Words in Action: A First-Year Journey of Service and Storytelling” highlights the reflections of students in Professor Enos’s writing class, partnered with LBFE and IFSI through Service-Learning. Volunteering as language tutors, mentors, and tech guides, students connected with diverse communities while exploring the impact of communication and empathy. Their reflections reveal how writing and service…
Partner: Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly (LBFE)
Intergenerational Connection Through Service-Learning
In this First- Year Writing course, students participated in weekly service-learning opportunities through our community partner LBFE-Boston (Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly), and another local organization, 826 Boston, where some students also participated in mentoring and tutoring. Collaborating with program participants and staff at these partner organizations helped students learn to build intergenerational,…
Lessons from Little Brothers – Building Community Across Generations
The service learning the with Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly through their Digital Dividends and City Sites initiatives, is shown in this artifact and represents CS4120- Natural Language Processing students’ experience throughout the semester. They developed connections with the elderly by assisting them with technology and participating in social activities like storytelling and games, which emphasized the value of digital literacy, social…
Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly
This presentation begins by introducing the service site: Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly (LBFE). This organization plays a crucial role in supporting the elderly community. The subsequent slides will delve into various aspects of student engagement, including discipline perspectives, community analysis, action, impact, etc….
Community Learning 2 – Service Learning Reflection
Creator(s): Ke Cao, Dingnuo Xiao, Jiewen Zheng, Lujia Shen, Yuru Hu Course: ESLG0130 Community Learning 2 Through this thoughtfully crafted reflection video, we showcase the impactful service work of our Community Learning course students in various community organizations across Boston. As international students, they acquired vital skills during their service projects and gained a profound…
Investigating Accessibility and Connectivity in Dorchester
Creator(s): Reem Ahmed, Lee-Gray Boze Israel Collazco-Luciano, Eleni Kalantzi, Dong Nguyen, Nicholas Pietrinferno Course: PPUA5246 Participatory Modeling for Collaborative Decision-making Over the course of this semester, this student group engaged with representatives from Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly and other relevant stakeholders to create a StoryMap. This StoryMap starts by outlining the problem statement…
Speaking Russian with the Elderly
Creator(s): Alexander Serper Course: RSSN2102 Intermediate Russian 2 Throughout this semester, students visited various sites where they would spend time conversating with Russian elderly. The students came in once a week and were able to form great bonds with the elderly, while learning Russian themselves. A student even befriended and got the phone number of…
HUSV Social Change and Human Services: Student Reflections
Creator(s): Claire Molinich, Jasmine Gutierrez Course: HUSV1101 Social Change and Human Services Seeing as students from the HUSV 1101, Social Change and Human Services, performed direct service with their community partners, we have collected a myriad of student testimonies. In these accounts, students were able to put into words the impact of their service, takeaways…
CHNS3101 VEXPO Reflections
Creator(s): Trang Nguyen Course: CHNS3101 Advanced Chinese 1 This semester, our class partnered with LBFE, ABCD, and MLK School. We chose to submit pictures and students’ personal reflections as our artifacts because we truly believe in the authenticity of the work, and we are very proud to be a part of this effort in giving…
HUSV Social Change and Human Services: Student Reflections
Creator: Claire Molinich Course: HUSV1101 Social Change and Human Services Seeing as students from the HUSV 1101, Social Change and Human Services, performed direct service with their community partners, we have collected a myriad of student testimonies. In these accounts, students were able to put into words the impact of their service, takeaways from this…