Human Rights Survey

So for my project I am going to be developing a survey to gauge opinions about human rights in Carrboro. I will just be taking the first initial steps, mainly the actual creation of the survey. The actual implementation of the survey will take place in the Fall.

So, since we are supposed to blog about our failures too, I guess I'll be the first. I was planning on creating a mini-survey type thing to hand out at the July 4th festivities in Carrboro, but on Friday after creating my document, I realized that all of the libraries were closed all day Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So I wasn't able to print copies in order to distribute.

Luckily, this was only a small extra thing that I was going to be doing, so I will still continue to create a more comprehensive survey to distribute in the fall. Also, I may find some time to distribute the mini survey if I notice any big events happening in Carrboro during this session. Please let me know if anyone has any ideas for questions that they think would be interesting to include in the survey.

ESL Kids Camps

Hello Everyone! Prof Blau and I have come up with an idea to create afterschool ESL or English language learning homework help camps in the Fall. I personally am organizing and leading a ESL kids camp at Kingswood Apartments off NC-54, right now. Therefore, Im going to write up my material for the fall. I know that some people are collecting lesson plan materials on cultural diversity, and possibly other things. I would like collaborate with any of you that are collecting materials of this nature so that in the fall the new SOCI 273 students have materials to conduct the ELL camp.
I also wanted to comment on the use of the green space behind F building. I think this is a great space for kids camps. Im not sure if this is where the soccer games are being held, but if they arent, we should utilize this space as it is a more central location for recruiting local residents.
So, please let me know about the cultural diversity materials, and kids lesson plans- you can contact me via this blog or at drcraw@email.unc.edu. Thanks!

Hey,

Hope everyone had a great July 4th weekend. I am the photographer, so I am kind of at a standstill until we have more events to take pictures at. I know they are planning to play dominos this Sunday at 6:00, so I hope people go and get involved. If you attend any events, please take a couple pictures and post them to the Facebook group "Human Rights Center", or email directly to me: elaura@email.unc.edu ...also I had a song suggestion for the concert, "Heal The World" by Michael Jackson would be inspirational/a nice little tribute to MJ ;)

See y'all tonight. -Laura

Cultural Diversity

For the cultural diversity teachings, I am incorporating a wide variety of cultures into easy, fun learning activities for younger children. Thus far, I have researched main points in the Hispanic and Spanish cultures and have included small bits of history to give a general, but main idea. I am using creative tactics to help the kids have fun while learning! I am still putting together other fun activities for other cultures so the kids can learn a wide variety. :-)

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I went to the E8 Apartment last Friday at 1 for the soccer, but there weren't any little kids there to play... : ( But it's okay because I feel that it was good advertisement to be out there anyways. Hope to hear that more are coming out for the next round of soccer peeps!

YAY Thanks Guys!!

Sooo Our class blog is off to a good start! Everyone keep up the good work and keep posting. Your projects sound like they are doing well. I'll start to think of some topics we could discuss on the blog rather than just the projects. But, anyways.... see you all tomorrow! :)

SSN Translation & MANO

Hi Everyone!

I'm working on one of the translation projects along with Natalie as well as trying to get involved with MANO. I have started working with the SSN form translation and agree that some parts can get confusing and seem unclear. But it's nothing too difficult for the time being. As far as working with MANO goes, I have attended both last Wednesday's as well as today's session and have unfortunately not been able to be paired up with anyone thus far. Today I went and simply got a look at how the volunteers interacted with the students. It helped me get a better grasp of what I'll hopefully get the chance to do next week!