It feels nice to be wrapping up my first week on-site as an Americorps*VISTA! Although my work will continue throughout the weekend this week has been a great start to my service year.
I watched "ONE" today. After examining Scott Boone's Exploring Teamwork Essentials (ETE) program kit. I really think that it would be a useful tool to utilize this. I think that if I can find enough students, or student groups that want to participate in this seminar, then we will implement it on campus.
ETE Website
The One Project
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The Urban Farming movement is beginning to excite me the more I research it.
A few relevant websites include:
Urban Farming
Green Living Technologies
Home Farming
Ellen recently had Taja Sevelle, the head of Urban Farming, on her show to advocate home and community farming and applaud Triscut* for their contributions to this movement.
The Peoples Water Board of Detroit is a group that is trying to rise above the mess that the city government has become in the past years. Student Activities is co-sponsoring Bridging Barriers in November in which some members will come and speak to our faculty, staff and students.
Began researching UNICEF campaigns and initiatives for Helen (ENG 102) to incorporate into her SLE curriculum. came across the Campus Initiative which seemed appropriate. There are a lot of steps to the process, but if we can successfully get UNICEF sponsorship, it would be a great capacity building tool for the college in the years to come.
UNICEF Campus Initiative
Had a meeting with co-sponsors of the Bridging Barriers speaker event that will take place on November 4, 2010. We also discussed Poverty Simulations which led us to wanting to invite them to Schooldaze next month
My first day in the office post-training has been full of information. Meeting relevant people, and getting familiar with the organizational culture that is Schoolcraft College SAO. I have begun creating databases to log: my hours, my weekly reports for my legacy binder, and contacted organizations' information. I am excited to get started on making this campus a more poverty-conscious community by building programs and hosting meetings that will all lead to a much wider scope of capacity for this campus.
I have spent a lot of time familiarizing myself with the the service learning website as well as other resources that PSO provided me with. I want to soak up as much information as I can so that I feel beyond prepared to educate others on the issues and to spark passions that people may not have ever realized they have.
articles to consider:
CNN - AIDS linked to Poverty
