This is not about simple "access" or e-mail use. Here's why having Internet experience could be beneficial to those now without it: - People on or beyond the periphery of decent living standards can find community resources they need: to write resumes, to gain in-demand skills (both technical, literacy and social), to search for and find jobs, and to know what their options are.
- CTC's help people obtain free education and books from non-commercial sources, possibly even providing the equivalent of a high school or college education.
- The hands-on time debunks the myth that computers are only for the highly-trained elite, thus encouraging many more people to flourish in these fields (ALSO benefiting employers who need more talent in the labor pool).
- A currently isolated person can become socially involved, able to study, participate in and influence national and international advocacy and decision-making.
For information on the CTC's being supported and how you can find "Digital Inclusion" efforts in your local area, please check the LINKS AT LEFT and on the HOMEPAGE. Thanks for your consideration.
Best regards, Deirdre Weaver, E-mail: deirdrew({[at}])personalradar([{dot]})com
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR...
DEIRDRE WEAVER is chief cook, bottle-washer, mother, maid, nurse, lawmaker, cop, judge, jury, ghost-buster, tutor, nose-blower, banker, meat-cutter, shoelace-tier, clairvoyant, wailing-wall, coach, handyman, chauffeur, art critic, cheerleader, mechanic and breadwinner. And contrary to popular belief, Miss Weaver (Annie Banno in private life) really does have a life.
It's just a little rusty, that's all.
She twice interviewed to write for the old "Late Night with David Letterman" show, after sending her material, unsolicited, to the head writer in the late '80s. He referred her to "that new Mouseketeers show at Disney." (Nice people there, too, but she didn't get that job either) She also wrote, cast and starred in two stage ensemble TV-satires in high school, which Long Island Newsday's TV Critic Marvin Kitman reviewed as being "funnier than some stuff I see on television these days."
That wasn't saying much, then, either.
"The Wave," included in , won Honorable Mention in her college's
Gerard Manley Hopkins Poetry Competition...
There. That would be about it, in the Kudos Department. See, she told us it wasn't much.
Oh, I guess she does get some things done these days as a lowly blogger whose stories do sometimes get paid publication and other kinds of notice. Loosely-Braided Fog
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