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Dine College Trip Report

Richard Anderson. Dine College Trip Report. Dine College. 2 year Tribal College Established 1968 as Navajo Community College 7 sites, Main campuses Tsaile, AZ Shiprock, NM Current enrollment 1,830 students. Navajo Nation. 26,000 square miles Population (2000), 175,000 Long walk, 1863

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Dine College Trip Report

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  1. Richard Anderson Dine College Trip Report

  2. Dine College • 2 year Tribal College • Established 1968 as Navajo Community College • 7 sites, • Main campuses • Tsaile, AZ • Shiprock, NM • Current enrollment 1,830 students

  3. Navajo Nation • 26,000 square miles • Population (2000), 175,000 • Long walk, 1863 • Indian Removal Act

  4. Navajo Nation

  5. Tsaile, AZ

  6. Canyon de Chelly

  7. Spider Rock

  8. Computer Science Program • One Computer Science Instructor • BA Math, MS CS, PhD Philosophy • Lots of experience teaching at Tribal Colleges • Courses • CS1, CS2 • Reges and Stepp text • Hardware • Networking • Operating Systems • Web Design • Discrete Math

  9. Hardware Course

  10. MIT Summer Course • 5-week course on refurbishing computers • Rebuilt computers and made them available to the community • Visiting instructor from MIT

  11. Dine Multimedia Project

  12. Talking books

  13. UW ICTD Pitch • Met with students from CS courses • Presented a short overview of UW Developing World Projects • Used CAM as an example • Showed the CAM video from website • Mentioned medical protocols and digital study hall

  14. Senior Capstone Model (CSE 477) • Previous years – intensive quarter long project course • This year – Developing World Technology • Three quarter sequence • Background seminar • Design studio • Intensive quarter long project course • Goal – partner with student project groups at Heritage University

  15. Project Ideas (from students) • Animal identification and tracing • Erosion control • Plant identification • Artisan • Provenance • Connection of supplier to consumer • Recycling • Land records • Diet monitoring

  16. Animal Tracing • Cows, Horses, Sheep • Problems of keeping track of ownership • Identification of brands • Reporting of locations • Determining ownership of unbranded locations

  17. Erosion • Water is the critical resource • Student comment on “fence in the air”

  18. Recycling • Student comment on the need for the reservation to set up recycling • Issue identified of illegal dumping • Identifying • Recording • Publicizing

  19. Land records • “Everyone is involved in a land dispute” • Mention of existing services based on GPS

  20. Artists • Traditional arts • High value • High mark up • Competition with Mexican, Thai, Belgian, Pakistani imports • Opportunities • Connect consumers/producers • Support authenticity • Establish value • Issues • Artists often traditional, Navajo speaking • Cultural concerns • Business instructor found lack of interests in using eBay for marketing

  21. Plant identification • One student had worked on a summer project doing a census of invasive species • Data recording/identification done by hand

  22. Diet monitoring • Diabetes problem mentioned

  23. Indian cultural/language projects • These did not come up from the students • Very sensitive area

  24. Engineering Deployment Kits • Computing technologies widely applicable in developing world • Successful deployment requires deep understanding of local context • Basic technologies applicable in many different contexts • Design technology to support local modification / deployment

  25. Potential EDK’s • CAM • Digital StudyHall • DigitalStar • PDA support for decision trees

  26. Partnerships with Tribal Colleges • Strong interest in having technology applied • “We are a developing nation” • Problem areas are highly relevant to ICTD • Likely benefits to UW and TCs • But not likely to yield a large number of transfer students to UW • Partnerships • Need administrative support and faculty / student connections • Possible approach to work with AIHEC

  27. Possible next steps with Dine • Link to student project groups • Teach an Introductory Programming Class over the summer (aimed at transfer students) • Teach a Developing World Technology seminar at Dine over the summer

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