Instructional Team

Contents

1 Instructor and Project Manager
2 Learning Coach for CSL and Technology
3 Community Partner: Volunteer Calgary
4 Campus Partner: University of Calgary’s Centre for Service-Learning and Community Engagement
1. 4.1 Whom do I ask?

Editing sites and preparing presentations Teams are busy preparing their power points, handouts, and still working on their websites. Last week M-F I spent at least 10 hours communicating with teams outside of class ...
Posted Apr 12, 2010 12:37 AM by Tania Smith
Expert review days Websites are really shaping up now. This week Erin and Buffy visited our classes to provide feedback on the current drafts of the sites. Among other things, we learned about ...
Posted Apr 9, 2010 10:59 AM by Tania Smith

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Instructor and Project Manager

Dr. Tania Smith
Phone: 403.220.7774 (email is preferred)
Email: mailto:smit@ucalgary.ca

Assistant professor at the University of Calgary, and the instructor of this course.

Professional website: http://people.ucalgary.ca/~smit/index.htm

Dr. Smith has been involved in Community Service Learning leadership, fund raising, course development, and research since 2003. She currently serves on the steering committee for the Canadian Alliance for Community Service Learning.

Learning Coach for CSL and Technology

Carmen Groza

Email: cbgroza@gmail.com

Carmen is an U of C alumni with undergraduate service-learning experience and mentoring training & experience. She has a passion for coaching and learning. She will participate in most of our classes and designs labs / tutorials with Dr. Smith, but she has no access to your grades and won't be involved in grading. Her role is to assist you with making the most of your non-traditional learning in the class.

Education:

BA in Economics, University of Calgary
BA in Development Studies, University of Calgary
Curriculum Development & Instructional Design Certificate, Mount Royal University
Currently working towards Masters in Educational Technology at UBC

NOTE from Dr. Smith: Carmen was more than willing to serve purely as a volunteer this term, approx. 6-10 h per week!! The university generously offered grants for CSL course support this term, and I applied. On January 22, 2010 we received the good news that we can pay Carmen for her expertise and time.

Community Partner: Volunteer Calgary

Buffy St-Amand
and Zoe Fleming
Community Development Managers

Volunteer Calgary is a local community organization aimed at strengthening volunteerism in the community. In doing so, it is the organization’s vision that people with passion and purpose lead the way to vibrant communities.

The community service-learning (CSL) model is integral to Volunteer Calgary’s work in community development, specifically on our Youth Engagement through Education Strategy.

Volunteer Calgary provides agency preparation for our CSL community projects and provides appropriate and beneficial matching services between the U of C (students and their faculty advisors) and non-profit organizations. CSL activity in post-secondary education enables students to volunteer in the community as part of their academic experience and join the non-profit sector more easily. It thus provides opportunity to link them with volunteer experiences which our important to the success of developing tomorrow’s leaders and volunteers.

Volunteer Calgary’s membership is made up of over 400 voluntary organizations, and it provides an important link between these organizations and the people who wish to donate their time to enrich Calgary’s community.

Our member organizations can contact:

Buffy St-Amand
Community Development Manager
T 403.231.1425 | F 403.265.8981
Email: bstamand@volunteercalgary.ab.ca

Volunteer Calgary website:www.volunteercalgary.ab.ca

Campus Partner: University of Calgary’s Centre for
Service-Learning and Community Engagement

Erin Kaipainen

Manager, Community Service-Learning and Civic Engagement*

Phone: (403) 210-6509
eeakaipa@ucalgary.ca

University of Calgary's CSL website

The Centre for Service-Learning and Community Engagement supports the curricular and co-curricular service-learning at the University of Calgary and works with students, instructors and community partners.

The Centre seeks to increase the number of students engaged in service-learning, particularly course-based service-learning at the University of Calgary in order to enhance student engagement, student success and the student experience while benefiting the local community.

In 2009, the U of C surveyed faculty members who use service-learning in their classes, or are interested in using CSL, and used this information to launch a seed grant program for instructors using CSL in 2010.

The Teaching Innovation Grants in Service-Learning and Student Engagement were a pilot program, but the Students’ Union Quality Money initiative will allow us to continue this program to increase the profile of CSL and expand the number of innovative CSL courses offered at the U of C.

In addition to working with instructors, students and community partners for course-based service-learning, The Centre offers co-curricular service experiences through

Calgary Serves Canada (an alternative Reading Week program),
Calgary Serves International (an international service-learning trip in the Spring term)

and runs programs related to hunger and food security through the campus’ Meal Exchange chapter.

Erin Kaipainen* *and Dr. Smith have worked together on enhancing *Community Service Learning (CSL)* on campus in various ways since Fall of 2008.

Erin Kaipainen co-organized the engage NOW conference surrounding the Dalai Lama's visit to Calgary (Sept 30-October 1), at which Dr. Smith served as one of many panel presenters.

Whom do I ask?

^{T. Smith, 2009, with consent}

Dr. Smith -- course structure and design, course content in lectures and readings, course policies, assignment requirements, grading standards, learning resources, team crisis unsolved by other means, individual accommodations, technology issues.

Community & Campus Partners -- website audience needs/expectations, benefits and goals of our project, ethics of communicating on behalf of their organizations, resources related to their networks and areas of expertise, knowledge about their organization's communication practices, assistance in recruiting for interviews, links to community or campus people who may have answers.

Carmen, your Learning Coach -- mentoring on technology, support for course design & technology, community service learning, career mentoring, Editorial Coordinators' meeting facilitator, community development support. "Tell me if you have a teamwork or technology challenge, or are feeling discouraged, overwhelmed or confused, and I will try to help. In my regular meetings with Dr. Smith we discuss how the students are learning. Tell me if you want our consultation to be in confidence, so that if I can mention the issue without identifying you, I can keep your identity confidential. Normally, consultations with me may be discussed with Dr. Smith."

Your editorial coordinators (EC)-- internal team communication & coordination of tasks, chairing of meetings, internal deadlines. They don't always have the answers of course, but they can seek for resources for your team technology questions, team challenges, getting answers from Carmen and others.

Peers, including your EC -- collaborative learning, study groups, lecture notes and meeting notes, assignment brainstorming or outlining, technology tips, mutual encouragement and morale, peer review of drafts, team website editing, proposal & presentation planning.

U of C services, i.e. Writing Center, Counsellors, Librarians, Program advisors -- what does your hard-earned tuition pay for? Take advantage of all the educational and social support the university is offering to you. Many of the best and most successful students do. Even the strongest among us often need support.

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Tania Smith - Feb 6, 2010 12:15 PM

Above you will find attached the Partnership Agreement between instructional team members.

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