Tribal Computational Science Program Community Web

WELCOME to our Community Web.

The vision of this project site may be:

"The Native American Distance Education Community:
On the Road to Forming an Indigenous Distance Education Institute"

The mission of this project site is:

1. Create a 'Project Management Website' to track project progress. (this site)
2. Provide high speed Internet connections (DS3 min.) to all the Tribal Colleges.
3. Provide Internet & Distance Education Technology Training to all the Tribal Colleges and other Native American serving Schools.
4. Identify 'Core Competencies' of all the Tribal Colleges and other Native American serving Schools.
5. Identify 'Distance Education Models' that can be used by all of the Tribal Colleges and other Native American serving Schools to provide the 'Computational Science Program.'

This project is the second half of funding provided by National Computational Science Alliance. The first half was awarded to AIHEC via Fond du Lac Community College and now in the second year, both Fond du Lac Community College and Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center (AHPCC) at the University of New Mexico (UNM) were funded to start planning,

"How a Computational Science Program can be implemented for Native Cultures."

What is Distance Education?

Distance Learning takes place anywhere that physical distance is between the student and the instructors. Distance Education is the result of distance learning.

 

April 19, 1999

• The AIHEC Scope of Work &UNM SOW pages go up

The Alliance award is received at AIHEC and now the milestones need to be measured for continued FY00 and beyond funding.

March 31, 1999

• The AIHEC Tribal College Internet Status Summary  page goes up

After attending the AIHEC Annual Education Conference in Billings, Mt. last week, we had a couple of Technology Meetings. The summary results are at The American Indian Higher Education National Computational Science Alliance Project Bulletin Board from the President's Technology Committee and Technology Coordinators meeting. Here is a summary of the AIHEC schools capable of utilizing some sort of Distance Education technologies, as well as an updated President's contact list.

March 18, 1999

• The Alliance '99 Chautauquas  page goes up

The National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) will sponsor Alliance ‘99 Chautauquas during 1999 at the University of New Mexico, August 9th and 10th, the University of Kentucky, August 23rd and 24th, and Boston University, September 8th and 9th. These meetings will be virtual technology road shows highlighting how technology will change the face of research, collaboration, and education in the 21st century and showcasing how the Alliance’s National Technology Grid (GRID) will stimulate the development of global, digital communities. The Alliance ‘99 Chautauquas are a project of the Partners for Advanced Computational Services (PACS), 16 organizations that serve as the Alliance’s regional gateways to the GRID.

March 15, 1999

• The Faculty Internet Institute '99  page goes up

The National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA) is proud to sponsor Faculty Internet Institute ‘99, a teacher training and student technology council program. During Faculty Internet Institute's initial one week training period, held August 2 through August 6 at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, participating teachers from ~ 50 Native American Serving Institutes will receive intensive technology training and explore innovative teaching strategies that impact gender equity in the classroom.

February 5, 1999

• The Tribal Computational Science Program Q1 Status as of February, '99  page goes up

This is a 1rst Quarter update of status of stated goals & objectives of the Alliance-AIHEC grants. It states the goals, status of them, and ACTION needed to update the status.

January 28, 1999

The NCSA - Education Outreach & Training (EOT) Goals & Objectives page goes up


This states the goals & objectives of the Alliance/UNM side of the partnering Alliance-AIHEC grants.

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 . 

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. 

A little bit of historical information is included below:

December 23, 1997

The College of Rural Alaska Technology Assessment Site  is started by Evans Craig. ( 7 Native Alaskan Schools, a part of the University of Alaska System)


This is an unsecured site, so it is to identifying participants, collecting data, and presenting unscripted first draft information. You do not need to request anything, just point your browser to it.

December 23, 1997

The North Dakota Tribal College Association's Technology Assessment first draft is completed by Evans Craig. ( 5 Tribal Colleges in North Dakota, most on reservations)


This is a secured site, so unless you are one of the principles of the project, you need to request a password.

April 17, 1998

"AIHEC Annual Meeting Keynote Presentation" Page  is added to the Schedule Area

The Navajo Nation Technology Assessment Update first draft is completed by Evans Craig. ( 2 Tribal Colleges & 5 branch campuses within 4 states) This was to update a 1995 document called "Developing the Navajo Nation - Information Infrastructure" by Jake Jacobson & Judith Skinner of JPL - Advanced Communications Laboratory. A current 1997 Assessment is added to speed the implementation of DOI's "Access Native America."

August, 1995

Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) conduct a Nationwide Assessment of Native Americans and Technology called "Telecommunications Technology and Native Americans : Opportunities and Challenges - 1995"

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