KA SID, posting 9/18/07

It's been a very busy two weeks for meetings not related to work or school (directly that is). We had the YMCA Garden Party where they introduce the new board members and the new chair, and also present the Andrew Carpendale International Award, which I was the recipient of this year. The next day we then had our Taiwan Camp celebration where all the kids and their parents and the YMCA board members on the diversity committee came to dinner at the YMCA and we played the 20 minute iMovie I made of the trip. They gave Tiffany and Rolf a beautiful picture signed by the kids and me a generous gift to Stanford Shopping center. Then a few days later we had our first YMCA board meeting of the year and again we showed a shorter version if the iMovie. I also had coffee with 2 people on our board the day before who are on our Human Relations Committee for the city of Palo Alto, to discuss diversity and the committee structure. It was a very interesting chat about their concerns, which I brought up at the end of the YMCA meeting the next day. Then on Sat. we had our first cluster meeting with Lee Mahon and Nickola Smith. A board member, Margarita Rosenthal also attended, along with several people from Southern California that are now working with Lee. It was almost 4 hours long and was a wonderful chance to meet people - several people are doing work in my area or are interested in what I am doing.

And then there were the political campaigns...my friend asked my son to play music at her kickoff for school board and that was a project - renting the electronic keyboard, then setting up 3 hours early and then playing for 2 hours. Plus 2 other events, and another one for the Foundation for a College Education tonight. Meetings should be over this week!!!

I am also reading Molnar, A. (1996). Giving kids the business : the commercialization of America's schools. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, and I plan to read Crawford, J. (1995). Bilingual education : history, politics, theory, and practice (3rd ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Bilingual Educational Services.

I also plan to apply to the Human Relations Commission (HRC) for the City of Palo Alto. I will try to get out of other commitments to make room for this.

- June

KA SID, posting 9/2/07

This week I focused on the digital divide in preparation for my meeting with Dr. Burton Cohen on Tues. 9/4.

11.1 Dowling, Meredith. (2001). Mapping a Future for Digital Connections: a Study of the Digital Divide in San Diego County, San Diego Regional Technology Alliance























11.2 Seung-soo, H. (2002). Summary by President of General Assembly at Concluding Plenary Meeting. Paper presented at the General Assembly Meeting on Information and Communication Technologies.

11.3 Osunkunle, O. O. (2006). Bridging the Digital Divide and the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in South African Universities: a Comparison Study among Selected Historically Black UniversitiesWhite Universities (HWUs). US-China Education Review, 3(3), 6. (HBUs) and Historically





11.4 Spanning the Digital Divide: Understanding and Tackling the Issues, editor Madanmohar Rao, Bridges.org, 2001.




















12.1 Johnson, R. B., & Onwuegbuzie, A. J. Mixed Methods Research: A Research Paradigm Whose Time Has Come. Educational Researcher v33 n7 p14-26 Oct 2004 (13 pages) Additional Info: American Educational Research, Association(1230 17th St. NW), Washington.

In addition to the reading, I have joined the AERA (American Educational Research Association) and my boss has approved my attendance at next year's conference Monday, March 24 - Friday, March 28. I am very excited about this opportunity.

I also had a conf. call with our reference librarian, Scott Hines, who teaches a class in EndNotes to make sure I was doing my setup correctly. Turns out, because of my background in application systems design and implementation, I have setup Endnotes and my excel spreadsheet in exactly the way he teaches in the class. The only thing I did not know how to do was setup the link to the libraries so I can download the references easily instead of typing them, and also how to download the references from ERIC, etc. We setup the templates in EndNotes for these 3 databases (ERIC, Stanford and UC). He also gave me the password to the PGSP libraries incase we have something at work that isn't on the Fielding website. He told me to always use ERIC from the Fielding website because it will have the "formatting" setup for Endnotes and it will be easier. I learned a lot!

that's it for this week.