Hi, Paul.
I=B4ve believe this is my second letter I=B4m sending you. As far as I ca=
n see this
is a curriculum and might interest you that has not arrived to the corect
destination.
I=B4m sorry, I=B4ve read part of your letter but was trying to understand=
what is
all this stuff I suddenly became part of.
I work with Diana Bellessi, who edited a book last year togehter with Urs=
ula K
Le Guin. I=B4m also organising about ten conferences with different auth=
ors.
(Griselda Gambaro, Andahazi, etc.)As you must have realize by now I=B4m n=
ot an
american: this is Argentina i=B4m writing from.
The question is, what is Ink People Center for the arts in Eureka? That a=
ll
sounds very interesting, and then, can=B4t tell waht it is.
Bye, me (Ines)
Paul Dillon escribi=F3:
> I joined xmca (again) about a month ago and was only receiving posts, b=
ut no
> being able to send any. I sent this self-description at that time. In
> addition I made two comments on the "better living through chemistry th=
read"
> that I will repost (for better or worse).
>
> My background: Ph.D. Cornell University 1984 in development anthropolo=
gy.
> Technical advisor in planning 1984-1989. Research analyst for Los Ange=
les
> Community College District 1989-1996. Occasional teaching in anthropolo=
gy in
> the U.S. and Peru.
>
> Parent and go player.
>
> I work in applied social/educational research. Currently my work has t=
wo
> primary directions:
>
> (a) research on student pathways in community colleges: currnently
> completing the analyses for a small Spencer Foundation funded project
> focused on basic skills (remedial) student outcomes. Together with my
> colleague (GG Pathey-Chavez) we presented on this at the Montreal AERA.=
We
> are soon to be beginning a large, California Community College Chancell=
or's
> Office funded, multi-college, intersegmental (community college and CSU
> systems)
> longitudinal study of student pathways. This study will articulate the
> analysis of student transcripts with classroom based action research. =
The
> research is particularly focused on students who enter college with lit=
tle
> or no "academic culture". Our objective is to improve the teaching-lea=
rning
> process so they can achieve their goals and/or discover new horizons of
> goals to be pursued.
>
> (b) In conjunction with The Ink People Center for the Arts in Eurek=
a,
> California, I am working
> on the development of the Redwood Artists Information Network (RAIN) in
> Humboldt County, California. This is a project involving the developme=
nt of
> nine public access computer locales with broad band, wireless connectio=
n to
> the internet and full multimedia capabilities. We have pending grant
> applications with the Dept of Education and the Dept. of Commerce (TIAP=
P)
> Access to the public access internet locales is
> oriented toward low-income youth. who I sometimes think of as the new l=
umpen
> proletariat created through the demise of the once prosperous timber
> industry working class. (No more forests to cut down or mills to slice =
them
> up in). They will have the opportunity participate in group arts proje=
cts
> developed for the internet (webcasts, online galleries, research, webra=
dio
> productions, etc.). In addition to helping develop the grant proposal=
s, I
> will conduct the evaluation so it comes off as something of a field pro=
ject
> on the introduction of cyberculture into a primarily working class
> environment.
>
> I am also active in the development of community currencies in the Humb=
oldt
> Bay area. In particular, a fully computerized LETS multi-registry sys=
tem
> sponsored by The Ink People and (hopefully) an integral component of RA=
IN.
>
> I am hoping to be able to discuss some of the issues involved in the RA=
IN
> evaluation on XMCA where so much good thinking and discussion about too=
ls
> and learning and computer mediated interaction, among other topics, ha=
s
> taken
> place.
>
> Paul H. Dillon
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