The Scholarship of Engagement Community at the University of Illinois
Request for social media grant reviewers
[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
The Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in Higher Education is looking for Grant Reviewers for a special initiative sponsored by the Corporation.
This special initiative, supported by a $450,000 grant from Learn and Serve America over three years, encourages college students to use social media tools such as Ning, Facebook, WordPress, Flickr, YouTube, Myspace, and Twitter to support service-learning projects in their communities. Students take a conventional service or service-learning project and enhance it by using existing technology and free social media to:
• Connect and collaborate with a community partner to define the need and develop a plan
• Recruit their friends and fellow students to participate in service
• Reflect on what they've learned
• Document the results
We’ve designed a subgrant process and have released an RFP (which can be found at http://www.studentsbeyondboundaries.org/index.php?option=com_conten... that focuses on engaging college students in service-learning using social media to recruit, collaborate, reflect and report on service-learning projects. Successful applicants will address how their proposed work will meet the goals. A project might involve a religious studies class using LibraryThing to create an online catalog of a church library, or a chemistry class doing lead paint abatement in older homes and recruiting painting helpers through Facebook, or a student business organization working with a nonprofit through a wiki to develop a business plan.
We need volunteers to review three to five grants each, that are about 3-6 pages, between the dates of October 19, 2009 to November 13, 2009. An informational conference call will be provided on May 28, 2009, at 10 am. For more information about this initiative go to our website, http://studentsbeyondboundaries.org.
If interested, send a brief summary of your background and your contact information to the Midwest Consortium:
Email: info@midwestconsortium.org
Phone: 402-472-9638 or 402-472-6219
Fax: 402-472-8140
Midwest Consortium
200 Nebraska Union
Lincoln, NE 68588-0453
The Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in Higher Education is looking for Grant Reviewers for a special initiative sponsored by the Corporation.
This special initiative, supported by a $450,000 grant from Learn and Serve America over three years, encourages college students to use social media tools such as Ning, Facebook, WordPress, Flickr, YouTube, Myspace, and Twitter to support service-learning projects in their communities. Students take a conventional service or service-learning project and enhance it by using existing technology and free social media to:
• Connect and collaborate with a community partner to define the need and develop a plan
• Recruit their friends and fellow students to participate in service
• Reflect on what they've learned
• Document the results
We’ve designed a subgrant process and have released an RFP (which can be found at http://www.studentsbeyondboundaries.org/index.php?option=com_conten... that focuses on engaging college students in service-learning using social media to recruit, collaborate, reflect and report on service-learning projects. Successful applicants will address how their proposed work will meet the goals. A project might involve a religious studies class using LibraryThing to create an online catalog of a church library, or a chemistry class doing lead paint abatement in older homes and recruiting painting helpers through Facebook, or a student business organization working with a nonprofit through a wiki to develop a business plan.
We need volunteers to review three to five grants each, that are about 3-6 pages, between the dates of October 19, 2009 to November 13, 2009. An informational conference call will be provided on May 28, 2009, at 10 am. For more information about this initiative go to our website, http://studentsbeyondboundaries.org.
If interested, send a brief summary of your background and your contact information to the Midwest Consortium:
Email: info@midwestconsortium.org
Phone: 402-472-9638 or 402-472-6219
Fax: 402-472-8140
Midwest Consortium
200 Nebraska Union
Lincoln, NE 68588-0453
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