about, how they can get the best out of digital technology. Through the workshop sessions older people increased their confidence of using technology and felt more connected. The project is described in Facebook site https://www.facebook.com/pages/Besplatna-Radionica-Tin-Ujevi%C4%87/248732571846546

and Google site: https://sites.google.com/site/facebookradionicatinujevic/

The last project in this academic year aimed to create a Handbook for facilitating and improving communication between librarians and people with hearing impairments. It was conducted to raise awareness of librarians on user needs of deaf and hard of hearing people, to distinguish the terminology problems between terms such as deaf, hard of hearing, hearing impaired and deaf-mute, to adopt the terminology, such as persons with disabilities and children with special needs and to establish a sign dictionaries for terms closely related to library management and usage.

It is described in Prezi: http://prezi.com/vdomimo5pjtb/prirucnik-za-olaksavanje-i-poboljsanje-komunikacije-knjiznicara-sa-gluhim-i-nagluhim-osobama/

and Google site: https://sites.google.com/site/prirucnikzaknjiznicare/home/o-projektu