Public Product Examples
Elementary
Kindergarteners as Experts - 5:35 min. video
- Language: English
- Challenging problem: Bird rehabilitation and conservation
- Public product(s): Community celebration, greeting cards, project boards
- Public audience: Friends, family, community members
- Project partners: 6th Grade buddies, ornithologists
Letters from the Internment Camps - VoiceThread
Language: English
Challenging problem: Intolerance (How can writing, art, and technology combine to develop a culture of 'change writers' and to promote resilience and tolerance within and beyond an elementary school site?
Public product: VoiceThread about hidden community histories
Public audience: People who experienced life in internment camps
Project partners:
Language: English
Challenging problem: Intolerance (How can writing, art, and technology combine to develop a culture of 'change writers' and to promote resilience and tolerance within and beyond an elementary school site?
Public product: VoiceThread about hidden community histories
Public audience: People who experienced life in internment camps
Project partners:
- Marielle Tsukamoto (guest speaker about her first-hand experiences in an internment camp)
- Elk Grove historians
Secondary
Boat-building Serves as a Vessel for Learning - 1:48 min. video [Related press: Marshallese Students Build Traditional Sailing Boat in Summer Class]
- Language: English
- Challenging problem: Building a traditional Marshallese outrigger sailboat
- Public product(s): Outrigger canoe
- Public audience: Friends, family, community members, news media
- Project partners: Artists, construction experts, Marshallese specialist, mapmaker
¿Que es Chichen itza? - A 2:20 min. video
- Language: English
- Challenging problem: 7 Wonders of the World
- Public product(s): YouTube video
- Public audience: Community Members
- Project partners: Office English
Adult
Game Gathering - In this 19:27 min. video. teachers of multilingual learners explain the language benefits of having their students who were enrolled in intensive English classes explain and play the food-related games they had designed with community members
- Language: English
- Challenging problem: Educating the community about food sustainability, food waste, hunger, etc.
- Public product(s): Board games, community game gathering event
- Public audience: Friends, family, community members
- Project partners: Local organizations (City Harvest, soup kitchens, etc.)
I Am Campaign
- Language: English
- Challenging problem: Improving the community's acceptance of diversity
- Public product(s): Social media campaign, website
- Public audience: Campus community members
- Project partners: Campus Student Life Services
Open Sesame - ESL students enrolled in an intensive English program in New York City researched farm to table restaurants, designed a community guide, and shared their learning at a community event
- Language: English
- Challenging problem: Educating the community about farm to table
- Public product(s): Community event, video
- Public audience: Friends, family, community members
- Project partners: Local farmers' markets, restaurants, etc.
Practicing English: Interview with Foreign Tourists / Practicando Inglés: Entrevista a Turistas extranjeros - 14:18 min. video
- Language: English
- Challenging problem: Where do foreign tourists like to visit and what are their impressions of the locals?
- Public product(s): Interviews, YouTube video
- Public audience: Community members
- Project partners: Local tourists