Service Learning Video

Reflection on Service Learning 5/1

At our meeting we talked about different ways of making people aware of the genocide in Darfur. We also talked about different fundraising methods to raise money for t-shirts and rist bands to sell. The group leaders brought up an idea on going to other schools and making presentaions to make people aware and reading books about Darfur to children in elementary schools. Memebers of the group also volunteered to wrtie letters to advise people about what we our doing, making a imovie presentation on whats happening in Darfur, and finding books we can read to students in other schools to make them aware.

reflection on service learning 4/25

At our last meeting everyone shared the information they found on Darfur. The information was very amazing. At the last meeting we also watched a slide show of pictures during the genocide in Darfur. The pictures were traumatic. In the group we volunteered on topics we would go in dept on such as whats going on in Darfur now which I chose to do. The group is going well as of now. We have a lot to try and accomplish.

Reflection on Service Learning 4/17

At our last meeting our group leaders introduced to us a new idea for service learning. They told us about the genocide in Darfur. After hearing about the genocide it was evident that everyone wanted to help the people in Darfur after taking a vote. I believe its a good idea but the question everyone was left with was how much of what we do is actually going to help the problem in Darfur. The part I would like to play in my group would be the recorder.

Service Learning (africa project)

At our service learning meeting we accomplished what our goal was; better education. In our group we started to brainstorm on our strategies on how to collect money for our project. We chose to do "adopt-a-classroom" for a classroom in Africa. For our next service learning meeting for our group I believe we should finish brainstorming and settle on a good strategy for our collection of money. The ideas we started thinking about our very good.

Service Learning 2008

This year for service learning as my independent service i would like to do a walk for a charity. I would also like to volunteer at the hospital. Also I can volunteer at an after school program to work with younger children. During the summer I can volunteer at an enrichment program. With the school I think a school wide recycling program for plastic and aluminum.The school can have a food drive where we collect can foods and then send them to homeless shelters, and nursing homes.The school can also make breakfast bags which you bring in backaged breakfast food (edible for elderly people) and put them in a bag and send them to a nursing home.

Reflection on NHD

My NHD topic was "Sheltering Fever Orphans".In my group there were three people.NHD was a good experience. I have a complete understanding of what a Primary and Secondary Source is and how to create a annotated bibliography. It's nice to know that I've learned something that some people don't do until their first year in college. I've also learned that its not always the best thing to work with your friends on a big project such as NHD. The hardest thing to do for NHD was finding a large variety of primary sources. The Mother Bethel Church was a big help with providing us with one valuable source: the rent book. NHD wasn't as hard as people made it seem to be. One thing I think that should be changed is that we should start the NHD project much earlier since we spend so much time finding research. With more time we can split the process half and half : we can find sources for the first half and the second half we can start conducting our project. One bad thing about the project was we had restrictions on our topic: our topic had to have some connection to Philadelphia. It would have been better if we could choose anything we wanted. NHD isn't something I would want to repeat doing every year.