Hello community of students!
This blog will serve as the place to post your final reflection paragraph and photograph(s) of your service learning experience. It is pretty simple to add to the blog using the "Add Post" button. Be sure to post on the "Spring 2017" page by first clicking the tab labeled as such.
Photographs
You can use "Insert" to add photographs to your blog post.
Gmail required
Since "Blogger" is a Google app, you will need to create a gmail account to complete this assignment, if you do not have one already.
Permission to post
Posting privileges will be granted once you accept your invitation to become a blog author. Be sure to proofread and edit your work. Here are the other requirements as outlined in Moodle:
This blog will serve as the place to post your final reflection paragraph and photograph(s) of your service learning experience. It is pretty simple to add to the blog using the "Add Post" button. Be sure to post on the "Spring 2017" page by first clicking the tab labeled as such.
Photographs
You can use "Insert" to add photographs to your blog post.
Gmail required
Since "Blogger" is a Google app, you will need to create a gmail account to complete this assignment, if you do not have one already.
Permission to post
Posting privileges will be granted once you accept your invitation to become a blog author. Be sure to proofread and edit your work. Here are the other requirements as outlined in Moodle:
Class Blog. Add an excerpt
from your reflection to the class blog. Add a picture or two that serves as visual representation of your
experience. What did you learn from completing the service learning component
of ENG 1A? Choose a picture that is representative of your answer. A few ideas
to consider might be:
ü A pic with your
team mates.
ü A pic with
someone from our service site.
ü A selfie at our
main event (service in action).
ü A pic of
yourself completing service-related action (i.e. participating in an open mic
or conducting research)
Comments
English 1A: Education through Hip-hop is an English class to keep in mind. When I decided to take English 1A class with Ms. Adrienne Oliver, I was very interested to know how those two elements, education and hip-hop, were going to complement each other. The idea of learning essays based on a popular culture like hip-hop, sounded very current and with the right beat. Another reason why this class was pulling me into this unusual style of learning was while planning an event at the quad: the Hip-hop Show Case with Hip-hop for Change, an Oakland organization sponsored by the Critical Hip-Hop Club which was created by students in this class.
Adapting community engagement into Education and hip-hop was a new approach of learning English. This is a challenge to the classic style of teaching English. Community inner-city Colleges like Laney need a new approach to learning. Considering our current times, individualism can be a drowning force, which promotes disconnection between people, our college, and community needs. Individualism is a less healthy way of being part of a common goal. Therefore, the idea of having a project that motivates students to learn about how to become an active student at Laney felt like it was fulfilling the connection between education and community.
To understand that we cannot make people feel like they are invisible or believe we are invisible is a real challenge. Learning about the subcultures among students, professors, staff and administration, who have their own goals and dreams, is a great path to not becoming invisible Instead, we can become the students that connect other and make all of our voices be heard. We can base our learning upon taking care of each other, and by being aware that we all have different backgrounds and we all have summits to climb. We should value the importance of building meaningful relationships with strong and important discussions, being compassionate, being knowledgeable of how to listen and deliver, and more importantly making a network among people who will help to lead the way to be free.
Those were some of my earlier thoughts and feelings that this class helped to develop more. It assured me that I am on the right track.
Another high light that must be acknowledged is that all donations from the Hip-Hop Showcase were donated to help the fight at Standing Rock to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. This struggle is still happening today and will continue through the year 2017. It is our right to protect our clean water and to refuse to allow again an extraordinary disrespect to our land.
This class allows us to raise our voices together to be heard.