Guilford College Bonner Love: CET Part 1 Online Training 90 min

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PART 1: ONLINE TRAINING
Volunteers, Community Service and Community Scholars

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THIS IS A SELF-PACED EXERCISE. IT TAKES ABOUT 90 MINUTES.

1. Some Other Ways of Being
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Recalibrating your cultural frame: Wade Davis on TED (22 minutes)

What Community Volunteering is Not
Volunteering is not a frivolous or minor activity that comes second to “serious” academic work, athletics, Greek life, or other “essential” campus life activities.
Volunteer work is not amateur hour.
Volunteer enthusiasm cannot take the place for experience and expertise when they are needed.
Volunteer work is not about the volunteer.
It is not charity work.
It is not about unlimited, selfless giving, followed by exhaustion and burnout.
It is not an activity that could just as well be performed by high school students.

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2. What do we mean when we say community building is not for amateurs?
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Brave Promotoras: Santa Ana Health Crusade (24:50 minutes)

Community Service and Servants
Government civil servants are not servants, but highly skilled career professionals.

Refugee service providers grew out of the volunteer tradition but have sought to professionalize the work without clear standards or career track.

Community service is sometimes motivated by religious or political beliefs, for example, when someone says she is serving in the name of God, or in the name of her country or people.

In olden times, only servants served. However, we no longer live in a time of Downton Abbey. And in America, we have never fully accepted the idea of class. Community service is also associated by some with onerous busy chores assigned by judges to first-time offenders. Very confusing. So what is really meant by community service?

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3. We should really get over the idea that people not like us are helpless...
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If we're not ready to be amazed, we're going to miss a lot.

Overcoming physical limits: Technology with a purpose (3:08 minutes)

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Overcoming physical limits: What you can do with just a bicycle (5:38 minutes)

Community Organizer, Community Building Sarah Palin famously mocked Barack Obama for being a “community organizer” on her way to defeat in the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. This was an odd criticism to level by a social conservative, since community organization implies building and preserving social order.

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4. In urban streets, young people from New America have their own sense of identity and style...
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Modern Takes on Tradition (02:48 minutes)

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Southern culture meets Southeast Asian culture: Montagnard youth in GSO (10:11 minutes)

5. Reframing the Guilford College Volunteer and Community Service Learning Experience
It is an opportunity to be accepted into another community.
It is active or engaged learning — learning by doing.
Kinesthetic engagement is memorable and often life changing because it is effective.
It does not compete with “required” courses and individual’s time, it complements and completes the individual’s learning — especially if that individual’s learning takes place only in a “bubble” — a mediated, limited and protected space that minimizes or eliminates risk or challenge.

6. Community engagement success is measured by the impact you make...
• On the site or project, on the needs of the community or on the lives of community members
• Through the formal documentation and presentation of your findings to campus community members

The Greensboro-Guilford County Learning Lab
The more quickly we erase classroom boundaries and redefine the City of Greensboro and Guilford County as a Learning Lab, the more quickly we will achieve the goal of active learning and community-engaged problem solving and social change.

The City of Greensboro and Guilford County are undergoing rapid demographic and economic transformation. Neighborhoods and communities must benefit from the resources and talents represented at academic institutions just as academic institutions must take an active role shaping the future of the region’s neighborhoods and communities.

It’s up to you to use the environment to enrich and sharpen your learning skills.

PICK ONE VIDEO TO WATCH. EACH WAS PRESENTED AT PROJECT COMMUNITY’S FALL 2013 COMMUNITY SERVICE INSTITUTE CONFERENCE...

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