Just like Champaign Public Library, work at the Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center (UNCC) hasn’t stopped with the end of the grant. Community Ambassador, Hailley Fargo, continued with UNCC, stepping into a slightly different, yet still digital literacy focused, role. The big highlights include. (more…)
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Site Update: Champaign Public Library
Sarah, our Community Ambassador at Champaign Public Library, has stayed at CPL and continues to work with teens. She has provided us a short update on the progress since the grant concluded in April 2015. (more…)
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Ricardo’s missing piece: Evaluation from Kenwood Elementary
Editor’s note: Both during and after the Digital Literacy for ALL Learners grant, we had two educators, Robert Stake and Hui-Lien (Sharon) Hsiao, observing the work happening at Tech Time at Kenwood Elementary School. Based on their observations and data gathering, they put together an evaluation story that demonstrates the work that was done during Tech […]
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A Growing Understanding of Digital Literacy
This post was written by Martin Wolske, DL4ALL Principal Investigator & Project Manager, for his personal weblog. The post has been republished on this site and includes links to other areas of this website. Literacy is a set of competencies and knowledge within a certain domain. Digital literacy, then, is literacy within the realm of digital information […]
Revival of DL4ALL Website
Hello! It has been a while since we wrote a blog post. Our grant funding ended in May 2015, and the DL4ALL project shifted into a new phase. This meant our work at the five sites did not stop. For some sites, the Community Ambassador stayed on, shifting into a new role but still grounded […]
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Playing Roblox at UNCC
Last Friday I was reminded the importance of stepping back from being a teacher and instead, being a co-learner. On Fridays, the kids have the entire two hours for free time. The normal bunch headed straight for the computers (some even by-passing snack they wanted to play Roblox that badly). It was a quieter day […]
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CPL Update (with photos!)
Lots of great work has been happening in the Teen Space at the Champaign Public Library. Our Community Ambassador, Sarah, has been able to capture these moments on camera. Enjoy! (more…)
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Digital Literacy for All Learners at Public Engagement Symposium
On March 10, 2015, the Digital Literacy for All Learners project team participated in the seventh annual Public Engagement Symposium. The theme of the symposium was “Changing lives through engagement.” We were more broadly represented by Ctrl-Shift, a local group made up of school teachers, community members, entrepreneurs, and University of Illinois representatives who are interested […]
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Viewing short films at UNCC
On Urbana’s last school out day (March 6th), Community Ambassador at UNCC, Hailley, led two workshops that let elementary students begin to think more deeply about how films are made and stories are told. (more…)
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