Each team is expected to collaboratively create a Facebook page to represent their team and their environmental cause. The elected team co-captains from both schools should decide who will take the lead in creating the basic page, but all team members with access to Facebook are expected to regularly check the page and participate in any relevant discussions that emerge. Your team will use this page to communicate with one another and recruit participants for your service-learning project.
Below is a list of guidelines to aid your team in developing your Facebook page:
• To create a Facebook Cause Page, click “Ads and Pages” on your homepage, then “Pages,” then “Create a Page.” You should create a Community Page and create a name for your team reflecting your environmental cause.
• Under “Info,” please mention the mission of the GIA Challenge, the names of both schools, and, most importantly, describe your environmental cause.
• Please use the wall to keep in touch, update each other on any news or findings, and to just get to know each other better! Each co-captain and, if on Facebook, each teacher should serve as Page Administrators. In addition, please add the appointed Empower Peace staff, Krisanne Campos, as Page Administrator.
*Page Administrators must keep a close watch on all wall postings to ensure they are appropriate.
• Under “Photos,” please post any relevant pictures of your team at work. Great pictures could document your community service project, team Skype meetings, interviews with local environmental experts, or any pictures exposing or further explaining your environmental issue. Be creative!
• You can use the “Discussion” tab to help keep communication flowing between meetings.
• Under “Links,” your team can post articles regarding your environmental issue, links to like-minded organizations, or anything else to further showcase your cause and to educate team members and your community.
• Under “Video,” please post any video documenting your service-learning activity, interviews you might conduct in the community about the environmental issue at hand, and any other interesting video evidence of your environmental problem and your project.
• Both schools within your team can use the “Events” tab to recruit volunteers within your community for your service-learning project.
• Please use your page as creatively as you would like!