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Newsletter -- Universal Design
Mosaic RPM is volunteering it's time to
keep the Global Universal Design Educator's Newsletter going and
on-line. This bi-monthly publication of Global Universal Design
News, Calendar Items and Conference Calls is distributed to a mailing
list and placed online. To check out this vital source of Global
News for the Universal Design Community, click on the logo below!
We have been involved with this
project since it "re-started" in 2003! A typical issue is 15
pages long and contains a smorgasbord of UD news from around the Globe!
NOTE: previously financial
support for the newsletter had been provided by a federally funded RERC
on Universal Design and the Built Environment. NIDRR did not renew
funding for this priority. |
Genealogy
Have you checked out the "Genealogy from
Scratch" project? This exciting project tracks our steps as we
research several families who emigrated to the US in the late 1800s or
early 1900s and eventually met up in Chicago in the 1960s! So far
the project has investigated records in Russia, Poland, Quebec,
Wisconsin, Chicago, Pennsylvania and other locales! Click on the
tombstone to check out what we have and have not learned about the
families!!
The families involved
include: Bobeyko, Cortwright, Curry, Hawkins, Kamiak/Kaminsky, Matthews, Ozark/Ovcarik, Richard, Robichaud
& Woulf |
Grant Report Writing
Federal Grants don't
end with you receiving the money! All grants have accountability
standards and these include, for your larger grants, holding formative
and summative reviews and filing annual and project completion reports.
We have supported an entity as it filed it's summative review and more
recently it's final report with the Department of Education, Office of
Special Education and Rehabilitative Service (OSERS),
The National Institute on Disability and
Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). We had responsibility for
many of the data (versus descriptive elements) ... this included data
compilation, data analysis and presentation for the Dissemination,
Electronic Dissemination, Technical Assistance and Education sections. |
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researching note card pricing (online & storefront retail) & S&H pricing
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researching dynamic elements to include in web page presentation
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current packaging expectations
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identifying vendors for materials needed to print the cards
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identifying a shopping cart software and then implementing that service
(in this case Paypal) |
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creating photo albums to display artwork
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learning web-unique marketing methods such as "rings" and link exchanges
-- finding said webrings & applying to them. Similar to
identifying print and on-line "directories/yellow pages" to be listed
in!
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learning about web-affiliate programs and how they work ... are they
appropriate for such a business? |
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doing the classic market research of to whom and where does one sell
note cards ... both retail and wholesale/ consignment venues.
» how
to protect your copyright on graphics (ongoing research) ... do you
watermark your graphics (if so, what program do you use?), prevent
individuals from capturing the graphics, or ??? |
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Content Research --
General
This "general category" refers to researching the content of the
project. For genealogy this would be information relevant to
discovering a family history. For a newsletter, this would be
relevant calendar items and news pieces for the body. For details
on a particular topic, this might be relevant journal citations and
URLs. Depending upon the nature of the project, we might use: WWW
(or internet research) as an extraordinary source of
information that has facilitated acquiring relevant information;
whether the source is based in the US or anywhere on the planet OR traditional sources such as accessing
newsletters, visiting archives and records repositories, questions
and contact via e-mail, regular mail or phone. |
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Software/Tools Research
-- General
Realistically, it is the rare project that
doesn't take the researcher into new directions. The needs of each
project are a little different, necessitating different tools and the
tools/software available is frequently changing. For example, to
create this web-site necessitated learning Frontpage 2003. Now,
Mosaic Research and Project Management can offer a familiarity with
web-page creation. So, the capabilities of Mosaic Research and
Project Management are not limited to what it has done historically --
they are only limited by our ability to acquire new knowledge! |
Mosaic
Research and Project Management
