In addition, we maintain the following prioritized lists of what we're working on this week, and what we plan to do next week:

Year 1999

Deliverables & Timelines

A. Update & create existing student curriculum to an online format at the "Countdown To Supercomputing® - Online" website and make it 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. (1998-2000)
        1.Convert the existing student curricula into an electronic format. (FY 98-99)
        2.Move the electronic format into web pages on an internal private intranet site. (FY 99)
        3.Update the student curricula with current applications & technologies. (FY 99)
        4.Publish the web pages in an external public Internet site. (FY99)
        5.Setup an information site for the next phase (Teacher Modules) on the external public Internet site. (FY 99-00)
B. Create Teacher Technology modules at the "Countdown To Supercomputing® - Online" website through a series of online tutorials on the technologies being utilized by the students. (1999-2000)
        1.Design the five teacher technology modules; (FY 99-00)
        2.Preview the teacher technology modules on an online environment. (FY 99-00)
        3.Implement the needed corrections, suggestions, and changes learned from the 'Pilot Phase.' (FY 00)
        4.Publish teacher modules to the external Internet site. (FY 00)
        5.Conduct the  'Train The Trainer' sessions on the external Internet site. (FY 00)
        6.Implement the needed corrections, suggestions, and changes learned from the 'Train The Trainer' sessions on the external Internet site. (FY 01)
C. Provide additional support for Native American programs and specifically additional Alliance coordination for the AIHEC effort on the "Tribal Computational Science Program" website.
        1.Create a 'Project Management Website' to track project progress. (FY 98-99)
        2.Provide Internet connections to all the Tribal Colleges. (FY 99-03)
        3.Conduct a ‘Faculty Internet Institute" at a Native American serving institute which emphasizes Internet, Networking & Distance Education Technologies. (FY 98-03)
        4.Identify 'Core Competencies' of all the Tribal Colleges. (FY 99-01)
        5.Identify 'Distance Education Models' that can be used by all of the Tribal Colleges to provide the 'Computational Science Program.'  (FY 2000-03)
D. Provide additional support for Native American programs by targeting the large Native American population in the southwest here on the "Native American Distance Education Community" website.
        1.Make supportive contact with complimentary Native American efforts at non-Tribal universities and colleges. (Ongoing)
        2.Support Tribal community efforts (Ongoing)

Year 2000

1. update the student curricula at the "Countdown To Supercomputing® - Online" website A-3
2. design the teacher technology modules at the "Countdown To Supercomputing® - Online" website B-1
3. compile the technology assessments to estimate cost of high performance computing Internet access for the Tribal Colleges on the "Tribal Computational Science Program" website C-2
4. conduct the Faculty Internet Institute at a Native-serving Higher Education Institute C-3
5. design "Mini-Institutes" for regional schools D-1

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Events

The 5th World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on  Education

August 1-8, 1999

AIHEC President's Meeting - July 31rst at the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) on Maui
Location: University of Hawai`i at Hilo, Hawai`i
 

AIHEC 18th Annual Conference on Education

March 20-24, 1999

AIHEC President's Meeting - March 20th & Tribal College Technology Coordinators Meeting - March 23rd
Location: Holiday Inn, Billings MT.

Supercomputing '98 - The Education Program Track

November 8-12, 1998

EOT-Alliance, AIHEC  & the The All Nations Alliance for Minority Participation (AMP) Project review.
Location: SC98, Orlando, FL.

Western Cooperative's Annual Meeting

Thursday - Saturday, 10/15-17/98

Alliance, AIHEC, NDATC, & the Montana Consortium  Project review.
Location: Western Cooperative's Distance Education Conference, Reno, NV.

AIHEC Project Management

Tuesday - Wednesday 10/13-14/98

Project review.
Location: AIHEC Presidents Meeting in Tennessee.

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Milestones and Deliverables

Q1 -- Project Management Websites

On-going development.
Summary report and Front Page prototype available.

Q2 -- Technology Assessments on connectivity options among Tribal Colleges

to be Specified out.
Anticipated completion: Mid April.

Q3 -- Provide "Network Administration - Train the Trainer Sessions" for  Tribal Colleges

Provide "Countdown To Supercomputing® - Online" to Tribal College Teachers & Instructors

          Provide Faculty Internet Institute at a Tribal College for Teacher Technology Training

Place: Haskell Indian Nations University on August 2-6, 1999
Projected completion: Mid Summer '99.

Q4 -- Release of "Tribal College Computational Science Implementation Plan, " version 1.0

On track to include Technology Assessments, On-line Curriculla (Network Administration and "Countdown To Supercomputing® - Online"), Cost Analysis, Feasibility Study and posible grant proposal options.
Projected completion date: August, 1999.

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