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The fundamentals of virtual literacy, offered on this website, consists of 200 video lectures, united in 10 thematic cycles. Some of the lectures are preceded by a video announcements. Preparation of lectures took more than 10 years and continues to this day. Topics and content of the lectures were formed during the implementation of web projects, and at special seminars and laboratory sessions, that are annually held by authors for different categories of listeners and users. In total, more than 400 schoolchildren, students, graduate students, teachers of schools, graduates and teachers of universities in Nizhny Novgorod, other cities of Russia and countries of Europe and America contributed to the preparation of lecture materials. All authors of original ideas are named in the annotations to the corresponding lectures.

Lectures by the Basics of Virtual Literacy

New Literacy of Digital Age

Information and communication systems of humanity
  Why a Cro-Magnon people survived, and a more powerful and intelligent Neanderthals died out
  Listener - reader - user
  Facial expressions and gestures as a system of communication of people
  Speech as system of communication and storage of knowledge
  Written as system of communication and storage of knowledge
  The crisis of written as means to accumulate and store knowledge
  The crisis of written as a means of communication humanity
  When humanity begins to understand, that a new information system has appeared
  Evidence of the emergence of a new information system of humanity
  Commandos of writers against the army of users
  How will disappear professional journalists and writers
  Human society is the product of a dominant information system
  What breaks and what creates, each new information system of mankind
  What made Ancient Rome the ruler of the Antique World
  A new storage and a new way of finding knowledge
  Why Google and Yandex are not a new way of finding knowledge
  The crisis of written science and the prospects for the development of virtual science
  The Reality of Virtual Property

Stages evolution of Information Systems of humankind

Listen - watch - listen and watch
  Period when new information system serves old
  Forms of coexistence of different information systems of humanity
  Storage and access to knowledge - main function of information system
  Quick search - main function of large storage facilities of information
  Overflow of information storage as problem of access to knowledge
  Time and distance are main problems of First Information System
  A way of storing information is main problem of Second Information System
  Reasons for emergence of new information system of humanity
  Reasons for changing dominant information system of humanity
  Sign language and ritual dance
  Sensible exclamation and rhymed poem
  Clay tablets and printing press
  School when speech dominates
  School during the reign of writing
  School in transition period from speech to writing
  School in transition period from a written to a virtual information system
  The two main problems of school are bad teacher and bad student
  The first real book was a textbook
  First real website will be personal virtual textbook
  Artistic images in dance, poem, prose, computer game

Creative stage and crisis of Information Systems

Dance - poetry - prose - computer game
  Theater and cinema, what are the differences?
  Poet - writer - ???
  A first poem is a maidservant of dance
  A lira of aoidos, a rod of rhapsode, a komuz of aqyn
  Why the book created for prose
  Transformation of libraries into museums of books
  When computer games ceases to be game of king
  The crisis of the writing as a tool for artistic and scientific creativity
  Features of artistic and scientific creativity in the digital age
  Savagery of humanity when changing dominant information system
  Savagery of humanity when transition from the speech to the writenn
  Savagery of humanity in initial period digital era

Features of Information Systems of humankind

Perception and access to information during periods of dominance of speech and writing
  Features of perception and access to information in the digital age
  Phrase - record - content of website
  Philosophy - sciences - ???
  Oral team - written law - ???
  Tribe - state - ???
  Private property of man in ancient polis, in modern state and in virtual world
  Dependence of the monetary system in human society on the dominant information system
  What is main difference of website from speech or book
  Reconstruction of future from Ecclesiastes

User a new quality of person and new kind of his activity

Differences between user and reader
  User grew from the viewer
  Features of modern user
  Web society
  Classification of modern users
  Qualification of modern user
  Training of modern user
  Communities and clubs of modern users
  Programmers and users
  Professions only for users
  All user professions
  Morality of user, inherited in real life
  Causes of criminal offenses of user
  Criminal communities of users
  Cyber security of users
  Anarchy and hierarchy in the user community
  On what terms and than user owns in virtual world
  The causes and types of slavery of users
  User is subject or object of virtual world
  Laws and morals of virtual world
  Feudal pyramid of power in virtual world, and chiefs of user
  What will be religion of user

