Research Tools
These resources are referenced in the assignment below. You can get a paper copy of the forms from the reference librarians at COA. Steve Gerstle developed the research guide for this assignment. I will have paper copies on hand also. If you miss class check the bin outside my office.
Visit http://alameda.peralta.edu/projects/20013/EnglishSabirpathfinder.doc
http://alameda.peralta.edu/projects/20013/EvalWebWksht.doc for the assignment: Evaluating a web page.
Other resources
http://alameda.peralta.edu/Projects/20013/researchsteps.pdf
Exercises due by Friday, April 12:
Students need to watch minimally 3 segments and write a response and post it here on the social entrepreneurs profiled in Frontline World. Talk about the business the person developed. What problem they sought to address and what both the community and the social entreprenuer gained. These exercises need to be completed before Friday, April 12. On "Frontline: World," I saw a program about a micro-lending organization called KIVA where lenders who want to help small businesses in Uganda can make small loans on-line. Now KIVA is all over the world. All loans have been paid back 100 percent. Visit http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/uganda601/video_index.html to see the video.
Here is a link from this site to other entrepreneurs. Choose one's that interest you: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html
The organization is in San Francisco. There is a link to other Frontline programs about Social Entrepreneurs. Watch this program and over the week, watch two others. Respond to the following questions: What is a social entrepreneur? What problem did the person profiled identify? What is the name of the organization they started? Describe their relationship to the community they serve. Why did they decide to address this issue? What is the local component? How does the community own the process?
Even though the SE are from the business world, watching these programs will help you understand what is meant by social entrepreneur.
You need to define "social," "entrepreneur," and "philanthropy." This should be a part of your introduction to the essay due at the end of the month. We’ll watch one of these Frontline World segments in class April 3 in the Writing Center.
Social Entrepreneur Essay Assignment
Cyber handout: The Social Entrepreneur Essay research worksheet is a way to define what a social entrepreneur is compared to a philanthropist. We are looking at artists who are using their craft to better the community and the world we live in, a person such as Alice Walker.
See a librarian at the reference desk to help you define your search and identify the SE you'd like to profile in your 5-10 page essay. Use the handouts or the links to handouts to document the research process and to pace yourself. We will have serveral related assignments, from evaluating websites to developing a research strategy to help you find the information you need and then document it.
I created this assignment after seeing the program: New Heroes on http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/. I wanted students to realize the power they possess to be the change in their communities they want to see, that one person can make a difference.
Use the library worksheet to define the terms: social, society,entrepreneur, "social entrepreneur", philanthropist and philanthropy. Be clear about the difference between a philanthropist and a social entrepreneur. Also define: hero, local, selfless, selfish, community, help, support, supporter. care, independence, money, wealth.
The question you want to ask after you have identified a person or two:
What motivated this person to want to change something in society? How did this person get the community's support for the project? What did the community gain? What did the social entrepreneur gain? Your essay needs to answer all of these questions, you can structure it like a typical problem/solution essay or cause and effect.
The person has to be alive. Try to find someone local, who is living in the San Francisco Bay Area or in California. The person has to have been doing this work for 10-20 years. You need to locate 5-10 sources on your subject to form a bibliography; you don't have to cite 10 sources. The sources can be published or broadcast interviews, books, articles, and films or you can interview them yourself. The person cannot be a relative. You can work in groups and share data. In fact, I encourage it.
Due dates
The planning sheet and 5-10 sources are due Thursday, April 10 to share.
An outline is due: Monday, April 14.
An introduction and conclusion are due Monday, April 21.
The first draft is due Thursday, April 24.
The final draft is due Tuesday, April 29. This draft needs to include a peer review and a review by a writing center teacher or tutor (this does not mean you have to change your paper, just consider their comments in answer to the five areas we consider when reviewing another’s work (Hacker handout) or specific questions you might have.)
You will post the essay, the planning sheet, and all the works cited and bibliography pages on the blog that day in class.
These resources are referenced in the assignment below. You can get a paper copy of the forms from the reference librarians at COA. Steve Gerstle developed the research guide for this assignment. I will have paper copies on hand also. If you miss class check the bin outside my office.
Visit http://alameda.peralta.edu/projects/20013/EnglishSabirpathfinder.doc
http://alameda.peralta.edu/projects/20013/EvalWebWksht.doc for the assignment: Evaluating a web page.
Other resources
http://alameda.peralta.edu/Projects/20013/researchsteps.pdf
Exercises due by Friday, April 12:
Students need to watch minimally 3 segments and write a response and post it here on the social entrepreneurs profiled in Frontline World. Talk about the business the person developed. What problem they sought to address and what both the community and the social entreprenuer gained. These exercises need to be completed before Friday, April 12. On "Frontline: World," I saw a program about a micro-lending organization called KIVA where lenders who want to help small businesses in Uganda can make small loans on-line. Now KIVA is all over the world. All loans have been paid back 100 percent. Visit http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/uganda601/video_index.html to see the video.
