The show must go on! The Spring 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship will be held virtually. The Symposium is an event at the end of each semester, for students who engaged with the community for their course to share what they did and what they learned with the GW and DC communities.
This year, students presenting as either individuals or teams are asked to prepare a brief video - no more than two minutes - about their community engagement experience this semester. These presentations will be shared online to GW audiences as well as to our community partners. Information about where to submit the video file is below. Presentations are due midnight, Friday, April 24th.
Considerations
- Two minutes is brief, so think creatively about how to use visual aids such as photos, maps, or graphs, to quickly convey what you did and what it means to your learning and to the community.
- Please be sure to mention your name(s), the name of your course, and community partner organization.
- Please be aware of your ethical duty to protect the confidentiality of your community partners' clients in your descriptions and photos.
- We can't ignore that COVID-19 has impacted our ability to serve and learn these past weeks. Feel free to discuss this in your presentation.
Platforms
Below are how-to guides for three platform options to make the video. All create opportunities to share visual aids and record a voice-over.
- Make a narrated PowerPoint. How to video here.
- Make a recorded Zoom video. How to video here.
- Create a Youtube video using Mac iMovie. How to video here.
The deadline for presentation submissions is April 24th. To upload your finished presentation, please save it to a cloud storage system (e.g. Box or Google Drive) and email the link to rachellt@gwmail.gwu.edu.
Criteria
The Virtual Symposium will include awards selected by the Nashman Center Faculty Affiliates, as well as an audience choice award. Award winning presentations will be those that best demonstrate the aims of community engaged scholarship at GW. You may address a few of these aims in your presentation, or go deeper on just one of them.
- Addressing a real, community-identified need.
- Demonstrate what you have learned about the need you addressed, through your course and own research, how your service helped address it, and what should be done next.
- Scholarship activity, tied to community engagement.
- Demonstrate how your involvement with the community resulted in your own scholarly work (research, art, writing, etc.)
- Reciprocal campus-community partnerships.
- Demonstrate how you ensured that you and your community partner had equal contributions to planning the project and achieving positive outcomes.
- Reflection and meaning-making about your experience connecting community engagement to a course.
- Reflection on civic mindedness, or your sense of responsibility as a member of a community to be involved in contributing to its wellbeing.
- Reflection on how your major or discipline contributes to the common good, addressing social inequity, and/or working for environmental sustainability.
- Reflection on the civic as well as professional outcomes of your learning - how you can use course-related knowledge and skills to analyze and address a social issue or civic concern.
- Reflection on your ability to use academic competencies (e.g. inquiry, critical thinking, communication) to engage effectively with community members in addressing a social issue or civic concern.
- Reflection in issues related to cross-cultural competence and taking the perspective of others in order to balance diverse perspectives in deciding how and whether to act.
For more details on the symposium click here.
