Service-Learning Initiative

Digital Stories from the Service-Learning Initiative

 The Service-Learning Initiative is working to find creative ways to share our favorite service-learning stories with the community at Ohio State. With thousands of students participating in service-learning every year, we have a lot of stories to tell! Check out the links below to enjoy our digial story archive, and if you have a story to share, let us know!

Service-Learning Stories from the Digital Union

• Becoming an Adult Educator Again, by David Stein, associate professor, College of Education and Human Ecology
• What does it mean to be a Buckeye?, by Bethany Christoff, program coordinator, Service-Learning Initiative
• Behind the Glass, by Golden Jackson, program director, Service-Learning Initiative
• Short North Obama Mural by the People of Weinland Park, by Loring Resler, graduate teaching associate, Department of Art Education
• In Tandem: a partnership story, by Nancy Hood, community engagement program manager, Center for Clinical and Translational Science

Service-Learning Stories on YouTube

In Fall of 2011, we partnered with Les Tannenbaum and his English 269 course. They interviewed students in current service-learning courses to to ask them why they chose service-learning, and what their course experience was like. Click the videos below to watch, or click the student's name to be taken offsite. Click the course or project name to learn more about how you can get involved. Thanks to Les and his students for making this possible!

Tell us your service-learning story! Email us at slearning@osu.edu!