Project Description:  Plan and implement the social media strategy for the Refugee Center. Post each day, Monday through Friday, on their Facebook page.

Project Description: Work for DarcyLear.com (a microenterprise) on social media and other tasks. Click here for details.

Project Description: Work on two public events.

1. Read Across America. Plan, promote and carry off a Spanish-language booth at the Read Across America event on Saturday March 7 10:00am to 1:00 pm. Ask me to forward you the e-mail that includes the brochure and the form to request a booth. Review of Read Across America.docx Here is a review from the 2013 group who completed the project. Posters: Read Across America Posters. Read Across America Facebook Promotional Video (Must Be Logged in to Facebook to View): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151530360369804&set=o.253850621292582&type=3. Memory Game Images: Memory Game Images.doc  
2. Public Engagement Symposium. March 10, 2015. Please note the February 6 deadline to submit the proposal. (Look below to see samples from previous years.)

Project Description:  Write and submit a grant proposal. Search for appropriate grants. Examples:

• Public Engagement Student Fellows.
• State Farm Youth Advisory Board Service Learning Grant: http://www.sfyab.com/
• What else? Here is a link to a data base: Grant Forward. For example, this grant came up using the search term "youth led": Youth-Led Social Change Grants
• Talk to our librarians; they can help you search for appropriate grants. 

Project Description:  Work with Dr. Pilar Egüez Guevara on issues of food justice. Here are some possibilities, but the details will be worked out with her:

• If there are students interested in film-making, Spanish language and food, a nice project would be to edit a short video about a traditional dish in Esmeraldas. I have the footage but haven't had the time to edit it. In fact I have several ones in line, some from Ecuador, and others from Cuba. It would be lovely to have students engaged in the production of these films somehow.
•  Otherwise, we could do something similar to what we have done in our ethnographic documentary summer course. In that case students would go out, find informants/consultants, conduct a few interviews and produce/ shoot the preparation of a dish. I don't know if any of this may be of interest. Here is a short video of what we did last summer in Bahia, although the videos the students filmed haven't been edited yet. http://quinuaqueens.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/anthropology-of-food-and-ethnographic-documentary-seminar/

Public Engagement Symposium:  Design a poster and handout materials and present them at the Public Engagement Symposium and the

Social Entrepreneurship and Service Learning Showcase (or a different venue if the showcase doesn't take place this year) to promote the work of SPAN 232 & 332.  (OJO:  Note the Wednesday, January 30 deadline to submit your proposal for the Public Engagement Symposium.)  Poster content and/or handouts would be a profile of a former SPAN 232/332 student, the impact the courses had on his/her studies, and how the person is still engaged.  (Prof. Abbott can give you some leads for people to contact to interview.)  If your proposal is accepted, you will present it at the symposium.  Click here to see how last year's students handled this project.

Poster: 

Spanish_in_Community_Marlee_Susie_Taylor.pdf, ALGO DE VALOR.docx

Handouts: Symposium_ShannonVilmin_Testimonial.docx, Symposium_JessicaFaus_testimonial.docx, Symposium Handout Comparison Chart.docx

Video: https://www.dropbox.com/s/85w360cfi1eg6ff/Public%20Engagement%20Symposium%20SPAN%20232%20%26332.m4v?v=0mwns

Reflection: Public Engagement Symposium and Service Learning Reflection.docx

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