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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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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“We have arrived!”
Last week, our Hardware Friday workshop was a bit weird: Family Night was over, but this was still session one, and on Monday (5/11) started a new four-week session. Despite this weird place, something wonderful happened. Miriam, Kenwood’s librarian, had another engagement to attend and Amy, Kenwood’s volunteer coordinator who had recently begun working with us, […]
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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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Collaborating with IPA at Kenwood’s Tech Time
In January, we started collaborating with the International Preparatory Academy, a bilingual school in its first year that is currently sharing a building with Kenwood Elementary. Kenwood’s own building is having construction done this year, so they and IPA share the old Carey Busey building and IPA will expand into the rest of the building […]
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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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Valentine’s Day Card Making at UNCC
UNCC decided to celebrate Valentine’s Day on Friday the 13th with some special activities. One of our stations was using our graphic tablets to make Valentine’s Day cards. Based on time and ease of use, the kids used the open source software, PaintTool Sai, to create the cards. It’s a great program to just open […]
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Antigone: Story from Kenwood
One morning, Mr. Lash brought a new student for her first day coming to Tech Time. “Mr. Travis, this is Antigone” (not her real name). “She’s had breakfast, so she’s good to go.” And with that, he was off. Antigone got right to work on her design document after I explained the process to her, […]
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By Any Other Name…Kenwood Story
My name, Travis, is a little funny to students; at any rate, I get called a lot of funny names by the students. I get Trevor, Trivius, one student even calls me “Doctor Tryorus” (I don’t even know how he came up with that one). Well, one day, Achilles called me “Vitruvius.” My bachelor’s is […]
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A Kenwood Success Story
I was walking down the hall toward the teachers’ lounge one morning, probably to make some copies or something. Miss KJ, the art teacher, greeted me in the hall and asked, “Did you hear about Hypatia (not her real name)?” I said that no, I hadn’t. “Oh, you should ask Jessica about Hypatia,” she said […]
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