First Experience
I am hoping that many of you have started on your first 'experience' by now. On Friday, during advisory lesson, I will show you how to add experiences to your ManageBac profile. You should also have your personal profile filled in and ready to present to me at your interviews next week.
First Interviews
Starting on Monday, I will be conducting interviews with students in grade 11. You must bring your 'personal profile' form with you and you can also start filling in your 'CAS proposal' form - also included in the handbook. Please bring your handbook as well.We will discuss what all of these an d hopefully make a plan to cover some of the next 18 months. If you do not have these items that interview will have to be postponed meaning that you will have less time to get going with your CAS.
Checklist for interview:
- personal profile form - filled in
- CAS proposal form - filled in
- CAS student handbook
- computer
Most interviews will be held in room C10 unless there is class in there at the time. When that happens we will go to a nearby room.
What's happening in CAS?
The School Newspaper is starting to publish - see http://thequirkyquibbler.com/ Attend the meetings on Mondays at 15.30 if you are interested in publishing your writing.
The Amnesty Group is meeting on on Tuesdays at 10.30 in C10
Rhino Preservation group is meeting on Thursdays at 10.30 in C10 - we are planning to join the Global March for Elephants and Rhinos on October 3rd.
Do you have CAS ideas that you want me to include here? Let me know. Having trouble coming up with ideas? I need some people to help me as part of a CAS committee. You could be involved in posting on the blog, up-dating the pages and researching ideas. If that interests you, come an let me know.
Some ideas for 'experiences' you could get involved in from VolontärByrån. The first one is great for any talented artists amongst you. The last is in Swedish. For more opportunities and details see http://www.volontarbyran.org/
Illustrate articles about human rights in Africa! (Distance Job)
Description of the volunteering opportunity: UNTOLD STORIES:
Ethiopia is one of the worst cases of human rights abusers in the world, but due to government harassment of truth tellers, many stories of repression remain untold. No one is better telling these stories than those who have experienced the violations themselves.
Untold Stories is new project. It will be a website where people who have personal experiences about human rights abuses can tell their stories. Through personal in-depth-interviews, art, videos and articles, the viewer will be told how government repression can complicate, affect and completely change the lives of exiled journalists, jailed bloggers, struggling activists and others. The purpose of this project is not only to spread awareness and knowledge and giving people cause to care, but just as importantly it is to support the struggles of the persecuted.
Untold Stories will tell stories about all kinds of human rights abuses, but with a focus on freedom of expression and press freedom in Ethiopia. The human rights situation in other African countries will also be discussed.
THE VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITY:
Art has the ability of touching and moving, and we believe that art and creativity is one of the best ways to spread a message. The content of Untold Stories will be creative and diverse, and art will be an important part of the site. The interviews and articles will be illustrated by drawings.
We are looking for illustrators who are skilled at drawing in digital or traditional media. You should be able to draw a picture that illustrates what is being told in an article or an interview. It is great if you are a creative person with many ideas of your own. We are very open to hear your suggestions on how a text can be illustrated. We hope that you can come up with illustrations that will highlight a story in a text and make it even more powerful.
We would like to see examples of your art to see if you fit for the assignment.
We hope that you want to help us with this important project! Do not hesitate to contact us if you think that you can help us. We are looking forward to hear from you!
The assignment is voluntarily. When and where will the volunteering take place:
The texts will be sent to you through e-mail.
The assignment starts immediately since there are articles waiting to be illustrated.
Specific requirements and information:
- You should be a skilled drawing artist who can illustrate texts and thereby highlight the stories and make them more powerful.
- It is great if you also are passionate about human rights.
Bli datorstödjare hos oss!
Individuell Människohjälp/IM, Stockholm
Beskrivning av uppdraget/uppgifterna: Datorstödet på Stockholms Stadsbibliotek startade våren 2011. Verksamheten riktar sig till personer som av en eller annan anledning upplever att de har bristande datorvana eller/och behöver hjälp med konkreta, datorrelaterade frågor och problem.
Du stöttar ungdomar och vuxna till grundläggande datorkunskaper, t.ex. att öppna Word-dokument eller skaffa sig ett e-postkonto.
Du uppmuntrar till att på egen hand lösa uppgifter och motivera till fortsatt lärande.
När och var ska uppdraget utföras:
Torsdagar kl 17-19 på Stadsbiblioteket.
Specifika önskemål eller information:
För IM är datorstödet mer än att bara hjälpa någon med datorrelaterade problem. Det skapar också ett vardagligt möte mellan dig som volontär och personerna du möter som ömsesidigt ger nya insikter.
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