Field Reports
Notes from the Digital Inclusion CorpsKodiak Island Borough School District and the Port Lions School
The Kodiak Island Borough School District is invested in the educations of the children in our rural villages. Over the years, their innovation and persistence for excellence has allowed the school district to integrate a video conferencing system that allows students...
Digital Inclusion Working Group at the Arizona State Library
Last week we had the first meeting of our Digital Inclusion Working Group, comprised of people in the E-Rate and Library Development divisions of the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. One of the broader goals of the Digital Inclusion Corps is to...
ExploraConnect Discovery Labs Part 4: Best Practices for Individual Components
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....
What Next?: Activities for After the Digital Inclusion Corps
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...
ExploraConnect Discovery Labs Part 3: Record Keeping
These Discovery Labs for us are not only means to touch the community we wish to serve, but also data collection tools. This is a new idea in a new project, so we want to know as much as we can about how these labs are succeeding, and how they’re failing as well. To...
Webinars Next Week from Minnesota State Library Services
One of my Digital Inclusion Corps projects has been developing the following two webinars. While they may be somewhat geared towards a library audience, the other presenters and I made sure the content will be of interest to others engaged with digital inclusion....
ExploraConnect Discovery Labs Part 2: Lending Agreement
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...
St. Paul Community Literacy Consortium
The St. Paul Community Literacy Consortium (SPCLC) is a collaborative comprising the St. Paul Public Library, St. Paul Public Schools Adult Basic Education, and a variety of local organizations, including the Minnesota Literacy Council and groups serving immigrant...
ExploraConnect Discovery Labs Part 1
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...
Alutiiq Online Chromebooks
The villages of Kodiak are each individually unique although, they all share some of the same challenges. Access is restricted to boat and plane. The infrastructures that support the villages are modest at best. This is quite a contrast to the huge benefit to the...