1. Flavors of Digital Service Learning
Dr. Kara Kaufman
Lance Eaton

2. Final Project Options Final Essay Librivox Contribution
Wikipedia Entry
Digital Presentation
Open Option

3. Librivox Guidelines Details:
Narrate 1 or more works of 15+ minutes of recording.
Read a work in its entirety.
Limit choices to works written by the authors explored.
Don’t need to buy recording equipment for this project.
Perform some research around the story and author to get a sense of its history and significance.
Write a 600+ word reflection essay that discusses their experience in choosing, researching, and narrating the particular writing(s) and how it changed their understanding and experience of the story.
Evaluation
Clear, projective, and mistake-free recording of the written work.
Proper introduction material (each Librivox recording has a brief introduction).
The recording has been added to a specific collection.
A well-written reflection that provides insight on the process and experience.

4. Librivox Project Contributing to American literature’s reach.
Giving voice to texts that have been silent.
Providing a voice for a text.

5. Librivox Examples The Fight by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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Up the Slide by Jack London
rivox/shortstory054_16_uptheslide_cv.mp3

6. Reflective Essay Excerpts
“Understanding how the story should sound, and trying to reflect that into a recording was a much harder task, then I originally thought. I found myself re-recording entire paragraphs, not just because I messed up the wording, which happened to me with every paragraph, but because what I just recorded did not sound like it went with what the story was trying to convey.…I made careful note of the end punctuation before I started reading the sentence, in order to make sure that I knew how to enunciate it. I also took note of any commas that were in the sentence to make sure I stopped at the right points, to read the story as exactly written. I caught myself a couple of times, reading a sentence like it had a period at that the end, instead of an exclamation point, or question mark.”

7. Reflective Essay Excerpts
“I was not really impressed with the plot of the story the first time I read through the story, but the more I read the story in preparation for narration, the more I began to understand why the story was written. Reading it several times also helped me to gain more knowledge on the ways in which many southerners viewed the rising tensions over slavery in the United States."
"Doing the narration for this story gave me the ability to set my mind back to that time period, and it allowed me to enjoy reading the story much more."

8. Wikipedia Contribution
Create/develop a Wikipedia entry on a writing, its content, meaning, and importance. Students may also find a poorly developed entry and further develop it.
Acquire the instructor’s permission before moving forward.
Must limit their choices to exploring works written by the authors explored in this course.
Evaluation
Ability to research and gather credible sources
Discuss the text in clear, analytical, and articulate ways
Provide a solid and substantial contribution to Wikipedia of some words.
Use their own words entirely.

9. Wikipedia Option Contributing to writing in the public.
Contributing to a new form of writing.
Contributing to knowledge building.
Engaging in public debate.

10. Other Examples Development of web presence or social media campaign.
Critiquing/Editing/Develop website content.
Creating educational content such as guides and how-to’s.
Editing or adding of content on Wikipedia or other wiki.
Contributing to a crowd-source program/database.
Developing a program, app, or other tool for a population, nonprofit organization, or community.
Using mapping & gps tools to help track/report/coordinate support efforts.
Providing closed-captioning for course & community related content.
Teaching/coaching students/youth/patients through video-conferencing tools.

11. Projects Document

12. Activity
Spend a few minutes looking at the different projects and thinking about what you have learned thus far.
What kind of digital service learning project could you imagine taking on for one of your courses?
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