Learning by doing: Mapping Community Assets
| 2011/03/24 | Posted by admin under Featured, Maps, Towards Better Teaching |
University of Windsor Social Work students have placements in their senior years where they gain experience in the field and make community connections. They each bring passion and unique skills to their organizations. Take Lillian Gallant for example: her placement this term has been at the Ford City Neighbourhood Renewal project (housed in the Gino A. Marcus Community Centre). She started out wanting to make an inventory of the community and from that, developed a “community asset map” using GoogleMaps. Combining her skill with emerging technologies and her social work background led to this fantastic map of the neighbourhood.
The process was a hands-on way to learn and the visualization is a great way to share the results. Congrats on a fantastic project Lillian!
Click on the different icons to reveal information about each asset:
View Ford City Community Asset Map in a larger map
Hey Candace,
Thanks for showcasing my hard work!
My placement was quite unique, and allowed me the support and encouragment to think-out-side-the-box. This form of learning allowed me to engage information learned in a very concrete way. Learning is more effective if it is transformative as opposed to transmitted, the skills and technology I used I will probably incorporate in future endeavors.
~thanks
Lillian
Now I know who the brainy one is, I’ll keep looking for your posts.
Touchdown! That’s a really cool way of putting it!