RTPnet's 4th Annual Conference:
Bridging North Carolina's Digital/Human Divide
May 30, 2003
Theme: Joining Forces, Sharing Resources
Conference Summary and Materials
Agenda, with Presentation Materials
Handouts
Evaluations
Notes and Comments
Blow-by-Blow Description of the conference with comments, by Afi Osakwe
Scholarship Letters
Registration
Sponsors
Final Pre-Conference Home Page
E-Mail Questions or Comments
Forum to Plan 2004 Conference
News Release, June 2003:HTML (best viewed with Internet Explorer),
text, or Microsoft Word
News Release, April 2003: HTML,
text, or Microsoft Word document
Agenda, with Presentation Materials
9:00-10:30: Building Community Through Technology
Participants will describe and demonstrate tools you can use to improve your community services.
Welcomer and Moderator: Mike Rulison
- Overview of RTPnet services, and using GuideStar and Network for Good to promote your organization and receive online donations
Presentation
Judy Hallman, Executive Director, RTPnet
- Using RTPnet's hosting services to create a basic Web presence and resource collections
Presentation
Ken Dietel, Sr. IT Analyst, Duke University Health System, Info Services
- Information gathering tools and their uses
Presentation
Nancy Shoemaker, Consultant and Volunteer
Information coordinator for North Carolina
Women United, American Association of University Women North Carolina, and American Association of University Women Raleigh/Wake County, all hosted on RTPnet
- Online communication tools and how to use them
Presentation
Mark R. Smith, Parent, Sr. IT Architect (IBM), Educator, and Radio Amateur
Affiliation: Amateur Radio liaison to Phillips Middle School Amateur Radio & Computing (PARC) and National Engineers Week, both hosted on RTPnet
- Financial sustainability and earning income through mission-related and un-related business activities and collaborations
Presentation (.pdf file)
Mike Rulison, Principal, DataNomics, Economic analysis and microcomputer applications development,
Volunteer with N.C. Hunger Network; President, Funeral
Consumers Alliance of the Triangle; Consumer Financial Literacy, all hosted on RTPnet
- Effective collaboration, focusing on a particular problem
Bob's content came from Developing Effective Collaborations
Example: Bringing together Wake County Public School System, The Colors of Collaboration, the TecsChange program, Wachovia Bank, and First Citizens Bank to provide continuing educational support to long-term suspended students
Bob Sams, President, The Colors of Collaboration, Inc.
- Tech support resources available online and how to use them
Jerry spoke from his home page, http://www-jerry.oit.duke.edu/
Jerry Winegarden, Senior Analyst, Duke University OIT/Technical Support
- CTCNet: What it is and the value of membership
Presentation
Erroll Reese, President CTCNet Board of Directors and President/CEO & Founder of Easy Web Inc.
10:30 - 11:00: Break
11:00-11:40: Developing Basic Computer Skills and Making
It Fun!
Doug demonstrated the CLICK Web site, http://www.duke.edu/web/isis/click
and the module "Who wants to be a Hardware Millionare?"
CLICK (Creating Literacy in
Computer Knowledge) is an after-school computer-skills program for middle
school students that can be also be used for basic adult training. CLICK
students learn word processing, databases, spreadsheets, multimedia
presentations, web design and computer programming. Because CLICK takes
place in an after school setting, it is important that lesson plans be not
only educational but also fun. Panelists will describe objectives, the
collaboration that developed CLICK, lessons learned recruiting and
training Duke students, lessons learned from the middle-school students,
pros and cons of working in a school, the computer "Loaner-to-Owner"
program, and plans for future development, sustainability, and
reproducibility in other schools and CTCs. Curriculum and other resources
available online will be demonstrated.
11:40-11:50: LEARN North Carolina
Bobby spoke from the LEARN NC Web site, http://www.learnnc.org/
LEARN NORTH CAROLINA (www.learnnc.org), a program of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, is a statewide network
of educators using the power of the Internet to improve K-12 education in
North Carolina. Our website offers a wide array of quality resources for
K-12 classroom instruction and teacher professional development, all tied
to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. In its sixth year, LEARN NC makes it easier
for teachers to save time in
the planning process while using authentic resources to prepare students
as lifelong learners. The entire website is open to the general public.
- Bobby Hobgood,
Teacher Education Specialist, LEARN North Carolina
11:50-12:00: Using IT to Enhance Science Education, Increase Equity of Access and Ultimately Increase Diversity in the Sciences
Michael spoke from the PMABS Web site, http://www.unc.edu/pmabs
The Partnership for Minority Advancement in the Biomolecular Sciences (PMABS) is a collaborative of 7 Historically Minority Universities in North Carolina and
UNC Chapel Hill. The goal of the partnership is to address the inequity in science
education between historically minority and larger research institutions, with the
ultimate goal of increasing diversity in the sciences. Various types of technologies
are used to achieve these goals and play heavily into everything we do from
collaborative teaching using video-teleconferencing, to using web-based surveys via
handheld computers to assess our programs.
- Michael Cato, Manager, Information Technology Team
- Benjamin Rogers, Information Technology Specialist
12:00 - 1:30: Lunch
"Topic Tables" for persons
interested in a particular aspect of the conference.
Send your topic to info@rtpnet.org so we can prepare a sign for your "Topic Table." Probable topics and leaders:
- Digital Inequality: More than The Divide: Afi G. Osakwe
- Financial Sustainability: Michael Rulison
- Online Learning: Bobbie Crockett
- Online Communication Tools: Nancy Shoemaker
- Collaboration: Bob Sams
- Beaumont Foundation of America grants
- Computer Reuse
1:30 - 2:00: Getting Connected through CTC LinkUp
Burbeck's Presentation
Through a grant from Verizon, Easy Web Inc. has designed for RTPnet a
prototype Web site of and for Triangle area community technology centers with the goal of making it easy for people to find the information and resources they need.
CTC LinkUp helps connect volunteers, sponsors, and
businesses with community technology centers, and it helps
connect community technology centers with one another for
mutual support.
- Erroll Reese, Easy Web Inc and Board of Directors President CTCNet
- Christina Burbeck, RTPnet CTC LinkUp Manager
2:00 - 2:30: Computing Equipment for Nonprofits, Schools, Homes
Programs to find, gather, refurbish, and place computers and their associated equipment will be described.
2:30 - 3:00: Break
3:00 - 3:30: Followup Planning
Moderator: Erroll Reese
Notes, thanks to Nancy Shoemaker
3:30 - 5:00: Special Interest Groups
Use this time to register with CTC LinkUp
and to discuss and plan followup on topics of interest that have developed during the conference
Handouts
- Final Program
- Registration
- RTPnet Brochure (.pdf file)
- Habitat for Humanity International, Digital Bridge
- ExplorNet Packet containing:
- The Elephant Project for Kids!
"Like the Elephant, KIDS! Never Forget"
To help, contact: Dave Hinton <david_h_27615@yahoo.com>,
Project Director, The Elephant Computer Project, 919.870.7371
- Technology Grant News
Evaluations
Notes and Comments, from those who attended.
Scholarship Letters
Registration
Sponsors:
Final Pre-Conference Home Page
Contact:
The contact person is Judy Hallman , 919-933-3931, Executive Director of RTPnet.
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2003 Dec 09 -- JHH
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