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"Efficiency of learning through the image perception is known universally. It would be many times greater in combination with computer facilities. We are happy to see a text-book of the new generation, useful and interesting to the equal extent, at last appearing in the Russian market. This is a first attempt to use the advantage of modern technologies in order to bring up, basing on the ideas of patriotism, respect for human rights, non-violence and tolerance, free and responsible citizens of Russia in the 21st century, who would have learned the bitter and heroic lessons of century the 20th". |
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I.V. Danilov |
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This edition would replace at the same time the text-book as such, the school note-pad, atlas, reading-book, reference-book, as well as educational video-tape. More than that, in many cases it would also replace a teacher and save the latter's time for individual work with the students. The course consists of 54 paragraphs, grouped in 9 sections. | ||
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The course is designed equally for individual study at the home computer, as well as for studies in a computerized class-room. It is also convenient for distance learning - especially for smaller enrollment schools, institutes, boarding schools, etc. Besides, the course can be helpful for all those who are interested in knowing the history of Russia. | ||
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The course has been developed as a result of the two-year efforts of a large team that comprised historians, cinema people, software specialists, artists, employees in the archives and libraries. The emergence of the product became possible owing to combination of cinematography approach and potentials of modern multimedia technologies. | ||
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The script for the computerized course has been created on the base of the renown text-book "Russian History: 20th Century", written by A. Danilov and L. Kosoulina. The authors have updated the text with due account of the needs of its audio-perception and coordination with the video-line, as well as extended it to the year of 1997. | ||
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Let us address the essential points in the methods of working with the course. After the main window (the view of a symbolic class-room) appears on the screen, attention should be paid to the color depiction of some elements in the picture. These colored fragments serve the "buttons" to manage the program: Door means exit, Sun - captions, Book - list of literature, and Golden Cup means prize. | ||
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Globe: maps (over 30 of those). Through the main window, one can see the latest static appearances (phases) of maps. In the course of multimedia lectures the animated maps are used - most often, to illustrate the course of combat action (arrows will be growing, the mentioned cities would be circulated by ovals, etc.). | ||
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Calendar: chronology of events in the 20th century. Through the main window, one can see the full chronology, which also would be available any time during the lecture (while the amount of details in the chronology would correspond to the selected level of complexity). | ||
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Card Index: glossary of terms (over 400 definitions). One can simultaneously look through descriptions of two terms - this is convenient for comparison of semantically close notions. | ||
| Portrait: personalia (over 700 of those). The program would quickly provide a biography reference to almost all political and public figures, as well as people of science and culture who are mentioned in the course. | ||
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File: audio-documents. The collection includes over 70 unique recordings (speeches by political figures, most popular songs of various years, poetry in the authors' performance, anthems, memoirs of eye-witnesses and participants of events, etc.). | ||
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Magnifier: the full-text system of search, making it possible to use the course as a historical encyclopedia. The search can be made through the main window of the program and at any time when the lecture is interrupted. The search of words and word combinations is carried in the main text of the course, in chronology, personalia, and documents. | ||
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The main object is the large class journal, placed on the teacher's table. Having selected his name and having selected the level of complexity (level 1 - 9th form; level 2 - 10th and 11th forms; level 3 - entrants to the departments of history and students of the non-history departments at higher education institutions), the given student gets access to the journal boxes (sections of the course). | ||
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The first entrance to each section would show the humor video-plot from the life of an unlucky "eternal student" who continuously fails to pass the exam in the respective section of the course. If so desired, this video-joke can be seen from the main window of the program - one should just click the logo saying "Keep quiet! Exam is underway!". | ||
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The course includes 278 multimedia lectures (sub-paragraphs) lasting over 24 academic hours in total. The text is voiced by A. Karapetyan, one of Russia's best announcers. Example of sequences in the sub-paragraph (0.5 M with semi-resolution illustrations). | ||
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Multimedia lectures are accompanied by the illustrations which change one another every 5-10 seconds. In total, the course contains over 6,000 illustrations such as photographs, posters, paintings, as well as | ||
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- schemes, the "appearances" (phases) of which are accurately synchronized with the announcer's voice; owing to the simultaneous perception of audio-line and visual images, this enables to attain the more rapid and profound memorizing of the information; | ||
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- diagrams, containing digital information, represented in the graphic form which is more convenient for perception; and | ||
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- over 2 hours of voiced cinema chronicles, as well as abstracts from actor movies and documentaries enable even more deeply, than static illustrations, to "plunge" the student into the epoch. | ||
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During the lecture the chance is provided to see the additional and reference materials. This would be done with the help of the "running line" which would advise what particular information can be obtained if the lecture is interrupted at the given point. Together with the information, available as well from the main window, over 500 textual documents are offered to the user. | ||
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The listened-through paragraph would be ticked off and the student gets a chance to make their summary (a kind of a "crib"), which can be also used by a teacher to control the learning of the delivered material. If all sub-paragraphs, compulsory for the given level, are ticked off, then the point of Tests shall become available. | ||
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Over 600 of teach-and-check tests, crosswords, etc. would enable to verify the learning of the study material. to put a mark, and to outline the insufficiently learned paragraphs (from which the ticks will be withdrawn). In order to receive a better mark, these lectures must be listened through again. | ||
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When marks are received for all paragraphs in the section, the average mark shall be recorded in the journal automatically. Those, who manage to get excellent marks for several paragraphs in row, shall be awarded with prizes - historical anecdotes, illustrated by V. Motchalov, Russia's leading caricaturist. | ||
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