Digital Arts Service Corps - help

What is a good website design program for youth?

Victoria Edwards — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:55:33 +0000

Hey guys,

I'm trying to help a local CTC get a good curriculum to teach youth (kids in grades k-5) how to design websites. The CTC is actually a parks and recreational center and the websites will be used so the youth have some voice in the community. Any suggestions?

Background Checks

Richard T. Anderson — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:00:10 +0000

Does anyoneknow how one goes about doing a background check?

We had a guy come in to volunteer a while ago, and he seemed okay. but until that point we hadn't had anyone come with us that the MoLLIE supervisor didn't know. Everyone had already worked with MoLLIE before. And for some reason, Jeanne and I thought the same thing at the same time after he left, 'what do we really now about this guy?'

It was surprising to me that in 5 years, the idea of doing background checks on people had not occured to those running a program that works regularly with children. That's like a no brainer, right? There's laws about this sort of thing, right? Well, from now on we are going to do checks on employees and volunteers, we just have to figure out how.

Unfortunately, no one here knows anything about how to do background checks. I did some looking online a few weeks ago. You get dozens of sites claiming to do background checks. On several of them I checked myself. And though I didn't give my social security number, the sites could have still done better. most of the info was wrong, stating that I had lived in several cities that I have not, etc.

Jeanne is gone for most of the week helping her father in Florida. She asked me to try to figure the background check issue while she was gone. I'm not sure where to look. the proliferation of such sites online make it hard to determine which, if any, are on the level. So if anyone has suggestions, I'd love to hear from you.

Thanks,

Rich

Questions about access control for community computer center

Andrea Collopy — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:34:11 +0000

Hi guys,

Hope everyone's first week is going well! I was hoping to get some ideas and suggestions from those of you who have any knowledge about what I guess I am calling access control. This is an area that I am unfamiliar with and trying to utilize all of my resources to learn more about:)

We would like to find some software for our computer center that will allow us to:

-require users to login and logout

-track who logs in and when

-prevents users from accessing certain controls and settings

-and return the computer to its original settings (so that nothing is permanently saved) upon logout

I have found a few programs that might accomplish this (Public Access Desktop, WinU, and Clean Slate), but I wanted to see if anyone had any expertise in this area. I would appreciate any comments or suggestions that you may have.

Thanks!

Andrea