Announcements
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Leahy, Sanders, Welch: Economic Development Administration Awards $1.8 M. To Help Businesses, Farms, Towns And Nonprofits Harness Online Tools To Bolster Disaster Resiliency
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The e-Vermont Community Broadband Project's final report is now available
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Winner Chosen in Beginner Friendly Website Design Contest Lars Hasselblad Torres, a freelance designer and founder of Local 64 a Montpelier-based co-working space, has won the Beginner Friendly Website Design Contest. This contest recognizes innovative ideas in beginner friendly website design. See the top ideas contributed by all participants along with Lars' winning entry in e-Vermont's newly updated web design toolkit. Read the press release here. |
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Strategies to Sustain Technology Funding in Schools e-Vermont partner Digital Wish has completed a study of best strategies to sustain technology funding in schools. Thanks to a grant from the A.D. Henderson Foundation and the examples built in e-Vermont communities, Digital Wish now has a free online course for educators interested in strategies for tech funding. See press release here. Based on new Digital Wish resources, e-Vermont has also updated our Education Toolkit here. |
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iConnect - Skills for Working with Internet Beginners Today as more and more activities go online, many of us need to help people who are uncomfortable with the Internet navigate websites, e-mail programs and other computer basics. The iConnect program is a half day workshop that teaches skills for communicating efficiently and effectively with Internet beginners as you help them perform basic online tasks. Participants will learn how to walk a beginner through these tasks in a way that sets them up to continue on to learn digital skills on their own. For the Internet beginners you connect with at work, in your family, in your community and as your friends, you can be their best bridge into the online world - learn how through an iConnect workshop. This November, the e-Vermont Community Broadband Program and Community College of Vermont are offering two iConnect trainings:
Through the support of e-Vermont, these sessions are offered free of charge. Directions to CCV locations are found at: http://www.ccv.edu/locations/index.html Materials, snacks, and computers will be provided at the location. Space is limited so you must RSVP. Contact Helen Labun Jordan (helen@vtrural.org or 802-225-6091) with your RSVP - please include name(s) and organization. You will receive a confirmation note with additional instructions. Please note, this training is for people working with Internet beginners, not people seeking to learn basic Internet skills themselves. Past participants have included librarians, library volunteers, supervisors assisting with electronic payrolls, state agencies assisting with job searches and unemployment benefits, and non-profit organizations assisting with access to state benefits. |
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Enter the Beginner Friendly Website Design Contest What does a 'beginner friendly' website look like? Tell us your ideas and you can win $2,000 and a free advertising campaign from the Burlington Free Press. No programming experience necessary -- only creative thinking. Entry deadline is November 12th. Visit e4vt.org/contest for entry details. Or check out the press release for more information. |
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FREE digital workshops offered through the VT Small Business Development Center in 2012 and 2013 The Vermont Small Business Development Center and the Vermont Department of Labor have teamed up to offer a full schedule of FREE broadband business workshops in locations across the state. Workshops generally last 2 hours. Topics include: Social Media Marketing for Agribusiness, Getting Your Business Online, Google Tools For Small Business, Advanced Social Media, Mobile Marketing and Understanding Aps, and Cloud Computing For Business. Click the attachment below for the full schedule. |
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VSC's Internet Interns program gets a $10K grant from the Vermont Community Foundation The Vermont Community Foundation awarded $180,000 to 12 nonprofit organizations across Vermont through its Innovations and Collaborations grant program. The Innovations and Collaborations program awards grants to nonprofits that come up with new ways of working and reach across issue areas to collectively solve community problems. The grants support the kind of work that encourages cooperation among different organizations and has the potential to create best practices for others. Among the awardees included $10,000 to the Community College of Vermont for the Internet Interns program, which places trained college students at public libraries to help Vermont residents become more comfortable navigating online (click here for info on the 2011-12 Internet Interns program). Project partners include Vermont Council on Rural Development and Vermont Department of Libraries. |
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Research data shows improvements in student engagement through 1:1 computing initiative Digital Wish's School Modernization Initiative put one-computer-per-child programs into 24 e-Vermont schools. Through the program they conducted surveys of the participating teachers and students who report a wide range of gains including increased engagement in learning, technological proficiency, and dramatic improvements in the understanding of internet safety issues. The survey report is available by clicking the link below. |
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VPR Commentator Series ~ Labun Jordan: Rules of Reading
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(Host) In her work at e-Vermont, commentator Helen Labun Jordan reads and writes quite a bit, but recently she decided to pursue a writing degree - and while she's enjoying the experience, it's made her start to wonder about the future of hobbies.
