[event]: PoE bookclub & pizza lunch this Friday – 10/12!

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Beginning this quarter anyone can informally join an environmental studies book group with students and faculty in PoE. The goal (besides networking among peers) is to read the literature that is influential or informative to the environmental movement and then develop environmental perspectives that are in tune with whatever you think the environmental movement should really look like, and your ability to fight environmental apathy accordingly.
The first book is ’Blessed Unrest: How the largest movement in the world came into being and why no one saw it coming’. The first  of bi-weekly meetings is this friday during lunch in the PoE commons, 1230-120, ideally with the first chapter read or the book on hand, but not enforced. There will be pizza and coffee with just a small recommended donation. Let me know if you’re interested or need a copy, or simply show up friday.
Contact Robert Marsh -robsm2@uw.edu with any questions. Hope to see you there!

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The PoE alumni board cordially invites all members of the PoE community: students, alumni, staff and faculty to the quarterly ‘Community Drinks’ event. Autumn drinks will be held on Thursday, October 4 from 6:30 ~ 8:00 at Cafe Solstice on the Ave (all ages). Grab a beer/coffee/treat/whatever and meet some of the other people at PoE.

Click on the image above to RSVP at the open e-vite.

Hope to see you there!

[course] – Spring 2012: “Digital Storytelling and Community Leadership”

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General Studies 349: “Digital Storytelling and Community Leadership”
GEN ST 349 (3 credits, Credit/No Credit)
Meets Tuesdays 4:30pm-6:20pm, Mary Gates Hall 206
Course size: 25
Add-Code Required – Apply at https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/mattwojo/157507
Questions? Email mattwojo@uw.edu

Digital Storytelling and Community Leadership is a three-credit course designed for students with some form of previous service-learning experience. This course will utilize the teaching and learning method of Digital Storytelling to examine local community organizations and the role they play in addressing social issues and community needs. Students will work in teams to create a digital story about a local community organization, 3-5 minutes in length, that reflects the organization’s mission, services, and impact, from an Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) perspective. The learning objectives for each student to achieve by the completion of this course are: to understand narrative construction and storytelling techniques; to critically examine community development and the ABCD theory; to gain a beginner’s level competency of online video production; and to manage the production process of a 3-5 minute digital story in partnership with a community organization through to completion. The course will conclude with a public viewing on campus of the Digital Stories.

Interest and experience in serving the community is essential. Digital video production experience is a plus, but not required.