For your service learning, you'll need to spend 25-30 hours at a community partner's site. You may propose a community partner that you'd like to work with. Here are a few opportunities that the instructor arranged for you.
Community Technology Network provides 10 Computer Tutor Principles. This is a must-read for anyone doing lectures and tutoring for service lab. For the Internet Safety Guideline, visit GCF Learn Free.
UP is a youth violence prevention and leadership center that has been in operation since October 1994. They recently relocated to 1038 Howard Street between 6th and 7th in the South of Market Area.
The classes could vary in scope from very basic for the younger children and the staff that have limited experience to more advanced programs for the older teenagers. The program currently has five Apple Macs with OSX 10.6.4 that were acquired last year. Their software is very limited. They have a basic Microsoft Office 2008 package that includes Word, Excel, Entourage, and PowerPoint. You may propose a class, and you could teach how to use MS Office package.
The program operates on weekdays from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM so that the at-risk youth have a safe place to go after school where they can also get help with their homework. The youth range in age from grammar school through high school. The majority of the participants are people of color that are primarily Filipino, Hispanic, and African-American.
Tenderloin Technology Lab serves residents in tenderlon via free classes, one-on-one tutoring, and other events. You will be doing one of the following jobs there. For lectures, I encourage you to work in a group of 3. One person could speak in front, while two people could walk around and help. Each lecture lasts 2 hours, and you'll repeat the same lecture multiple times to make the 25-30 hours.
Quesada Gardens Initiative have built a few websites introducing resources available in the community, and is looking for ways to improve the ranks of these pages in search engine results, also known as Search Engine Optimization. Advanced knowledge in computer science is required.
Similar to Summer Enrichment Program, we will offer a weekly workshop for junior high school girls every Friday evening from September 30th - November 18th. You will help with curriculum development, logistics, and also hands-on help during the workshop.