Building Websites for Charity

(ARA) - Learning doesn"t just happen inside a classroom. For The Art Institutes, learning is also creating opportunities for students and faculty to select their talents and skills outside the classroom, into the community, to relieve others. (ARA) - Learning doesn"t just happen inside a classroom. For The Art Institutes, learning is also creating opportunities for students and faculty to appropriate their talents and skills outside the classroom, into the community, to assist others. This year, The Art Institutes will hold its second national "webraising" event, with schools throughout North America participating. Based on the Amish concept of a barnraising where neighbors gather together and build a barn in one day, webraisings build websites for nonprofit organizations in one 24-hour period. Webraising is just one of dozens of volunteer efforts that some 5, 000 students from The Art Institutes catch part in each year, contributing more than a quarter million hour
s toward improving the communities in which they live and attend school. For a webraising event, students and faculty of the Multimedia and Web Design departments of The Art Institutes occupation closely with nonprofit organizations many weeks in advance, conducting research, learning about the organization and the population it serves, and the purpose of its Website. They then duty for a period of 8 to 10 hours to meet the launch deadline date. "Webraisings are a unique opportunity for Multimedia and Web Design students to deposit their skills to labour creating a critical marketing and communication tool for these non-profit organizations that they otherwise might not have the resources to create for themselves, " says Dr. Ameeta Jadav. She is coordinating the in fashion effort underway. In fact, many students who have participated in webraising events have continued to be involved with the organization as volunteers and Web site managers. For Art Institute of Atlanta
student Robert Horton, the practice of helping to raise a Web site for a regional arts organization was overwhelmingly positive. "I liked the whole knowledge working with my team members and the organization representative, " says Horton. "My participation resources a quota to me; it says that I'm a part of something that's productive." "While the goals of the event are to develop a strong partnership among students, schools and their communities, and provide our students with professional hands-on experience, perhaps most importantly, we hope to instill in them a life-long commitment to volunteerism, " adds Dr. JADY Full text: http://computerandtechnologies.com/web-hosting/news_2008-03-22-09-30-04-685.html