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Community Computer Refurbishing Center Program TechExchange refurbished technology renewed hope
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About the Program Partnership with Here’s Life Inner City and TechMission TechExchange serves as a template for; Other ministries to start a community tech center Current tech centers to expand their offerings Churches/ministries/organizations to develop into a more wholistic program I.e. TechExchange-Los Angeles, TechExchange-Santa Ana, TechExchange-Chicago, etc. TechExchange
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About the Program cont’d The TechExchange center is in the warehouse of Here’s Life Inner City-Los Angeles and prioritizes students from the HLIC ministry network and AC4 members. We facilitate a ‘train the trainers’ approach. TechExchange can take on a variety of aspects. We are focusing on technology training and hardware redistribution. Technology Training –We are beginning with a computer refurbishing focus –We are a Microsoft Authorized Refurbishing Center TechExchange
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About the Program > Technology Training Personal Computing 101- Build your own computer 4 weeks/4 hours per week Week One – Hardware – Introduction Week Two – Hardware – Build a Computer Week Three – Installing and using Windows Week Four – Installing and learn an office suite (Open Office, Star Office, etc.) TechExchange
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About the Program > Technology Training cont’d The TechExchange classes are all low cost (not no cost) Maintains a ‘train the trainers’ approach All classes have a strong ‘hands-on emphasis’ TechExchange
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Personal Computing 101 > Week One Look inside the box - What is a motherboard - What’s the difference between RAM/ROM -What’s a CD, Floppy, and a Hard Disk -What are all these other boards for? Look outside the box -Keyboard, Mouse -Monitor -Printer TechExchange
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Personal Computing 101 > Week Two Take our Computer apart Rebuild it Once its built, does it work? It works, great. If it doesn’t, lets troubleshoot -Open it up and make sure everything is connected -Make sure CPU and Ram are seated properly -Make sure all cards are seated properly TechExchange
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Personal Computing 101 > Week Three Operating Systems -Windows – what is it -Now we know what it is, lets install it Now, it’s installed, what do we do now? -My Computer -Windows Explorer -Internet Explorer TechExchange
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Personal Computing 101 > Week Four Star Office -Install it It’s installed -Brief intro to word processing -Brief intro to spreadsheet TechExchange
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About the Program > Hardware Redistribution The redistribution component will happen two primary ways; Each Personal Computing 101 student will have an opportunity to earn a free computer The remaining computers will be granted to local ministries and AC4 members seeking to begin or expand their technology usage and programs TechExchange
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Case Study> An Inner City Pastor Los Angeles, CA 81 years old No previous computer training, only some word processing Never been on the Internet Learned how to take a computer apart and put it back together. And it worked! Went out of his way to make it to class Took computer to his church and started using it immediately. TechExchange
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About the Need Who’s not online; Adults with low levels of overall education - 87% of adults (age 25+) with less than a high school education, and 60% of adults with only a high school degree Hispanics - 68% of all Hispanics, and 86% of Hispanic households where Spanish is the only language spoken Blacks - 60% of Blacks 86.3% of households earning $75,000 and above per year had Internet access compared to 12.7% of households earning less than $15,000 per year. Sources: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use of the Internet, February 2002 and Falling Through the Net, 2000 http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/fttn00/contents00.html TechExchange
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About the Need cont’d Computers at school A far higher percentage of Hispanic (39%) and Black (45%) children rely solely on schools to use computers than do Asian and Pacific Islanders (11%) and White children (15%). More than twice as many children from single-parent families use computers only at schools as do children in two-parent families: 41% of children in female-headed households, 32% in male-headed households, and 17% in households with two parents. Source: U.S. Department of Commerce’s 2002 Report on Internet Access & Use http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn/anationonline2.pdf TechExchange
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About the Need cont’d The future Nearly 75% of tomorrow's jobs will require use of computers. 80 percent of managers and professionals use computers at work, compared with 19 percent of laborers. 94.2 percent of workers with advanced degrees use computers, compared with 16.2 percent of high school dropouts. 54.9 percent of white workers use computers, compared with 43.2 percent of black workers and 32 percent of Hispanic workers. Sources: AWSEM -"Facts in Brief." AWSEM Gender Equity. http://www.awsem.org (2 Feb. 2000) and Diane Stafford, Survey shows high volume of computer use in U.S. workplaces, The Standard-Times October 29, 2002 http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/10-02/10-29-02/l02tr128.htm TechExchange
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About the Program > Contact Us www.TechExchange.org www.techmission.org www.hlic-la.org For more info call or email Kivi Harris at 323 568-1811 Ext.40 or Kivi.Harris@ccci.org Here’s Life Inner City – Los Angeles 2501 Industry Way Suite F Lynwood, CA 90262 TechExchange
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