Working with Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church
About Morning Star
• The People• Their Mission• The Facility• Our connection(s)
The People
• Pastor Terry• Pastor Hubbard• Sister Blanton• Jeanne, Jane, Jan,
Janine, Meghann, and Anna
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?
The Morning Star Facility
• New building• Temperature-controlled zone• “Sufficient” power
The Lab Options
• Sister Blanton’s office• An empty room near the back
entrance• The church bookstore• The ballroom
The Chosen Space
Jane, taking charge (as usual . . .)
•Our connections
• Martin, Joyce, Jorge• Prairienet• ESLARP• NTAC• Digital ESL Project• Morning Star (Sister Blanton,
Pastor Terry)
•Challenges
• Communication• Communication• Communication• Expectations
•Solutions
• Lab group brainstorms• Change the format of
communication• Work on our own time• Format our own project plan
•Example decisions
• The final lab space• What computers would go in the
lab• The software we can supply
•Project Plan
• A computer lab with eight computers and a scanner
• Laptops mishap• Two office computers
•Inquiry pages
• An internal source of documentation
• Another communication and expectation barrier
• http://www.inquiry.uiuc.edu Keywords: Morning Star
Software
• Open Office
• Xnview
• Netscape Navigator/Composer
• Photoplus
• Internet Explorer
• Adobe Acrobat
• Binder/Other
On Site: the Implementation
• Trials: We already had them!• Tribulations: Loaves, Fishes, Krispy
Kremes, an extra Gxa!• Closure Meeting
What We Learned
• Importance of documentation • Concrete Methodology and Project
Plan
• Troubleshooting on our own
• Finding Common Ground
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