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signing off

By Sarah Pierantoni and posted 2 weeks 1 day ago.

This year has put me in touch with so many opportunities, great people, and most of all experience in the indy media field. It was great to keep in touch with everyone, and I am off to Cali to get married before starting a 3 month volunteer gig in Denmark with an independent media program called FutureKulture.... read more

Year End of Service

By Jim Mora and posted 2 weeks 2 days ago.

Hello My Fellow Vistas! Tomorrow is my last day of service. I'll be checking in to see how everyone is doing! Best of luck to all of you and your future pursuits!... read more

CTC VISTA LOLnptech

By Ben Sheldon and posted 2 weeks 6 days ago. 1 comment

Looks like the CTC VISTA Project has made the big time: we got a CTC VISTA LOLnptech Cat. We is teh awsom. CTC VISTAs are digital natives. Your nonprofit's CIO is a digital immigrant. And if you don't know about the lolcat phenomenon, you should check out http://icanhascheezburger.com/ And... read more

research on computer use and child outcomes

By Gabriel Fishman and posted 3 weeks 1 day ago.

One topic that we've been discussing at length recently is the wisdom of efforts such as One Laptop Per Child, which aim to greatly expand home computer use among low-income children, especially in the third world. It has been taken as fact that computer access is beneficial to children, but is this... read more

Breaking the Surface

By Sarah Pierantoni and posted 4 weeks 3 days ago.

This is a video entitled "Breaking the Surface". It's a documentary of the GET: Girls Empowering Together project. Working with 15 students from central high school, the young women were taught leadership skills and worked with community mentors this school year. Program was... read more