Tools and basic skills of user

Types the activities of users and differences between them
  Choice of computer, laptop, tablet and smartphone
  Choice of computer peripherals (by size and efficiency)
  Skills of effective work at computer
  Ergonomics of the user's workplace
  Choice of programs for computer, laptop, tablet and smartphone
  Four main skills of user
  Rule for operation of computer, laptop, tablet and smartphone
  Seven different type e-mail of user
  Search for information on Internet
  Activity of user in social networks
  Finding people of close to you for interests on Internet
  Own websites
  Ineffective operation and typical user errors
  Good manners on the Internet
  Digital photography
  Rules of storing information on computer, a personal digital archive
  Information security of user
  List of modern dangers of Internet
  Laws and crimes on Internet
  Identity and reputation of user on Internet
  Payment systems, electronic money, purchases and payments on Internet
  Earnings on Internet

Recommendations for creation of contemporary website

For those who can not read, all books are equally good and equally useless
  To check competence of web studio, need to invite her to read lecture for your company
  Where is website in virtual space of Internet
  Site users
  Best foundation of your website is roof on website of competitors
  Search for best sites of competitors
  Borrowing of successful designs and architecture on competitors' sites
  Eliminate on your website shortcomings that are on sites of your competitors
  Project of new website is task on reconstruction of website of competitors
  New website is being created, to turn all the old websites into ruins
  Need a permanent overhaul of your constantly and quickly obsolete website
  Industry standards and website design
  Oral, written and virtual content on the website
  Seven types of content required for the website
  For users, most important thing on website is information about their future
  Independent (unaided) creation of original content for website
  Purchase of original content for website
  What can not be stolen from your website
  Web-optimization and web-layout of content on website
  Users visit only very best sites, but in opinion of Google and Yandex
  System of search for violators of etiquette, and not best sites
  Is it possible to ignore palace etiquette of padishah Google and tsar Yandex
  The only advertising poster of a modern website
  Page of website, or why do not have to do website on engine
  Web-representation of the website, where and how
  The company is better to hire staff who own their own sites
  Responsibilities of employees in regarding website of company
  Very best web studio, or who will create best website in your industry
  Selecting a web studio as a partner for create a website of your company
  Site rating

Recommendations for creation of present website

Virtual conversation with user
  Virtual constructor of user
  Virtual selection of properties and qualities
  Privileges for user on website
  Study of reactions of user at determine its type
  Social classification of users
  Psychological classification of users
  Classification of users by intelligence level
  Classification of users by level of culture
  Classification of users by knowledge of subject to which website is dedicated
  Required attributes of website
  Virtual posters
  Correspondence of website structure to its type
  Visual information on website
  Sound information on website
  Personal websites
  Websites of commercial companies
  Websites of online stores
  Effective social networks
  Social networks of social organizations
  Websites of virtual services
  Websites of scientists

Device and prospects of Virtual World

The community of interests instead of common language and place of residence
  Virtual information space and virtual world
  Innovations and stagnancy virtual architecture
  Features of virtual landscapes
  Boundaries between virtual countries in a virtual world
  Reasons for rivalry of proprietors in virtual world
  Reasons for cooperation of proprietors in virtual world
  Joint website of outsiders of industry
  Google is primary, people are secondary
  Mistakes of Google and Yandex at seizure of power in virtual world
  Why Google can not become a god, and why does not become king
  What are afraid of Google and Yandex
  Thematic website directories
  General and thematic website ratings
  Written school will be replaced by a virtual school
  The writing system transformed the camp of primitive people into an ancient Greek city-state
  How modern state will change in a digital age
  Reform of the world monetary system, taking place in a virtual world
  How system of writing changed human society
  What the virtual world will fundamentally rearrange in real

