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The Overview Effect - An Amazing 20-Minute Video to Brighten Your Day
A recently released 20-minute documentary trailer beautifully tells the story of astronauts’ experiences looking back on the earth. It leads with the profound proposition uttered by English astronomer Fred Hoyle in 1948: Once a photograph of earth, taken from outside, … Continue reading
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Safety for Female Travelers
Why are we talking about solo female travel, not violence against women? That’s the question that perpetual traveler Jodi Ettenberg asks at the beginning of her thoughtful essay, Revisiting the Solo Female Travel Experience. As an educator, I appreciate her … Continue reading
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Study Abroad Safety Resources for LGBTQ Travelers
Educators are consciously developing capacity to support LGBTQ Students’ Safe Study Abroad experiences. Sexual orientation and gender identity are essential topics throughout the program selection, pre-departure, on-site orientation, program delivery, and re-entry process. Late last week I inquired about resources … Continue reading
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Immediately Applicable Teaching Resources: Participation, Reflective Writing, and Final Project Rubrics
Marcia Eames-Sheavly (Cornell University), has been gracious enough to share the rubrics that support her community-engaged course in Garden-Based Learning in Belize. Applicable to courses across disciplines, content areas, and locations, are her: Reflective Writing Guidelines Class Participation Rubric, which … Continue reading
How to Have the Best Possible Global Health Volunteer Trip
I’m pleased to share these guidelines from Professor Judith N. Lasker, who previously contributed a Better World Blog Post on Short-Term Programs in Global Health, the subject of her forthcoming book. The book’s Table of Contents is available here. Important advice … Continue reading
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Resources from the 6th Annual Cornell Global Service-Learning Institute
The GSLI is underway, thanks to New York Campus Compact, Engaged Learning + Research at Cornell University, and Amizade Global Service-Learning. As promised, I’m sharing resources here, including the following PowerPoint Presentations, most of which feature hyperlinks that connect to … Continue reading
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Tools vs. Textbooks: The Academic and Developmental Impact of Alternative Break Trips and Classroom-Based Learning
Today I’m pleased to share a research summary from Annie Wendel, a Providence College Graduate (Public and Community Service) who was central to the development of this website during the past year. Annie’s preparing to leave for a year in … Continue reading
Giving Back? Short-Term International Volunteer Programs in Health
Judith N. Lasker, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lehigh University, has been deeply immersed in research on international health volunteerism. Below she has offered a summary of her forthcoming book. She has also been kind enough to share guidelines for … Continue reading
Fair Trade Learning Resource Base Grows; Upcoming Posts on International Health & Domestic GSL!
Greetings Readers: I recently returned from an exhilarating trip to Arizona, where I had the opportunity to facilitate a doctoral student panel on Fair Trade Learning and present a session on thinking through international community partnerships. This was all part of Prescott … Continue reading
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International Education Program Design for the Common Good
What are our duties towards communities of strangers who, living across town or across the world, host our students’ living and learning? And how might the decisions we make in program design operationalize those duties? Dr. Richard Slimbach, Professor of … Continue reading
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