by Drew Lauderdale | Jan 30, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Probably the best step we have taken to make our Chromebooks the most user friendly the can be (for the borrowers and for the lenders) was to make them Public Session Kiosks. To get you primed about this topic I will include an official Google Help link here: Public...
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 Drew Lauderdale | Jan 25, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Before anything else we drafted a quick and simple lending agreement that laid out how Explora and our lab administrator would work together to carry out the functions of the lab. I will share a template of that agreement here: Lending Agreement Template. Be sure to...
by Drew Lauderdale | Jan 24, 2018 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
In the past I have mentioned the Discovery Labs that ExploraConnect (The name of the NDIA pilot project run from Explora Science Museum here in Albuquerque NM) has been testing in the field for a little time now. This is a long series of blogs that is well overdue. In...
by Drew Lauderdale | Nov 15, 2017 | Digital Inclusion Corps Field Reports
Click here to read Part One One concern I had at the beginning of this pilot was rushing in with too many of my own ideas. After all, one of the counties we’re serving, McKinley County to be exact, is the size of Connecticut. This is just one county, with San Juan...
