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Kelli Williams
Triangle United Way, Inc.
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June 20, 2007 - 4:26pm
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Nice People and Info

Categories:
  • VISTA PSO

It was a long day of travel to get here yesterday for all of us. Today was not as bad as we had been warned, although there was a lot of paperwork and random information disseminated. I seem to have it a bit easier because I am essentially going back home to start work; therefore I am not as concerned with the living logistics of another city. The leaders have been personalable and accessible. The accomodations are less than optimal. We're in the dorm rooms of UMASS at Lowell instead of a hotel. I can roll with the punches about most accomidations, but I have to truthfully say I am very disappointed with the decision to house us here. I personally have very bad allergies and did not stay in the dorms in college and a week's worth of not breathing for me is not a great experience.

I have met some people, particularly those in my home state, that seem to be good resources for some of the tech issues I am pretty sure I'm going to have questions about. I think the networking we are getting a chance to do with other VISTAS is one of the best things I've gotten from this exercise. We are all gonna be in the same boat very soon and it has been very helpful and nice to meet these other people face to face.

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Rob Heck
Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network
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June 20, 2007 - 4:25pm
2 comments

Intro

Categories:
  • alcoholism
  • anarchism
  • eurocentrism
  • Mormonism
  • neo-Hegelianism
  • NTEN
  • Oregon
  • Portland
  • transcendentalism

My name is Rob Heck and I'm originally from Gainesville, FL. I will be serving as the Events and Program Coordinator for the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) in Portland, OR.

I became a VISTA in order to use my experience with technology and organizing in an attempt to make a difference and help further social change. I'm also excited to get out of Florida, where I have lived for 23 years.

I have never been out west at all, but according to Mr. Ben Sheldon I will like it since I'm very "Portland Oregonish." According to another new VISTA, John Van Houdt, I am something of an anarcho-transcendentalist, but I think he drinks a little too much and is a bit of a Eurocentric neo-Hegelian. Don't let these people bias your opinion of me though. And no, I'm not Mormon. I am looking forward to all the great grassroots activism I hear goes on in the NW though.


Comment from Victoria Edwards on June 20, 2007 - 4:30pm

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what the HECK are you doing??
haha....it's still funny

Comment from Rob Heck on June 23, 2007 - 10:10pm

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You're so original!

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Morgan Sully
Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
June 20, 2007 - 4:24pm
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Reporting is Like Building With LEGOs

Categories:
  • example
  • training
  • VISTA PSO

This is a post from a class demonstration where I showed some of our new VISTAs how to navigate the field reporting interface.

Accomplishments: showing new VISTAs how to navigate the site

Challenges: it's really, really hot (but we had some nice air conditioning)

Here's a link to my project.


Comment from Victoria Edwards on June 20, 2007 - 4:25pm

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Did you ever play with Duplos?

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Angela Saylor
Venice Arts: In Neighborhoods
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June 20, 2007 - 4:24pm
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pso

a lot of information today. i feel like i'm back in college, which is good. there are lots of nice interesting people here.

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John Van Houdt
TINCAN
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June 20, 2007 - 4:24pm
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Reporting from the Front I

Categories:
  • pso

A strange series of events in Lowell, MA: (tagline) the end of the world is near. After several dozen pints of booze at the Brewery Exchange, our group of VISTA members had become a pack of ferocious lizards--eating, drinking, dancing, slithering tongues all over the floor. I was certain that the vicious beasts would have gone on a spree of destruction in Lowell until the booze stopped flowing. Thank god they are paid so poorly! Otherwise there would have been no end to the terror.

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Comment from Victoria Edwards on June 20, 2007 - 4:29pm

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dear hunter
i think i love you

Comment from Sil Greene on June 20, 2007 - 4:37pm

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Don't forget the bull riding. Thursday. Be there and ready for savagery. I'll bring the limes, you bring the tequila.

Comment from John Van Houdt on June 20, 2007 - 4:38pm

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sure you're getting off easy...you mooch!

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Tony Brown
The Wilderness Technology Alliance
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June 20, 2007 - 4:24pm
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BETA REPORT

Categories:
  • VISTA PSO

BETA REPORT
MOVING RIGHT ALONG

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Karl Otto
Grassroots.org
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June 20, 2007 - 4:24pm
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First Day(!)

