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Wednesdays September 23, October 21, November 18, December 16, 2:00-3:00 pm

This workshop is an opportunity to see a demonstration of a new online community engagement tracking system, Collaboratory, and to learn about how you can share the public impact story of your community engagement activities by using this tool. Collaboratory is a centralized online platform for reporting, tracking, and sharing community engagement and public service work conducted by faculty, staff, students, and their community partners This activity could be in the form of teaching, research, public service, programs, and other campus/community partnerships. Earlier this year BGSU invested in Collaboratory and the BGSU Center for Public Impact was identified as the managing unit. The Collaboratory platform has both an external and internal component, which enables users to curate a publicly accessible record of their community-engaged work, while also providing institutional data for university strategic development, assessment, and benchmarking.  The Collaboratory will enhance BGSU’s ability to share our public impact story by providing a centralized location in which public impact work across BGSU and the greater Northwest Ohio community can be reported and shared. It will also enable us to map partnerships, identifying community partners who are engaged with several collaborators at BGSU, as well as opportunities to develop new impactful partnerships. 

Facilitators:

• Paul Valdez, Associate Director, BGSU Center for Public Impact
• V Rosser, Director, BGSU Center for Public Impact

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Thursday, September 24, 2020, 9:00 - 100:00 am

Friday, October 16, 2020, 10:00 - 11:00 am

This workshop is for faculty and staff who would like to learn the basics of integrating community-based learning (also known as service-learning) pedagogy into their course or program and how to identify and establish a relationship with a community partner. This workshop will provide examples of different levels of community-based learning involvement for courses in diverse topics and disciplines, as well as a variety of models of campus-community partnerships.  Workshop goals and learning objectives include:

• To define and clarify working definitions of community-based learning and other terms associated with this pedagogical practice.
• To increase awareness of community-based learning pedagogy.
• To train faculty and staff in best practices of reflection, community partnerships, and civic learning outcomes.
• To learn about how the Center for Public Impact can support community-based learning.
• To share examples of BGSU community-based learning courses and programs.
• To share resources for the effective design and implementation of community-based resources including sample syllabi, community partnership agreements, reflection models, civic learning outcomes, and professional development opportunities.

Facilitator:  Paul Valdez, Associate Director, Center for Public Impact

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Thursday October 22, 2020, 2:00 - 4:00 pm

November 16, 2020, 1:00 - 3:00 pm

This workshop will offer a variety of models of assignments and activities that provide students the opportunity to demonstrate their learning through reflection.  This workshop has been adapted to account for online learning and virtual course delivery.  Workshop goals and learning objectives include:

• To define and clarify definitions of reflection.
• To share the D.E.A.L. Model of reflection.
• To provide faculty and staff with the tools to design reflective assignments and activities to assist students in articulating their learning.
• To learn about how the Center for Public Impact can support the integration of reflection assignments and activities into courses and programs.

Facilitator:  Paul Valdez, Associate Director, Center for Public Impact

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