Tag: Service Learning
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Collaborating For The Community
John Weatherford, in collaboration with Dr. Kristina Jaskyte in the School of Social Work, has been awarded a prestigious $10,000 VentureWell grant. VentureWell provides grants to support faculty who are helping students develop and launch STEM-based entrepreneurial inventions. Using this grant, John will work with Dr. Jaskyte to develop technology-driven solutions for non-profits through design…
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Chosen to Grow
At any moment—there are at least 13,000 children in foster care in Georgia and nearly 13 hundred of these children are in our community around Athens, Georgia. The area around Athens and the 12 surrounding counties is known as Region 5 of Georgia’s Division of Family and Children’s Services. Region 5 has more children in care than Wyoming, Vermont,…
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Another Service-Learning Fellowship Begins!
If you can’t tell, we take service-learning seriously at the NMI. With Grady’s Emerging Media Masters program growing in popularity, Megan recognized an opportunity to integrate service-learning into the young program and empower graduate students to build digital products that effectively serve their community. After pitching her idea in a competitive applicant pool, we’re thrilled…
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One Service-Learning Fellowship Ends…
As a finale to his year-long Service-Learning Fellowship through UGA’s Office of Service-Learning, John was invited to participate in a poster presentation at the national Consortium of University Public Service Organizations‘ annual conference. John’s presentation focused on his approach to bringing service-learning best practices to the inaugural service section of New Media Capstone taught this…
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SLQAT
What better way to break in the inaugural year of the Service Learning Capstone than to have UGA’s Office of Service Learning as a client? Cue the SLQAT team. The Service-Learning Quality Assessment Tool (SLQAT) is a tool used by the Office of Service Learning to measure every service-learning course offered at UGA. We’ve been…
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Service-Learning in the NMI
This semester, New Media Capstone has a new addition! As a part of the university-wide initiative to create experiential learning opportunities, 20 students were chosen to be part of the all-new Service division of Capstone. While a traditional Capstone team focuses on helping a client in the business sector or exploring a new device, these…
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Back in School, Back in Action
As always, the NMI had a busy but exciting summer. Although our fourth floor lab was empty, our instructors were hard at work teaching in less-traditional formats. John taught our largest ever online section of Introduction to New Media, NMIX 2020E, bringing over 100 students into the world of new media. Outside the NMI, both Megan…
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John Strikes Again!
It is no surprise that John is at it again! Recently selected as a 2017-2018 Service Learning Fellow, John will soon become a recognized campus leader in service-learning pedagogy and community engagement. Kicking off in May, the annual UGA Service-Learning Fellows Program is a year-long faculty development program that provides an opportunity for selected faculty…