AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), with its focus on service learning, gave me that opportunity.
My students and I have been involved in Service Learning efforts for many years.
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At the University of South Carolina, many professors and students are involved in Service Learning efforts.
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My experiences during the April 2011 Tuscaloosa tornado response prompted additional service learning projects in my PR campaigns classes.
Service Learning involves students collaborating with a business to solve an existing problem.
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Studies have shown that participation in service learning programs can result in a lasting ethic of volunteerism among participants and Wagner certainly did that for Paige.
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The term "service learning" has emerged to describe programs that build community service into the school curriculum, thus combining active engagement in meeting social needs with academic reflection on the experience.
The training I have received and the experience I have gained by deploying to disasters has had a tremendous impact on my teaching, my research, and my approach to service learning in the classroom.
Colorado native Joe Curnow, a junior in Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy, is joining 17 other students for a trip to Des Moines sponsored by the School of Education's Service Learning Certificate Program.
More types of programs are being offered, including "domestic and international programs ranging from traditional academics to service learning to tourism, " says Mr. Pendoley, who is also chief executive of Thinking Beyond Borders, a Fairfield, Conn.
First of all, there is a subscription service for learning and productivity tools.
This service-learning course gives students hands-on experience while producing a valuable product for an organization that serves the community.
Students in the program pursue independent research projects, complete an interdisciplinary curriculum, gain entrepreneurial skills, and participate in service-learning activities such as Engineers Without Borders.
Due to her extensive traveling and commitment to service, Julie has helped to engage Latinos and other communities of color across the country in service-learning and community development programming.
Paige, a 2010 graduate of Wagner College, a school with an esteemed service-learning program, was inspired by social innovation and the idea of AltruHelp using social technology to amplify volunteerism.
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The Ritz Carlton mentors 7th and 8th graders in their Succeed Through Service campaign to help prepare young students with necessary life skills while engaging them in service-learning and career exploration.
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The service uses machine learning to make specialized recommendations to people based on what people with similar tastes like.
The service draws on machine learning, data mining and predictive modeling to make its suggestions.
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Samsung's Learning Hub service is optimised for Galaxy Note 10.1 allowing owners to access extensive multimedia educational content whatever their age.
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The White House Internship Program is committed to developing young leaders through a hands-on experience within the Executive Office of the President and through a myriad of learning and service opportunities.
The classes have a basic level and are focused on the elementary and fundamental notions for the touristic service, stimulating the learning of a basic vocabulary for a better communication with the foreign visitor.
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It is of fundamental importance to establish the links between learning evaluation results and pre-service and in-service teacher education and training, in order to effectively renovate the learning process in the classrooms.
Catlett said Qwest Communications, the project's network service provider, was already learning more about high-speed transmission from its work on the project.
The client was the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), a public sector education organisation going through restructuring.
Although he was discharged from the army in 1941 after a year of service, he immediately reenlisted after learning that Pearl Harbor had been bombed.
As newcomers in the handset business, the Chinese are still learning about after-sales service.
Meeting someone at their point of need with a solution, a salesperson can then create a lead who is interested in learning more about a product or service.
My Dad taught me the face of bravery, learning as a young girl about his service and and as I observed the way he lived his life.
Jeff Hawkins, Numenta co-founder, and Michael Chui, a principal at the McKinsey Global Institute will discuss on Wednesday evening an alternative approach to big data, using brain-inspired machine learning technology and a cloud-based service called Grok that recognizes complex patterns from data streams and generates actionable predictions in real time.
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