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Note: This wiki is currently "live," and being used to organize the second teaching of the below class in Spring 2011. Wiki will be updated throughout the semester, and the below description will be updated at the end of the term.

**Introduction**
This wiki was used to organize a high school level, semester length class entitled "Leadership, Service, and the Developing World." The class started as a collaborative effort between Mrs. Deb Costello, a teacher at Winter Park's Trinity Preparatory School, and Leah Morgan and Kris Bahlke, two friends / Vanderbilt classmates / starry eyed idealists. By its end, the project had grown and could count among its major contributors: the entire Trinity technology department; members of the Trinity Administration including Dennis Herron and Kathy Pinson; alumni and other friends who donated their time as guest lecturers; the (sometimes reluctant) staff of the video conferencing website Elluminate; and, of course, our students. Thanks especially to Denise Musselwhite and the TPS technology team whose hard work and kind help made this class a reality.

This class served as an experiment of sort for two notable innovations. The first was a course content, developed collaboratively by Costello, Morgan, and Bahlke, that combined cross-disciplinary subjects not often taught at the high school level in what came to resemble a traditional college freshman seminar. The second was a heavy emphasis on technology, and specifically video conferencing technology, to bring in lecturers from literally around the world.

**The Class**
While the specifics of the class, down to most of the powerpoints we used, are available on this wiki, the high level view of the class is contained in its title. The topics "Leadership, Service, and the Developing World" were chosen because they create an interesting overlap, are rarely taught at the high school level, and are relevant to the focus on character development which Trinity is seeking to expand within its curriculum. Special thanks to Vanderbilt Professors Pearl Sims and Brian Heuser who greatly inspired this class through their own courses on leadership and economic development, respectively.

Our first unit focused on leadership, starting with the introduction of a basic theoretical framework for understanding leadership and then applying this framework to various case studies. These cases were picked specifically to be accessible to a high school student (President Obama, Martin Luther King, Hitler) - the evaluation for the unit involved watching, and analyzing, a clip from a Will Smith movie.

The second unit covered the developing world, beginning with our watching and lecturing on the PBS series //Commanding Heights//. While this text perhaps emphasized economics more than we would have liked, it did do an excellent job of introducing the developing world as a concept to students who to this point had studied primarily political (as opposed to economic) history. Throughout this unit and the next we introduced, through excerpts, the main ideas of several prominent development economists. A traditional test was given as evaluation.

The third unit considered various aspects of community service and development, also bringing together the previous two units through lecturers doing work in (among other places) Africa, Asia, and South America. A key goal was to give students as nuanced a view as possible, and to this end we sought out speakers of various backgrounds (military, NGO, private enterprise, evangelical) and introduced widely divergent readings. For this unit's evaluation, students were split into two camps and engaged in a debate over the merits of "top-down" and "bottom-up" strategies for development. They also took a short test.

The fourth unit was student led, and to a degree happened concurrently to the rest of the class. As a part of their coursework students were tasked with proposing and implementing individual community service projects over the duration of the semester. They were also expected to collaborate on a group service project to take place in the latter part of our time. While both individual and group plans encountered various obstacles, these obstacles were themselves the point of the exercise and ultimately the students hosted a successful awareness raising assembly which has led to an ongoing school-wide project.

**The Technology**
It is notable that throughout the entire time preparing for and teaching this class, Costello, Morgan, and Bahlke were only co-located once - and then for the space of about 8 hours. The curriculum was developed largely on this wiki, and video conferencing was used to bring Morgan and Bahlke into the classroom from abroad. While these two were constants throughout the class, other guest lecturers were invited in to talk and on average the class hosted about one guest speaker a week, either electronically or in person.

We first considered using Skype for video conferencing but ultimately went with the pay service Elluminate because of several added functionalities. The most important was the ability to record our class sessions, also important was a feature which allowed more than two people to video chat at one time. Admittedly there were ups and downs with the program - sometimes we reverted to using Skype.

**This Wiki**
This wiki is organized as follows:
 * **Home:** Brief overall introduction.
 * 1) **Class Description:** Course description as seen in Trinity Class Catalog & course description as handed out to students on first day
 * 2) **Unit 1 Details:** Syllabus, links, and files related to the unit on leadership
 * 3) **Unit 2 Details:** Syllabus, links, and files related to the unit on the developing world
 * 4) **Unit 3 Details:** Syllabus, links, and files related to the unit on community service
 * 5) **Ind Project:** Proposal template for student individual projects
 * 6) **Class Project:** Proposal template for student group project
 * 7) **Etc.:** Students' evaluation of the class, a complete list of the videos posted with Elluminate, various content brainstormed but not used in the class