Rural Oregon Community Development Web Tour
http://lone-eagles.com/ruraloregon.htm
Key Resources
Powerpoint Presentation: Youth Leadership for Community Internet Awareness
http://lone-eagles.com/ruraloregon.ppt Use this for your own presentations.
Tri-county presentation tour press release http://lone-eagles.com/oregonarticle.htm
Building Learning Communities http://lone-eagles.com/teled.htm
Master listing of community-building and community networking resources.K12 Teacher-training and Resource Hotlists http://lone-eagles.com/class.htm
Planning for Local Community Internet Awareness Initiatives
Master listing of educational resources.
See also http://lone-eagles.com/teachercreated.htm for web-curriculum created
through the online class "Making the Best Use of Internet for K12 Instruction."
http://lone-eagles.com/initiatives.htmThe Kellogg MIRA Model for Community Internet Awareness
http://lone-eagles.com/miramodel.htm
Rural Solutions, INC. http://lone-eagles.com/bootstrap.doc
A Venture Philanthropy Concept Paper for a rural development cooperative.
The Story of the Impact of Internet on Dillon, MT:
SJ Mercury News front page article on impact of Internet in Dillon, Montana
http://www0.siliconvalley.com/news/special/ruralwest/docs/dillon.htm
Dillon-net http://dillon-net.org Read their story at http://lone-eagles.com/chap2.htm
See also the companion story on La Grande, Oregon!
http://www0.siliconvalley.com/news/special/ruralwest/docs/lagrande.htm
Ecommerce Training Resources
Ecommerce Start-up Training Resources
http://lone-eagles.com/entrelinks.htm Includes Youth entrepreneurship.Access Minnesota Main Street Rural Ecommerce
http://www.extension.umn.edu/mainstreet/Check out their Ecommerce Curriculum at
http://www.extension.umn.edu/mainstreet/curriculum/ One of the best.
Minnesota Mainstreet Ecommerce Resources
http://www.extension.umn.edu/mainstreet/curriculum/ecomm/ec_res.html"The 'E' in Me",
http://www.ait.net/groups/e_in_me/Default.htm
Entrepreneurship training resources from the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.Qwest in Idaho has a Ebits Training program with good resources
http://www.ebits.org/classes/educate/default.htm
Women's Entrepreneurial Networks
Women's Rural Economic Network http://www.wrencommunity.org
http://www.shopthewrens.com
Collectively Making the Ordinary Extraordinary
Women's Economic Self-sufficiency Team (WESST) Artisans, Taos, NM
http://www.wesstartisans.com/ Rural women artists' web sites.
The Women's Business Center at Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
http://www.ceimaine.org/women Betsy Tipper
Helping Maine women grow their businesses through telecommunications.
SBA's Women Business Owner's website: www.onlinewbc.gov
Center for Women and Information Technology www.umbc.edu/cwit
Youth Building Communities!
Morino Institute's YouthLearn
http://www.youthlearn.org is an online community for people
integrating technology into out-of-school learning environments.
Extensive collected resources!
Youth Using Technology to Build Community and Bridge the Digital Divide!
http://www.communitynetworkers.org
Kids create web pages for non-profits. Many free web tools listed to help kids get started!Sisters, Oregon students run a successful quilting business
http://www.digitalquiltworks.com
from http://outlawnet.com , a student run Internet Service Provider
Teens Teaching Internet Skills to Seniors
www.nnh.org/ttis.htm
We are re-inventing our classic 4-H Youth afterschool-weekend
club activity to be a community technology leadership program.
Only 12 percent of our members are farm kids. Guess where the others live.
In towns, cities and suburbs.
See also: Americans Communicating Electronically
www.ace.org National 4-H leader: Tom Tate
Teen Resources
www.nicon.org/ctc
A Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Teen Resources Project
Digital story telling
http://www.storycenter.org/
http://tech-head.com/dstory.htmChamisa Mesa High School teaches digital storytelling.
www.chamisamesa.net/ www.chamisamesa.net/video.html
Also check out what our students are doing for the community and their
peers: www.taosteen.net See also http://taosmira.netThis is a site that contains web sites that kids have created.
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/kids.htmlBelieve it or not that site is by a 13 year old.
http://www.lissaexplains.com/
I started a basic web site and then learned what I needed to in order to
make my site more fun and attractive.
This organization provides creative arts mentoring for at risk kids.
www.createnow.org
After School Programs: Federal Resources
http://afterschool.gov
21st century community learning centers
http://www.ed.gov/21stcclc/ Federal ResourcesSEE the New Cyberfair Competition for inspiration!
http://lightspan.com
International competition for kids to create community-oriented web pagesThinkquest
http://www.thinkquest.org
International competition for kids to create instructional web pages. Over 3000 such sites!
Two Super Sites for Girls!
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/womengrrlstech.html
Long listings of resources, mentoring programs, projects, and links
for helping girls using science, math, technology, to cross that digital
divide.²http://www.MentorGirls.org
Long listing for 'girls-only' resources and projects!
Senior Sites (Elders, not HS Seniors!)
Senior CorpsFirstGov for Seniors
http://www.seniors.gov/
Federal resources for seniorsSeniorNet
http://www.seniornet.org/
SeniorNet is based on the concept that older people are not adverse
to using new technology, just unfamiliar with it.
See also www.thirdage.com, http://www.agelight.org/
American Association of Retired Persons
http://www.aarp.com/indexes/computers.html
Includes chat rooms and participants who
are very generous about helping "newbies."
Senior Surfers
www.seniorsurfers.com
Our intention is to have between 2,500 & 3,000
SurferLabs available in communities within the next four years.
Computers for Homebound and Isolated Persons(CHIPs)
http://www.korrnet.org/chips/
Regional Community Networks and Virtual Incubators:
Oregon Innovation http://www.oregoninnovation.org/
Central Oregon Regional Community Network http://centraloregon.org
Idaho Virtual Incubator http://www.idahovirtualincubator.org
Louisville virtual incubator http://trc.louisville.edu/__virtual_incubator_affiliates.html
Wisconsin virtual incubator http://virtualincubate.com
Missouri Association of Community Information Networks (37) http://www.macin.org/
North Central Kansas Regional Community Network) http://kansascommunities.com
Association for Community Networking http://www.afcn.net Strongly recommended!
Arizona CNs http://zeki.radiology.arizona.edu/ruralhealth/CmtyNets.htm
CN guides listed http://www.evanston.lib.il.us/community/technopolis/resources_guides.html
Free Web-based Collaborative Tools http://www.kmunity.net/Free_Tools_/free_tools_.html
A list of free/low-cost computer resources (both newand recycled) http://www.scn.org/teched/computers.htm
Federal Computer Recycling Program http://computers.fed.gov