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Connect Your Community Project Curriculum

The Connect Your Community Project developed more than fifty curriculum modules for our trainees, ranging from basic mouse and keyboard technique to advanced Web searching and blogging.

Most of the CYC modules were created as PowerPoint presentations.  They are provided for public use under Creative Commons licenses.

CYC training overview (PDF)
CYC participant pre-assessment form (PDF)

Module: Introduction to Broadband and CYC

Basic skill modules: Computer Literacy
Mouse Basics
Keyboard Basics
Basic Hardware
Windows Operating System
How to use a browser
Web Based Email
Data Storage
Microsoft Office
Open Office
Mouse Basics (Spanish)
Keyboard Basics (Spanish)
How to use a browser (Spanish)
Web Based Email (Spanish)
Microsoft Office (Spanish)
Open Office (Spanish)

Basic skill modules: Digital Literacy 
Search Techniques
Evaluating Online Sources
Virus and Spyware
Online Identity
Online Privacy
Search Techniques (Spanish)
Evaluating Online Sources (Spanish)
Virus and Spyware (Spanish)
Online Identity (Spanish)
Online Privacy (Spanish)

Basic skill modules: Home Connect
Broadband Service
Purchasing a Computer
Computer Maintenance
Downloading and Installing Software
Broadband Service (Spanish)
Purchasing a Computer (Spanish)
Computer Maintenance (Spanish)

Connect Your Community electives
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  • Recent articles

    • Factsheet: Ohio’s worst connected midsized and large communities
    • New Census data: Ohio’s broadband divide is urban as well as rural
    • New Census info: Cleveland the worst big U.S. city for home broadband connections in 2019
    • FCC map: Cleveland blocks where AT&T speeds are still awful (and too slow for the COVID crisis!)
    • 23 Northeast Ohio communities with “zero broadband” rates of 25% or more
  • Blog Archive

  • Partners and Friends

    • Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center
    • Center for Healthcare Research and Policy
    • Connected Insights
    • Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority
    • Digital C
    • National Digital Inclusion Alliance
    • Urban Health Initiative
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