1. CEL, Oct 6 K-12 community engagement Needs assessment K-12 community engagement Needs assessment

2. DiscoveriesDiscoveries

3. The learning never stops! --Nathan

4. SlitheringSlithering

5. On campus day: Friday, Oct 16 8:30-9:00 Greetings, schedule (Illini Union, 405) 9:00-12:00 Poster session (posters due Oct.11) 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:30 Field trips (various sites) 2:30-3:00 Prepare reports (Illini Union, 405) 3:00-3:30 Present/discuss reports 3:30-4:00 Reflect, look ahead 4:00-6:00 Urbana Free Library GSLIS ReceptionUrbana Free Library GSLIS Reception 8:30-9:00 Greetings, schedule (Illini Union, 405) 9:00-12:00 Poster session (posters due Oct.11) 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:30 Field trips (various sites) 2:30-3:00 Prepare reports (Illini Union, 405) 3:00-3:30 Present/discuss reports 3:30-4:00 Reflect, look ahead 4:00-6:00 Urbana Free Library GSLIS ReceptionUrbana Free Library GSLIS Reception

6. Field trip sites UI Extension, 4-H Community Informatics Initiative Youth Community Informatics Books to Prisoners, Independent Media Center Orpheum Children’s Science Museum UI Extension, 4-H Community Informatics Initiative Youth Community Informatics Books to Prisoners, Independent Media Center Orpheum Children’s Science Museum

7. UI Extension, 4-H Lisa Bouillion Diaz 4-H is a community of young people across America who are learning leadership, citizenship, and life skills. hands-on activities for youth connect universities, schools, community short drive/bus Lisa Bouillion Diaz 4-H is a community of young people across America who are learning leadership, citizenship, and life skills. hands-on activities for youth connect universities, schools, community short drive/bus

8. Community Informatics Initiative Meet Sharon Irish at LIS 350 at 1pm; walk to the Main Library and disassemble the bulletin board outside of the history library; the artist Bonnie Fortune will meet there at 1:30. http://www.letsremake.info/ http://www.bonniefortune.info/everybody.html She will talk about the other related activities and items that we put up on the board. Meet Sharon Irish at LIS 350 at 1pm; walk to the Main Library and disassemble the bulletin board outside of the history library; the artist Bonnie Fortune will meet there at 1:30. http://www.letsremake.info/ http://www.bonniefortune.info/everybody.html She will talk about the other related activities and items that we put up on the board.

9. Invitation letter My LEEP Community Engagement class meets on campus on Friday, October 16. Your [group/organization/project/course] is an excellent example of community engagement. Would you be available to meet with 3-5 students, at 1:00-2:00 pm on that day? I'd like the students to do a mini-field trip in which they visit a campus group engaged in some form of community work. They will ask some basic 5W questions such as: Who: What individuals, organization, and community groups are involved? What: How does this project/group engage with the communities? How is the community's voice included? When: How long has this work been underway? How often does it work with the community? Where: Where is the work done? Why: What has been accomplished? What are plans for the future? The class meets all day. I'm thinking now that a field trip after lunch, followed by discussion and reports back in our Illini Union meeting room would work best for us. Would you be available as a field trip site, to meet with 3-5 students? They would come with questions such as those above, plus their own, based on their own positions as librarians, museum educators, teachers, community workers, researchers, etc. They would also bring cameras to photograph the space, objects, and people, only with permission of course. These would be used in their report to the class. The primary activity may be simply talk, with you or your colleagues or students. But if you have any kind of brief, hands-on activity to demonstrate the work, that would be an excellent addition. Please let me know by next Monday (October 5) if you're willing and available to do this, or before then if you have any questions. Best, Chip My LEEP Community Engagement class meets on campus on Friday, October 16. Your [group/organization/project/course] is an excellent example of community engagement. Would you be available to meet with 3-5 students, at 1:00-2:00 pm on that day? I'd like the students to do a mini-field trip in which they visit a campus group engaged in some form of community work. They will ask some basic 5W questions such as: Who: What individuals, organization, and community groups are involved? What: How does this project/group engage with the communities? How is the community's voice included? When: How long has this work been underway? How often does it work with the community? Where: Where is the work done? Why: What has been accomplished? What are plans for the future? The class meets all day. I'm thinking now that a field trip after lunch, followed by discussion and reports back in our Illini Union meeting room would work best for us. Would you be available as a field trip site, to meet with 3-5 students? They would come with questions such as those above, plus their own, based on their own positions as librarians, museum educators, teachers, community workers, researchers, etc. They would also bring cameras to photograph the space, objects, and people, only with permission of course. These would be used in their report to the class. The primary activity may be simply talk, with you or your colleagues or students. But if you have any kind of brief, hands-on activity to demonstrate the work, that would be an excellent addition. Please let me know by next Monday (October 5) if you're willing and available to do this, or before then if you have any questions. Best, Chip

10. DiscussionsDiscussions K-12 community engagement Needs assessment K-12 community engagement Needs assessment

11. Youth as assessors of need Montgomery County (top-down vs. bottom- up) E2Y (Engaging & Empowering Youth) Humboldt Park community mapping Montgomery County (top-down vs. bottom- up) E2Y (Engaging & Empowering Youth) Humboldt Park community mapping

12. E2Y (Engaging & Empowering Youth) a group of 10 African- American teens in Champaign-Urbana interview business owners, community leaders and others about opportunities for youth the information is valuable to others who work with teens and to the entire community a group of 10 African- American teens in Champaign-Urbana interview business owners, community leaders and others about opportunities for youth the information is valuable to others who work with teens and to the entire community

13. Next week, Oct. 12 finish poster, Oct. 11 Visioning (Michele, Daylily) readings & slides/media 10 days ahead finish poster, Oct. 11 Visioning (Michele, Daylily) readings & slides/media 10 days ahead