Here is a link from this site to other entrepreneurs. Choose one's that interest you: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html
The organization is in San Francisco. There is a link to other Frontline programs about Social Entrepreneurs. Watch this program and over the week, watch two others. Respond to the following questions: What is a social entrepreneur? What problem did the person profiled identify? What is the name of the organization they started? Describe their relationship to the community they serve. Why did they decide to address this issue? What is the local component? How does the community own the process?
Even though the SE are from the business world, watching these programs will help you understand what is meant by social entrepreneur.
You need to define "social," "entrepreneur," and "philanthropy." This should be a part of your introduction to the essay due at the end of the month. We’ll watch one of these Frontline World segments in class April 3 in the Writing Center.
Social Entrepreneur Essay Assignment
Cyber handout: The Social Entrepreneur Essay research worksheet is a way to define what a social entrepreneur is compared to a philanthropist. We are looking at artists who are using their craft to better the community and the world we live in, a person such as Alice Walker.
See a librarian at the reference desk to help you define your search and identify the SE you'd like to profile in your 5-10 page essay. Use the handouts or the links to handouts to document the research process and to pace yourself. We will have serveral related assignments, from evaluating websites to developing a research strategy to help you find the information you need and then document it.
I created this assignment after seeing the program: New Heroes on http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/. I wanted students to realize the power they possess to be the change in their communities they want to see, that one person can make a difference.
Use the library worksheet to define the terms: social, society,entrepreneur, "social entrepreneur", philanthropist and philanthropy. Be clear about the difference between a philanthropist and a social entrepreneur. Also define: hero, local, selfless, selfish, community, help, support, supporter. care, independence, money, wealth.
The question you want to ask after you have identified a person or two:
What motivated this person to want to change something in society? How did this person get the community's support for the project? What did the community gain? What did the social entrepreneur gain? Your essay needs to answer all of these questions, you can structure it like a typical problem/solution essay or cause and effect.
The person has to be alive. Try to find someone local, who is living in the San Francisco Bay Area or in California. The person has to have been doing this work for 10-20 years. You need to locate 5-10 sources on your subject to form a bibliography; you don't have to cite 10 sources. The sources can be published or broadcast interviews, books, articles, and films or you can interview them yourself. The person cannot be a relative. You can work in groups and share data. In fact, I encourage it.
Due dates
The planning sheet and 5-10 sources are due Thursday, April 10 to share.
An outline is due: Monday, April 14.
An introduction and conclusion are due Monday, April 21.
The first draft is due Thursday, April 24.
The final draft is due Tuesday, April 29. This draft needs to include a peer review and a review by a writing center teacher or tutor (this does not mean you have to change your paper, just consider their comments in answer to the five areas we consider when reviewing another’s work (Hacker handout) or specific questions you might have.)
You will post the essay, the planning sheet, and all the works cited and bibliography pages on the blog that day in class.
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The three Videos
A social entrepreneur is a person who takes their own time to help a community that is in need, by giving them what they lack most, and at the same time meeting the people whom he/she is helping.
A Philanthropy is a rich person whom gives the poor money but doesn’t really meet the people whom he/she is helping.
The Questions
1. What is a social entrepreneur?
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
4. Describe their relationship to the community they serve. Why did they decide to address this issue?
5. What is the local component?
6. How does the community own the process?
First video
India: A New Life
Getting children off the streets
1. Father Thomas Koshy noticed that there were three thousand children in India, Vijayawada, whom don’t have a home and were living on the streets. While living on the streets children began to follow the wrong road and get into trouble. So the mayor of Vijaywada, told him he should open a shelter home for the children. And he did.
2. The name of the organization they started is Navajeevan Bala Bhavan also known as the New Life Children Home.
3. Father Koshy is a Catholic priest of the city and decided teamed up with his old friend Anu Dasaka whom is a Hindu and has a career in psychology, to start the program, and save the children’s future by building schools and homes for them.
4. There are approximately 27,000 children in India who live on the streets and the local component is to get every child to attending the Navajeevan Bala Bhavan.
5. The community is in need of the Navajeevan Bala Bhavan and help building them around the country.
South Africa: The Play Pump
1. Trevor Field identified that that South Africa barely had any access to clean water and most of the water is contaminated.
2. Trevor called his organization the Play Pump.
3. Trevor became rich by making advertisements and decided to help the South African people get access to clean and fresh water by building play pumps near schools and villages. The play pump is designed as a Mary Go Round, so when Children played on it and spun it around it pumps water.
4. He wanted Southern Africans to have access to clean water, because that was the main thing they lacked.
5. The Play Pump only costs around seven thousand dollars and when activated it pumps four hundred gallons of water per hour.
Tanzania: Hero Rats
1. Bart Vitcans raised rats to help him and his crew find land mines that were left behind after a recent war in Belgium and save lives by sniffing the land mine. People accidently walk into land mines and lose their legs or even die.
