Academic years 2006-2007 & 2007-2008

Service learning projects

Visual identity of the social community

Projects’ goals:

The aim of the projects was to produce video materials and promotional CDs (as part of the sports against drugs initiative), to design e-brochure with appealing design for all students who want to discover the world of museums in Zagreb (guide through museums in Zagreb), to create graphic solution for the museum exhibition ("Light of the gods" exhibition) and to design flyers, posters and other promotional materials, such as business cards and logos.

Partners

1. Association of extreme sports, Slavonski Brod

2. Zagreb City Museum, Archaeological Museum, Croatian History Museum, Croatian Natural History Museum, Croatian School Museum, Ethnographic Museum, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Technical Museum

3. Alternative- cultural center "Yuma" – for youths in Imotski

4. Flight Centre CROATIA - Parachute Section

5. Association of Martial Arts Krav-Maga

6. Thai Boxing Club "Mustang"

Information and computer literacy for the population with special needs

Projects’ goals:

The aim of the project “Web for the Blind“ was to develop the small textbook "Accessing the Internet if You Are Blind or Visually Impaired", that will serve as a guide through installation process and use of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Mozilla web browser has screen readers that read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers. Also, students in the project taught the blind and visually impaired students how to use the keyboard shortcuts, they recorded the audio version of the textbook "Accessing the Internet if You Are Blind or Visually Impaired" and, finally, they produced a CD with the installation files and the textbook in the written and audio format. The project is described in the following paper: Basrak, Bojan; Matić, Sanja; Mikelić Preradović, Nives. Service learning in Information Science : Web for the blind // "The Future of Information Sciences : INFuture2007 – Digital Information and Heritage" / Seljan, Sanja ; Stančić, Hrvoje (ur.). Zagreb : Odsjek za informacijske znanosti, Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, 2007. Str. 501-507

Partners

1. The Alliance of blind and visually impaired students "BAT" (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)

Multimedia educational software

Projects’ goals:

In the first project, students created multimedia application to prepare pupils for the State Graduation Exam covering the complete information and computer science curriculum of the state grammar schools. This project contributed to pupils' preparedness for the state graduation exam in elective subject informatics and offered them an insight into new ways of knowledge acquisition and evaluation (such as e-learning and online exams). The project is described in the following paper: Mandić, Ana; Bakarić, Ana; Mikelić Preradović, Nives. Service e-Learning Project: State Graduation Online Demo Exam // The Future of Information Sciences: INFuture2011 - Information Sciences and e-society / Billinness, Clive ; Hemera, A. ; Meateljan, V. ; Banek Zorica, M. ; Stančić, H. ; Seljan, S (ur.). Zagreb : Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2011. Str. 235-243.

The result of the second project was educational quiz (Fun and Games) for computer assisted teaching in lower elementary school classes (1st to 4th). Quizzes were prepared for teachers in collaboration with school pupils who contributed with their paper quiz activities that were converted to computer activities.

Partners

1. High School "Velika Gorica" & National Centre for External Evaluation of Education

2. Elementary School "Braća Ribar" in Sisak

Educational workshops for the broader population

Projects’ goals:

The result of the project in Zagreb City Library - Children's Section was the English Language Workshop for Children. The other project (realized in Fourth Grammar School, Zagreb) resulted in workshops for secondary school students on information retrieval and cryptology, aiming to ease graduates their search for information on their future study and to promote the study of Information and Communication Sciences among future freshmen. Another project group, which consisted of Museology graduate students and students of Information Sciences with teacher orientation, designed a workbook for elementary school pupils to complete during a visit to Zagreb City Museum as well as art workshops to help children acquire knowledge in a museum. Both the pupils and the museum staff rated the workbook as an interesting and useful tool for children, which they can keep as a souvenir from their visit to the museum. Finally, the last project aimed to create workshops for school children to teach them about everyday life of blind and visually impaired people in a hands-on way, through the close collaboration with the Typhlological museum in Zagreb.

Partners

1. Zagreb City Museum

2. Zagreb City Library - Children's Section

3. Fourth Grammar School, Zagreb

4. Typhlological museum

Interactive databases (with multimedia content)

Projects’ goals:

The result of the project with the association Friends of Animals was the database of the vegetarian products available in stores and a CD with multimedia content that encourages citizens to a healthier lifestyle using vegetarian recipes and information about healthy food in an interesting way (via an interactive database and multimedia applications on a CD-ROM). The product of collaboration with the elementary school "Vukovina" was a database of students with disabilities as well as hands-on training for the teaching staff in using the database. In collaboration with the scout association Bota, students developed a database of scout activities to help the members plan their spring, summer, autumn and winter activities. The project realized with the NGO that provides rehabilitation-educational and psycho-social pedagogical help through programs and activities of informal education resulted in the development of the monthly calendar for the staff and the database of all the volunteers in the association "Play".

