Working with Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church

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Working with Morning Star Missionary Baptist
Church
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About Morning Star

• The People
• Their Mission
• The Facility
• Our connection(s)

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The People

• Pastor Terry
• Pastor Hubbard
• Sister Blanton
• Jeanne, Jane, Jan, Janine, Meghann, and Anna

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The Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church Mission

• To contact, cultivate and bring the lost to a
  commitment of Jesus Christ through consistent
  communion and celebration of God.
• http//www.msmbc-estl.org
• How does a computer lab fit in to this mission?

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The Morning Star Facility

• New building
• Temperature-controlled zone
• Sufficient power

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The Lab Options

• Sister Blantons office
• An empty room near the back entrance
• The church bookstore
• The ballroom

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The Chosen Space
Jane, taking charge (as usual . . .)
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Our connections

• Martin, Joyce, Jorge
• Prairienet
• ESLARP
• NTAC
• Digital ESL Project
• Morning Star (Sister Blanton, Pastor Terry)

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Challenges

• Communication
• Communication
• Communication
• Expectations

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Solutions

• Lab group brainstorms
• Change the format of communication
• Work on our own time
• Format our own project plan

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Example decisions

• The final lab space
• What computers would go in the lab
• The software we can supply

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Project Plan

• A computer lab with eight computers and a scanner
• Laptops mishap
• Two office computers

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Inquiry pages

• An internal source of documentation
• Another communication and expectation barrier
• http//www.inquiry.uiuc.edu Keywords Morning
  Star

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Software

• Open Office
• Xnview
• Netscape Navigator/Composer
• Photoplus
• Internet Explorer
• Adobe Acrobat
• Binder/Other

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On Site the Implementation

• Trials We already had them!
• Tribulations Loaves, Fishes, Krispy Kremes, an
  extra Gxa!
• Closure Meeting

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What We Learned

• Importance of documentation
• Concrete Methodology and Project Plan
• Troubleshooting on our own
• Finding Common Ground