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