Student Instructions: Pre-Assignment
DUE: Friday, November 1, 2025

These reflection questions designed to help you think critically about your service-learning experience. These questions are meant to support your learning by helping you connect what you observe and do with your academic studies and future career goals.

Before you begin answering the questions below, take a moment to consider how this experience might connect to your academic studies and future career. Your responses will help you reflect on your starting point and prepare you to make the most of your time supporting aging services. Thoughtful reflection now will make it easier to recognize your growth and articulate what you’ve learned when you revisit these questions later.

Before you begin your volunteer assignment, please complete the following steps:

Step 1: Create a New Word Document

•  Open a new Word document.
•  At the top of the document, include the following information:
  • Your Full Name
  •  Assignment Title (e.g., Digital Storytellers)
  • Class Title (e.g., Gerontology 103)
  • Professor Name
  • Date You Are Completing These Questions

Step 2: Answer the Pre-Assignment Questions

Reflect thoughtfully and write your responses to the following questions in complete sentences:

1. What do you currently know about the role of storytelling and media in public health or aging services?
2. What skills or experiences do you hope to gain from creating video content and interviewing others?
3. How do you think short-form video can influence public understanding of aging-related issues?
4. What personal strengths or interests do you bring to this creative assignment?

When you’re done, save your document with LastName_FirstName_PreAssigment to the desktop. Email your completed document to: volunteer@agencyonaging4.org. You will revisit these questions after your assignment is complete.

If you prefer, you can download the details of this assignment as a pdf here.

Your final project deliverables are due Friday, December 5. We will meet one last time the week after (date TBD) via Zoom to preview each other's final products. We will coordinate a date in our first team meeting together.

After we watch each other's final assignments, you will submit a peer review of each other's work. Feel free to use these questions to get you started. Each of you will review 2 presentations.

Peer Review Prompts

1. What is one thing you learned from one of your peer’s presentation that you didn’t know before?
2. Which presentation did you feel was most engaging or well-explained?

Student Instructions: Post-Assignment
DUE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2025

Now that you’ve completed your volunteer experience, you’ll submit your final products (presentations) and reflect on what you learned and how it connects to your academic and career goals. Please follow the same steps:

• Open a new Word document.
• Include your name, assignment title, class title, and date.
• Answer the post-assignment questions thoughtfully.
• Save as LastName_FirstName_PostAssigment.
• Email both documents to yourself for your records and future reference.

 Post-Assignment Questions

1. What did you learn about the impact of storytelling and media in aging services?
2. Describe a moment or story that stood out to you during your interviews or content creation. Why was it meaningful?
3. How did this experience help you improve your communication, writing, or media production skills?
4. What challenges did you face in representing aging-related topics, and how did you address them?
5. How has this experience influenced your perspective on aging and your interest in advocacy or public education?

If you prefer, you can download the details of this assignment as a pdf here.