"People-Ready" Digital Literacy Curriculum

Lone Eagle Consulting’s Existing "People-Ready"
Broadband Entrepreneurship and Digital Literacy Curriculum

Specializing in fast-track online Internet training for rural, remote, at-risk, and indigenous learners, Lone Eagle Consulting's current emphasis is on designing local, regional, state, and national broadband awareness and adoption campaigns, specifically for vulnerable populations.

Extensive “People-Ready” curriculum has been developed by Lone Eagle Consulting and is online and available without restriction. Since 1988, all Lone Eagle curriculum have focused on gathering and disseminating the best of the best web resources with the following online courses serving as a brokerage of the highest quality resources. Links not already listed below are available at http://lone-eagles.com/expertise.htm or by request. The Lone Eagle Website has an internal Google search engine.

       Fall 2011, Two New Online Courses dedicated to showcasing the "Promise of Broadband" for
          creating sustainable Alaskan Native Villages, cultures, families, and entrepreneurs of all ages!
    Offered by the Alaska Staff Development Network and Alaska Pacific University!

EDUC 58074 21st Century Workforce Readiness
http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1001389

Click to review all lessons:

EDUC 58073 Social Media for Educators
http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1001390

Click to review all lessons:

Non-Credit - Teaching Effectively Online

Click to review all Lessons:

For questions please contact Instructor

Frank Odasz; Email: frank@lone-eagles.com Cell: 406 9225 2519

If you have registration questions please contact:

Troy Choquette, Program Coordinator
Alaska Staff Development Network
Phone: 907.364.3809
Email: asdn@ptialaska.net

Or Contact Kathy Blanc
PH: 907 364 3801
email: kathyblanc@gmail.com

Self-Directed Digital Literacy Training and Resource Guides for All Learners. (Some are available in print and/or downloadable for reprinting)

Basic Computer Skills: A First Lesson
http://lone-eagles.com/basics.htm

An Introduction to Online auctions (Like Ebay)
http://lone-eagles.com/auctions.htm

Essential Ecommerce Internet Skills
http://lone-eagles.com/essential-skills.htm

A Beginner’s Guide to Profiting from the Internet
[Rural Ecommerce and Telework Strategies]
http://lone-eagles.com/ecom.htm

Alaskan Native version
http://lone-eagles.com/akecom.htm

Common Ground, A Cross-cultural Self-directed Learner’s Internet Guide  http://lone-eagles.com/guide.htm 141 pages, the resource handbook course listed above; suitable for all learners; “Making the Best Use of Internet For K12 Instruction,”

Echoes in the Electronic Wind; A Native American/Alaskan Native Cross-cultural Internet Guide  http://lone-eagles.com/nativeguide.htm 166 pages Same as “Common Ground” with the addition of 22 pages of Native education links.

Rural Ecommerce and Telework Strategies http://lone-eagles.com/eguide.htm 220 pages A comprehensive guide for rural leaders.

Lone Eagle Online Resources (the motherlode)
http://lone-eagles.com/future-proofing.htm

Lone Eagle Online Courses:

"Making the Best Use of Internet for K12 Instruction" is offered by Lone Eagle Consulting via the Alaska Staff Development Network and Alaska Pacific University. All lessons are online without restriction and include the following listing of final projects created by the rural teachers in this class: http://lone-eagles.com/teachercreated.htm For example: Renee Estelle's online course for students to create their own electronic portfolios http://eportfoliocourse.bravehost.com/

21^st Century Learn, Earn, and Serve Academy
http://lone-eagles.com/workforce101.htm

This customizable free short course can be used to teach anyone - quickly - how to create their own electronic portfolio and social media presence, and how to create and host their own instructional video captures posted on their own Youtube channel.

This 21st Century Workforce Readiness online course integrates digital literacy, broadband entrepreneurship, global citizenship, and civic engagement through community service, with careful attention to the unique needs and interests of all participants. Using Web 2.0 social media tools in a mastery learning format, career explorations and resources are presented with emphasis on emerging Internet employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. The Academy introduces financial, business, media, information, and entrepreneurship literacies in a global citizenship context. Designed for youth not-in-school, participants will create an electronic resume on which they will quickly begin posting new media innovations created in each lesson, such as instructional videos they created for peers, Ecommerce websites created for local businesses, and new media reflecting knowledge of the latest social media tools and best practices. This course was originally created for Alaskan Native Youth not-in-school but is intended to be adaptable for any specific vulnerable population. Created in 2009, for the Alaska Department of Labor, major updates are planned for 2011. BTOP grantees should review additional customized online training for vulnerable populations at http://lone-eagles.com/strategies.htm

Community Training Resources

The Good Neighbor’s Guide to Community Networking
http://lone-eagles.com/cnguide.htm

Simple Community Digital Literacy Event Models
http://lone-eagles.com/academy.htm

Creating People-Centered Community Knowledge Networks
http://lone-eagles.com/smart.htm Dozens of original articles and resources.

Community Networking Resources
http://lone-eagles.com/community.html

State-Level Digital Inclusion Strategies
http://lone-eagles.com/montana.htm http://lone-eagles.com/montana-strategy.htm
Drafted for Montanan public computing centers.

The Center for Sustainable Families Proposal
http://lone-eagles.com/excellence.htm

Social Media Training Resources:

Lone Eagle Youtube Channel (Ecommerce and Telework success stories)
http://youtube.com/fodasz

Lone Eagle Wiki of Web 2.0 Resources for K12 Educators
http://web2fork12classrooms.pbwiki.com

Lone Eagle Blog
http://www.loneeagleconsulting.com

The FCC Lone Eagle Broadband Training Best Practices Web Site 

U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Native American Division has posted broadband training best practices http://lone-eagles.com/best.htm on their www.fcc.gov/indians site (listed as Examples of Broadband Training Best Practices) in their Internet Resources listing: http://www.fcc.gov/indians/internetresources/ The new FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, has asked those with big ideas to please speak up. We can expect to see a lot of innovation related to Broadband and Social Media.

For All American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes;  A Web-Raising Template Proposal with Extensive free online resources  Create Free Ecommerce websites for all tribal and individual businesses  Click through the Online Web Tour: http://lone-eagles.com/web-raising.htm

Contact: Frank Odasz, Lone Eagle Consulting
Email: frank at lone-eagles.com
Web: http://lone-eagles.com
Latest Update: http://lone-eagles.com/expertise.htm

PH: 406 683 6270