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A Growing Understanding of Digital Literacy

By on May 27, 2016 in Update

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 […]

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“We have arrived!”

By on May 12, 2015 in Kenwood Elementary, Workshop

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

By on April 15, 2015 in Urbana Neighborhood Connection Center

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!)

By on March 27, 2015 in Champaign Public Library

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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Creating jewelry in CPL’s Teen Space

By on March 4, 2015 in Champaign Public Library, Workshop

Throughout this grant, the Community Ambassadors have been faced with the challenge of helping our sites find “projects that matter.” No two sites will have identical “projects that matter” because each site has unique individuals who have varying interests. We as Community Ambassadors can share ideas but ultimately, each of us listens to our sites […]

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Antigone: Story from Kenwood

By on February 15, 2015 in Kenwood Elementary

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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Craft Tech Fair

By on December 7, 2014 in Kenwood Elementary

“We should have a fair,” Miriam said one day. Of course we should! Why didn’t I think of that? Because I have no idea how to run a fair. Duh. But it was a fantastic idea, so I agreed immediately. Over the next few days, we set a tentative date and started writing down ideas […]

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