These webinars are part of an ongoing professional development series sponsored by California Campus Compact, Iowa Campus Compact, Kansas Campus Compact and Minnesota Campus Compact.
Registrants will receive a confirmation email with log-in information for the webinar. The regular registration fee is $60.00 per login. Multiple people may participate in the webinar under one registration as long as they are using one computer. While the registration fee is non-refundable, all registrants will have access to the webinar slides and materials.
For more information, contact John Hamerlinck at john@mncampuscompact.org or 320-308-4271.
Using the Community Capitals Framework to Understand and Measure Community Impact
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
3:00pm – 4:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm – 3:00pm Central / 12:00pm – 2:00pm Pacific
Register at http://communitycapitals.eventbrite.com
Do you want to better understand and report the impact that your campus-community partnerships are having on the quality of life in your community? Are you looking for a way to show how individual partnerships complement each other and contribute to plans to achieve greater overall community and institutional goals?
Community Capitals is a framework that facilitates planning for and measuring community or organizational change. It is currently used around the world by community development practitioners and by researchers of asset-based development. Cornelia B. Flora, one of the originators of this framework, will present the concepts of natural, cultural, human, social, political,
financial and built capital and how they work together to sustain healthy ecosystems, economic security, and social well-being.
Supporting Rural Economic Vitality through Campus-Community Partnerships
Thursday, October 27, 2011
3:00pm – 4:30pm Eastern / 2:00pm – 3:30pm Central / 12:00pm – 2:30pm Pacific
Register at http://ruraleconomies.eventbrite.com
As anchor institutions with commitments to rural places, colleges and universities play critical roles in the economic vitality of their regions. That commitment can extend far beyond educating a workforce and campus employment and purchasing.
Join us in exploring innovative examples from both the Wealth Creation in Rural Communities initiative funded by the Ford Foundation, and from the Center for Small Towns at the University of Minnesota, Morris. Hear about campus-community
partnerships that have the potential to make a sustained impact on local economies in rural areas.
Facilitators: Yellow Wood Associates, The Center for Small Towns
Service-Learning in Online Courses: Practical Considerations and Strategies
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
3:00pm – 4:30pm Eastern / 2:00pm – 3:30pm Central / 12:00pm – 2:30pm Pacific
Register at http://onlineservicelearning.eventbrite.com
You have used service-learning in your classes for years and have now been asked to teach online. Should you incorporate service-learning in online sections of those same courses? If you decide to move forward, how do you deal with all of the logistics?
You have taught online for three years and you like the idea of adding an experiential education component to your courses. Where do you start?
This webinar will explore these and other challenges related to the integration of service-learning and online education by using a decision tree model that asks key questions based on individual goals and experience. Webinar participants will:
- Compare traditional service-learning courses with online courses and pinpoint options presented by both the challenges and the opportunities
- Identify multiple paths to online service-learning
- Examine options for identifying and engaging service sites
- Look at ways to overcome logistical challenges
- Explore unique opportunities that online service-learning may offer
Presenters:
Lisa Houle, Educational Technologist, Bethel University and John Hamerlinck, Minnesota Campus Compact, Center for Digital Civic Engagement