Introduction
Partner Description
Our community partner this semester was LAMP, which
stands for Learning Actively Mentorship Program. As part of the Science
Initiative at the University of Wyoming, Professor Rachel Watson is the primary
head of LAMP. LAMP’s mission is to transform core science classrooms into
engaging, interactive environments through the use of active learning
classrooms and active teaching. Furthermore, LAMP plans to improve the quality
of undergraduate science education, increase the passing rate of introductory
science courses, and achieve top quartile publication rates of PhD faculty.
Group Description
As part of the goal of helping our community partner,
LAMP, us students of ENGL – 2035: Writing for Public Forums, including Paige
Bodily, Charlamagne Belknap, Megan Rogge, Anson Lichtfuss, and myself, have
assembled to form the LAMP Group. With our diverse education backgrounds in
Computer Science, Business, Education, and English, we were an excellent choice
for helping LAMP in its endeavors, bringing many different ideas and
perspectives on LAMP’s problem of need.
Project Description and Solution
After
conducting our own free research, consulting with Rachel Watson, going back to
research, and speaking with Rachel again, we both determined LAMP’s most viable
problem of need for us to assist with with was its lack of web presence,
communication of goals, and turning feelings of exclusion in the community into
feelings of inclusion. After researching how other universities have dealt with
these issues, and communicating with Tabatha Spencer and Rachel Watson, we were
able to develop web content and create an infographic for LAMP’s website that
we believe will help LAMP overcome these obstacles.
Outline of Documents
Initial Correspondence: In the initial stages of our correspondence with
Rachel Watson, we asked about and discussed issues LAMP has been facing and deliberated possible solutions
the LAMP Group could offer. In the end, we settled on the major task of
generating informative and audience engaging content for the LAMP website.
Link to Initial Correspondence:
Follow-up Correspondence: Our follow-up correspondence with Rachel
Watson also included Tabatha Spencer, a project coordinator for LAMP, and we
discussed implementing our web content on the LAMP webpage as well as how that
could be done.
Link to Follow-up Correspondence:
Proposal: In
our proposal, we
ironed out LAMP’s real needs, proposed a solution to LAMP’s difficulty, discussed
the beneficiaries of the solution, and laid out a plan of action on how we
think it could be done. We also created a rough timeline of our progress.
Link to Proposal:
Proposal PowerPoint: In our proposal PowerPoint or “pitch” presentation, we the LAMP Group formally pitched our
solution and plan to Rachel Watson, including a discussion of the beneficiaries
of our plan, and a background on what Active Learning is.
Link to Proposal Powerpoint:
Infographic: The infographic is to be featured on the LAMP page, and gives a
description of Active Learning and its benefits.
Link to Infographic:
Client Project: The client project was compiled by each of us, which included content that LAMP can utilize however pleases them.
Link to Project:
https://docs.google.com/a/uwyo.edu/document/d/1m4jVl2B7pnst3cuJE_e6xs6Jd20-Bde0aaIN72cf4pM/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/a/uwyo.edu/document/d/1m4jVl2B7pnst3cuJE_e6xs6Jd20-Bde0aaIN72cf4pM/edit?usp=sharing
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