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Projects - previous semesters

This is the list of the organizations we are supporting this semester. If you select one of these as your community service learning project, prepare a proposal for your project, and you can begin work immediately.

  • local community service learning


Other organizations and projects can be considered, but you must write a proposal AND get approval from the instructor BEFORE working on the project.

Community Empowerment

Community Empowerment - strengthening communities through training and support of community mobilizers to reduce poverty, increase self-reliance and develop leadership from within community. http://www.scn.org/cmp

Community Empowerment Collective creates, develops, produces and distributes training material and guidance aimed at community mobilisers, their trainers and their coordinators (managers) to promote the self reliance, development and strengthening of low income communities, with a focus on least developed countries, and in other low income areas.

The Community Empowerment training materials are available on the web. They are being translated into many languages already - notably English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Italian. The training resource library is constantly expanding with translations being added. Current translation initiatives include African and Asian languages. Additional translation volunteers with proficiency and fluency in any language are always welcome to help expand access to the Community Empowerment through localization.

Volunteers can participate in other ways, too. Illustrators, are especially invited to submit original black and white line drawing that depict community activities.

The Community Empowerment Collective is registered as a "Society" (Non Profit Organization) with the Province of British Columbia, Canada. Its budget is zero.

Community Empowerment Volunteers - community service learning opportunities

  • Illustrator - see Illustrator guidelines for details
  • PowerPoint summaries producer - see Computing overview
  • Translator - see specific instructions for CIS below


CIS2 Translators

  • Contact Community Empowerment volunteer coordinator ?? register as a UNOV indicating your language translation
  • Download and install Cat's Cradle - it is free. This program allows you to translate the content text without disturbing the HTML for the page.
  • Check out Cat's Cradle using some of your own text
  • The language coordinator will assign at test page for you to translate and will help you become familiar with the process.
  • Then work with the coordinator to translate assigned pages.
  • Maintain a log of your time and the pages you translate. This will help the Community Empowerment volunteer coordinator provide feedback and assist your instructor in evaluating this community service learning project option.


Cat's Cradle
http://www.tucows.com/preview/306058

CatsCradle is a software program that helps you to translate from web page to web page. It is not a mechanical translator. It puts the text of a web page into a box, and you type its translation into another box. It then looks after all the tags with controls and commands so the result is the same web page but in your language of choice. CC 3.5 allows you to translate into languages with non Latin characters, and those that write from right to left.

Mac users - Cat's Cradle
http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/CatsCradle-Download-6716.html


Tar Heel Reader

Books for beginning readers of all ages
http://tarheelreader.org/

The Tar Heels Reader provides a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces.

For this project, you will write your own books using pictures from the huge collection at Flickr or pictures you upload.

  • Read several of the books so you get the idea of how these work
  • Read the instructions to writing books. There are several different types of books - enrichment, transitional and conventional
  • Register
  • Create books about subjects of interest to you that are appropriate for college-age English Language Learners. Topics that are needed - math and science, working, studying, travel


Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org

There are over 25,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. The Project Gutenberg collection was produced by tens of thousands of volunteers. You can help. Distributed Proofreaders provides a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books. By dividing the workload into individual pages, many volunteers can work on a book at the same time, which significantly speeds up the creation process.

During proofreading, volunteers are presented with a scanned page image and the corresponding OCR text on a single web page. This allows the text to be easily compared to the image, proofread, and sent back to the site. A second volunteer is then presented with the first volunteer's work and the same page image, verifies and corrects the work as necessary, and submits it back to the site. The book then similarly progresses through two formatting rounds using the same web interface.

Once all the pages have completed these steps, a post-processor carefully assembles them into an e-book, optionally makes it available to interested parties for 'smooth reading', and submits it to the Project Gutenberg archive.

  • Register with the site as a volunteer.
  • Read the introductory email you receive and the Beginning Proofreader's FAQ.
  • Confirm your registration, sign in, choose a project, and try proofreading a page or two!


Local Community Service project

A Local Community Service Learning Project is also an option. If you currently volunteer at an organization, you can propose a community service learning project for that organization. This is more than volunteering. Your project must related to the CIS2 course topics, and follow the guidelines for community service learning. Let's talk about it before you proceed.

  • Email your Project summary and service learning analysis (see outline) to the instructor AND to your coordinator/ supervisor at the community organization for comment
  • Have the coordinator / supervisor at the community organization add comments and forward the entire email (your original email and their comments) to the instructor.
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