Related Links

LOCAL LINKS

Georgia Department of Education
www.doe.k12.ga.us
Oversees service-learning programs in Georgia K-12 schools.

K-12 Academic Service Learning of Georgia
www.doe.k12.ga.us/federal/learnserve/learnserve.html

Provides information pertaining to K-12 Service Learning programs in Georgia.

University of Georgia Education
www.coe.uga.edu/~epate/clases/svclrn.htm
Lists education classes involving service-learning at University of Georgia.

ON-LINE DISCUSSION GROUP
For interactive information, get on the Higher Education Service-Learning listserv and participate in discussions with hundreds of other researchers, policy-makers, and Service Learning practitioners from around the country.
Send an email to: listproc@csf.colorado.edu
Leave “subject” space blank
In the body of the message type: “SUB service-learning (Your) First Name (Your) Last Name.”

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
www.nicsl.coled.umn.edu
Contains a searchable database of K-12 and higher education service-learning literature, information about events, listservs and Learn and Serve America efforts. This site will also link you to other service-learning resources.

Corporation for National Service
www.learnandserve.org
The funding source for the Learn and Serve America grant program and national headquarters for the Learn and Serve initiative.

Campus Compact
www.compact.org
Includes resources for service-learning practitioners, including faculty, presidents and administrators, a calendar of events, links, news, model programs, sample syllabi and a section dedicated to “Building the Service-Learning Pyramid.”

National Society for Experiential Education
www.nsee.org
Includes information about experiential education methods, including service-learning.

American Association of Colleges and Universities
www.aacu-edu.org
Provides detailed descriptions of its projects, including the Diversity Initiative, in which service-learning and campus-community partnerships play an important role.

National Dropout Prevention Center, Clemson University
www.dropoutprevention.org
Provides access to the National Dropout Prevention Network, a major source for information on the use of service-learning programs to help students succeed in school.

Northwest Regional Education Laboratory
www.nwrel.org
Provides access to service-learning related information in the areas of school-to-work, Native American programs, educational reform and rural education.

Learn and Serve America Training and Technical Assistance Exchange
www.lsaexchange.org
Provides service-learning technical assistance to schools, colleges and universities. The site includes information about the Exchange and links to partners and regional centers, and current news articles and conference listings.

Campus Outreach
www.cool2serve.org/index2.htm
Dedicated to educating and empowering students to strengthen our nation through community service.

Points of Light Foundation
www.pointsoflight.org
Is the central hub for community-based service-learning initiatives across the country.

American Association of Higher Education
www.aahe.org
The home site for AAHE offers a description of AAHE’s  Service-Learning project, including conferences and the 18-volume monograph series on service-learning in the disciplines.

The Big Dummy’s Guide to Service-Learning
www.fiu.edu/~time4chg/Library/bigdummy.html
This site is organized around frequently asked questions and divided into faculty and programmatic issues. Includes “101 Ideas for Combining Service and Learning” in various disciplines.

OTHER SERVICE-LEARNING UNIVERSITIES

University of California, Los Angeles
www.gsseis.ucla.edu/ded.html
Conducts needs assessments of programs and produces studies, monographs and symposia on important issues dealing with service-learning in higher education.

University of Massachusetts, Amherst
www.umass.edu/education
Serves as the northeast regional information center in service-learning and as an information conduit in the area of teacher education and service-learning.

Vanderbilt University
www.peabody.vanderbilt.edu
Conducts targeted literature reviews dealing with service-learning and higher education, produces articles about service-learning issues and collaborates with UCLA on symposia and monographs.

The Colorado Service-Learning Home Page
www.Csf.Colorado.edu/sl
Lists definitions of service-learning, undergraduate service-learning programs with online course lists and syllabi, links to college and university homepages and links to service-learning organizations, networks and resources.

Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning
www.umich.edu/edu~ocsl/MJCSL/
A peer-reviewed academic journal containing papers written by faculty and service-learning educators on research, theory, pedagogy, and issues pertinent to the service-learning community.

www.edb.utexas.edu/servicelearning/index.html
Includes in-depth explanations of all service-learning components, model programs and projects at all grade levels that integrate technology.


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