DOTCOM Photo Gallery

AM DOTCOMers photo gallery is updated!

DOTCOM meeting with Tert.am

Yesterday (25 June, 2009) DOTCOMers visited the office of Tert.am ("Tert" - "Newspaper" in English), one of the leading online newspapers in Armenia.

Students used their unique opportunity to ask questions and discuss media related issues with young, qualified and experienced staff of Tert.am. In addition to the interesting and useful discussions, DOTCOMers learnt about modern technologies and saw equipment that Tert.am uses for its everyday work.

Very impressive and useful meeting!

Thanks to Tert.am staff! :)

Solo Jazz Concert - Nare Zakaryan

:)

Congratulations to Nare

for her

solo jazz concert

yesterday!

Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby
George Gershwin - Summertime
Consuelo Velázquez - Bésame mucho
and more...

Yes! That was amazing :)


Thanks for inviting DOTCOMers!

"Novoe Vremya" Newspaper

Another interesting and useful event!

AM DOTCOMers visited "Novoe Vremya" newspaper office on Friday, June 15 and had an informal discussion with Mr. Satyan, the director of the newspaper. In the end of the visit students were offered a tour around the editorial to see where/what the newspaper starts from and how it gets published.

Terrific excursion!

Annual Alternative Media Festival "Zhangot ddum"

Last Wednesday, June 10 was an interesting day for the group of AM DOTCOMers. They attended the opening ceremony of Annual Alternative Media Festival "Zhangot ddum" ("Rusty pumpkin") organized by "Mkhitar Sebastatci" Educational Complex.

Though our expectations were not met in the field of media, at least the students had a great opportunity to see (and even hear) works of modern art.

Fuze Meeting & SlideShare "Tell A Story" Contest

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AM DOTCOMers and "Menq enq" ("Kids' Crossroads")

On Wednesday, May 20th, we had another very interesting and useful meeting, this time with "Kids Crossroads" (Internews project) students. They told our AM Dotcomers about their work, about video material making process and its "rules".
They told us also about their broad and positive experience in working with Azerbaijani and Georgian colleague students.
The meeting was very interesting and it lasted about 3 hours instead of planned 1 :)

Photos from the meeting are uploaded here!

AM DOTCOMers at Barcamp EVN'09

From 17th to 19th of April DOTCOM AM students, together with more than 200 adults working in IT sphere, participated in Barcamp EVN'09.

DOTCOM Photo Gallery

AM DOTCOMers photo gallery is updated!

Announcement for AM DOTCOMers

Dear DOTCOMers,

The British Council, in partnership with the Young Biologists’ Association NGO, is happy to announce an essay competition in Armenia commemorating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth.

Three winners from Armenia will attend the International Student Summit in London from 30 June to 2 July 2009.

Applicants are not required to be students of natural sciences – remember, Darwin’s work influenced a range of other disciplines, including history, theology, psychology, economics, philosophy, sociology and other humanitarian sciences.

The deadline for competition entries is 10.00am on 4 May 2009.

Who can apply?
The applicants should:
- be students in Armenia aged between 16 and 18 years
- have good verbal English language skills
- be interested in the work and legacy of Charles Darwin
- be committed to share with their peers the experience gained in the UK

Disseminate the information through your mailing lists and spread the word about the competition among your friends and family. For more details, please visit the website.

Upcoming Am-DOTCOM Meeting

Dear AM DOTCOMers,

Our next meeting will be:

on March 27, Friday,

at 15:30.

Place - the same (where we had the last two meetings).

Please, check your emails for details!
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Photos of AM DOTCOMers

Dear DOTCOMers,

I am pleased to inform you that all photos of AM DOTOMers' events from now on will be uploaded here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/dotcomam .

I would highly appreciate if all our AM participants assist me and share new photos of their group events with me in future.

BarCamp EVN09 - Pre-camp for AM DOTCOMers

On Friday, March 13th, we had a wonderful meeting (pre-camp) with BarCamp EVN'09 coordinators - Arthur Papyan (http://ditord.com/) and Gegham Vardanyan (http://reporter-arm.livejournal.com/). First they talked about the upcoming BarCamp and its "rules". They encouraged our DOTCOMers to prepare presentations for the event.


Then the guests told our students about Blogs, Bloggers and Armenian Blogosphere. Our DOTCOMers were listening with great interest and then started a lively discussion. The meeting passed in a friendly and warm atmosphere.

DOTCOM meeting "Save Teghut" and "Green Light"

On March 11th DOTCOMers had a very interesting meeting with young activists of "Save Teghut" and "Green Light" youth movements. We talked about ecological problems of the country, discussed different problems that people face in their communities, talked about public awareness and we had a brisk, heated, interesting and useful discussion about the role of media (especially Internet and Blogs) in improvement of all above mentioned issues. We had 22 DOTCOMers present and almost all of them actively participated in the discussions. Many participants were thrilled with new ideas regarding the future (goals) of their blogs.

BarCamp - Yerevan, 2009

(from the official web site of BarCamp Yerevan - http://barcamp.am/)


Finally, BarCamp Yerevan will take place in Armenia on April 17-19 of 2009.


BarCamp is a brand new event, originating in the Silicon Valley of USA in 2005 that has become widespread throughout the world. BarCamp is usually a “non-conference” in the sphere of information technology or “IT,” new media and Internet. A “non-conference” is the unofficial, informal part of the conference supporting open discussions and a free exchange of ideas and opinions.

The philosophy of BarCamp is the following: all presentations are given by participants themselves, with no formally invited guest speakers and without the formality of traditional conference. Most revealing, the schedule of events is “produced” by the participants of the conference and is formed only after the conference opens, as participants add the presentations they want to hold on a white board.

The first ever BarCamp in the former Soviet Union was organized in Kyiv in October 2007. It brought together about 300 people from Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, and other countries from the region and featured around 45 presentations.

After BarCamp Kiev, there was “BarCamp Baltics” in Riga (February 2008) and “Barcamp Caucasus” in Tbilisi (June 2008). The wave of BarCamps continues.

Finally, BarCamp Yerevan will take place in Armenia on April 17-19 of 2009.

“BarCamp Yerevan” will bring together bloggers, new media professionals, IT specialists, companies involved in Internet and digital technologies, journalists and journalism students, as well as any other groups interested in using technology and Internet in their work.

Tentatively, around 200 participants are expected to attend the event (roughly two-thirds will be local Armenians, and the rest will come from other former USSR countries, as well as international new-media experts).

If you want to participate in “BarCamp Yerevan”, please visit the web site and register!!!