Categories:
  • pso
  • VISTA

Hey Everybody,

This is my first Field Report. I have to give one of these every two week--biweekly, it's called--so I'll try to make them bastions of quality information for the masses. See you in two weeks.

Yours,
Karl

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Alexis Walker
People's Production House
New York, NY
June 20, 2007 - 4:23pm
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pso june 2007

Categories:
  • pso

Hello fellow VISTAs!

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Meegan Kelly
Mountain Area Information Network
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June 20, 2007 - 4:23pm
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Hello

Categories:
  • pso

woohoooo!


Comment from Meegan Kelly on July 13, 2007 - 9:49am

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Hey digital storytelling people! Win $5 million for your org!

I posted this on the wiki under 2007 grant opportunities, but here it is again...all you folks that do stuff with software and stuff...and tell stories and stuff...check it out.

Knight Foundation Announces Second Year of News Challenge

The Miami-based John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has launched the second year of its five-year, $25 million Knight News Challenge, a contest in which up to $5 million will be awarded for innovative ideas that employ digital means to transform community news.

The contest, which is open to anyone, aims to use digitally delivered news and information to enhance physical communities and improve the lives of people where they live, work, and vote. Winning entries must use digital media and deliver news or information on a shared basis to a geographically defined community. Most entries are open-source and must share the created software and knowledge. In addition, this year the News Challenge Web site will allow entrants to invite public comment that will help improve their entries.

"Jim and Jack Knight fostered community through their newspapers," said Knight Foundation president and CEO Alberto Ibargüen. "The Knight News Challenge hopes to discover innovative ways of using cyberspace to bring communities together."

Comment from Sarah Pierantoni on July 15, 2007 - 10:09pm

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sweet, thanks for posting that. it sounds awesome. SO Meegan, how are you? Hope all is well in Asheville. I had a blast with you at orientation, and hope to keep in touch. things are crazy here. drop me an email sometime....peace, sarah

Comment from Sarah Pierantoni on July 15, 2007 - 10:09pm

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sweet, thanks for posting that. it sounds awesome. SO Meegan, how are you? Hope all is well in Asheville. I had a blast with you at orientation, and hope to keep in touch. things are crazy here. drop me an email sometime....peace, sarah

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Jack Waugh
Center for Community Technology Services at the University of Baltimore
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June 20, 2007 - 4:22pm
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Being Oriented

Categories:
  • pso

Participated in second day of orientation today.
And yes, you can edit field reports.


Comment from Morgan Sully on June 25, 2007 - 3:52pm

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Hey Jack,
great meeting you at the PSO. Do you have a picture to fill out your profile with? Look forward to working with you in the upcoming year.

BTW, the content management 'back end' that we run this site is called Drupal. There's a link to it in this post:

http://ctcvista.org/node/506

talk soon!
m

Comment from Jack Waugh on June 27, 2007 - 11:55am

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OK, my photo is up. I extracted it from the group photo and blew it up.

--
Jack Waugh
703-863-3200

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Victoria Edwards
Collins Center for Public Policy, Inc.
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June 20, 2007 - 4:22pm
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FIRST FIELD REPORT

Categories:
  • pso
  • VISTA

Once upon a time I flew into Boston. I had to wait four hours at the airport before I could go home. I was so tired when I woke up the next day, and I was sadened to discover that I hadn't shaved my legs. I looked like a monkey.
love
victoria


Comment from Sil Greene on June 20, 2007 - 4:38pm

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Cute monkey. What species?

Comment from Victoria Edwards on June 26, 2007 - 10:48am

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the black and white kind

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Jim Mora
HELP of Ojai
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June 20, 2007 - 4:21pm
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First Day Report

Categories:
  • Experimental
  • pso
  • XP

Hi, This is a great web site and very easy to use. Name and PW created. Learning our way around.

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Jack Doherty
Community Software Lab Inc.
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June 20, 2007 - 4:18pm
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PSO Field Report

Categories:
  • pso

test

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Jessica McCoy
Center for Digital Storytelling
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June 18, 2007 - 6:34pm
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Screenings, Workshops, Tutorials, oh my!

