Campus
University of California Berkeley (UCB) • Berkeley, CA
Campus Contacts
Carrie Donovan / Carriedonovan@berkeley.edu / 510-642-5429
Students Names: Sam Contreras (Video Project Director); Sunny Lee, Erin Knight, Jeremy Whitaker (Facebook App & Technology Team); Joni Yamashiro (Widget Designer)
Cal Corps Public Service Center
505 Eshleman Hall, #4550 • University of California Berkeley 94720-4550Videos
http://publicservice.berkeley.edu
Graduate students in Information Technology: http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/
One Paragraph Description
UC Berkeley is working to promote the effectiveness of its campus’s service and civic work in education and youth development. We have built a google mashup database that maps all Oakland and Berkeley public schools and youth organizations alongside school data so that potential volunteers can compare different opportunities and visualize geographic educational inequities. Contact information, descriptions of service opportunities, and videos will be included to promote higher levels of involvement at local youth sites, and broader student engagement in support of educational equity.
Summary of Activities: Cumulative
Please add a few bullets that summarize the work your program has done related to Serve 2.0 from first learning of the initiative. This might include web media you've developed (such as wikis, videos), students/staff you've engaged, planning meetings, educational activities/trainings, and service events or activities sponsored in relation to this work.
Sub-Grant Proposal
- Events/Meetings held or attended: The Facebook application team has met with Cal Corps staff 7 times to outline and demo a google mashup design, called Cal2Action - which will invite students to get involve in a specific issue area and will geographically map local opportunities for involvement with video clips showing student volunteers in action. Students will be able to beome a facebook fan of an issue area, for example "Cal2Action: Education." In fall, Cal Corps staff had weekly meetings with the Video Project Director and the Video Project Director organized 6 site visits to partner youth sites to collect video footage for the mashup.
- Primary social media developed/utilized: We worked on two main social media: a google mashup featuring local youth-serving organizations that would like the support of UCB students (as volunteers or employees) and video clips of each, and a Facebook application in support of Educational Equity that allows students to invite their friends to learn more about the issue and get involved.
- Trainings/educational activities held or attended: This fall Cal Corps Public Service Center organized a large campus-wide conference for all students, faculty, staff, and community partners interested in education and youth work. Dr. Pedro Noguera gave the opening address, and over 400 students RSVPd. We captured the email addresses for all of these students, and plan to send them a personal invitation to view the Cal2Action Education mashup as soon as it is live and ask them to become fans of "education."
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- Other:
Broader Serve 2.0 Integration on Campus
- Events/Meetings held or attended:
- Primary social media developed/utilized: Students in the School of Information Technology developed a google mashup in the Djengo framework (which is Python-based), which connects to Google maps and a MySQL database which includes volunteer/service opportunities, a description of opportunities and contacts to get involved, and when the service opportunity is at a school, data on the schools API scores by race/ethnicity, and the % of students who are free & reduced-price lunch. The launch of our google mashup and Facebook app were slated to coincide with the launch of a new Cal Corps Public Service Center site (and redesigned webpage) that would serve as the public service portal for the whole UCB campus. The google mashup/database was completed in June 2009 and the new Website was slated to launch over the summer. Unfortunately, campus budget cuts stalled this process, and when we did receive funding to move forard with the launch, we found out the new platform could not support our prodcut (nor could our former site.) We then explored purchasing monthly space in a managed environment, but Cal's option (calwebpro) does not support MySQL. We are now in the process of seeking university approval to contract with an external provider, and use a UC-Berkeley domain name with an off-campus host.
- We intend to expand the Educational Equity facebook app that we are developing through Serve 2.0 to other issue areas, so that we can funnel all issues-based campus news/events/opportunities to students across campus who are interested in the issue.
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Social Media Tool Catalog
Wikis: Please add a bullet describing how you are using wikis (e.g., for planning, project management, profiles, etc.) on campus and for this initiative. Please link the wikis your campus has created.
Website: Please add a bullet describing how you are using your campus/center's website (e.g., for planning, project management, profiles, etc.) on campus and for this initiative. Please link the relevant webpages your campus has created.
- http://publicservice.berkeley.edu
Videos: Please add a bullet describing any videos you have created or are working on. Please embed a link to any completed videos.
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