Ideas for #MakingPlaceMatter in S-L/C-E Courses
Invite your students to join you on one of the Preservation Durham Walking Tours, leaving from the Durham Farmer’s Market Saturday mornings from April – November.
Ask students to co-create a Community Asset Map with current or potential community partners, giving students tools to identify strengths and resources in our Durham communities.
Check out the virtual resources of the Durham County Library’s North Carolina Collection. Find A Short History of Durham presentation on their website, or the archives of The Carolina Times – or so many resources likely to have connection to your course content and goals.
Join Duke Service-Learning in creating our own crowdsourced Where I’m From poem. Inspired by a partnership between Kwame Alexander and NPR, who were in turn inspired by George Ella Lyon’s poem of the same name, invite a class reflection on Where I’m From as it relates to your service-learning or community-engaged course’s connection to Durham. Try this prompt (with nods to NPR): Duke Service-Learningwants to hear your reflections on Durham developed through community engaged experiences — through poetry! Draw on all five senses. Share with us the people or places or smells that define Durham as you know it. Be original! And share your course poems with Duke Service-Learning! Read examples here and here and here.
