Welcome to our Community Web.Take a look at What's
New in our Community Web. The Native American Distance Education Community:
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"to form an Indigenous Distance Education Institute that provides the necessary integration, connectivity and dissemination of widely separated resources and programs among the Native American distance education community. Now each region, school, tribe, consortium acts on their own, and each has unique programs and resources that could be shared by others. I envision a common place or means by which all could share their unique resources." |
"Click on the above image" to see a Conceptualization of the AIHEC Tribal Colleges utilizing the Alliances’ "Access Technology Grid" |
This Community Website is gathering, cataloging, and distributing high performance computing programs, tools, and resources from the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) for utilization by Native American serving schools, colleges, and universities. Institutional technology infrastructures are being assessed, and a feasibility study is being created to support infrastructure-funding proposals for high-speed connections to the Internet2 (vBNS) Research Network. A computational science curricula is being accumulated to be used by both faculty & students. The teacher programs being designed (e.g. Tribal Computational Science Program ) are being used to "Train Faculty" to use the HPC (Alliance) programs, tools, & resources and the student programs being designed (e.g. "Countdown To Supercomputing® - Online" ) are being used to run "Student Programs in Computational Science" by utilizing the HPC (Alliance) programs, tools, & resources.
This is being accomplished in two areas, Community Outreach and K-12 Educational Curriculum Development, through two programs:
Tribal Computational Science Program
The AHPCC is developing programs to reach Native American students in supercomputing and
computational science, with emphasis on Internet technologies and other related distance
learning technologies, in approximately 50 Native American serving schools.
Countdown To
Supercomputing® - Online
Countdown To Supercomputing! ® originated as a High School Native American student
program housed within a DOE sponsored “College Bound Program” at Southwest
Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The purpose is to make the
curriculum available to Native American Students in their high schools, at summer camps,
and at other institutes and forums where Native American students can access the web and
where appropriate support is available. The original purpose of Countdown to
Supercomputing is:
"To provide a culturally significant approach to utilizing technology at home, school, work and play."
The theories behind the Countdown website are included in this document.
e.g. Student at home on the reservation, taking a class at a local
Tribal College, without physically being there.
hey may use the PHONE for audioconferencing, a VCR for taped video courses, and a
COMPUTER connected to the Internet
for distributing class materials or using e-mail with the instructor &
classmates.
This is the second phase of this project to run through this Community WebSite, the first phase of this project, "Native American Distance Education" is archived in the archive section.
The original Native American Educational Resource page from 1996, is archived at http://eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/evans/copy_of_www_evanscraig_com/resources/NAeducation.htm
The following is a list of recent additions to our web. Whenever we publish a paper,
write a specification, submit a status report, or add anything else to our web, we'll put
a notice here. Every once in a while we'll archive the oldest items. The most recent
changes are listed first, and each item is linked to the page with the updated content.
Jan, 2003
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Kumeyaay Community
College Online
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Oct, 2002
| The
BRIDGE: Indian Training
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June, 2002
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Kumeyaay Community
College Online
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April 18, 2002
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Kumeyaay Community
College Online OPENS
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January 18, 2002
| Sycuan
Band of Kumeyaay Nation Language presentations
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December, 2001
| Pueblo Nations
Solution defined
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November 5, 2001
| Southern California Tribal Digital Village meeting for Tribal Representatives at San Pasqual Reservation in Southern California |
October 10, 2001
| Southern California Tribal Digital Village meeting for Tribal Representatives at San Pasqual Reservation in Southern California |
August 2, 2001
