Week 11

One of our missions is to help the Legos daycare with their website. I had no clue how I could help with that since I have no experience but a friend shared with me this link http://www.codecademy.com/skills/make-a-website. They teach you how to create a websites and its free. I think it would be great for all of us to develop this skill in order to effectively help the daycare's website.

Also one of our goals is to create an atmosphere in the daycare where the staff can know each other more. I found 40 Icebreakers that don't need a lot of preparations or materials and work great with a small group and group building Ice breakers. http://insight.typepad.co.uk/40_icebreakers_for_small_groups.pdf 

Service Learning Project

During the Study Abroad program I will be working in the Legos Day Care in Wynberg, Cape Town and will be doing a Service Learning Project in the childcare center.  Some background on the childcare program in the governmental website is described as "Early Childhood development, for the purposes of this Act, means the process of emotional, cognitive, sensory, spiritual, moral, physical, social and communication development of children from birth to school-going age." 

https://www.westerncape.gov.za/facility/legos-day-care  

I want to share a website that I found with information about the logistics of early childhood centers in South Africa. http://wp.wpi.edu/capetown/projects/p2013/early-childhood-development-connection/knowledge-worth-sharing/registering-requirements/ this information can be helpful and useful for my team because it talks about the staffing requirements. A main part of our project will be working with the staff and doing workshops for them. This can be helpful in order for us to know more about the staff's role in the daycare.

I was able to find the Facebook for the Legos Daycare group, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004548017923&fref=ts 

Top 10 Readings and Videos

The top 10 useful links are important information to know for the Maymaster because even though we have not been to South Africa we have the internet that has insight information. For example I like the "Not White Enough, Not Black Enough" article that mentions that "now that [her friend had]  lived in South Africa for a few months, she is[now] fluent in the local racial vocabulary" and things are "not quite black and white. " by reading such articles and the links provided we will be able to understand the vocabulary, history, culture and about the progressive movement that it's making and have access to essential information and know about South Africa. We will be conscientious students  and tourist.

Module 8

1. Power and Privilege Definitions that Josh provided.

2. Apartheid Timeline- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/endgame/timeline.html

3. History of Apartheid in South Africa video- http://youtu.be/JqCKIUogn6E

4. Culture of South Africa- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_South_Africa

5. Race differences in educational attainment of youth ages 7-18 in post-apartheid South Africa-
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21528586.2014.887917

6. Cape Town: Gangs, Race and poverty 20 years after Apartheid-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoMl_G6rL9k

7. South Africa's Post Apartheid Generation-https://youtu.be/elrWczhTZBk

8. South Africa's tradition of domestic work continues post-apartheid-
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-16/south-africas-tradition-domestic-work-continues-post-apartheid

9. Here's how South African students talk about race and gender-
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-16/heres-how-south-african-students-talk-about-race-and-gender

10. The bucket-list trip in South Africa
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2013/03/18/ultimate-bucket-list-trip-south-africa/2/

Module 7

I reviewed the youtube video "Cape Town: Gangs, Race and poverty 20 years after Apartheid" that Denice posted about in her blog. I gained new knowledge of the living situations that the poor people in  Cape Town face. One main topic that I found interesting was the organization that helps women and children. I think that such organizations are helpful to the communities because it encourages children to stay away from violence and gangs.

I reviewed the Apartheid timeline that Josh provided. It provided useful information to know about the history of Apartheid, as well as knowing about events that did and did not reinforced the movement.

The article "Factbox: South Africa since apartheid" that Faith posted, was about the changes that South Africa made 18 years after Apartheid, they give statistics of improvements that there has been.