Categories:
  • digital storytelling
  • stories for change
  • website
  • workshop

Hello hello fellow VISTAs!
Time for a quick summer update. Mmmmm summer...it's a good thing!
So this week we have two digital storytelling workshops going on. The first one is focused specifically for educators, and though I'm not involved in teaching it, I have been working hard to get some new software quick guides put together. It seems like there's an infinite number of software tutorials you can write to support digital storytelling. I've helped with tutorials for Final Cut Express, Photoshop Elements, file management, iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto, Audacity, Premiere, and Sound Studio. And there's a still a few more in the works. All of them will be posted (eventually) to the Stories for Change web portal that Danielle and I have been working on. All y'all who are doing digital storytelling with your organization, check out the site and post your students' stories! And of course any resources you have. Since the site just launched, we're working to get more people signed on and posting.

Also this week we have community screenings for two workshops I helped facilitate. The first workshop was place-based digital storytelling with middle school students, and the second was with Latina high school girls in a leadership development program. I'm hoping to get the stories posted to the net soon...need to get all the releases signed first! I'm looking forward to the screenings, since it will be the first time the participants will show off their work to family and friends.

The other good news is that my organization finally hired two people to help with administrative and postproduction tasks, which is awesome because it frees me up to do work that's more inline with my original workplan. Yay! It's great because they are both basically doing more capacity building work too, just in different areas than I am. And as a small nonprofit, we can use all the capacity-building help we can get. :)

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Morgan Sully
Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
June 17, 2007 - 1:22am
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Report from the VISTA Leadership Training

Categories:
  • leadership

This past week, the corporation paid for me to go out to a VISTA Leadership Training in Minneapolis as part of my preparation to be a VISTA leader. I found it pretty informative with lots of useful information. I may only use about 10% of it, but that 10% will be a VERY effective 10%. What i found most helpful was the 'Distance Leadership' workshop. In it, we generated opportunities within distance relationships between VISTA Leaders and Members.

I have posted all images I took from that workshop as well as the attached the typed up notes from Jean (posted in this post as well as downloadable at the end of this post).

Accomplishment(s):

  • attending and successfully completing the VISTA Leadership training
  • meeting other VISTAs
  • getting good ideas and dialogue going about issues pertinent to VISTAS
  • convening an 'open space' roundtable discussion of online tools
  • participating and taking picture notes (see pics) of "Distance Leadership Thinktank" workshop



Resource(s) Generated:

  • distance opportunity ideas for VISTA Leaders (click images to view more):
  • From Distance Lead...


  • distance opportunities for VISTA members:
  • From Distance Lead...


  • list of online tools
  • From Distance Lead...

These are also the notes which Jean kindly sent me - Thanks Jean!

*****************NOTES******************

Leading From A Distance: A Think Tank – Thinking Output
Minneapolis Leader’s Training Conference 2007

Opportunity Thinking: Opportunities for Remote Leaders
• Travel
• You set the timetable
• Ideas across borders/spread ideas
• Develop Communications Systems
• Resource accumulation/categorization
• Cross collaboration & Connecting Resources
• Allows time for Leader to fulfill site responsibilities
• Archive DJ / Knowledge orchestration
• Learn about/manage systems mechanics/engineering
• Face-to-face Project / Identity
• Develop expertise in variety of project areas
• Pollination of Leadership skills / styles
• Diversity of needs forces leadership development
• Learning about a diversity of communication styles
• On-line community development opportunities
• Utilize difference types/styles of conflict management with the variety of member personalities
• National Recognition of VISTA’s & organization
• Help a wide range of individuals
• Give VISTA members the opportunity to feel part of something bigger
• Learn different training skills to meet needs
• Strong case for funding: far reach / bigger impact
• Storytelling for capacity building & Education
• More resources to pull from
• Opportunity to become a very skilled communicator
Thinking Cue Time Frames
Immediate
• Time to process situations and issues don’t have to respond immediately
• Develop telephone conference skills
• See necessity of holding an early service retreat
Mid-Term
• Recognition of Accomplishment
• Reports (Quarterly, Monthly)
Long Term
• Documentation & Archiving everything
• Identification of Resources