| HP Tribal Digital Village Technology Meeting at HP in
Southern California
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July 31, 2001
| Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) -
Office of Indian Education Programs (OIEP) at the Southern Pueblo Agency (SPA)
meeting
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July 11, 2001
| HP
Tribal Digital Village Meeting at the Barona Mission Band Reservation
in Southern California
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June 29, 2001
| Navajo Nation Community Development
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June 22, 2001
| International Society for Technology
Educations' 2001 Minority Leadership Conference
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June 11-13, 2001
| Smithsonian Institute - National
Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
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June 1, 2001
| HP
Tribal Digital Village Meeting at the Campo Mission Band Reservation
in Southern California
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May 23-25, 2001
| Alliance
All-Hands Meeting 2001
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May 20-22, 2001
| "Grid on the Go" Wireless Conference |
April 25, 2001
| HP
Tribal Digital Village Meeting at the La Posta Mission Band
Reservation in Southern California
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April 3, 2001
| All
Indian Pueblo Councils' Pueblo Nations Project Meeting
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March 22-24, 2001
| All ADEC Annual Meeting -
Safety Harbor Resort & Spa, Tampa, Florida
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March 16-19, 2001
| HP
Tribal Digital Village Meeting at the San Pasqual Mission Band
Reservation in Southern California
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March 4-8, 2001
| Global Grid Forum in
Amsterdam, Holland |
February 24-28, 2001
| NPACI
All-Hands Meeting (AHM) 2001 |
October, 2000 - January, 2001
| Current
Research: Statewide Wireless Tribal Broadband Network Identifying current wireless projects affecting Indian Country and utilizing the various approaches to create "Wireless/Satellite Internet Access Connection & Community Node Models." Conduct Community Technologies Assessments with the Tribes that are/could be affected by the Wireless Access options and Wireless Community Nodes options, as a way to access broadband (high-speed) Internet access. The approaches will help identify various models, according to specific Tribally defined requirements. The nodes will be able to implement EOT programs, from both Alliance & NPACI, a way for the both groups to start collaborating and implementing EOT programs across the groups, and is a pathway for providing high speed Internet access to Tribal Communities. |
October 14-15, 2000
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Indian Conference at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, CA California Community Colleges conducts a series of cultural seminars, presentations, demonstrations and workshops on Traditional methods used in the California region. |
October 12-14, 2000
| The
Tribal College Prosperity Game Conference All of the TCU’s digital divide efforts will be accelerated when a unique conference is held that is designed to forge a partnership between the private sector, private foundations, and federal agencies. AIHEC is determined to forge a coordinated effort between all of the major resource sectors in the United States in order to achieve progress on ending the digital divide in Indian country. |
October 2-6, 2000
| BIA ACCESS Technology Conference
at Mill Lacs Indian School in Omnia, Minn. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) - Office of Indian Education Programs (OIEP) |
April 17, 2000
| Dine' College becomes the "first" Tribal College on
the Access Grid |
April 1-5, 2000
| Collaborative
Grid Technologies in the Classroom |
February 22, 2000
| Collaborative
Grid Technologies in the Classroom |
February 8-12, 2000
| NPACI
All-Hands Meeting (AHM) 2000 |
December 13, 1999
| The
Native Digital Divide: A Review of Online Literature |
"What are the obstacles to
integrating technology
for improving education into Native cultures?"
According to reports over the last decade, the lack of Native American infrastructure development and accompanying skills needed to maintain it, cooperative Tribal commitments, and collaborative government policies are the most common barriers affecting Native communities. The full online report is at http://puffin.ahpcc.unm.edu/Community/Reports/NativeDigitalDivide.html and the accompanying Appendix A contains a listing of the online reports, papers, and groups are identified by date of issue, then summarized, the identified obstacles are listed, and the conclusions are stated. Other questions about Native American telecommunication
infrastructure are also answered, as well as suggested possible solutions that Native
communities can utilize to overcome these obstacles.
