by Drew Lauderdale | Feb 14, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
For this second to last blog in the Discovery Lab series, I’d like to talk about where the Labs are now, and their future for Explora Currently all of our ExploraConnect Discovery Labs are still in the field, and are still collecting data. This speaks to the...
by Drew Lauderdale | Jan 29, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
For this blog post I’d like to go over each of the components of the Discovery Labs and best practices we have found for their use. Chromebooks: Because most of the chromebooks we use for these labs are managed I was able to fill them up with educational scaffolding....
by Nicole Umayam | Jan 26, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Although the Digital Inclusion Corps pilot project comes to a close next month, my digital inclusion activities with the Arizona State Library will continue. We can credit NDIA’s vision and execution of this pilot project to be the change agent for increased action in...
by Nicole Umayam | Jan 2, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
First, let’s just take a moment to appreciate how incredible public libraries are. Library services are driven by the needs of the community, and this extends well beyond lending books. They can lend all sorts of non-traditional items, from power tools and telescopes...
by Nicole Umayam | Jun 15, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
As part of my activities in the Digital Inclusion Corps, I am supporting tribal libraries in setting up hotspot lending programs to increase home internet access. Public libraries throughout the country have already implemented device lending programs to bridge the...
