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 something that only
benefits you Classes, Summer of a Lifetime, Internships
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Why Service Learning? 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
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Service Learning at Comer How many hours? You are encouraged to
complete more than the required 40 hours. Freshman 10 hours total 5
hours per semester Sophomores 20 hours total 5 hours per semester
Juniors 30 hours total 5 hours per semester Seniors 40 hours total
5 hours per semester
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Service Learning At Comer Ambassadors Remember you are
representing GCCP when you are in the community Treat those you
meet respectfully Dress in Comer 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.
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Comer Service Learning Site http://gccpsl.weebly.com Resources
Syllabus Approved Site List Request to add new sites form
Reflection Form Link SL Coordinators Contact Info Example Blog This
PowerPoint!
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Logging Your Hours and Getting credit The Process: Complete
your hours Blog about your hours on Weebly Submit your reflection
form
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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 its done well!
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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 Multi-Day per week
Volunteer Activities Blog 1 time/week; Blogs should be 200 words
long for every 10 hours you worked. You cannot request more than 20
hours at a time All other requirements are the same
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The Weebly Site Go to www.weebly.com and create an account.
www.weebly.com Do not use your Facebook Account. You should use
your personal email to create this account and a password that you
can remember.
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Creating your Blog Click on the Blog Option to create your
website.
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Creating your Blog 1. The next screen will ask you to pick a
theme. Pick your favorite. 2. You will then be taken to your
editing page. You want to use a subdomain of Weebly Your subdomain
should be: FirstMiddleLastInitialsGCCPSL *If your domain is taken,
add numbers (two at the most) after your initials jvsgccpsl Ex.
jvs39gccpsl
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Creating Your Blog On the first page you want to select that
you will do a New Post - bottom right corner of the screen.
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Creating Your Blog Every student must have this title on their
blog page Header: Your Name ex. Jane Doe
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Creating Your Blog You need to include the full name of your
organization in the title The date should reflect the date you did
the service. If you click on the calendar you can adjust the
date.
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Creating your Blog 1.Drag and drop a Text Square to write your
reflection. 2.When you are done click Post so your blog
updates
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Creating Your Blog Always remember to choose the Subdomain of
Weebly. After you Publish Live you need to Publish you blog 1 more
time.
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Creating Your Blog This will be your blog website. This is what
you include in your reflection submission. Click on the blue link
to make sure that everything you added is visible on the website.
http://jvsgccpsl.weebly.com
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Creating Your Blog Check out this example of what a student
blog should look like. http://gccpslp.weebly.com
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Blogging from your Cell Phone Download the free App on your
iPhone or Android Sign into your account Happy Blogging!
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Tracking your Hours You can track your hours from you blog
post. At the end of each blog entry you must put the total number
of hours you served.
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Reflection Form Weve gone paperless! Go to
http://goo.gl/forms/hppKPG6kLB and fill out the form.
http://goo.gl/forms/hppKPG6kLB Read the guidelines before
submitting
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Reflection Form You must copy and paste your blog website in
the reflection link box. This link will be the same every time you
submit a form.
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Approved Site List This list will be updated throughout the
year. Approved Sites List
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Approved Site List Want to add a new organization to the
approved site list? Submit this form!
http://goo.gl/forms/wErTi83nqO http://goo.gl/forms/wErTi83nqO
