Community Information Technology Workshop (CITW) (2005 & 2006)
Member of Steering Committee
I was involved in organizing the first Community Information Technology Workshop (http://learn.centreconnect.org ) in Centre County, PA. In 2005, close to 50 organizations participated in the first conference, which focused on helping community organizations to envision how they might use information technology in their work and on providing groups with practical strategies for using information technology to achieve their goals. We are currently planning the 2006 conference that will focus on creating work plans (strategic planning) to address technology issues in nonprofit organizations.
Website Design and Creation for Nonprofits (April/May 2004)
Co-designer/Instructor
In 2004, I worked with CentreConnect and the Schlow library to create a course designed to teach nonprofits how to design and maintain an organizational website using FrontPage.
Pennsylvania State Information Technology Governor's School (Summer 2004)
Co-designer/Instructor
In summer 2004, I co-taught a course for high school seniors who participated in the Pennsylvania State Information Technology Governor's School. This course was focused on teaching students how to install and configure a content management system (PostNuke). Students worked with a bipartisan Penn State student organization (P.S. U vote) to build a web site to encourage voting in the 2004 presidential election.
Responsible for planning adult computer and Internet training classes for the Community Networking Initiative (CNI ) project, an outreach effort of Prairienet (http://www.prairienet.org). Prairienet is a community computer network affiliated with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois. Through this project over 750 low-income families received free computer/Internet training, Internet access through Prairienet, and refurbished computers.
UNIVERSITY COURSES
Information, Organization and Access (LIS380) - Fall 2003
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
LIS380 is a required Master's level course that emphasizes information organization and access in a variety of settings.
Web Design and Construction for Organizations (LIS450LW) - Spring & Summer 2003
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
LIS450LW is a Master's level course focusing on the basics of web site design, content development, HTML programming, procedures and policies for organizations, with a concentration on public, academic and special libraries. The students applied these concepts in the redesign of not-for-profit web sites associated with Prairienet and other units associated with the library school.
Web Technologies and Techniques (LIS250W1A) - Fall 2002
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
This undergraduate course introduced students to principles of web site creation including the design, evaluation, and maintenance of web sites. The students applied these concepts in designing personal web sites and in the redesign of not-for-profit web sites associated with Prairienet.
Libraries, Information and Society (LIS390) - Summer 2002
Teaching Assistant, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Supported Leigh Estabrook and Maggie Kimmel in the teaching of this required Master's level course. The course examines issues in the library and information science profession including policy issues relevant to information professionals, the needs of various communities of users, intellectual freedom, and professional ethics.
Introduction to Communication Technologies (SPCOM199)- Summer 2002
Teaching Assistant, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
This undergraduate course focused on teaching computer and Internet skills and on encouraging discussion about issues surrounding the impact that communication technologies have on the individual, on groups (including work groups), and on society.