The website includes online reference and research tools such as:

• encyclopedias
• dictionaries
• magazine articles
• biographies

The CYC module attached here guides new users through the website and helps them explore the benefits for themselves and their children.

All CYC training modules include a Creative Commons license on the final slide. We welcome others to make use of our learning materials.

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LearningExpress Library includes:

• Skill–building courses in math, reading, writing, and science for elementary, middle, and high school students and for adults.

• GED preparation courses and practice exams.

• College preparation tools.

• Computer skills courses on many applications including Microsoft Office.

• Hundreds of online interactive practice tests to prepare for licensing, certification, and aptitude practice tests in various occupations.

• U. S. citizenship exam preparation.

• Resources in Spanish for reading, writing, and math skill building and for GED preparation.

LearningExpress Library also includes Job & Career Accelerator™, a comprehensive system to help job seekers find employment. Job & Career Accelerator:

• Provides personalized, step-by-step assistance for job seekers at all experience and education levels.

• Helps you explore and match suitable occupations from over 1,000 detailed occupation profiles.

• Helps you find available jobs in your area from a database of over 5 million current job postings.

• Helps you create resumes and cover letters, master interviewing and networking techniques, improve work skills, and prepare for occupation related exams.

LearningExpress Library is FREE for all Ohioans to use.  LearningExpress Library is available to all Ohio residents through the state’s public libraries, K–12 schools, colleges and community colleges, and adult education centers.  Access to all the resources in LearningExpress Library is paid for through a federal Institute of Museum and Library Services LSTA grant awarded by the State Library of Ohio.

• Participate in a high-visibility national Broadband Technology Opportunities
  Program (BTOP) focused on Sustainable Broadband Adoption. This $25mil
  program is one of the largest public investments of its kind.
• Promote their equipment and services offerings to the Connect Your Community Local Community Agencies and their sub-recipient partners.
• The opportunity to sell up to 6,000 – 8,000 refurbished desktop or laptop computers over the course of the next 12 months.

The full RFI is the attached document below.

Attached below is the beginning document our instructors use to customize the list to their particular population and location. We welcome you to do the same.

Some of the instructors provide the list as a printed handout. Some of them email the list. Others have set up websites.

The Akron Public Schools’ Pre-Fall Program preps students for the upcoming school year. The Lebron James Foundation will provide each Pre-Fall third-grader with a new bicycle and a laptop computer for completing the program.

To support the kids’ use of these computers at home, the Akron Public Schools asked the Akron Connect Your Community (CYC) team to help train pre-fall teachers in digital literacy basics so they could prep the students (and parents) to leverage this generous and productive donation.

The Akron CYC team met with APS leaders and helped teachers customize the CYC digital literacy curriculum, then provided two days of training to the teachers in early August. Thirty five teachers were run through the CYC curriculum and expressed great appreciation for the CYC team’s patience and expertise as digital literacy trainers. Novice teachers appreciated the simple, easy-to-grasp content, and more experienced teachers were thrilled to learn new tips and tricks to fill in gaps in their learning.

The CYC netTrekker elective was also a big hit at the training. Teachers were appreciative of being reintroduced to the netTrekker education portal, which is available for all APS teachers, students and parents to access education content and a safe-search environment.

As the kids progress through the program over the next two weeks, the Akron CYC team will be dropping in to invite parents to participate in CYC training so they can support their child’s use of the new laptop computers. The CYC team will also receive referrals from teachers who participated in the training and have already been invited to promote the program at several “back-to-school” events.

More information:

Lebron James Foundation – Wheels for Education press release

Lebron James changes focus of Bikeathon – Ohio.com

Understanding NetTrekker, For Parents (CYC Elective)

Lebron James encourages the APS 3rd Graders to “listen to your teachers, accept help from your community and stay in school".

Use the slides to lead a discussion of who your customers are (clients, funders, partners) and how best to provide superb customer service.

As with all CYC training materials, the slides have a Creative Commons license encouraging others to use them.

CBAIS had 220 participants representing 23 states (plus the District of Columbia and Taiwan!). Based on the conference evaluations and the wiki, the hottest topics were:

• Sustainability
  • Session Notes – Sustainability through Community Engagement
  • Blog Post – Sustainability Through Community Engagement
• Evaluation
  • Session Notes – Program Evaluation Strategies Panel
  • Session Notes – Data Gathering Tools & Process for Evaluation
  • Session Notes – SBA & PCC Training Programs Evaluation Designs
  • Blog Post – BTOP: User v Subscriber v Adopter
  • Blog Post – Evaluation: What and how are you measuring your impact?
• Sharing Resources (during and post conference)
  • Session Notes – Sharing Training Materials (*Lots of useful links on this page!)
  • Wiki Page – Next Steps
  • Blog Post – Digital Inclusion Resource Sharing

We’re cleaning up the wiki to help make content easier to locate. The wiki will remain live andand we will continue to approve new users.

We are very grateful for all the support we received in putting together the conference and the overwhelming level of comaraderie we observed among the conference participants.

Teaching Tech to Seniors from Angela Siefer on Vimeo.