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Using this Site
This page provides a detailed "How To" on using the many features of the
Forsyth Futures website. For more information on the framework and background
of the Forsyth Futures, visit the About
the Project
page.
EXPLORING
THE FORSYTH FUTURES WEB SITE
The Forsyth Futures homepage is the portal to all of the features of the
Forsyth Futures, providing access to the individual data components,
charts, graphs and data
which make up the
2006 and
2009 Making Progress Reports.
All features
of the project are easily accessible throughout the website homepage and
the sector headings at the top and bottom of each web page. Click the
title of the feature you want to explore.
GENERAL
NAVIGATION
The Forsyth
Futures web site is categorized topically according to the 5 main focus
areas covered in the Making Progress Reports. They are Economic
Self Sufficiency, Educational Success, Engaged Community, Physical and
Mental Health, and Safety. The entry point for each of these focus
areas is located on the navigation bar located towards the top of each
page.
The Forsyth Futures tracks change and
progress in 5 focus areas though approximately 50
individual measures or indicators. Each focus homepage is the portal for the
findings and analysis of the 2009 Forsyth Futures Report.
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related to Forsyth Futures can be seen in the top. The include
recent publications, contact information, a glossary of terms
used in this site, raw data used in this project, background
information on Forsyth County and PDF versions of the 2006 and
2009 Making Progress Reports.
These links appear in the top
right of the web page. Moving your mouse over each topic
and clicking on the appropriate topic will take you to
information about the topic. |
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The focus area include: Economic
Self-Sufficiency, Educational Success, Engaged Community, Physical and
Mental Health and Safety. You can reach any of the Focus Area Homepages
by clicking on one of the five sector boxes in the
header atop every page. They can also be reached at the bottom of
the page in the white headings.
FOCUS AREA
HOMEPAGES
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Headings for Focus Area |
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Headings to navigate individual indicators |
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Each focus area comprises an extensive overview that
includes the definition, metrics and results about what
stakeholders and experts from Forsyth Futures and the results
teams have identified as necessary for the
2009
Making Progress Report. Beneath the Key Current
Realities, users can view individual categories within each
of the 5 sectors. These individual categories comprise
various sections within each focus area of the Making Progress
report. Under the Indicators / Measures,
users can be linked to a
web page with each these individual indicator.
These individual indicators are comprised of 7 sections.
All information for an individual indicator is located on a
single page. Depending upon the indicator, all information
can be seen within the view. For most indicators, however,
users will have to scroll down or use the headings to navigate
to their particular information.
The headings include the
importance of the individual indicator, the metrics used to
measure it, how Forsyth County measures in regards to this
indicator, any figures or maps used to express this metrics and
data credits, currentness or data and data sources. It
also include links to the latest Initiascapes for each
indicator. At this time, Initiascapes are available in PDF
format. There
is a placeholder for other useful graphics, maps and tables that
could not be integrated into the 2009 Making Progress report,
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TUTORIALS
A few tutorials are provided
to help show users how to navigate various elements of this web site.
Provided are variety in different file formats. If you have
trouble viewing the files within the web page, you can Right Mouse Click
on the Link and Select 'Save Target As' to view it on your computer.
Files sizes will vary, so please be patient when viewing or uploading.
Please note that the WMV files are a bit lower quality than the AVI and
MPEG files to allow for easier downloading.
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| Tutorial 1:
Looking at Education Attainment indicator within Educational
Success focus area. |
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| Tutorial 2:
Looking at map of obesity throughout Winston-Salem Forsyth
County schools within the Physical and Mental Health focus
area. |
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| Tutorial 3:
Opening the Health Coverage Initiascape within the Physical
and Mental Health focus area. |
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3.6 M |
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| Tutorial 4: Finding
the definition of Infant Mortality within the Glossary |
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| Tutorial 5:
Viewing the SAT Long Term Report, an external report, used
with the Educational Attainment indicators |
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5.9 M |
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| Tutorial 6:
Viewing the Educational Attainment focus area in Spanish |
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| Tutorial
7:
Finding Forsyth Futures telephone number and contact
information for Dr. Doris Páez |
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11.4 M |
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4.6 M |
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