In the other project students develops a database of all association members and teach the staff of Scout Association of Zagreb how to maintain that database. The European Youth Parliament (EYP) in Croatia received a database of all association members, as well as the HVIDRA association and the “Extreme Wireless“ association.

Partners

1. The association Friends of Animals ZegeVege project

2. Elementary School "Vukovina" in Velika Gorica

3. Scout Association "Bota"

4. Udruga “Igra” (Association "Play")

5. Savez izviđača Zagreba (Scout Association of Zagreb)

6. Europski parlament mladih Hrvatske (European Youth Parliament in Croatia)

7. HVIDRA (The association of Croatian homeland war invalids)

8. Wireless Users Association “Extreme Wireless“

School website

Projects’ goals:

The result of the project in the public primary school "Medvedgrad“ was a truly educational website, where school children were involved in the design process. The same service learning activities were performed in other elementary schools that were our partners.

Partners

1. Public primary school "Medvedgrad“, Zagreb

2. Public primary School "Zdenko Turković", Kutjevo

3. Public primary School "Ljudevit Modec", Križevci

4. Public primary School "Josip Juraj Strossmayer", Đurđenovac

5. Public primary School "Žuti Brijeg", Zagreb

6. Public primary School "Petar Zrinski", Jalžabet 

Faculty website

Projects’ goals:

The goal of these projects was to collect and digitize the data, to apply the students’ knowledge of data processing, to create functional Web sites and to train the Faculty staff in site maintenance.

Partners

1. Section for Sinology, Department of Indology and Far-Eastern Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb

2. Department of Hungarian, Turkish and Jewish language and literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb

Web for teachers

Projects’ goals:

Two projects were realized with the teachers of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb: in the first one students collected and digitized data for the teacher’s personal web page, created his website and trained him in site maintenance, while in the second project students digitized teaching materials for the specific course and integrated them into online course in the open-source learning platform in order to make them available for all fellow students.

Partners

1. Teachers of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Web for students

Projects’ goals:

The main aim of these projects was to design news websites with member database and promotional materials for the club (KSIZ), to design the website and train members of the student association in site maintenance ("Domaći" and Pinocchio"), to collect and digitize data, to create association Web site and translate it to English (HUSB) and to create the website that meets the needs of the blind and visually impaired students ("BAT").

Partners

1. Information Science Students’ Club "KSIZ" (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)

2. Italian language and literature Students’ Club "Pinocchio"(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)

3. Ethnology Students' Club "Domaći" (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)

4. The Alliance of blind and visually impaired students "BAT" (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)

5. HUSB Association of Students in the Faculty of Engineering and Shipbuilding, University of Zagreb.

Website for the school library

Project goal:

The school library’s website design which will provide school students with an insight into the library fund and facilitate the purchase of the preferred literature and also inform them about the activities and working hours of the library. The site contains the links to the library fund, the activities, reading lists, etc.

Partner :

1. Elementary School "Medvedgrad", Zagreb

Web for the broader social community

Projects’ goals:

The main aim of these projects was to collect the documents and digitize the data, to apply the students’ knowledge of data processing, to create organizational Web site and to train the local staff in site maintenance. One of the projects developed the bibliography database that covers publications related to human rights and integrated it into already existing website (Human Rights Center project).

Partners :

1. Društvo invalida cerebralne i dječje paralize (Cerebral Palsy and Children Paralysis Association)

2. Centar za ljudska prava (Human Rights Center)

3. Udruga “Joga u svakodnevnom životu” (The Association "Yoga in Everyday Life")

4. Klapa „Dišpet” (Vocal Ensemble "Dišpet)

5. Klub izviđača - istraživača “Plava Planina" (Scouts and explorers’ club "Blue Mountain")

6. Udruga „Na drugi način“, škola za posvojitelje (The Association "In other way", school for adoptive parents)

7. HDIO - Hrvatsko društvo za internističku onkologiju Hrvatskog liječničkog zbora ( Croatian Society for Internist Oncology of the Croatian Medical Association)

8. A capella Božićni ulični pjevači (A capella Christmas street singers association)

9. Europski parlament mladih Hrvatske (European Youth Parliament in Croatia)

10. HVIDRA (Association of Croatian Homeland War Invalids)

11. DITS - Društvo inženjera i tehničara grada Samobora (Society of Engineers and Technicians in Samobor)

12. Center for rehabilitation "Zagreb“