This artifact is a collage made by the students that depict their time at each of their service-learning sites. The students spent their time with various community partners, working with students and adults. They brought in photos, drew pictures, and wrote about their experiences at each of their different service sites. Link to Artifact: View…
Partner: Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly (LBFE)
Building A Community Through Telling Stories
This artifact contains descriptions from students in this course of their favorite experiences through service-learning and photos of students interacting with members at our Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly community engagement sites. Our class focused on building strong relationships with our community partners through storytelling. This artifact represents the key elements of the…
Social Change and Human Services: Service-Learning Mind Map
This is a digital artifact compiled of student’s mind maps reflection service-learning, the lessons they learned, and the experience they had. It showcases the connections between the materials learned in class and the knowledge gained from community engaged experiences. Artifact:…
What I Learn From Them – Planting Knowledge
This semester I worked with Little Brother-Friends of Elderly. While helping older adults learn to use electronic devices, I found that they were also teaching me something. For example, in this cartoon, Donghai tells me about his planting experience and tells me how to grow autumn tomatoes. It made me realize that learning by volunteering…
Shuhan’s Reflection Video
A video reflection by Shuhan Zhang on her service-learning experience at Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly (LBFE). Artifact:…
Grove Hall Senior Center Stories
This project features work based on relationships and interactions between students and the older adults of grove hall senior center. All work is written and made by students in this course….
FSEM 1000: Connections & Decisions — Positive Experiences of Service
Our class worked with 5 different service partners where students did a variety of volunteer work. As so, we did not have one cohesive project but rather a lot of unique experiences regarding service. I chose to represent feedback from different students from each service site in this visualization to show the takeaways that each…
Connections & Decisions Service Learning, Fall 2023
This is a collection of thoughts that our students had about their service learning experiences. Since they volunteered at various community partners, we felt like this collage is the best way to encapsulate all their different experiences….
Student Interviews in Dr. Apfeld’s “Cell and Molecular Biology of Aging” Course
Dr. Apfeld’s course volunteered with seniors in the Greater Boston area through two organizations: Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly (LBFE) and FriendshipWorks. LBFE is a non-profit, volunteer based organization committed to relieving isolation and loneliness within the elderly. Specifically, our students participated in activities with the elderly such as playing card games, bingo,…