November 30, 1999
| Distance Education
Workshop A Distance Education demo workshop for Dine' College - Tsaile, AZ. students on Alliance Grid Tools & Visualization Tools at AHPCC. |
October 14, 1999
| Native Americans
and the Digital Divide
In this Benton Foundation publication, Digital Beat, they focus on the Native American population: describing the current state of telecommunications in Indian Country, exploring some of the complex challenges that tribes faces as they attempt to introduce and improve services on reservations, and discussing current efforts to help bring service to reservations. |
October 7, 1999
| Research
Foundations on Successful Participation of Underrepresented Minorities in Information
Technology: A Cyberconference The purpose of this NSF-sponsored Cyberconference is to identify research directions for the best approaches to increasing the participation and success of underrepresented minorities (Blacks,Hispanics and Native Americans) in the mainstream educational, research and job opportunities in Information Technology. The emphasis is on needed research that leads to solutions, soundly established on solid scientific bases. Your participation in this activity will inform the community of your perspectives. |
September 24, 1999
| Distance Education
Workshop A Distance Education workshop co-sponsored by Dine' College on Alliance Collaborative Tools. |
September 23, 1999
| Forming An Indigenous Distance
Education Institute A presentation on utilizing Alliance Grid Murals and vBNS access with the Tribal Colleges. |
August 7, 1999
| Distance
Education in Native America workshop A pre-session to the New Mexico Alliance Chautauqua 99 conferences |
August 1, 1999
| World Indigenous
Conference on Education in Hilo, Hawaii The 5th World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education was held in Hilo, Hawaii‘ from Aug. 1-7, 1999. Mahalo to all who attended, presented, and worked to make the conference a success! WIPCE 2002 will be hosted by the First Nations Adult and Higher Education Consortium at a beautiful site on Stoney Nation lands in the mountains just west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. |
July 31, 1999
| Information Technology
Report's that may affect our Tribal Communities summary
Presented to the AIHEC Presidents at the Maui High Performance Computing Center on Maui, Hawaii. |
July 8, 1999
 | The newest report's that may affect our Tribal
Communities |
June, 1999
| Techniques
for Evaluating American Indian Web Sites Guidelines for helping Web users to critically evaluate sites about Indian peoples. |
April 16, 1999
| A report recently released out of The Benton Foundation,
that you might want to forward to your Technology Coordinator is "Native
Networking: Telecommunications and Information Technology in Indian Country,"which analyzes the critical telecommunications and information technology
policy issues facing tribes at http://www.benton.org/Library/Native/ |
March 31, 1999
| The Tribal College Internet Status Summary page goes up Here is a summary of the Tribal Colleges capable of utilizing some sort of Distance Education technologies, as well as an updated Tribal College President's contact list. |
February, 1999
| Tribal Colleges: An introductionreport is available in PDF format. In 1995-96, more than 25,000 students were enrolled at 32 Tribal Colleges, unique institutions that incorporate culturally relevant curricula in their postsecondary programs. However, little is known about these institutions which serve geographically isolated reservation populations. This report present an overview of various aspects of tribal colleges—who enrolls, how the colleges are funded, what makes them unique, and the challenges they face. Overall, Tribal Colleges enroll a student population that is largely non-traditional, with high proportions of female and part-time students. Growth in enrollment has outpaced increases in federal funding, leaving the institutions underfunded and in search of additional resources. The colleges are actively involved in their communities, offering a broad range of services including small business development, childcare, and high school equivalency programs. This report is the first in a series of policy reports produced by the Tribal College Research and Database Initiative, a joint project of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and the American Indian College Fund. |
October 22, 1998
| The AIHEC Computational Science Bulletin Board goes up This message board is for the exclusive use of those involved with the The American Indian Higher Education National Computational Science Alliance Project. |
October 16, 1998
| The "Tribal Computational Science Program: From the Ground up !"
