2015 EPIK Report

Better late than never, here is the 2015 EPIK Deliberate Digital 2015 Report. Executive Summary Early-year Meetings Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 community meeting plans were in direct alignment with goals set at the beginning of the year. Community members were brought together to pool knowledge of and information about access to data resources relevant…

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Digital Citizenship Positives Pilot Launch (11-10-15)

We had a great Positives Pilot Launch meeting, facilitated by EPIK (in collaboration with Paula Plant of USOE, and hosted by Carrie Rogers-Whitehead at the West Jordan Library). The intent of this meeting was continuing support of HB213 implementation. This report will include a brief summary of the meeting, including links to meeting handouts and…

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Envisioning Digital Citizenship (9-9-15, Part 2)

This is Part 2 of the report of the meeting held on September 9, 2015. (You can read Part 1, reports on the Hackathon and HB213 implementation here.)     After the excellent updates from Shannon and Paula (see Part 1), the group engaged in the working portion of the meeting, focused on Envisioning Digital Citizenship.…

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Short-term Wins Report (9-9-15, Part 1)

We are excited to give you a report of our recent EPIK Alliance meeting, which was held on September 9, 2015 at the West Jordan Library. Many thanks to Carrie Rogers-Whitehead for hosting.   This update will come in two parts, via two separate posts. In this post, we will share highlights from the reports…

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Issue Mapping – Kearns Youth Council

One of the principles we at EPIK try to stress as we talk with community members about raising children in a digital world is “Not about them without them.” We don’t want to just unite community leaders to do something for or about children and youth, but to do something with children and youth. Youth should be…

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Network Weaving {Phase II: EPIK Alliance Meeting Report}

You can read Part 1 of the Meeting Report here, which includes a report of the discussion at the beginning of the meeting, and a summary of Phase I in the EPIK Alliance Collective Impact effort. The work of this meeting was network mapping, with the intent to do what is called Network Weaving. Some background…

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Phase I Summary {EPIK Alliance Meeting Report}

We had a productive and exciting meeting on April 1, 2015. Our meeting was hosted by Celina Milner, Community Relations Specialist & Special Projects Manager for the Salt Lake County Mayor’s office. Thanks to Tanya Harmon, as well, who helped prepare meeting materials. (To see the full presentation that was used as a guide for the…

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Data Resource Pooling {Phase I + II: EPIK Alliance Meeting Report}

(Note: This post has been updated from the original to include updated “next steps” information that was emailed to Alliance members and interested community members after the report was created. We’ve also included the agenda image and headings which were missing in the original.) The latest EPIK Alliance community collaboration meeting was held at the West Jordan…

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Bountiful Youth Council Meeting

Thanks to the Bountiful Youth Council for another “Not about them without them” youth discussion about the positives and challenges of technology. You can see the outputs of their meeting below. (Everything written on the sticky notes was organized into a document for easy reuse and further discussions.) These outputs were used in later meetings.

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