Opportunities for Members with remote Leaders
• Develop/take initiative
• Develop/ practice discipline
• Have free reign
• Practice and develop creative use of modes of communication
• Create skills/discipline that increases long term job opportunities
• Take ownership of their project
• Learn from the different ways each project adapts to different context
• Access to resources
• Tapping into the variety of communities, cultures, etc.
• Learn to collaborate with different communities and cultures
• Share resources – increase the whole pie
• Learn to see big picture, system levels viewpoint
• Understand on different levels how organizations operate
• Experience independence
• Opportunity to develop own leadership skills
• Opportunities for individual innovation
• Higher visibility w/own project
• Synthesizing
• Travel Opportunities
• Learn/practice new ways of using technology
• One-on-one connection w/ community
• Take responsibility & Accountability
• Feeling like they (member) are part of something bigger
• Less competition between VSITAs
• Better / deeper understanding of a community
• Better experience as an advocate
• Strengthen networking skills
• Access to different communities / points of view
• Credibility in instances of self-promotion
• VISTA’s access is wider
• Greater avenue for expanding knowledge base & awareness
• Change/influence in lifestyle plan
• Personal Growth
• Independence
• Cultural Exchange
• Expanding comfort zone
• Changing personal viewpoints
• Instill a sense of adventure
• Self-reliance, confidence building
• Ambassadors at local community level
• Liaisons too
• New areas for recruiting
• New sites
• Local working knowledge
• Self-Challenge
• Building personal skills & knowledge
• Become an effective self-educator
• Viewpoint that allows reflective, constructive perspective of VISTA Leader & Team
• Reaching more people
• Affecting larger community
• Building off other’s successes

Challenges for VISTA Members w/remote Leaders
• Lack of experience and confidence
• Loneliness
• Maintaining larger picture
• Clashing personalities w/distance leader
• Develop sense of being abandoned
• Time Management
• Lack of resources
• Boundary setting

Challenges for remotely located VISTA Leaders
• Not being able to see progress
• Not being able to get full disclosure from members
• Note seeing project happening
• Not being able to support detailed needs
• Note easy to fully comprehend project
• Technical difficulties / too much use of technology
• Not being taken seriously
• Community sense
• Member becomes Leader and former peer members don’t buy-in
• Full awareness of members, prevent “out of sight…”
• Conflict resolution from a distance – escalation sensitive
• Travel limitations
• Inability to share power, let-go, release control

Strategies/Tactics: Maximizing Outcomes in Distance Leader Situation
• Setting a pace / time management support
• Creating an agenda / plan
• Make initial/early contact with each member
• Familiarize yourself w/ member work plans
• Create a Needs Assessment – to discern the individual needs of each member
• Set Up Conference calls
• Set the Vision
• Create/Share useful templates / plan documents
• Clarify long term goals w/each member
• Create an email listserv
• Have meet-ups @ sites maybe w/community members served
• Schedule meetings w/site supervisors
• Ensure organizational integration for each member
• Create a Welcome Packet w/contacts, welcome letter, housing assistance, community resource map etc.
• Online Community
• Keep Vs / funders connected and informed with Newsletters
• Life After VISTA Creating a Portfolio
• Connect members to local VISTA alumni
• Get local businesses to donate goods / services
• Eat, sleep and rest
• Make VISTA site / VISTA MySpace
• Process what we learned here and then draft a plan

