Syndicate: BAIA MARE MULTIMEDIA CAMP - PRESS RELEASE

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From: "Mariana Hudrea" <Mariana.Hudrea@ns.alphanet.ro>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 5:56 AM
Subject: MULTIMEDIA CAMP - PRESS RELEASE

PRESS RELEASE

International Multimedia Camp in Baia Mare
16th - 25th July, 2001

Over seventy participants and trainers coming from eight different countries
attended the second International Multimedia Camp organized by the Mihail
Eminescu National College at Baia Mare. Participants from Romania, Bulgaria,
Macedonia, and Moldova met together to have Multimedia Education by trainers
coming from Malta, USA, Turkey, Israel, Bulgaria and Macedonia. Prof.
Mariana Gabriela Hudrea and her team have successfully organized this
International Camp for the second consecutive year.

This International Multimedia Camp had its official opening at the County
Council Hall on Monday the 16th July, whilst the Mayor of Baia Mare met all
the participants and trainers the day after at the City Hall. The Mayor of
Baia Mare expressed his gratitude for having such Multimedia camps organized
in Baia Mare. Previously to the Mayor's meeting, all the trainers, coming
from seven different countries were introduced to the participants.
Following the Mayor's speech several representatives of different NGO's made
their presentations to the public and representatives of the media present
for this occasion. In the afternoon CISCO trainers gave Multimedia aided
presentations about their training programs.

As from Wednesday 18th onwards, the participants started attending their
workshops. There were five different workshops which all the participants
attended on a roster basis. Susy Calvert from USA and Karen Eini presented
to the participants their "Monsters" Project, a project which enhances
communication through the use of picture drawing with the computer. The
"Friends and Flags" project was presented by Karen Eini. Carmelo Polidano
from Malta worked with the participants on his "Personal Skills" programme,
mainly based on psychological theories on communication skills and other
interpersonal and interpersonal skills. Moreover, a Cultural evening on
Malta was also presented by Carmelo Polidano on Wednesday the 18th July.
Dimitar Tashkov from Bulgaria presented workshops on "Self-Development";
whilst Halil Ibrahim Bulbul and Ihsan Batmaz met the participants during
their "IT training" workshops. Stefan from Bulgaria and Lirim from Macedonia
helped the participants on "Internet Surfing Techniques". It was of great
satisfaction for the organizers that it was the first time that nothing less
that 28 Romanian teachers have attended for such a Multimedia Course!

The Camp provided the participants and trainers with cultural sightseeing
tours to the Magosa Lake, the Museum of Minerology and to the Maramures
County over the weekend break. Such trips  were appreciated by all the
participants.

Scientific evaluation for this Multimedia International Camp shows that over
90% the participants were satisfied with the training provided and
considered it as an important milestone both in their career as well as in
their personal life! It seems that the psychological workshops presented by
Carmelo Polidano from Malta ended up to be the most popular with the
participants, whilst the "Monsters" Project presented by Susy Calvert from
USA and Karen Eini from Israel was also highly rated. The absolutely
positive feedback by the participants at the end of the course is very
encouraging for organizing similar camps in the future. More information,
including pictures, about this International Multimedia Camp in Baia Mare
can be obtained by visiting the website:
www.eminescu.multinet.ro/mmcamp/index.html



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