Digital Literacy Project

Project Wrap-Up

Well, we’re done.  The project will live on with other students in the College of Communications and Information, but Charlene and I have to move on to other other things.  It’s a relief to let it go, but we’ve both really enjoyed working on this project so it’s kind of sad too. We made a lot of progress this semester, although we didn’t get nearly as far as...

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Project Plan

The Digital Divide Tallahassee Housing Authority (THA) is an organization that provides safe and affordable housing to low-income families in the Tallahassee area and works with resident families to enhance and expand their quality of life. Many of these residents suffer from the digital divide, which refers to the economic, usability, and empowerment disparity between parts of the population...

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Problems/Solutions #4

We’re getting ready to wrap up the project, and it’s exciting to look back at all that we’ve accomplished.  We’re really proud of our project plan (most of which is now available at http://www.davidschubert.net/digilit.php), our work breakdown schedule, and the curriculum that we’ve been developing. Melissa recently informed us that there’s a student...

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Problems/Solutions #3

This week we decided to reexamine our progress and really define the scope of what we hope to accomplish this semester.  This is different than the scope of the entire project, which will extend several semesters and ultimately lead to a comprehensive curriculum that covers all areas of digital literacy. We’ve decided that the most important topics in digital literacy, especially for...

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Problems/Solutions #2

Now that we’re over half way through the semester, we’re starting to realize that it’s far better to have a good plan and spread the work out than to try and get all the work done right away without taking the time to make a schedule.  While we have been working on our plan all along, and we have used realistic estimates for how long things will take, it looks like there are...

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Problems/Solutions #1

As we work more on our project plan, we are quickly realizing that the real world doesn’t always run as smoothly as we’re hoping it will.  The biggest problem we’re facing right now is getting into the labs at the Tallahassee Housing Authority community centers. Our sponsor at THA is Larry Simmons, a Resident Initiative Coordinator there.  After talking to him we were...

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Solutions and Risk Assessment

Our proposed solution is to implement a Digital Literacy curriculum developed by FSU and taught by FSU students.  The details of this solution and the specific problems it addresses are available in our project plan.  In short, it addresses economic, usability, and empowerment components of the Digital Divide.  This plan includes very little risk to Tallahassee Housing Authority, because it...

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Scope

Scope: Goal Breakdown, Objectives, Critical Success Factors, Specifications, Assumptions and Constraints One of the most important things to define when starting a new project is the project’s scope.  This week we outlined a number of goals, objectives, assumptions, and constraints to help us stay on track with our project and not get overwhelmed by scope creep. Our overarching goal is to...

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Summary

This semester, Charlene Hickey and I will be working with Larry Simmons from Tallahassee Housing Authority to develop a digital literacy curriculum to be used in THA’s community centers.  This curriculum will help equip THA’s residents with computer skills that will make them more self-sufficient while improving their skill set for jobs.  Once the curriculum has been developed, we...

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