Issue to Impact Video: 

Pick an issue that you encounter while doing your community service and make a video that educates and encourages others to get involved.  It could be something as specific as testing achievement gaps for third graders in your county to something as broad as national homelessness. This is your opportunity to educate others about the issues that inspire you to take action and motivate you to serve.

 

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Please consider making this video about the same as the issue brief your school is writing.  When making this video, keep in mind the following:

1. Have you done your homework on this issue? 
2. Are all facts and figures presented in the film accurate and attributed to the correct agency?
3. Does it clearly communicate its purpose to its intended audience?
4.  Is the Community partner satisfied with this film? 
5. Is it enjoyable to watch?

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Videos Must Haves:

Purpose	Intended Audience	Video Length
The purpose is the intended message you desire audiences to receive after watching this video	Who is the target audience? What group are you hoping to attract?	Videos should not exceed 3 minutes in Length to ensure proper viewing on social media channels such as Youtube

* Use this video as a resource for your Bonner chapter and/or community.

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Last Year's Winners:

 

University of New Mexico

 

Commentary:  UNM does a great job with the video from the beginning.  A good introduction, which feels like a Hollywood movie, draws viewers into the story.  The use of text against a blank screen without music can be used, as UNM has done, to create a serious tone to the message.  The video also clearly explains the issue and why the Bonners are mobilizing to address it.  But these are not merely quick bullet points, the video also describes the situation so the viewer understands the full picture.  Interviews with community leaders and police officers help to demonstrate the importance of the issue to the community.

 

Lynchburg

 

Commentary:  The Lynchburg Bonners have created a video that clearly and creatively explains an issue facing their community.  The complex topic of mountain top removal is described in a way that anyone can understand the importance of the issue.  Videos like Lynchburg help viewers to understand why the need to become involved in specific issues facing their community.

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Submit Your Issue to Impact Video: 

Fill in all the required information to submit your Issue to Impact Video.

 

Name of School:

Title of Video:

Purpose Statement:

Intended Audience: Who did you create this video for?  Examples: Bonners, potential Bonners, faculty, general campus, people in political science 102...

Promotion Plan: How do you plan to get this video out to the public?  Who is going to watch it? Examples: post on Facebook, Tag people on the Facebook video, post video on YouTube, post link to video on Bonner webpage, send out link in campus newsletter, hold a viewing session in a political science class, etc. Be sure to put all links to postings here.

Video: Embed your video here.

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Name of School: Warren Wilson College

 

 

Title of Video: Land Conservation in Western North Carolina: A WWC Service-Learning Issue Workshop

 

 

Purpose Statement: To educate the Warren Wilson campus about the issue of land conservation and highlight the impact that this group of students made in this issue during the spring 2010 semester.

 

 

Intended Audience: Warren Wilson College students and people from the WNC region.

 

 

Promotion Plan: The video was shown at the 2010 Heart of the Issue Workshop Expo on 4/29/2010. It is also available on YouTube and the WWC Service-Learning website for our community and community partners to view.

 

 

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Name of School: Warren Wilson College

 

 

Title of Video: Immigration: Families Between Borders

 

 

Purpose Statement: To highlight the work of the students participating in this Heart of the Issue Workshop and educate the Warren Wilson community about the D.R.E.A.M. Act and issues surrounding access to higher education for undocumented youth.

 

 

Intended Audience: College students (particularly WWC students)

 

 

Promotion Plan: The video was shown at the 2010 Heart of the Issue Workshop Expo on 4/29/2010. It is also available on YouTube and the WWC Service-Learning website for our community and community partners to view. The student leaders also presented the video on behalf of Emma Family Resource Center at a United Way celebration on 5/8/2010.

 

 

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Name of School: Warren Wilson College

 

 

Title of Video: Food Security in Western North Carolina

 

 

Purpose Statement: To showcase different perceptions of Food Security held at Warren Wilson and in the Asheville community, and to educate our audience about the realities of food insecure families in our region.

 

 

Intended Audience: Warren Wilson students, staff, and faculty

 

 

Promotion Plan: The video was shown at the 2010 Heart of the Issue Workshop Expo on 4/29/2010. It is also available on YouTube and the WWC Service-Learning website for our community and community partners to view.

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Name of School: Warren Wilson College          

 

 

Title of Video: Aging Well 2010 Heart of the Issue Workshop

 

 

Purpose Statement: To highlight different perspectives and attitudes toward growing old from both Warren Wilson community members and people from the partner organizations that the students in the workshop worked with.

 

 

Intended Audience: Warren Wilson Community

 

 

Promotion Plan: The video was shown at the 2010 Heart of the Issue Workshop Expo on 4/29/2010. It is also available on YouTube and the WWC Service-Learning website for our community and community partners to view. 

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Name of School: Mars Hill College

 

Title of Video: Earth Week at Mars Hill College: Raising Awareness About Energy Use and Environmental Stability

 

Purpose Statement: To inform people of the human impact on the environment and to encourage the appreciation and support for the natural world.

 

Intended Audience: Mars Hill College students, faculty, and community members, as well as the wider Bonner Scholar community.

 

Promotion Plan: Posting of the video on youtube, facebook, and Bonner Wiki.

 

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Name of School: Amherst College     

Title of Video:  And That's Why I Went

Purpose Statement:  To aid in recruitment for the College's Community Engagement Orientation trip for first year students, an introduction to engagement opportunities available around the Amherst College area.  All of this was accomplished while maintaining the allure and intrigue of the program.

Intended Audience: Incoming Amherst College first-year students

Promotion Plan: Facebook, Youtube, Online streaming on our website, potential referral to new students via the Dean of Students Office

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Name of School: Morehouse College

Title of Video: The Reality of Homelessness

Purpose Statement: To portray and dispel common misconceptions about homelessness seen in our college community.

Intended Audience: Students of the Atlanta University Center and the greater community. 

Promotion Plan: We plan to draw interests by placing the video on Youtube as well as on Facebook which will more than likely lead to its discussion on Twitter.

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Name of School: College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University

Title of Video: Hunger Banquet 2009

Purpose Statement: to document our Hunger Banquet and to show the impact a simulation like this can have on participants

Intended Audience: Bonner Leaders, wider public     

Promotion Plan: to post on Youtube and facebook; to show incoming Bonners

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Name of School:  College of Charleston

Title of Video:  Awareness of the Unknown

Purpose Statement:  This video was made to use at a workshop at SLI this summer describing how CofC Bonners took their BIG IDEA from Bonner Congress and made it happen.  It describes the year long focus on HIV/AIDS in hopes of encouraging Bonners at other school to take a similar approach to an issue. 

Intended Audience:  Bonner Leaders and Scholars

Promotion Plan:  SLI Workshop, Facebook, Youtube, CofC Bonner Website

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Name of School: Macalester College

Title of Video: Hip Hop for Hope

Purpose Statement: Hip Hop for Hope was organized to raise awareness of homelessness issues in the Saint Paul, MN area but also to raise funds for The Family Place, a local day shelter in Saint Paul. The Family Place has been a long time partner of the Civic Engagement Center.

Intended Audience: sdf Students,

Promotion Plan: Post on YouTube. Use as promotional piece for Hunger and Homelessness week events and for the Family Place.  

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