Articles, Grant Templates, and Online Courseswhich share the theme of how to use
Internet and Imagination wisely for
'Building Learning Communities'
by Frank Odasz
Articles, Grant Templates, and Online CoursesNon-commercial use of the following is strongly encouraged!
New:
Big Skies and Lone Eagles:
Lending Wings to Others, Online - A Rural Perspective
A 20 page history of Frank Odasz written for an
upcoming book as a history of online
learning from
a rural perspective.
http://lone-eagles.com/history.htm
New: An Updated
Master listing of articles related to Community Internet Empowerment
http://lone-eagles.com/ruralempowerment.htm
The first article is a Authenticating Rural Internet and Broadband Benefits -
A Reality Check
Written for the Australian Government for national empowerment of all their
communities.
New: An Updated
Master Listing of articles related to Indigenous Empowerment
http://lone-eagles.com/alaskan-resources.htm
The first article is a chapter which has not yet been published
Realizing Cultural and Community Sustainability Through Internet Innovations
in Alaskan Native Villages A detailed review of strategies for
community involvement to produce measurable outcomes.
Many grant templates and online self-directed resources are included in the
appendix.
New: An Updated
Master Listing of articles related to Rural Ecommerce Success Stories
http://lone-eagles.com/connect-idaho.htm The first article is Rural
Ecommerce Successes in Idaho
An ongoing collection funded by the USDA through the Rural Development
Council of Idaho.
See also Two Years of Montpelier Events Awareness-raising events and
ecommerce success stories
from the two-year effort to create Idaho’s first community success story - in
Montpelier, Idaho.
New:
Rural Ecommerce and Telework Strategies
http://lone-eagles.com/eguide.htm
Over 200 pages of resources including a ten lesson online course on what's
working
for others like you regarding rural Ecommerce and Telework Strategies. Includes
lessons
on the essential Internet skills required for Ecommerce, Telework and
Self-directed Internet
Learning.
New: A
Beginner's Guide to Profiting from the Internet
http://lone-eagles.com/ecom.htm
A shorter easier version of the online course "Rural Ecommerce and Telework
Strategies"
designed for youth in particular.
Recommended Community Networking Self-Study Reading Order:
Community Networking Primer
Building Learning
Communities through Community Technology Centers
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/build.htm
An
introduction to the self-empowerment opportunities the Internet offers anyone with
Internet access.
Lone Eagles Learn to
"Teach From Any Beach"
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/eagle.htm
Instructional entrepreneurship can be taught online and means "Freedom!"
Published Nov. 1999 in "Technology Horizons for Education Journal"
Using the Ten Internet
Collaborative Tools
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/tencollab.htm
Published the January 1999 issue of ISTE's Leading and Learning Magazine.
Covers how each tool is used in education and offers links to example sites and tutorials.
Community
Bootstrap Grant Template
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/boot2.htm
An actual grant
proposal which is available for your use.
Many specific community
projects are articulated.
Free Collaborative and
Curriculum Web Tools
http://lone-eagles.com/currtour.htm
When do you not need a community network
to collaborate?
Community Network
Incubator Grant Template
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/incubator.htm
A model for supporting many
community networks.
Grant Proposals You're welcome to borrow from:
Three recent listings of my best grant templates are, for Alaskan Native villages, http://lone-eagles.com/amep1.htm and for rural communities http://lone-eagles.com/rural-grant-templates.htm and for youth projects http://lone-eagles.com/youth.htm
Alaskan Native Youth Cultural Community Building Culture Club: A Cultural and Community
Survival Concept Paper
http://lone-eagles.com/cultureclub.htm
A youth-based
multicultural community development strategy.
Community Network Funding Sources
and Grantwriting Tips
http://lone-eagles.com/granthelp.htm
Community Bootstrap Project -
Learning to Do for Ourselves; Together!
http://lone-eagles.com/boot2.htm
Please feel free to use in your grants:
without restriction.
Boilerplate text for YOUR community
networking grant!!