2. They named the organization Hero Rats.
3. They decided to address this issue because there were many people dieing because of stepping on them.
4. The component is to dig out every land mine planted and unexploded.
5. The community helped Bart raise the rats and train them to sniff out deadly unexploded land mines.
ooops i forgot to put my name!!!
Faraj Fayad
English 1A
9-10am
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Professor Wanda Sabir
Kenton Low, 1A - MTWR: 8 - 9AM
Soical Entreprenur - Tanizna: Hero Rats
Outline and Planning Sheet
14 April 2008
Outline:
1.What is a social entrepreneur ?
2.What problem did the person profile identify?
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
4.Describe their reasonship to the community that they serve?
• Why they decided to address this issue?
5.What is the local component?
6.How does the community own the process?
Tanzania: Hero Rats
1. They named the organization Hero Rats.
2. They decided to address the issue because there where many dyeing because stepp-
ing on the land mines.
3.The component of the rats is to dig out the improvese exposive devices (IED'S)
out from the ground/ play yard of the school.
4.Bart Vitcans helped his members by scoutting out land mines that where left behind
from the civil war in Belgium and saved lives by sniffing out land mines.
5.Digging out land mines in the country of Tanzania so that people do not lose any more legs and arms.
6.The country in Tanzania helped Bart Vitcans raised the land mine sniffing rats and trained them well.
India - Hole In The Wall
1. Dr. Mitra was greatful for the children when they ruised over to the computer because they learned in minutes.
2.Computers where put up every in New Delhi in poor areas of the town in New Delhi.
3.Dr. Mitra took his have and have – nots to overcome the digital age where the digital age is divided in India.
4.In a village Dr. Mitra places a computer in a town where it was a place where fishing takes place in a rural area in state of Maharashtra.
Great responses Faraj and Kenton. I am moving your responses to today's post. Although, you are correct to post your assignment here.
Ali Hassan
Professor Sabir
8/9
Social entrepreneur: a person who uses creative business practice to start a social services organization.
Philanthropist: a person who practices philanthropy; and has concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, by endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other socially useful purposes.
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
• Why they decided to address this issue?
5. What is the local component?
6. How does the community own the process?
Tanzania: Hero Rats
1) The social entrepreneur profile is Bart Weetjen who is the founder of Hero Rats, as a boy he had great passion for rats and decided to train them to sniff out landmines in Tanzania.
2) Traditionally, dogs had been used to defuse landmines but rats have proven to be more effective and less likely to detonate the landmines. The rats are also capable of detecting tuberculosis, a leading cause of death in Africa.
3) It is called Hero Rats where Bart and his crew, has been running a unique lab in Tanzania for the past seven years, where they train rats to sniff out deadly unexploded land mines.
4) Bart and his crew members that are part of the organization are really serving the community of Tanzania by improving the safety of its lands where people can now feel secure and safe and allowing the children to resume their education and play without fear of stepping on a mine, also preventing many lives from being lost.
5) Rats are placed through careful training, after the rats have completed the training successfully; they are sent out to detect landmines in schools, villages and etc.
6) The community does not own the process Bart and his crew do all the training and sponsoring. Even though the people of Tanzania can say that Bart is using their rats, but I think that is not a smart complaint because he is doing it to save the lives of people living in Tanzania.
India: Hole in the Wall
1) The social entrepreneur is profile as Dr. Sugata Mitra, a computer scientist who works at some of the most advance high technology firms in India.
2) Dr. Sugata Mitra’s 21st century office is right next to a slum where Indians live for less than 1 dollar a day and half of them are illiterate. He was curious as what would happen if he provided the poor kids with free, with a computer that had unlimited access to the web.
3) The organization that started this project is NIIT, a leading computer software and training company in New Delhi.
4) Dr. Sugata Mitra’s relationship to the Indians kids is relatively close; in fact they are neighbors given the fact that he works in a 21st century office right next to a slum full of poor kids. The relationship was positive as more kids are educating themselves with the wealth of information they found online. Rory O'Connor first encountered Dr. Mitra’s experiment while making a film on global poverty. Seeing the success of Dr. Mitra’s experiment, Rory decides to show the world.
5) Kids made the most efficient use out of their local setup computers by absorbing information on the internet and becoming more computer literate.
6) The community does not own the process; the computer project was setup and sponsor by NITT firm.
South Africa: The Play Pump
1) The entrepreneur profiled Trevor Field, a retired advertising executive, had done well in life and wanted to give back to his community.
2) Trevor Field noticed that in rural villages across South Africa, some 5 million people don't have access to clean drinking water. Water was very scarce.
3) Field teamed up with an inventor and came up with the name Play Pump.
4) Trevor felt real bad for the women because it was their job to wake up in the morning to search for water, he sees that women are burning up collecting water when they could be at home looking after their kids, teaching their kids, being loving mothers.
5) To make it easy for people in South Africa to have easy access to pure clean water, and don’t have to travel searching for the nearest borehole to collect water.
6) The community owns the process thanks to Trevor Fields who has helped the community by giving them easy access to clean water.
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