Using photography to teach CLICK HERE for slide show of student work Jimmy and Rosalynn Cater Partnership Foundation provides grants and awards to recognize the best practices in campus-community partnerships and the best new ideas for student-led community service learning. Strategies include awards for the best campus-community partnership program, grants for innovative community service ideas of students and online connectivity for students, faculty, administrative staff and community organizations. We received this grant with the help of Logan Aimone of the National Scholastic Press Association as a way to help promote service learning and photography all at once. By taking our knowledge and going out into our community to teach area high schools, we are, in a way, also a part of a service learning project. Our knowledge may be primarily self- taught but we are helping to get photography a little more recognition and to show students what service learning is all about. Our goal was to do a training session on the basics of photography at area high schools with the photographers from the newspaper, yearbook and other photography classes. At the end of the training we explained to them what service learning was, gave them some examples and their task. Their task was to go into their community, or school and document a service learning project using the knowledge we passed along to them. Upon receiving the photos, we have made this site to show their hard work to the world. We appreciate everyone’s help in making this happen and being able to help train such promising photographers. Our Goal Our goal upon implementing this grant was to teach students about service learning and have them use that knowledge to document a service learning project taking place in their community. After training young photographers in the basics of photography and explaining what makes a good photo, we were then able to explain to them service learning and allow them to become more aware of it in their community. Service-learning is a method of teaching which takes knowledge and skills learned in the classroom and applies them toward improving one’s community. According to the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction, Service Learning combines community service with academic instruction. When designing a service learning component for a course, faculty must be careful to include:
For examples of Service Learning from around the country CLICK HERE. Participating schools Clayton High School Durham School of the Arts Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School CLICK HERE for slide show of student work Links
North Carolina State University and the NCSU Student Media Logan Smith, director of photography/senior photographer As the director of photography for North Carolina State University Student Media, his duties include training photographers, keeping inventory on equipment, running critique sessions at the weekly photo meetings, and spearheading the service-learning project. He is a junior in technology education with a concentration in graphic communications and is in his second year on staff. Stephen Bateman, Agromeck photo editor/senior photographer As the Agromeck yearbook photo editor at North Carolina State University, Stephen helps to direct the photography staff. His responsibilities include recruiting and training new photographers, administration of photo assignments as well as selection and color correction of all photos in the book. He is a junior in technical education at N.C. State University and this is his second year on staff. Robert Fisher, Technician photo editor/senior photographer Robert is a senior at N.C. State working towards bachelor of science degrees in applied mathematics and economics. He has been employedwith the Technician since 2006 as a photographer and is the photo editor of the daily newspaper. Rob plans to graduate in May 2008. Bradley Wilson, Coordinator for Student Media Advising As the coordinator for student media advising at North Carolina State University, Bradley advises the daily newspaper, a weekly newspaper, a literary magazine, an online magazine and the yearbook. He is a frequent speaker at workshops worldwide on topics ranging from the ethics of digital photography to publications design. He is the editor of the publications for the national Journalism Education Association and active in local and regional associations to improve the quality of journalism education. He has received the Pioneer Award from the National Scholastic Press Association, the Medal of Merit from the Journalism Education Association, the Star of Texas from the Association of Texas Photography Instructors and the Trailblazer Award from the Texas Association of Journalism Educators. In 2006, JEA awarded Wilson its highest honor, the Carl Towley Award.
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