The Hive Learning Community in Chattanooga

The Hive Learning Community in Chattanooga supports connected learning experiences in the Chattanooga, Tennessee metropolitan region.

In 2014, Hive Chattanooga is supporting the development of these learning experiences through the Gigabit Community Fund.

About Hive Learning Communities

Hive Learning Communities use the connected learning principles and the practices of Hive to operationalize a learning network. They draw heavily from the experience of existing Hive Learning Networks whose leaders function as consultants and mentors sharing information about structure, program design and strategy. Local facilitators adapt tools, practices, frameworks to their local contexts.

The Hive concept has developed into a grassroots movement with Hive Learning Communities forming around the globe. Current examples include Hive India, Hive Kansas City, Hive Berlin, and others. Learn more about the three tiers of hive.

About the Gigabit Community Fund

The Gigabit Community Fund Fund, supported by the National Science Foundation and part of the broader US Ignite initiative, invests in organizations and projects that utilize gigabit technology to serve educational systems, support educators in and out of the classroom, and impact student learning. Projects supported by the Fund will build and pilot gigabit-enabled applications and associated curricula that have immediate, measurable impact on classrooms and informal learning organizations in Chattanooga and Kansas City. Through these pilot projects, Chattanooga and Kansas City will become living laboratories in which to study how these next-generation networks can impact education and workforce development.

Projects

Spring 2014 Pilot Projects

Adagio: Remote Audio Mixing

Adagio is a collaborative, cloud-based music education app. RAM allows both professional musicians and aspiring student musicians to manipulate multi-track audio recordings in a simple, intuitive interface on any device. A beta of this application will be piloted with the Chattanooga Public Library and with music classes at Barger Academy of Fine Arts, a local public elementary school. Learn More

Hyperlocal Hyperaudio

Hyperaudio is an audio/video in-browser remixing platform that invites anyone to create their own new media narratives using locally produced content. In partnership with the Chattanooga Public Library, the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Public Education Foundation, and the Chattanooga History Center, Hyperaudio has teamed up with local content providers in Chattanooga to develop a content remixing curriculum with measurable educational outcomes for both informal and formal learning environments. Learn More

Viditor

Viditor is an online video editor entirely based in the cloud and composed of modern and open web technologies like HTML5, CSS, JQuery, and more. Viditor, created by two University of Tennessee at Chattanooga students, makes advanced, collaborative video editing available to everyone. Viditor’s beta launch will be piloted with digital art and design classes at Baylor School and at the Chattanooga Public Library’s teen center. Learn More

Summer 2014 Pilot Projects

Building an App from the Ground Up

The Creative Discovery Museum: An application-creation toolbox and digital record that will serve as a design blueprint for other youth-serving organizations in Chattanooga and beyond. Learn More

devLearn

Duncan Ingram, Inc: A mobile coding application for elementary school students which recognizes that, for many across the digital divide, cell phones are a primary means of internet access, and will build critical capacity for Chattanooga’s gigabit future. Learn More

GigBridge

Global Excel Tennessee: A high school student-led project bolstering English language and digital literacy skills (while improving access to health education) in underserved communities, teaching ESL students to construct interactive mobile applications focused on obesity education and prevention. Learn More

The GigLab

Chattanooga Public Library: A venue for access to gigabit connected resources for the purposes of workforce development, application testing and education, the GigLab is the first public-access space of its kind. Learn More

Viditor

Viditor is an online video editor entirely based in the cloud and composed of modern and open web technologies like HTML5, CSS, JQuery, and more. Viditor, created by two University of Tennessee at Chattanooga students, makes advanced, collaborative video editing available to everyone. Viditor’s beta launch will be piloted with digital art and design classes at Baylor School and at the Chattanooga Public Library’s teen center. Learn More

Wireless Earth Watchdogs

Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences: By building a student-driven, real-time water quality monitoring system using micro-controllers, the Wireless Earth Watchdogs, in collaboration with Hixson High School and the Chattanooga Public Library, are pioneering a multidisciplinary approach to digital and engineering education. Learn More

Events

Ongoing Events

Demo Calls

Join us via Google Hangouts on the first Friday of every month at 11am Eastern to learn more about the gigabit innovations developing in Kansas City, Chattanooga, and across the country! Want to learn more or sign up to present? Find info here.

Lots of yack.

June Demo Call
July Demo Call

Meetups

Fall meetup schedule coming soon!

More Hack
A monthly night of action! Come connect with a team, dig into a proposal, or get to work on a project.

Community Coffee

Third Thursday of Every Month
4:00-5:00PM ET
Camp House
1427 Williams Street

Slightly More Yack
Casual, caffeine-fueled conversation about Hive CHA, the intersection of technology and education, and connected learning.

Maker Party

Hive CHA joined with the Chattanooga Public Library to celebrate Maker Party on Saturday, August 2, 2014. Check out pictures of this awesome event!

Recent Hive Chattanooga Blog Posts

• Gigabit Blog: Mozilla in CHA's Gigabit Ecosystem
• Webmaker Blog: Summer Pilots
• Gigabit Blog: Chattanooga Spring Pilots
• Gigabit Blog: New Report Reinforces Gig City Focus on Access and Inclusion

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Photo Credit: Mary Barnett, Chattanooga Public Library