What does Your Community Internet have to do with your Schools?

RAIN Community Internet worked with Homeplanet.net to create Camp Internet in 1994. Camp Internet is an online learning campus with classes and study programs for everyone from 4th grade through Adult Life Long Learning which has received a Smithsonian Institution Technology Innovation Award. Special study areas like Linux for High Schoolers and Adults, Ancient Southwest History, the History of the California Channel Islands, GIS data mapping, and Exploring the California BackCounty are just part of the new resources found within the Camp Internet online campus. Bi-lingual picture books in many study areas are available for younger students to give them access to all the exciting resources available for older students.

Our Camp Internet program is one of the strongest examples of the positive impact a regional non-profit Community Internet can have. Through Camp Internet and a valued series of grants from the USDA Rural Utilities Service, we have been able to train Teachers each year dramatically improving Technology Literacy Skills at all the schools we work with. Since 1998 over 25,000 4th - 12th grade students have used Camp Internet for at least one full year of curriculum support.

Go to:
http://www.campinternet.net to explore this innovative and valuable example of the services provided by your Community Internet Network.

Go to:
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/2007-2008/briefing-back-to-school-aug-20-2007.html
to read the Back To School Briefing for 2007.
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