Here-in Our Motives Evolve, Inc. d/b/a HOME, Inc.

The Open Media Globe
Submitted by homeinc on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 15:46
Contact Information
Individual Applicant Name: 
Alan Michel
About the Center
1. Does your organization currently have a public computer center?: 
Yes
2. What is the goal of your public computer center? If it currently is not set up do you have organizational capacity for one?: 
HOME's Media Lab Partnership progam provides its partner schools with resources to create or expand their media literacy and production programs. Central to the partnership is the creation of a media lab; a shared space within the school equipped with Mac editing systems and production equipment, and a Media Lab Coordinator.
3. What percentage of content submitted to your station is posted online?: 
50
4. Will your organization's public computer center be available to all members of the general public or a specific population?: 
As of now, the media lab is only available to children and teenagers that are enrolled in public school in Boston, MA.
5. Do you charge membership dues or other fees to the population you are proposing to serve?: 
No
6. What is the disabilities status for members in your area? Check all that apply.: 
Blindness, Deafness or a severe vision or hearing impairment.
A condition that substantially limits one or more basic physical activities such as walking, climbing stairs, reaching, lifting or carrying.
A physical, mental or emotional condition lasting 6 months or more.
Center Capacity
7. For the following questions regarding your center's capacity, are the values current or proposed?: 
Proposed
Public computer center name and type.: 
HOME Computer Lab
How many broadband-related equipment units (e.g. computers, wireless devices) have you/do you intend to purchase overall?: 
15
Center's Broadband Connection Speed (MBps): 
1
Number of Persons served per 120-hour business week?: 
75
Number of Persons served per 48-hour weekend?: 
15
Center Demographic Information
8. What is the estimated population size of your service area?: 
609023
9. What is your service area identifier?: 
Suffolk County, Congressional District 8
10. What age distribution(s) will your center serve?: 
5 to 19 years
20 to 29 years
11. What ethnicity(s) will your center serve?: 
Hispanic
Non-Hispanic White
Non-Hispanic Black
Non-Hispanic Asian
12. What gender(s) will your center serve?: 
Male
Female
13. What is the median household income for the population your center will serve?: 
$50,000 - $74,999
14. What education levels will your center serve?: 
Elementary - Kindergarten to Grade 5
Middle - Grade 6 to Grade 8
Secondary - Grade 8 to Grade 12
College
15. What is the unemployment rate for your service area?: 
7
16. What describes the language preference of your service area?: 
English - Primary
17. Please describe your center's outreach strategy and how can you reach communities lacking broadband access. : 
We partner at four Boston area high schools: Brighton High School (from Fall 2007), The English High School (from Fall 2005) the Social Justice Academy (from Fall 2005) and Somerville High School (started September 2008)( approximately 25 multi media/ video post computers at each site) and provide media instruction and support at the schools reaching approximately 170 students per year and 20 during the summer and a summer six week intensive.
18. If you provide a computer checkout or giveaway program, how many users do you expect to provide equipment or computers?: 
Answer to be determined. We could provide laptop computers to students to take home or work with as special project tools. This could include as many as 5 per school for a total of 20 during the first year.
19. How will you measure the program's impact in reaching disconnected communities and increase broadband adoption?: 
We have an on line tool that requires a log in and we can track the use of the computers and the projects that the students are undertaking. This can greatly increase our ability to monitor and support students in their projects and in measuring their success against the classroom performance rubrics. We can also track students grades, attendance, and performance on the state standardized test.
20. Please describe your primary training and educational programs, including curricula, student certification programs, etc.: 
Here is an outline of our course. Week 1-3: Team Building: * Identify Skills and interests with student survey*Form Groups and discussion of project* Use brainstorming techniques to come up with project themes* Discuss the seven habits of media making * Begin research, surveys, focus groups, etc.* Projects become focused by end of third weekWeek 4-7: Skill Building:* Field Trip (venture out to see community projects are targeting/involving) build interview and field research skills* Train specific skill-sets from identified interests in student survey (i.e. editing, filming, sound, etc.)* Produce first rough drafts (scripts, storyboarding, schedules, etc.) and complete initial video projects (taping, lighting, sound and editing.)Week 8-10: Longer Projects:* Finish drafts* Begin Production on longer TTV program segments* Complete PSA’sWeek 11-12: Strengthening Research and Writing Skills:* Group sharing of what people are planning (all together)* Continue production* Field Trip #2 for additional program footage) build interview and field research skills* Edit program segmentsWeek 13-15: Final Projects and Reflection:* Complete post-production* Plan screenings and self evaluationsWe also do special projects with teachers and field production teams from our student production pool.
20a. How many hours of training do you/expect to provide per person on average through training programs(s)?: 
15 to 60 hours of training depending on type of class
20b. How many full-time instructors/facilitators do you/will you employ for broadband and digital literacy training purposes?: 
6 recdnt college graduates with degrees in media production or related fields. who are providing a year of community services in a program modeled off of AmeriCorps
Other Information
21. Is there evidence that less than 40% of your service population has broadband web access?: 
Yes
22. How will your center provide a $10,000 match of funds?: 
We expect that our media lab partners and possible HOPE, ( Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation) where our office lab is located, will contribute to this match.
23. Does your center currently have an online component or plans for an online component?: 
Yes
24. How do you plan to maintain a public computer center?: 
Answer to be determined.
25. How do you plan maintain a website for your station or for the public computer center?: 
Answer to be determined.
26. Are you interested in enabling your community to directly schedule any portion of your programming schedule?: 
Yes
27. Are you interested in sharing content with other public access TV stations?: 
Yes
28. How many total new home subscribers (households) to broadband do you expect to generate over the entirety of the program?: 
Since we are not a cable company we do not have a subscriber data base, however we are interested in determining a market for our youth generated, educational and social networking opportunities. In addition our school base should increase dramatically as our school labs sign on to the network. We anticipate having at least 210 active student producers involved in developing programming for our on lines sites.
29. How many total new business and/or institutional subscribers to broadband do you expect to generate?: 
We expect to have 10 by winter.