Does anyone know if there will be an annual CTCNET conference this year? I checked out their website and found two contradictory pieces of information.
One here that says there will be no conference due to strategic planning and one here that claims there is one and it shall be in LA in June/July. Talk about contradictory.
I call upon the powers that be to straighten this confusion out.
Carl Seifert
VISTA in VA
In our conference call I agreed to provide information about what commercial database my organization decided to go with. Although, I'm not sure exactly who asked for it. So whoever you are...here it is. Social Solutions is the name of the company. They specialize in social service organizations big and small. They have clients that are 5 employees and hundreds, from Girl Scouts of America to Computer CORE (5 employees). The database software is called ETO (Efforts to Outcomes) and is built around the idea of tracking successes and clients. …read more
Does anyone know if there will be an annual CTCNET conference this year? I checked out their website and found two contradictory pieces of information. One here that says there will be no conference due to strategic planning and one here that claims there is one and it shall be in LA in June/July. Talk about contradictory. …read more
For all of you interested in new media (web 2.0 stuff), a local npr radio show just did a segment entitled 21st century media. For those of you who went to this past summer's CTCNet Conference it is the show of the closing speaker ( Kojo Nnamdi). He is a brilliant host and I enjoyed listening to it. It is available for streaming download and podcast here.
Hey guys, Does anyone work with adult computer literacy programs? I was hoping to peek at how others covered the topic of saving files. Our students seem to not get 'save as' and 'send to.' I'd love to see how other programs approach this topic, so we can adapt our curriculum. I love best practices :). If you know of a program, somebody who runs a program or have a link to a program, then I would be very appreciative. Thanks! Carls
Carl the powers that be have confirmed that the conference is OFF. In the next few days I'll be sending out an email to VISTAs and supervisors about this since that was the default conference that all CTC VISTAs were expeceted to attend. We will be making the NTEN conference the conference of choice instead. But we are always open to alternatives if people find others that are more in line with their work and interests. --Paul
Paul or anybody,
As far as these conferences go, who exactly pays for them? Is it the responsibility of the sponsoring organization or does the Corporation pay for that?
I'm looking into going to NTEN and I need to know where my funding is coming from.
Thanks,
Carl Seifert
Hey Carl,
Yes, your org is supposed to cover you going to a conference (see Expectations page - http://www.ctcvista.org/expectations). It used to be the CTCNet conference, but now it's anyone that you think would be appropriate. We are going to try and organize groups of VISTAs going together to conferences - it all should be covered in your next monthly conference call. There will probably be more of the TANP VISTAs at NTEN but there should be a strong showing.
-Danielle