New Orleans Service-Learning
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Date
2013-05-02
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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement
Abstract
Fifteen scholarship students in a year-long class are spending two weeks in New Orleans, developing Web sites, conducting and filming interviews, creating videos, and archiving materials for nonprofits preserving the city's unique culture.
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IMPACT. 1: One group of students interviewed the legendary Mardi Gras Indian chiefs and are creating a film as well as a web site for the Mardi Gras Indian Council. -- 2. Five students are archiving jazz funeral obituaries and Mardi Gras Indians suits collected at the Backstreet Cultural Museum, a one-man folk museum. -- 3. Other students are creating a Web site for Coastal Communities Consulting, which serves the Vietnamese and Cambodian fishing communities.
OSU PARTNERS: Ohio State Newark; Office of Outreach & Engagement
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: The Backstreet Cultural Museum; Coastal Communities Consulting (Lower Plaquemines Parish); The Mardi Gras Indian Council
PRIMARY CONTACT: Virgina Cope (cope.38@osu.edu)
OSU PARTNERS: Ohio State Newark; Office of Outreach & Engagement
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: The Backstreet Cultural Museum; Coastal Communities Consulting (Lower Plaquemines Parish); The Mardi Gras Indian Council
PRIMARY CONTACT: Virgina Cope (cope.38@osu.edu)
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Engaged Scholars, v. 1 (2013).