The digital divide is a crazy thing. I always thought it was an economic divide but today I learned that it goes deeper than that. Some parents don't want their children to have access to technology. They are afraid of technology.
About half the kids have email addresses and MySpace accounts. The rest don't have email addresses. Some said their parents don't allow them to have MySpace accounts.
So I helped the students who don't have established email accounts to start them on Gmail and then they filled out the Community Needs Survey on Survey Monkey. After they completed that, their job was to forward the survey to as many friends as possible. I am taking statistics in Grad School now, and the scientific term for that technique is called "Snowballing", which is a fast way to get participants in a desired community. You find a small sample, and they tell people they know.
Simultaneously as I had a group in the Computer Lab, Ms Iris worked with the other group downstairs on a project in Module 4 which was to take an established business and re-design their business card to make it more exciting.
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