June 08, 2009
Georgetown University Law Library Project Online
Sometimes the work that SI students do during ASB takes a bit of time to get up and running -- even a couple months! I was pleased to get a message from Roger Skalbeck at Georgetown Law Library regarding Katie McCurdy and Ryan Lankton's project... see below...
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While Ryan Lankton and Katie McCurdy were at Georgetown during this year’s ASB, they helped me prepare work on a web design project.
Ryan and Katie helped me capture images, upload data and they both had good ideas of the kind of information to collect for the report. In addition to their assigned projects, both found time to help collect information for this report. The entire report is online for free download here: www.ll.georgetown.edu/sitesurvey/
If you have any questions or need details, just let me know.
Roger V. Skalbeck
Associate Law Librarian for Electronic Resources & Services
Georgetown University Law Library
Phone 202.662.9158
rvs5@law.georgetown.edu
Posted by kkowatch at 04:46 PM | Comments (0)
March 25, 2009
Library of Congress Post-ASB Update
SI Alumna Abigail Potter, staff member at the Library of Congress, forwarded me the article that the Digital Preservation group published about our SI students', Sally Vermaaten and Dawn Barton, ASB experience.
See the article at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2009/20090320news_article_ASB09.html
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March 06, 2009
Chicago Park District Student Project
From the Project Coordinator at the Chicago Park's District...
Jo and Sui were so wonderful. I can’t believe what they were able to accomplish in one week.
If you’d like to see their work, the revised website is live:
http://www.jensjensen.org/drupal/
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March 04, 2009
Cabrini Connection Post-ASB
Our three University of Michigan Alternative Spring Break interns did excellent and important work during their week with Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection, which you can see in the groups section of http://tutormentorconnection.ning.com
Garima Garg and Malhar Gupta converted one of the T/MC concept maps titled "the village" to an animated presentation that more visually shows how we're trying to connect leaders from different sectors to adopt a strategy that support the growth of career-focused volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and other cities. We've already posted this in the top menu bar at http://www.tutormentorexchange.net and in our blog and Facebook pages.
Taeho focused his attention on creating an "introductory video and visualization" of our new interactive Program Locator site. He recognized that this needed some better ways to help people learn to use the site. His work can be seen in the Ning site, and will be integrated into the new portal once we launch it in the next few weeks.
All three of these students posted reflections and "next steps" on the Ning site so that future students from the University of Michigan or other schools can pick up on these projects and continue to develop them. Thus, they have modeled what we're all about by creating something that encourages others to add their own time and talent.
The work these students, and other interns are doing, demonstrates that college students from other locations than where we are based in Chicago can have learning experiences that have a meaningful impact on real world social benefit activities. I hope that alumni from the University who live in the Chicago region, or in other cities, will take a look at th is work and volunteer their own time, talent and dollars to help volunteer based tutor/mentor programs grow in many places and serve as pipelines to college and careers for kids who do not have such a ladder to success in their lives.
Thank you for making it possible for these students to become part of our community.
Daniel F. Bassill
President
Cabrini Connections
Tutor/Mentor Connection
800 W. Huron
Chicago, Il. 60642
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February 19, 2009
ASB Mentors Share Their Experiences
This year, over 40 organizations are participating in the School of Information's Alternative Spring Break Program. These organizations -- a full list can be viewed at http://asb.si.umich.edu/2009/index.shtml -- put forth staff, time, energy, and resources to host SI students for a week. This extreme generosity is what makes this program function and with out these people's desire to help our students gain practical experience, our program would not exist.
I invite Mentors or Supervisors of SI students on ASB to share their experience... click below to comment!
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