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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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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More stickers at Champaign Public!
Back in January, Sarah and Kim worked with teens at the Champaign Public Library to create some stickers using the Silhouette cameo machine for their computer cart. Since then, the teens have made even more stickers. Sarah shared some pictures that we’d like to share with you!
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Finished project at CPL
One of the advantages of spending around 12 hours at our sites each week is that we are able to develop relationships with the students we work with. These relationships allow us to help the students work on projects that extend over multiple days. Sarah, over at Champaign Public Library, just sent a photo of […]
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Sticker Creation at Champaign Public Library Teen Space
On Friday, Community Ambassadors Sarah and Kim, worked with the Champaign Public Library teens to design stickers for their computer cart. At first, Sarah worked with the teens to choose a color scheme for their space. The teens ended up deciding on a light blue, red, silver, and black (in line with the Captain America […]
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Teen Space at Champaign Public Library
Sarah, our Community Ambassador at the Champaign Public Library, passed along some great photos of the Teen Space we wanted to share.
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Two Quarters In — What we’ve been up to
The metrics for the second quarter were due in early January and we are happy to report the following numbers: General Access to computers (unduplicated): * Target proposed in grant: 11325 * Q1 report: 4872 * Q2 report: 4728 * Current total: 9600 Training participants (unduplicated): * Target proposed in grant: 780 * Q1 report: […]
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Kids as Teachers at the Champaign Public Library
Written by Sarah, the Community Ambassador at the Champaign Public Library One thing that I particularly like about Champaign is how willing the kids are to teach what they’ve learned. This is something that happens on a very regular basis, but on Friday one of the librarians said I should absolutely make sure to talk about […]
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