Class Notes Thursday, October 22, 2009

Nice work, Ladies & Gents!

These notes were taken on various types of Service Learning Projects and how they can be taught by using various technologies.

Technology Notes

Chance

Cartoon movie extranormal.com
Civic values and active participation
Create a movie as a public service announcement


Z.
Create a lesson about using multimedia voting rights museum. Make lesson of own. Through skype, teach it to younger students. Website students can use forever. Show younger people how it is important.

Michael

Oral history. 1.5 million Americans nursing home. Isolated. Digital storytelling. Images with audio.

Adam

Voter registration/ get them to pre register to vote. Presentations, going to community center to get students interested. Incorporate media presentations to help get out the vote.

Megan
Human trafficking, 13th amendment. 17,000 people are trafficked. A non issue not discussed about. For high school students to spread awareness. Get into 4 groups to answer questions about how it is occurring in the real world. Use digital storytelling, pod casts. Letter writing campaign to congress. Website as a resource.
Taking it school wide. Also helps for students to recognize representatives.
Change twitter symbol or FB picture to awareness symbol. Social networking.

Jennifer

Letters electronically, to go overseas. Military and student interaction. Send different videos to people.

Jeremy

War on drugs, generating awareness. You tube clips changing times with drugs.
Important videos, images and music. Wikipedia going over all aspects of drugs.
Write representatives on a drug issue. Montage. Call to action.





Megan
Contacting soldiers through website to garner support. Weekly blogs, writing pen pal, upload videos, construct care packages. Soldiers from local community.


Liz
Operation Christmas boxes
Work with homeless, volunteer
Blogging and using zoozle
Pod cast reflection, make it personal

Eric
Using internet to improve lives of elderly
research project, communication outside of home. Life satisfaction
Teaching technology. Email, aim.

Megan
Immigration. Creating a Wiki. Presentations for school-wide viewing. Focus on culture and looking at school systems.

Mallory
Costs behind habitat for humanity. Glister. Interview different volunteers. Do research to find cost effective things. Students place reports on wikis, interviews families that have received homes.

Louisa
Nursing homes. Class wiki, vodcast. Help old people feel involved. Have a viewing party at the nursing home. Lives still important. Can compare daily lives.

Mark
Storybird. Global warming storytelling technique. Text and illustration. Keeps class involved with politicians.

Katy
Digital storytelling. Music, images, and texts. Visit local nursing home. Guiding questions. Getting to know elderly and students. Videos created by students about the interview/

Jeff
Local park. Environment. Building awareness of people’s effect on the environment.
Images with voiceover. Get people involved! Teaching experience for students. Wildlife awareness and conservation. Blog and videos acceptable.



Megan
Students research video turnout and stats in election. Look at social aspects of presidential elections. Using prezi to display. Interview with residents about past elections. Impact of media. Mini oral history project. Audio or video recording.
Return to the home to show the projects.

Brit
Increase voter turnout. Learn about frequency. Generate a survey, like survey monkey. Use of social networking sites. Action taken by students.

Nichole
Your vote. Students will raise awareness on voting by creating a campaign. Use google motion chart, trends from the past. Look at various demographics.

Angie
Educating students about individual rights. Look at declaration of independence and other primary docs. Individual rights. Small groups. Research topics. Class Wiki,
Can continue to use Wiki as a perpetual research.

Trish
Communicating with students in Japan. Expand socializing among different cultures. Letter exchange. Relate on perspectives on history and other subjects.
Wiki, assessment paper looking at bias and stereotypes
Opportunity to practice language, and confidence in something useful.

Allison
Patriot Act. Activity researching newspaper articles and how affected public opinion of Muslims. Research. Tradebooks, "Ask me no questions." Interviewing people's perspectives on the patriot act. Correlate today with WW2 Japanese perspective. Raising public awareness of government power.

Carrie
Unit on Cold War. Pick person, mural, landmark, etc. Come up with questions, wiki. Other classrooms and community invited to expand the wiki to cover more community history. Student articles will be published to bring awareness to the community.

Grizz
Geography of Haiti. Discuss school issues, systems, day to day aspects of learning. Cultural exchange between U.S. and Haiti. Class website collaboration between the two sets of students. Cover everything learned about each other and discuss any changes in perspective. Collecting funds.