Festival of Learning

Open Session Limited to 40 Participants (First-Come, First-In)

Having students involved with such service-learning web projects activities parallel my teaching philosophy as “you have to be able to practice what you teach”. This session will describe the community outreach service-learning web projects where I have collaborated and coordinated with several local, regional and international non-profit organizations and small businesses to connect students in my Web Design I Programming class with an actual business client as a requirement of the final project. These outreach activities allowed my students to either create and/or modify a web site. My students learn to practice problem-solving, and critical thinking techniques for lifelong learning skills during the process of completing the service-learning web project with clients. This experience has become a win-win for the organizations involved, Thompson Rivers University (TRU), TRU Computing Science (CS) department and more importantly students in my classes since 2003.

Presenter
Mohd Abdullah, Senior Lecturer, Thompson Rivers University