Creators: Emma Grainger & Kathryn Norris Course: Digital Storytelling & Social Media (Bhargava) This project was conducted in collaboration between the students and NE-CAT, where they identified a timely issues or event. Based on what the students have learnt about various norms, affordances, and constraints, they chose a single social media platform and 1) wrote…
Creators: Savita Maharaj, Talya Bernstein, Zoe Breslauer-Friedman, Jimena Chavez, Paula Soumaya Domit, Jasper Duval, Brie Fortmuller, Oona Foulser, Mio Hara, Abby Hartzel, Adrian Hach, Danny Heinrichs, Allana Knowles, Grace Mcgovern, Bruno Murillas, Maya Read, Ben Smith, Paloma Socorro, and Will Van Sant Course: 3308 Advanced Writing in the Social Sciences (Gonso) This is a reflection…
Creator: Nicholas Thompson Course: Big Data for Cities (Sheini) This paper discusses the service-learning component of the Big Data for Cities class. In the paper, I highlight how the city walks and guest speakers have influenced the work I am doing in the course….
Creators: Nira Kotay & Yuuki Nishida Course: Digital Storytelling & Social Media (Bhargava) The students had to create a persuasive story with your A2Empowerment’s mission in mind. The piece had the explicit goal of persuading your audience to think about the issue a certain way, or take action on a specific aspect of it. I…
Creators: Tara Meyyappan, Alex Stec, Erica Yang, Aarushi Basmatkar, Nandini Goyal, Virali Patel, Lakshmi Venugopal, Leah Cohen, Layan Elshihabi, Ari Kantorowitz, & Sasha Moscona Course: Writing Boston (Beerits) This semester, first-year students in Laura Beerits’s “Writing Boston” courses interviewed community members at the YMCA International Learning Center, an organization that offers wide-ranging English language classes…
Creator: Miguel Chica Course: 1111 First Year Writing (Garrett) My artifact is a blog essay that talks about my own experience with food insecurity and how service learning allowed me to become more aware of food insecurity and participate in the local community around me to help fight food hunger. I decided to do a…
Creators: Isaac Walker, Sidney Li, Matthew Tong, Adele Baughan, Riana Buchman, and Evan Rumsfeld Course: Advanced Chinese 2 (Dong) Abstract: This artifact is a a blogpost reflection of student takeaways from the Foster Grandparent program in the Chinese Advanced 2 course. Students met virtually with elderly members of the Asian American community in Boston to…
Creator: Riley Flores Course: Social Change and Human Services (Gardinier) Abstract: A blog post about my experience volunteering at 826 Boston and what the organization stands for….
Creator: Yu Xia (Lily) Chen Wu Course: Community Learning 2 (Bunning) Abstract: This artifact contains key words that emerged in the final course debrief session about memorable moments from the semester. The course focuses on the development of professional communication skills, and many students commented on how their feelings, attitudes, relationships, and involvement changed throughout…
Creator: Jeremy Breen Course: Psychosocial Aspects of Healthcare (Golub Victor) Abstract: This final reflection represents the process and lessons learned of a student’s Service-Learning endeavors. The student reflected on their virtual service-learning experience with Family Gym, while relating it to physical therapy. It is an excellent illustration of the impact service-learning can have for our…