A such special project

Last week, we read a very interesting article in our English class. It was about a project in Rio de Janeiro's slums that gives poor people opportunities to learn things that most of us take for granted. They teach kids more than using a computer, they teach how to use this new knowledge as a passport to the society.

We decided to search another Brazilian project with the same philosophy and we found a very interesting one! It is called "Projeto Inclusão Digital Muito Especial". This project aims to offer information technology courses for people with disabilities. It is important because it helps to improve the public's technology knowledge. Beyond that, they promote the integration of disabled people in employment.

PIDME offers the following courses: handling of the keyboard, mouse, operating system and internet typing, Copyeditor, Spreadsheet, Programming, Maintenance microcomputer, Website Development, Motrix and Dosvox. Students can choose any courses they want to practice and they are all free. This project also offers monitoring family through call center and psychologist, because it looks for a better advantage.

Projeto Inclusão Digital Muito Especial gives support for a possible referral of the students to the labor market, through partnerships between Instituto Muito Especial and companies that want to hire disabled people. It also gives the students the opprotunity to visit a company and become familiar with the business environment.

As you can see, there are still many people who want to make difference and do good deeds. If you want to know more about this project access:
http://www.inclusaodigital.org.br/projeto.htm

Useful web sites

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http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php
This is a very interesting way to practice the pronunciation in English and many other languages. You choose a word and click in "Say it", then the woman pronounces it. You can change the voice and add special effects. It's very useful!



http://www.americancorpus.org/
This web site is very cool, because you can choose a word in English and then you will see where and how many times it appears. It's a kind of dictionary, very useful for learning English. Beyond that, you can read many articles. Very funny!

http://www.portalsaofrancisco.com.br/
This web site can help you in many researches for school. It's a reliable source about many topics. It will help you to solve doubts, do homeworks and study for tests.


http://justjared.buzznet.com/
You can practice your English while read about the celebrities' world. It's a funny way to become updated, learn and distract at the same time. It's a good option when you are bored and want to do something useful and entertaining.

http://www.doepalavras.com.br/
This web site gives you the opportunity to help people. You can send affective messages to patients of Hospital Mário Penna. It gives them optimism to stay strong in the treatment.

http://www.cartacapital.com.br
Carta Capital is a excellent magazine.In this web site you can read good texts about policy,society,economy,culture etc...It`s very important know what is happening in the world, this site can help you with information.

http://www.isketch.net
This web site is amazing! It's a interesting game that you draw and try to guess what the other people are drawing, it's really fun and you can choose the idiom you want to play,so its a good way to practice idioms.

http://www.tvcultura.com.br/rodaviva
Roda Viva is a program of interviews that pass on monday on tv.That web site is really useful, you can see the whole program by video and learn a lot about diferents subjects.The last program was about electoral competition.

http://www.plenarinho.gov.br/
This is a children`s web site about citizenship.It learn a lot about how be a good citizen.There are a different design that help the kids to enjoy surf in the web page.

http://www.grammatnet.com
This is a good web site to find exercices of english.Use it to study for grammar tests!