In this issue we highlight the Family Daycare Radio Show as our featured WEB site. The Family Day Care Show is produced by Marian Turner and Michael Kauper's Family Child Care, with LOTS of help from friends, guests, and civic organizations.
The FDC Radio Show is the creation of Marian and Michael, who are full-time Family Child Care Providers, and part time amateur Radio and TV producers. In all, they have produced over 800 Family Day Care Radio Shows. The shows have been broadcast by KFAI Community Radio, 90.3/106.7 FM - Mpls./St. Paul, since 1978. KFAI is a local non-profit community-based radio station.
We feature the Family Daycare Radio Show WEB site for a variety of reasons. This site is MTN's first and only WEB site incorporating RealAudio. What this means is that once you download RealAudio software, - links available at the Family Daycare site - you can choose from a selection of six radio programs. Current topics include; Child Mental Health, Part A and B ; The Lost Art of Listening: Family and Business Communication ; Child-Parent Attachment and Child Care; Emily: a Child Care Substitute; and Teacheršs Aides in Child Care. All of the programs are between 30 and 45 minutes and can be heard in real time just by pointing and clicking. RealAudio is a great way to access information when it is convenient for you rather than when it is scheduled by a programmer. In addition, Internet broadcasting via RealAudio is also an exciting way to offer your programming to people all over the world.
The Family Daycare Radio Show addresses both daycare providers and parents with topics rarely addressed by the media at large. As Michael and Marian state in their WEB site, "We have been host to the author of The Baby Book and the author of Without Spanking or Spoiling, to Senator Allan Spear and Senator Rudy Boschwitz, to the presidents of The British Childminders Association and The Scottish Childminders Association, to the director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, and to the Minnesota Child Care Center Directors Association".
Michael Kauper reports that they have gotten some feedback and responses from people who have listened to the Internet broadcasts but Michael believes that most of the people who would be interested in the shows do not yet have the technology necessary to make RealAudio work. Michael states that they do receive a lot of email feedback from their WEB site particularly the section of the site which speaks to other Day Care providers.
Benton Update by Executive Director Pamela
Colby
The Minneapolis Telecommunications Network and our partner, Intermedia Arts, have been selected by the Benton Foundation and the National Endowment on the Arts to serve once again as a Mentor Site in "Open Studios: The Arts Online, Phase II". In 1997, Open Studio began the first national initiative to help artists and arts organizations serve their communities and develop their work through the Internet. Over one hundred arts and community organizations collaboratively developed more effective methods of building cultural audiences and resources online.
Open Studio 1998 will include up to two access sites in every state, and ten regional training sites throughout the nation, including Minnesota. The Open Studio access sites will offer free public access to the World Wide Web at selected cultural organizations. The Open Studio mentor sites will train artists to produce work for the Web and arts organizations to promote the arts in this medium. In 1998, MTN will train a minimum of 20 artists and/or arts organizations in World Wide Web use, including publishing and community networking, and provide each participant with free web space for one year.
In August, a judging panel met for two days reviewing this year's fifty applicants and choosing twenty participants. We will announce in the next MTN Monitor those chosen for the 1998 Open Studio program.
In this Issue:
Page One: Playback
Page Two: Playback - Cont'd. by John Akre
Page Three: MTN Profile
Page Four: Programming Notes
Page Five: E-mail from Mark
Page Six: Netscape: MTN Features / Benton Update
Page Seven: MTN Appeciation Night