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    Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan

4 students, ages 15-16 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 17, 2006. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2005,2006

Classes and Teachers: Enejan Madreymova teacher, 9th class

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Our School's Web Site: http://nukus11.connect.uz/

1. Description of Our Community

We want to take interview with popular national sportsmen and common people who took part in these events.

2. Summary of Our Project

We want to tell about national sport and games which are connected with national holidays and special events.

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:none

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:4-6

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:2-3

E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):

Our educational internet centre let us participate in this on line project. We had access to the internet at anytime of a day.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

First of all we had a lot of technical problems such as low speed of internet connection, phone line was under repair for a long time. We had some problems in organizations of our meetings because our guess were busy and our meeting were delayed for another time.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

This project is new for our community. Our team had the opportunity to get acquainted with wonderful people from our community and we knew a lot of interesting information about world and local kinds of sport: karate, kurash, taekwondo, table tennis.

6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

We learned to communicate with different people and develop communication skills. We researched many sites and it was very interesting to learn new information through the internet. Researching the sites we broadened our knowledge on history, geography, sport. Before the project we thought that taekwondo was a severe kind of sport. And now we understand that it is the instrument to learn how to control our emotions and actions promoted by the strength of willing.

1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?

We used computers, telephones, TV, digital cameras, scanners, computer software, libraries, newspapers, oral interviews. WE used the computers for typing information in ms word and designing our site by macromedia dreamveawer mx, adobe photoshop cs, total commander xp. By means of the telephones we appointed the time for our meetings and interviews. Our team watched sport competitions on researching kind of sports of our project. Especially we most used digital camera and scanner for taking pictures. The most valuable tools were newspapers because we would like to make the common things and differences between our sport local community and the world. The most helpful were the computers and the internet. Without these technologies we couldn't complete our project.

2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.

Really people were impressed with our work because we did unusual thing for our community: we met with famous sportsmen, interview them, and we were going to post our research on our web site in the internet.

3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?

All the people around the world have learned about our national traditional sport and its sportsmen. Our local community have learned about on line international project Cyber Fair and we are the students of the school no 11 are the participants of this project. They were impressed by it and we were asked to involve the students from the other schools and colleges. Our web site has helped to combine popular information for our community and share achievements.

4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?

Our teachers and parents gave advice and prompted how to make better. Our technical consultant Kim Aleksey helped us to master web design programs.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

During our researching on the project we gained a lot of additional information. We thought that meetings with famous people were very official and impossible. We wondered that they are common people and very modest.