"building the capacity of public media and technology organizations"
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Submitted by Ben Sheldon on June 28, 2007 - 1:51pm New June CTC VISTAs
Last Thursday the CTC VISTA Project swore in 25 new CTC VISTA members to begin a year of service to their community.
The PSO is finished. Deep Breath. Exhale.
On to the exciting portion of the VISTA year! Many from June's PSO started at their organizations Monday and some will begin shortly. Already heard good things coming from Rayna at YES in MA, Kelli at The United Way in NC, and Rian at the Davis Community Network in CA. Sounds like people have really hit the ground running.
I am back in the office this morning after taking a couple days off from the successful completion of last week's PSO. Boston has been baking under 90-plus degree weather and it's actually comforting to be back in the air-conditioned cave that is UMass Boston.
The first day of CTC VISTA I learned a lot of information about what the project is about. It was nice to see all the different people coming from all over the U.S who work in the same field with diverse background. I look forward to the many network I can find and built. I want to be able to built up my social skills as well as learn more about technology, especially in digital media.
Boston ROCKS! Well, Lowell anyways. I haven't seen any of Boston except from the interstate. But Lowell? Well, last night we crashed the Brewery Exchange. Fun times. Tomorrow night we'll go back for Bull Riding. Tonight we're hoping for karaoke, pool and drunken darts at the PITA bartender. Savage, I know, but this is Boston and apparently all bartenders are required to be rude here.
Greetings from the CTC*VISTA PSO at UMass Lowell. It is a lovely week here in Massachusetts. Hopefully the West-coasters are pleasantly surprised.
I think this is a great communications tool, and very usable, which will probably make me more eager to post. I'm excited that so many of us will be in the Boston area. That makes it even easier to communicate!
More to come!
Today was the 1st day of PSO. Mostly, we had meetings and filled out paperwork. It was nice to discover that not everyone was right out of college. A few of us had several years of work under our belts. Even my roommate had years of experience in teaching and photojournalism.
This field report is fairly self explanatory. We are at the point in our PSO where we learn about field reports. Morgan and Ben are showing everyone how to do this they're making it pretty funny in the process. Now I am going to submit this and go read my fellow PSO groups field reports.
Comment from Jack Waugh on June 27, 2007 - 7:52am
Thanks, Danielle. Great photos, particularly the one showing the river and the hydro power project and the dorm through the chain link fence on the bridge http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=627672346&size=o .
And yes, one can edit a comment.
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Jack Waugh
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Comment from Jack Waugh on July 12, 2007 - 8:07pm
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/sia/31.1/images/malone_fig01b...
shows a turbine pit in the Wannalancit building, where we conferred. The photo is from Patrick M. Malone's article, "Surplus Water, Hybrid Power Systems, and Industrial Expansion in Lowell" http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/sia/31.1/malone.html .
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Jack Waugh
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Comment from Rob Heck on July 1, 2007 - 10:48pm
I put some pics up too at http://picasaweb.google.com/dejitarob/AmeriCorpsCTCVISTAOrientation