Alpine, Texas Grant Template
http://lone-eagles.com/alpine2.htm
Alaskan Villages Grant Template
http://lone-eagles.com/northstar.htm
Seventh Generation Community Initiative
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/7gc.htm
A concept paper for a Native American
Community Building Initiative
Older writings, most of which have been incorporated in the recent above collections.
An Update on the major Native
Internet Projects
http://lone-eagles.com/adec.htm
Includes
a new article "Echoes in the Electronic Wind" summarizing the
potential
for
Native American use of Internet to 'build learning communities."
Key Issues in Realizing Tribal Benefits from
Internet Infrastructure
http://lone-eagles.com/triballeadership.htm
An Executive Overview for Project Planners on the
Hard Questions
for
Community Internet Empowerment
http://lone-eagles.com/overview.htm
Beyond Traditional Vocational Education:
Best
Practices for Use of Computers and Internet for Native Communities
http://lone-eagles.com/indian-voc-ed.htm
Practical Internet
Curriculum for International Schools
http://lone-eagles.com/practical.htm
Written
for the Academy of International School Administrators regarding use of Internet
for
International project-based learning multiclassroom curriculum. For related resources
see
"World Class K12 Curriculum" at http://lone-eagles.com/class.htm
The New Gold Rush; Are You Ready?
http://lone-eagles.com/mining.htm
Part II: http://lone-eagles.com/goldrush.htm
Themes from the Frontier of Rural Community
Development, written for the
Journal of Municipal Telecommunication Policy, March 2001
The Future of Community Development;
Making the Living You Want, Living Wherever You Want
http://lone-eagles.com/comdev.htm
Written for a forthcoming book on rural community development to be published
by
TechnoPress "Future Courses; A Compendium of Thought about Education,
Technology
and the Future.
Common Ground - A Cross-cultural Self-directed Learner's
Internet Guide
http://lone-eagles.com/guide.htm
A Train-the-Trainers manual for anyone teaching about the Internet, Updated 9/2000
Echoes in the Electronic Wind - A Native American
Cross-cultural Internet Guide
http://lone-eagles.com/nativeguide.htm
Posted Sept. 2000, this is current and unlike anything you'll find
elsewhere!
Good Neighbor's
Guide to Community Networking
http://lone-eagles.com/cnguide.htm
Eleven chapters on rural impacts of Internet.
Archived Community Networking Essays and Articles by Frank Odasz:
Big Sky Telegraph and
Big-Hearted Mentoring
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/heart.htm
Mentoring stories from a by-gone era.
Big Visions from Small
Villages;
Visions
from the Frontier of Online Learning
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/bigsky.htm
This article was written for pioneer Sara Armstrong and is published in the Spring
issue of the George Lucas Educational Foundation Newsletter; "Edutopia".
www.glef.org
On the Frontier of Online
Learning; in Galena, Alaska
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/frontier.htm
This article was written for pioneer Ferdi Serim and is in the March 1999 issue of
Multimedia Schools Magazine
Teaching in the New Millennium;
Internet Professional
Development Visions and Strategies
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/millennium.htm
An article on the future on online education that could easily become
several
short articles.
A Native
Alaskan Cross-Cultural K12 Internet
Training Program:
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/loneeagle.htm
A paper
for Internet Society '99
Leveraging the
Internet's Philanthropic Potential
for Individual and Community Self-Empowerment
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/philanth.htm
The Internet presents dramatic advantages for philanthropists to empower
citizens to help themselves and one another.
Lone Eagle Apprenticeship
Program:
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/MIRA2.htm
A Rural Youth Entrepreneurship Concept Paper
Course Syllabus for "Community,
Culture and the Internet
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/uafsyll.htm
Syllabus for a cross-cultural course
designed for 10 remote Yukon Native Alaskan villages
Leveraging the Public Good Electronically
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/elecgood.htm
Here's a vision here for real benefits
for real people.
The Frontier of Community Learning; Internet on
the Yukon
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/arctic.htm
Vision of the possible; in story
form.
Smart Communities Keep Up on the Successes
of Other Community Networking Efforts...
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/smart.htm
Links to the best resources for community
networking
The Universal Service "Win-Win"
Solution
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/winwin.htm
Community network
dichotomies; "public good" VS "for profit" can be joined as one!