Matrices of analysis and search

Concept of matrix of an analysis and search
  General principles of using matrices of analysis and search
  MAS is most efficient search tool on Internet
  Modern surrogates of MAS
  Exploitation of Google when working with MAS
  1-st type MAS - statistical analysis
  2-st type MAS - search for evidence
  3-st type MAS - search for new knowledge
  4-st type MAS - search for new technologies
  5-st type MAS - search for new discoveries
  6-st type MAS - search for new ideas
  7-st type MAS - search for new ways
  Entry points (on Internet) for obtaining quality information
  Rating of information potential of website (RIP)
  Definition of notion - virtual information space
  Different levels of virtual world
  Modeling filters to protect against information debris
  Design an information website
  Creating MAS to evaluate the value of information on the website
  Notion - information capital
Announcements of lectures by the Basics of Virtual Literacy

New Literacy of Digital Age

Human being knowledgeable
  Virtual literacy
  Main instrument of cognition
  Virtual Information Space
  Knowledge sharing systems
  What is difference between first book and first novel in prose
  Padishah Gosha and king Yasha
  Google and Yandex as interlocutors
  Court etiquette in digital age
  What will replace Google and Yandex
  Feudalism - nearest bright future of virtual world
  Magna Carta for Virtual World
  Each student must have his own website

Stages evolution of Information Systems of humankind

Two stages of development of information system
  Book of King
  Gossip - Newspaper - Blog
  Storyteller - book - website
  Dependence of humanity on size of storehouse of knowledge
  Disciples without textbooks, or a bad teacher
  Conspectus of lectures as a textbook, if a good teacher
  A written textbook is a clone of a good teacher
  A good textbook, but a bad student
  A virtual textbook is a personal teacher for every schoolboy
  What will be a printing press in Virtual World

Creative stage and crisis of Information Systems

Printing press is creator of writers
  Contemporary programmers are scribes of Ancient Egypt
  To hear Demosthenes in Egypt
  Narrator in Ancient Russia
  Museums of books
  Hut for reading of digital age
  When physicists win, then artists lose
  Website for user is same thing as book for reader
  Computer game instead of cinema and books

Features of Information Systems of humankind

Information usefulness threshold
  Scribes and programmers
  Virtual scientific devices for experiments
  Egyptian pyramids of Virtual World
  Classic ancient and modern virtual slavery
  Crisis of modern sciences consequence crisis of writing
  Virtual private property
  Modern virtual currencies
  Future history of Earth

User a new quality of person and new kind of his activity

Loneliness of user in real life
  Why user does not read books
  Creature with no gender, age and responsibility
  How many lives does user have
  Criminal professions of users
  Criminal professions of programmers
  Hackers, trolls, internet pranksters
  Consumer slavery of users
  User, like a slave, has a price

Tools and basic skills of user

Yandex College
  User's desktop
  Four basic user skill
  Seven different type email of user
  Twelve accounts of user of Internet

Recommendations for creation of contemporary website

Globe of Virtual World
  Scribes in eastern bazaar
  Website cannot be bought, it can only be done
  It's silly to buy a website or an iron if you do not know how to use it
  First need to determine and find your country in Virtual World
  Hut among pagodas
  Select your neighborhood in your own city to host your website
  Need to respect palace etiquette
  Mongolian brothel in Paris

Recommendations for creation of present website

What distinguishes true website from book or journal posted in Internet
  We listen from the very beginning, we read in order, we use from any place
  User wants to watch and listen, but, above all, wants to use
  Each user must be provided with his own version of website of your company
  Science to manage the users of your website

Device and prospects of Virtual World

Dostoevsky for idiot
  A teacher is one who does not study
  Modern school prepares students for life in last century
  In virtual world citizen is only proprietor

Matrices of analysis and search

Examples of using MAP in practice
  Simple example of MAS type 1
  Complex example of MAS type 1
  Ingenious example of MAS type 1
  Simple example of MAS type 2
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