slides for the Western Cooperative For Educational Telecommunications Annual Distance Education Conference are added . |
October 12, 1998
| The "Albuquerque
High Performance Computing Center" slides are added
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| "The Survey of
Rural Information Infrastructure Technologies." A report prepared by NTIA's Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the availability of telecommunications technologies that can be deployed economically in rural areas at http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/its/spectrum/rural/ruralrep.html |
October, 1998
| CONNECTING
REMOTE FIRST NATIONS TO THE INTERNET - In
the remote regions of Northern Ontario, Canada, where telephone connections are limited,
and local Internet providers are non-existent, isolated First Nations have enhanced
communication services via K-Net since 1994. K-Net (Kuh-ke-nah Network) is a First Nation
computer conferencing system developed and managed by Keewaytinook Okimakanak, a First
Nations Tribal Council, based in Sioux Lookout. K-Net provides free Internet e- mail
services and public and small group conferencing services for the First Nations throughout
the area. Users can choose to connect to K-Net by either an 800 dial-up or via the
Internet, depending on available telecommunication services. First Nations are supporting
community access to the Internet working with Industry Canada's CAP and First Nations
Schoolnet programs. This project and the partnerships involved may have impact in distance
learning and economic development situations where telecommunication infrastructure is
limited, user computer skills may be underdeveloped, and distance is a natural barrier to
be overcome. |
October 1, 1998
| The "Tribal
Computational Science Program" project was funded
by the National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA) and we started by updating this website. |
November, 1998
| American Indians and Alaska Natives in Postsecondary Education - Technical report released 4 November 1998 from the National Center for Education Statistics. May be downloaded for free in .pdf format for viewing in Adobe Acrobat, or order a free print copy from the site. |
April 17, 1998
| "AIHEC Annual Meeting Keynote Presentation" Page is added to the Schedule Area |
February, 1998
| White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities - Thirty years ago, a movement began that would forever change the face of higher education in this country. American Indians, troubled because of a lack of higher education opportunities for their young people, began envisioning -- and building -- colleges and universities of their very own, first in a remote reservation community on the Navajo Nation, then throughout Indian Country. As the Tribal College Movement has grown over the years, evidence of the colleges' tremendous value and need has continued to mount; and in 1996, President Clinton signed Executive Order 13021 on Tribal Colleges and Universities. The White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities was created under that Executive Order. (See October, 1996) |
December 23, 1997
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May, 1997
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November, 1996
| Recommendations on the Integration of
Two Ways of Knowing: Traditional Indigenous Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge
- The Seminar on the Documentation and Application of Indigenous Knowledge brought together hunters, elders, researchers, and resource managers with expertise in indigenous knowledge, or traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). |
| 29 TRIBAL COLLEGES IN 12 STATES
TO BENEFIT FROM EXECUTIVE ORDER - President Clinton has signed an executive order that expands opportunities for federal assistance to tribal colleges and universities that serve approximately 25,000 American Indian and Alaska Native students. President Clinton's Executive Order recognizes, for the first time, a government-wide federal commitment to tribal colleges. President Clinton's approval of the Executive Order for Tribal Colleges and Universities promotes the same successful strategies as two other higher-education Executive Orders that he signed for Historically Black Colleges and Universities in 1993 and for Hispanic Serving Institutions in 1994. |
June 27, 1996
Internet Strategies for Empowering Indigenous Communities in Teaching and Learning - describes goals and strategies associated with the Four Directions initiative, which is one of 19 Technology Learning Challenge projects recently supported by the U.S. Department of Education. The focus is on systemic strategies which use the Internet to improve communication, both across and within the schools, while strengthening the local community's unique traditions and perspectives. These strategies include:
- improving collaboration within and across schools and communities through the use of electronic mail, teleconferencing and other tools to support collaboration;
- developing easy-to-use tools for community publishing on the Internet;
- developing a common structure for indexing educational resources according to thematic cycles and emerging national standards for Native American education;
- encouraging life-long learning by extending Internet access in Native American communities.
February, 1996
| KickStart Initiative: Connecting America's Communities to the Information Highway - Identifying Costs and Sources of Funding Helps to determine the cost summary for infrastructure development to connect the library to the Internet. The focus is on school and public libraries, and community centers. Categories of costs are listed for easy reference. The site also provides information on alternative sources of funding, how to reprogram existing sources of funding, and cost-savings measures. KickStart is an initiative of the United States Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure. KickStart is an initiative of the United States Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure. Created by President Clinton at the end of 1993, the 36-member Council comprised representatives of state and local government, and community, public interest, education, and labor groups--as well as creators and distributors of content, private industry, privacy and security advocates, and learning experts in NII-related fields. The reports were delivered to President Clinton on February 13, 1996, at which time NIIAC announced that it had selected the Benton Foundation to inherit the KickStart Legacy. |
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December, 1992
Pathways to Excellence: A Report on Improving Library and Information Services for Native American Peoples. - U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science - The Commission, in early 1989, began to verify, visit, and communicate with Native American peoples and their leaders and, in accordance with the Commission's statute, to report all findings and recommend viable solutions to assure optimal library and information services to Native Americans. This report is the culmination of this assessment and it presents ten major challenges for change to all concerned in order to initiate a process for dramatically improving library and information services for Native Americans.
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