GETTING CREDIT THE FIRST TIME! Tracking Your Service Hours

First things First What is Service Learning or Community Service?  Community Service refers to service that a person performs for the benefit of his or her local community. Step outside of your familiar environments and expand your horizons. What it is not?  It is not something you are paid for  It is not helping a family member or a parent’s business  It is not something that only benefits you  Classes, Summer of a Lifetime, Internships  Service done in the school does not count towards your CS  Only exception is for the NHS scholars.

Why Community Service? It exposes you to new opportunities and new experiences that you may not normally have It makes your city and community a better place Colleges value students who are involved in their community You can get real world experience that employers will value when you start looking for jobs

Community Service at Muchin How many hours?  Freshman – 10 hours total  5 hours per semester  Sophomores – 30 hours total  10 hours per semester  Juniors – 60 hours total  15 hours per semester  Seniors – 100 hours total  20 hours per semester

Community Service At Muchin Ambassadors  Remember you are representing MCP when you are in the community  Treat those you meet respectfully  Dress in Muchin appropriate clothing  Not too tight  Not revealing  Appropriate for the type of volunteering you are doing.  Be gracious to the people you meet and work with.

Logging Your Hours and Getting credit The Process:  Do your hours  Blog about your hours on Weebly (or another free blog site)  Post your hours on Youtopia!!

Blogging on Weebly For best results blog the same day or the next day so the experience is fresh in your mind. If you volunteer at a location multiple times a week, you only need to write one blog for each week you volunteer. This is a record of what you did, make sure it’s done well.

Weebly Blog Expectations One-time or Once/Week Volunteer Activities.  Blog should be 200 words (minimum)  Blog should be grammatically correct  Pick a memorable experience you had on the trip and write about it in detail OR explain why your service was needed and how it will help the community (or both!!) Multi-Day per week Volunteer Activities  Blog 1 time/week; Blogs should be 200 words long for every 10 hours you worked.  All other requirements are the same

The Weebly Site Go to and create an account. Do not use your Facebook Account. You should use your Muchin to create this account

Creating Your Blog When you create an account you will be brought to this screen when you try to create your website. You want to use a subdomain of Weebly

Creating your Blog This tool bar will allow you to drop things in you need.  Paragraph and Title will be basic  Paragraph with Picture will allow you to write your blog and include a picture you took at the service event. If you don’t like the design of the page, just click on design and choose from a new template.

Creating your Blog Make sure to properly date your reflection then go ahead and blog When you have completed your blog. Click on the Publish button and the Blue Link will take you to your website.  This is the website that you need to include in your Youtopia submission. This is where you need to click

Creating Your Blog This will be your blog website. This is what you include in your Youtopia submission

Using Youtopia Watch this 6 minute tutorial on Youtopia If the organization you work with is not found in our lists, go to this Google Doc and request a new location. yKum_pxMr8gF2zTprIVhy5GUN1lWmM/viewform

Using Youtopia The first time you login to Youtopia follow these steps:  Type in your Muchin  Click the space that says “I forgot my password”  Go to your Muchin and reset your password to something you will remember

Using Youtopia Enter the number of hours you did Enter the day and time you started the hours; the ended at time will auto fill based on your hours In this situation, the student worked 3 days that week, for 5 hours a day. They let me know that this was the case so I was not questioning them working 15 hours in 1 day. Include the link to your blog

And you are Done! Ms. Rouse will you if there are issues with your submission or any questions. You must submit your hours 2 weeks after the date you completed your hours.