Virtually Clueless
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/clueless.htm
Unlocking the potential of online
distance learning means asking the hard questions. (Web
design by high school helpers.)
Synergies of School and Community
Networking
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/synergies.htm
Lifelong learning themes will inevitable
bring school and community networking closer
and closer together! (Web design by high
school helpers.)
Online Courses Taught by Frank Odasz
New:
Rural Ecommerce and Telework Strategies
http://lone-eagles.com/eguide.htm
Over 200 pages of resources including a ten lesson online course on what's
working
for others like you regarding rural Ecommerce and Telework Strategies. Includes
lessons
on the essential Internet skills required for Ecommerce, Telework and
Self-directed Internet
Learning.
New: A
Beginner's Guide to Profiting from the Internet
http://lone-eagles.com/ecom.htm
A shorter easier version of the online course "Rural Ecommerce and Telework
Strategies"
designed for youth in particular.
The following courses are the best mastery learning
"Fast-Track' online courses for educators....that I've been able to create
based on over ten years of teaching educators online. I incorporate the best free web tools,
Internet resources and the best hands-on experiences to make the very best possible use of
your precious and limited time.
Recommended as a first course for those with beginning to intermediate Internet experience:
ED 567E: Making the Best Use of Internet for K-12 Instruction
Alaska Pacific University Three Semester Credit Version
http://lone-eagles.com/asdn1.htm
A hands-on course on how to broker the best
resources for your classroom. The fast track to practical skills
for online searching, creating web-based curriculum with minimal technical skills and
direct hands-on
experiences with the best K12 resources on the web!
EDTE
5172: Making the Best Use of Internet
for K-12 Instruction
Seattle Pacific University Five Quarter Credit Version
http://lone-eagles.com/spu1.htm
A
hands-on course on how to broker the best resources for your classroom. The fast
track to practical skills
for online searching, creating web-based curriculum with minimal technical skills and
direct hands-on
experiences with the best K12 resources on the web!
Text for the above course(s):
Common Ground:
A Cross-Cultural Self-Directed Learner's Internet Guide
http://lone-eagles.com/guide.htm
An instructional brokerage resource with emphasis on pointing to the best online tutorials,
and educational resources, on the Internet for self-directed learning. This is the text for the
online course "Making the Best Use of Internet for K-12 Instruction."
Recommended as a second course for those with intermediate to advanced Internet experience
ED 567F: Designing K-12 Internet Instruction
Alaska Pacific University 3 Semester Credit Version
http://lone-eagles.com/currmain1.htm
A hands-on course on how to easily create Internet hotlists, web-tours,
lessonplans, project-based learning activities (Webquest, Cyberfair,
Thinkquest) and complete online courses using online web tools.EDTE 5411 Designing K-12 Internet Instruction
Seattle Pacific University 5 Quarter Credit Version
http://lone-eagles.com/spu2.htm
A hands-on course on how to easily create Internet hotlists, web-tours,
lessonplans, project-based learning activities (Webquest, Cyberfair,
Thinkquest) and complete online courses using online web tools.
You're welcome to review these alternative online course sources:
K-12 Courses http://lone-eagles.com/courses.htm
Professional Development Courses http://lone-eagles.com/self.htm
A Bit About the Author
Frank taught online courses from 1988-1998 to rural teachers in one and two room rural schools. Serving as assistant professor at Western Montana College of the University of Montana from 1985-1998, Frank founded and directed the Big Sky Telegraph Network as one of the early pioneers of both online teaching and community networking. Search for the paper trail of these early visions with the following keywords: "Big Sky Telegraph" OR "Frank Odasz"
Frank Odasz has been a carpenter, oil field roughneck, dude ranch manager, college professor and is now a "Lone Eagle," an independent instructional entrepreneur. At the age of 32, Frank attended the University of Wyoming to learn the benefits computers and telecommunications could bring to citizens.
Frank's Resume, Biographies, and Photo
For workshop and presentation titles and descriptions - See
http://lone-eagles.com/presentations.htm and http://lone-eagles.com/services.htm
If you have any questions or comments e-mail frank@lone-eagles.com