Net Buddies and Web Circles

 

MENTORING circles.

A mentoring circle will be formed with a web page at its center. Each participating group can have its own web page and mentor circle.  They will  communicate through e-mail, phone, and broadband networks. The communications will be archived and much of it will will be saved as asked and answered questions.

Technology literate High School students and community technology leaders will work together with KLRN to produce a television series, linked to the web site, that can become the help desk for community network facilitators.   

The pilot project at Communication Arts High School will produce a television show built from  interviews of regional tech leaders.  The interviews will be three to five minutes and consist of questions formulated by the group. Two or three students will accompany professional crew to locations and ask the questions.

 The rough footage will be streamed from the web site for all to see.  The experimental group will prepare a story board  around these interviews with graphics, soundscapes, and music.  

The information generated will form the initial database for the mentor circle.

ISOC members Pleas McNeel, Charles Vaughn, George Ozuna will serve as producer/mentors to the Com Arts students under the supervision of  Com Arts teacher Heidi Whitus.

Susan Ives will energize the technology writers and ISOC Vice Presindent Bill Gonzalez and the crew at Web-Hed will mentor the server side interns.

KLRN will solicit participation from all schools  in the region.

Six months from now we should have found 12 to 30 of the brightest  "tech hip"  high school students who will be given paid internships.

They will work together over a broadband wide area network to devise ways to use the net to empower community technology facilitators by producing and TV series and a web site. 

Ultimately we will have a talent pool that can enable hundreds of facilitators,