1. Tracking Your Service Hours
Getting credit the first time!

2. First things First What is Service Learning or Community Service?
Community Service refers to service that a person performs for the benefit of his or her local community. Step outside of your familiar environments and expand your horizons.
What it is not?
It is not something you are paid for
It is not helping a family member or a parent’s business
It is not something that only benefits you
Classes, Summer of a Lifetime, Internships
Service done in the school does not count towards your CS
Only exception is for the NHS scholars.

3. Why Community Service?
It exposes you to new opportunities and new experiences that you may not normally have
It makes your city and community a better place
Colleges value students who are involved in their community
You can get real world experience that employers will value when you start looking for jobs

4. Community Service at Muchin
How many hours?
Freshman – 10 hours total
5 hours per semester
Sophomores – 30 hours total
10 hours per semester
Juniors – 60 hours total
15 hours per semester
Seniors – 100 hours total
20 hours per semester

5. Community Service At Muchin
Ambassadors
Remember you are representing MCP when you are in the community
Treat those you meet respectfully
Dress in Muchin appropriate clothing
Not too tight
Not revealing
Appropriate for the type of volunteering you are doing.
Be gracious to the people you meet and work with.

6. Logging Your Hours and Getting credit
The Process:
Do your hours
Blog about your hours on Weebly (or another free blog site)
Post your hours on Youtopia!!

7. Blogging on Weebly
For best results blog the same day or the next day so the experience is fresh in your mind.
If you volunteer at a location multiple times a week, you only need to write one blog for each week you volunteer. (Up to 20 hours at a time)
This is a record of what you did, make sure it’s done well.

8. Weebly Blog Expectations
One-time or Once/Week Volunteer Activities.
Blog should be 200 words (minimum)
Blog should be grammatically correct
Pick a memorable experience you had on the trip and write about it in detail OR explain why your service was needed and how it will help the community (or both!!)
Multi-Day Volunteer Activities (for same organization)
Blog 1 time/request; No request can be for more than 20 hours
Blogs should be 200 words long for every 10 hours you worked. All other requirements are the same

9. The Weebly Site Go to www.weebly.com and create an account.
You should use your Muchin to create this account

10. Creating Your Blog
When you create an account you will be brought to this screen
Select the BLOG option.

11. Creating Your Blog Select a Theme that you think you will like
Then make sure you choose SUBDOMAIN OF WEEBLY or you will be asked to pay.

12. Creating your Blog
Watch the Tutorial Video that pops up so you know h0w to structure your site. Before your first submission Click PUBLISH so that your website is live. You will need to select the Subdomain of Weebly option again

13. Starting your First Blog
You can change the name here by going to Settings
Click on “New Post” To start your submission

14. Blog Submission Appearance
Check out the sample blog found online at: mcpblogsample.weebly.com/
This is a sample and yours doesn’t have to look identical but it does need to meet the following:
Title should include the site that you did the service at
You should include the date this is the day you did the service!! Not the day you wrote the blog!
Every reflection should be unique and new. No matter how similar the experience is you CANNOT simply copy and paste an old reflection.
General rule: 1 Youtopia Submission = 1 Reflection

15. Creating your Blog
When you have completed your blog. Click on the Publish Live button for the blog each time otherwise it is saved as a Draft and I won’t be able to see it.
This is the website that you need to include in your Youtopia submission.

16. Creating Your Blog This will be your blog website.
This is what you include in your Youtopia submission

17. Using Youtopia Watch this 6 minute tutorial on Youtopia
We will no longer be requesting individual sites, but rather will be posting based on cause. If you don’t know what cause your service is helping that is a problem and you should find out!

18. The first time you login to Youtopia follow these steps:
Using Youtopia
The first time you login to Youtopia follow these steps:
Type in your Muchin
Click the space that says “I forgot my password”
Go to your Muchin and reset your password to something you will remember
If this does not work you need to Ms. Rouse (only for Youtopia)

19. The Categories You will Submit Under
If you don’t see your “Cause” listed below please reach out to me and we will see if a new category should be added OR if another does work for you.
Animals
Hunger/Poverty
Arts and Culture
Individuals w/ Disabilities
Children and Youth
Overseas Aid
Community
Sports and Rec
Education
Substance Abuse
Environment
The Elderly
Health and Disease
Women’s Issues
Homeless/Housing

20. Using Youtopia
1. Enter the day and time you started the hours; the ended at time will auto fill based on your hours
2. Enter the number of hours you did
3. Include the link to your blog
Scholar followed Multi-Day Submission Format,
Scholar included where they worked, their supervisor and a contact number (or )
Milwaukee County Zoo
Lisa Guigelliemi

21. And you are Done!
Ms. Rouse will you if there are issues with your submission or any questions.
You must submit your hours 2 weeks after the date you completed your hours.