Habitat for Humanity Blazer Build

1. Habitat for HumanityBlazer Build Hope Ripsam

2. Definition of Service Learning • Service-learning involves students in community service activities and applies the experience to personal and academic development. • Service-learning occurs when there is a balance between learning goals and service outcomes.Service-learning differs from internship experience or volunteer work in its intention to equally benefit the provider and the recipient of the service as well as to ensure equal focus on both the service being provided and the learning that is occurring.

3. Definition Continue… • Service-learning course objectives are linked to real community needs that are designed in cooperation with community partners and service recipients. • In service-learning, course materials inform student service and service informs academic dialogue and comprehension. • Service-learning engages students in a three-part process: classroom preparation through explanation and analysis of theories and ideas; service activity that emerges from and informs classroom context; and structured reflection tying service experience back to specific learning goals. http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/service_learning/definition.cfm

4. Benefits of Service Learning for Students • Engages students in active learning that demonstrates the relevance and importance of academic work for their life experience and career choices. • Increases awareness of current societal issues as they relate to academic areas of interest. • Broadens perspectives of diversity issues and enhances critical thinking skills. • Improves interpersonal skills that are increasingly viewed as important skills in achieving success in professional and personal spheres. • Develops civic responsibility through active community involvement. http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/servicelearning/benefits.htm

5. Benefits for the Community • Provides substantial human resources to meet educational, human, safety, and environmental needs of local communities. • Allows the energy and enthusiasm of college students to contribute to meeting needs. • Fosters an ethic of service and civic participation in students who will be tomorrow's volunteers and civic leaders. • Creates potential for additional partnerships and collaboration with the campus. http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/servicelearning/benefits.htm

6. Benefits for the Faculty and Institution • Enriches and enlivens teaching and learning. • Builds reciprocal partnerships with the local community. • Creates new areas for research and scholarships, and increases opportunities for professional recognition and reward. • Extends campus resources into the community and reinforces the value of the scholarship of engagement. http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/servicelearning/benefits.htm

7. While at the Blazer Build I mostly helped put the shingles on the roof. I learned how to line them up and where to nail them in. I started to get the hand of it, but I was not nearly as fast as the works who did that as a living. Each person on the team had a job to do. About half were on the roof and the rest helped with the walls and cleaning up.

8. These are a few pictures of my team and I working on the roof. It was actually really fun!

9. By participating in the Blazer build for Habitat for Humanity I learned how to generally shingle a roof. Also it was a great experience to volunteer and do something really neat and nice for someone else. It was a great spending time with my team as well.

10. Habitat for Humanity Face the housing crisisNearly 2 billion people around the world live in slum housing and over 100 million are homeless. Families are trapped in a daily struggle to survive amid substandard and often inhuman living conditions.Help provide simple, decent shelterWe believe that every man, woman and child should have a safe and affordable place to live. While building homes is central to our mission, it is only one piece of the puzzle. http://www.habitat.org/default.aspx?tgs=NC82LzIwMTEgMTA6NDg6MjUgQU0%3d