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- Latest post made by Tim Erickson at 2007 Jan 30 15:50 UTC
An invitation to all SPIFers.
This Monday, January 29, come to the Electronic Classroom of the Rondo
Community Outreach Library (6:30-8:30 ), bring a friend to learn about
these tools. Even though many of us SPIFers are somewhat familiar with
many of these new tools, it is hard to catch up with them. The term
lifelong learning has never been more appropriate.
www.AllSaintPaul.com - A quick tour and introduction
to this new local website along with tips on how
to use this resource for community involvement.
Presented by Erik Hare, founder of www.allsaintpaul.com
http://forums.e-democracy.org/stpaul/contacts/erikhare/
YouTube.com & Google Video - Some folks expect that
the power of streaming video may be the big online
innovation of the 2008 Presidential Campaign.
Local activists have already begun to harness the
power of site like YouTube.com.
Presented by David Erickson, founder of E-Strategy.Com
Bio: http://e-strategy.com/staff.asp?bio=David-Erickson
Google Reader - http://reader.google.com/
This recent addition to Google Labs is an interesting new
tool that helps you use RSS feeds to keep track of web
sites, follow blogs, and share blog links with friends
Presented by Tim Erickson, E-Democracy.Org
http://forums.e-democracy.org/stpaul/contacts/timerickson/
FREE St. Paul E-Democracy.Org Workshop
New Tools: Show & Tell
Powerful New Online Tools And How ToUse Them In Your Community
Mon. Jan. 29th, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Electronic Classroom Rondo Community Outreach Library University & Dale
(Free parking in indoor garage -accessible off University)
Already an expert? Great! Come and help us novices navigate these
tools!!!
Cannot make it this Monday? Mark your calendar for Monday, February
26, same time, same place, details to be announced!
Rosa Maria de la Cueva Peterson
Macalester Groveland
SPIFers,
I had the privilege of viewing the a project of the Rondo Outreach program
on Friday at Tim Erickson's party. Thanks again, Tim! You and Heidi are
gracious to host so many opinionated and beer-loving people at your home.
The project involved a student (?) of the Saint Paul schools who had a
theory that parents would be more interested in learning about the internet
if they were able to connect to information on their children and the public
schools. Several parents took this course who had never had email accounts
and did not know how to use the internet. Though the student had hoped to
get many more participants, the idea that connecting parents to the schools
through the internet is a wonderful one!
Rosa Maria deserve tons of thanks for her commitment to this program and her
desire to improve it for even more people to join the digital technorati.
I would encourage anyone interested in turning their e-Democracy musings
into a more focused effort to join the committee that works on this project.
Suggestions are always welcome for ways to create more visibility and get
more people involved. Clearly the work is having an impact!
-Cristy
P.S. The winter carnival has always been a peculiar mystery to me, a
self-proclaimed winter wimp (perhaps my genes like warmer climates). But I
love that Saint Paul celebrates what some people consider sheer folly,
playing outside in the coldest week of the year! Our motto: "We don't care
what you think."
On Jan 29, 2007, at 9:22 PM, Cristy A. DeLaCruz wrote:
> Rosa Maria deserve tons of thanks for her commitment to this
> program and her
> desire to improve it for even more people to join the digital
> technorati.
Thanks to Christy for her kind words. The accolades for Rosa Maria
are truly well-deserved. The outreach program at Rondo library is
really a powerful experiment in expanding the reach of e-democracy,
speaking in broad terms.
Last night, we had our first "show & tell" workshop on internet tools
for community participation. While, we anticipated that this would be
our first "advanced" workshop, that would appeal to the techies in
the forum and the community - we ended up with our most diverse and
engaged audience (of internet novices) since we began offering these
weekly workshops in September.
We had a mixture of participants (full classroom) ranging from
gradeschool kids, to Hmong teen-agers, to middle aged white guys, to
senior citizens - all exploring YouTube.Com and Flickr. We helped two
teenagers set up their first email account and showed a senior
citizen how to find info about a favorite Jazz artist in YouTube. Our
speaker, David Erickson, even showed one gradeschooler how to write a
few lines of HTML.
Long before folks are able to contribute to public policy discussions
in forums like SPIF, they need to discover the power of email and
explore the practical advantages of the internet in finding
information that is of interest to them.
LAST WEEK - St. Paul E-Democracy volunteers met with a group of
teenagers in the SWAMP (Homework Help Center) at Rondo library. We
talked to them about their online interests and began to explore the
potential of an e-democracy youth video project.
Anyone with ideas or interest in helping with a project like this
should contact Rosa Maria at:
<email obscured>
Thanks,
Tim Erickson