More Strategies/Tactics
• Be available: site visits, office hours, be annoying in a caring way, identify and share the best ways to contact you, the leader, pre-set check-ins, conference calling etc.
• Building Team: Convenient meeting places, encourage members to visit one another, creative use of resources, getting team to know “teammates” activities (3 questions on Monday, answers on Friday)
• Needs Assessment, Progress Reports --- using information to have personalized conversations
• Regular social activities
• Look for relevant training opportunities that all can attend
• Communications: newsletters, blogs, chat rooms
• Encourage collaboration on project events and use some other members as volunteers during events
• Sardine version of on-site visits
• Service Projects as teambuilding
• Use summer facilities on campuses for reduced rates
• Link VISTAS: Book Clubs, Chain Letters – Flat Stanley (Travelocity Gnome)
• Scavenger Hunt Activities
• White Elephant –silly gifts
• Write letters
• Make phone calls weekly – use means outside of computer to communicate
• Create Welcome Materials / Sustainability Plans, Life After VISTA and Good-Bye packet.
• “Tool-Kits” for service ----an information packed resource
• Connect remote VISTAs to other teams (local) for immediate sense of community.
• Create / Use Statewide networks providing resources that target VISTA position in holistic sense: Living Stipend tips, Education Award information, Health Coverage, Project Explanations
• Motivational Speeches
• Get different varieties of feedback using different methods, adopt feedback (monthly, quarterly, end of service)

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Naomi Jimenez
Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute/OTXWest
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June 15, 2007 - 8:43pm
3 comments

My Digital Story

Categories:
  • digital storytelling
  • newsworthy
  • otx-west
  • vistaspotlight

Hi everyone,

We've started our digital storytelling workshops last week using Open Source software. The first group was from a boys juvenile detention camp. They were cool. They really got into their projects and enjoyed themselves in the process. This week we have a mixed group of kids ranging from 8 to 12 years old. I will post up some examples soon.

I also wanted to share my digital story with you all. I created this story back in April when I went to the Digital Storytelling Center in Berkeley. I had the source files and I revised it a bit. You can check out my revised story at:
http://www.otxwest.org/california_dreaming.html

The original is posted on the Stories For Change website.
http://storiesforchange.net/node/352

You can also check out the news report that was done on us last week. I'm in the first and lost shots.
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=23977@kpix.dayport.com

Well that's it for me. Until next time...

Naomi


Comment from Jessica McCoy on June 18, 2007 - 5:53pm

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Hey Naomi!
Great, so glad that you were able to rework your story, and that it's posted on the OTX site. Did Domingo post his, too?

And it's awesome that your program was in the news! How did they find out about OTX? Did you send out a press release? I'm curious, because I would love to better publicize some of our programs, and I'm sure other VISTAs would, too.

Comment from Naomi Jimenez on June 20, 2007 - 9:22pm

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Hey Jessica,

Doming does have his story on the site. Here is the link if you want to check it out.
http://otxwest.org/path2tech2.html

We were able to get on the news because Domingo's wife works for the news station. I guess it helps to have connections in the industry.

later,

Naomi

Comment from Mike Matthews on June 26, 2007 - 5:15pm

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Hey there! So glad to hear that ur workshops are going so well. I'll check out ur story as soon as I get to a computer that actually wants to work right.-lol

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Colleen Kelly
CTC VISTA Project / College of Public and Community Service at UMass Boston
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June 15, 2007 - 6:48pm
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CTC VISTA - End of Service Audio Map!

I am so excited - an idea I had back in April at the NTEN Conference has finally come to fruition!!!

For the past two weeks, I have been trying to get a hold of VISTAs who are ending their service this week and conducting and editing exit interviews. Editing the interviews down from over 10 minutes or so each to 30 seconds wasn't the easiest thing in the world, but I am happy with the results. Click the map below to check out the wise words of the VISTAs who are moving on to bigger and (maybe) better! Also, I have included the process by which I did this C.O.T.C. - style. (Creation on the Cheap!)



C.O.T.C. Info -

  • To make calls - used "SkypeOut" - it is only $30 for a year of calls! Wow!
  • To record said calls - used Pamela - FREE!
  • To edit the mp3 that is exported from Pamela - Audacity - FREE and super easy audio editor.
  • Created the map with Google's MyMaps using Project HQ's Gmail account - FREE - while logged in to Google, go to maps.google.com and click on the MyMaps tab. Here's a helpful how-to: Google Maps User Guide

It's my last day as a CTC VISTA. Kinda crazy, actually. June 15 - TODAY - is my ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of living in Boston. I got offered a job as a communications peep - a $25,500 RAISE from this year. Haha, not bad. Check me out at MLAC!

Bye bye VISTAs - I had a great time this year. When I have kids - I am forcing them to do AmeriCorps - that's how much I loved you!

