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What is Gambassa? (G-reen
Ambassa-dors)
Gambassa is a green education project management website platform used by the Green
Ambassadors to bring the most innovative, community based, environmentally conscious
learning to high school students. Gambassa is an online community system designed
to share project-based curriculums by providing media tools, calendaring, notifications,
timelines, task creation and assignments as well as workflow management tools. We
encourage you to explore Gambassa and the unique opportunities it offers.
Project Management
Utilize Green Ambassador's curriculum templates to initiate projects in your school
and community. Project workflows are customizable with the ability to upload directions,
handouts, videos, photos, and audio. Students can work individually or in groups
and teachers have full access to monitor student progress and project management.
Measurable Results
Students can easily display project results and associated media on their homepage
to share with their peers. In order to encourage activities with positive environmental
impacts, Gambassa is engineered to calculate student's carbon reductions through
results recorded in workflows. Students display their carbon points on their profile
and can convert their measurements into the carbon equivalents such as barrels of
gasoline saved, the number of cars taken off the road, carbon sequestered by trees,
and more.
Organizational Tools
Gambassa provides a host of organizational tools for students to utilize. Students
can upload and categorize files, excel spreadsheets, pdfs, as well as videos, images,
and audio files. Gambassa offers contact management tools to keep an address book
of personal contacts, organizations, and websites for reference and to add to projects.
Schedule your activities and projects with Gambassas calendaring for easy access
and automatic project synchronization with your Gambassa calendar.
Social Aspects
Gambassa encourages green learning while also providing an atmosphere that allows
students to connect with each other, sponsors, and share the things that matter
to them. Customize your profile, find your friends and classmates, comment and rate
friend's profiles and media, maintain a blog, plan events, send out invitations,
and more.
Safe
Gambassa allows teachers to regulate content flow and warn, or ban students abusing
the platform. Privacy settings allow everyone to choose what files are displayed
on their profile via groups rights and roles. Create your own network of students
and connect to other teachers using Gambassa. Redundant permission controls protect
intellectual property rights and comment manager prevents public abuse.
Gambassa is about Green Experiential Education that inspires students. Here is a
list of some of the projects to experience:
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Create an Earth+ Photo Story
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Students work in teams to create Earth+ Photo Stories, then test their photo stories
with members of their target market. Who: You and your team of Green Ambassadors...
What: ...will create a photo story... When: ...to be displayed at your school's
earth + event or in some other venue... Where: ...on your high school campus, another
school campus, in a local business, or and/or around the community... Why: ...to
inform others about an important sustainability issue and how they can be part of
the solution for it.
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Writing an Earth + Script
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Students work in a team to write an Earth+ script, then present their script to
reviewers who are in the roles of individuals who would approve/support its production.
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Ambassadors Handbook to Change the World
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The Green Ambassadors write about what it is to be a Green Ambassador.
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Producing and Earth + Video
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Starting with an approved script, students work in a team to produce an earth+ video,
and then present it to their target audience.
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Delivering an Earth + Presentation
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Students work in teams to prepare for practice delivery of a presentation on composting,
then each student will deliver that presentation to an audience of new listeners.
Feedback from those listeners will be collected and analyzed to determine the impact
of the presentation.
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Producing an Earth+ Fund-Raiser
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Students work in teams to conceive of and carry out a plan for fund-raising by selling
earth+ solutions.
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Creating and Delivering an Earth Presentation
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Students work in teams to create a slide show type presentation, then deliver that
presentation to an audience in their target market. Feedback is collected and analyzed
to determine the impact of the presentation.
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Water Usage of Your High School
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Test how much water your high school uses per month and on average.
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Creating Earth+ Printed Marketing Materials
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Students work in teams to create Earth+ printed marketing materials, test those
materials with members of their target market, and use them to promote an earth+
event.
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Producing an Earth + Event
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In this project, your team will unite a community to educate and inspire Earth+
actions through an event. The event will include various elements that have been
created by other teams in your class: photo-stories, videos, slide presentations,
games, and so on.
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Social Earth+ Marketing: Creating a Blog
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Students use a blog to inform others about an earth+ issue or solution, and collect
feedback on the results.
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Public Relations - Press Release
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Students work in teams to interact with the press in order to get out a message
about an event, issue or earth+ solution.
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Planning and Delivering an Earth Elementary Lesson
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Students work in teams to create and test lesson plans designed to teach elementary
students about an earth+ issue and solution. They then present their plans to the
class, and the best are selected for delivery to an elementary classroom.
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Creating an Earth+ Game
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Students learn how to teach others about an Earth+ issue and/ or solution through
a game for all ages.
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Energy Efficiency and Exit Signs
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Buildings can take many different steps to lower their carbon footprint. Energy
consumption is one of the largest contributors to carbon output. In this workflow
you will learn how incandescent exit signs affect the carbon footprint of a building
and how to reduce that. You will also go out in the field, identify old technology
or broken exit signs, present your case to the owner of the establishment and attempt
to reduce their carbon footprint by changing out their exit signs using incandescent.
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Water Quality Testing
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This project will cycle you through the collection of various measures of water
quality along with their geographic locations.
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