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lauren bratslavsky
Media Bridges, Cincinnati, Inc
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June 15, 2007 - 10:16am
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News from the 'nati

Categories:
  • public access
  • summer camp
  • youth video

Summer has begun. And that also means it's closer to the end. ah. And so it goes.

Summer here means youth classes. And 8-12 year old video camp started this week. They are making a movie that is a parody of our access center. One of the scenes involves a debate between who would win- spiderman or the hulk. I think one of the kids suggested they talk about that at the front desk..... funny thing is, that actually happens. I've also got a digital story class coming up. And then a class in July called "ad attack!" about media literacy and all that.

I'm also starting the wrap-up process with handbooks, policies, lessons learned and maybe some other things. I'll post all the things I've amassed soon.

And in other news, for those of you in the public access world, Ohio is now on the PEG got screwed list. Our state senate got swooned over by att and that whole lobby. So our franchise fees, the very ones that fund the majority of our operations and programs will expire in 2011. Poop. And there is a whole bunch of other blows such as loss of customer service and potentially excluding 'unprofitable' (as in poor, urban, rural) areas from cable service. And so that goes. So we're working on reworking ourselves in the next few years.

Hope all is well out there is the VISTA world.

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Will Quinones
Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking
,
June 13, 2007 - 6:51pm
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I hope this is a blog

Categories:
  • blog
  • etc...
  • films
  • movies
  • reel works
  • youth media

hey everyone, its been a while. I think i start every blog with "its been a while since i wrote a blog" haha. well i'm a busy man. It's not easy working full time, making such a large sum of money and trying to find places to spend it all. HEY i think the greatest thing i did this year was go to the Sundance film festival. i met a funder from Adobe and spoke to him, showed him some stuff from Reel Works. a couple of months later he invited us to apply for a fifty thousand dollar grant. i'm still crossing my fingers. we should hear the news this month. another cool thing i've been doing is helping kids make movies. I've helped produced about twenty short films this year. I think. Well some are still in the works. regardless show us some love at listenup.org. A few of our films are in a contest for cool prizes, including mine. please write a review and rate our movies. (especially mine) it would be much apreciated. here's the link. Mine is called "The Beginning" i wrote and shot it, in one day. its cool i guess.

http://www.listenup.org/community/org.php?org=7bc96f311c8e6a38ac5a296e3f...

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Rebecca White
California Coalition for Rural Housing
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June 13, 2007 - 2:19am
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my (fall, winter) spring project

Categories:
  • drupal
  • housing
  • project
  • web development

My big project of the spring went public today. It's called the California Inclusionary Housing Policy Database, and we introduced it like this:

The California Coalition for Rural Housing (CCRH) is pleased to launch a free searchable database of more than 130 California Inclusionary Housing (IH) programs, the first of its kind in the U.S.

The California Inclusionary Housing Policy Database contains information on the key characteristics of California IH programs in existence in 2006. At that time there were an estimated 170 programs, of which CCRH was able to retrieve electronic and hard copy versions of approximately 80%.

...

The database provides summaries of characteristics for each policy. Users may search for these summaries by jurisdiction name or by more than 30 other variables. ... In addition, each summary provides a link to the jurisdiction's full policy.

This project has been in progress since the beginning of my service last September. In the fall, I worked closely with two other CCRH staff members to design the database; by the spring, I was designing and implementing the search feature and the policy layouts. My coworker Brandi analyzed the policies and input the data. In the past few weeks I've collaborated with CCRH's ED on the final interface and text; I've recieved a ton of invaluable input from both him and my supervisor. I've also communicated with other members of the nonprofit housing community as buzz built around this project, and during a two week beta test period. This project was interesting and challenging to work on, and has proved rewarding both in what I've learned and in the resource I've helped my organization provide to the community.

And for the techies: I built the CCRH website with Drupal 4.7. The inclusionary housing policies are a CCK content type, because it allowed us to get the design and data entry set up quickly. I used the ConTemplate module to the template for IH policy CCK type from within Drupal. The search feature is a custom module I wrote which can provide a search feature for any CCK content type. I hope to release this module after I clean up the code, flesh out some features, and port it to the latest Drupal version.

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