> Report: Download Progress Report on the YDC/NSCC Reverse Mentoring Partnership (May 2011)
> Watch the EastLink Magazine four minute video segment on local EastLink TV stations (27 March 2011)! Anyone wanting to watch the video will have to contact Marcel d’Entremont (
CLOAKING
) or NSCC Media & External Relations because it cannot be distributed to anyone outside of the College or posted on any websites (including Facebook and YouTube). These are the terms of our copyright agreement.
> Listen to the Yarmouth Development Corporation (YDC) and Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) interview on the CJLS Weekender (05 December 2010).
> Read the Reverse Mentoring Partnership article in The Yarmouth Vanguard (30 November 2010).
The Yarmouth Development Corporation (YDC) Promotions Committee and Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) Burridge Campus are partnering to do a Reverse Mentoring Information Technology (IT) Project.
This project will place second year NSCC IT students in various Downtown businesses who would like to enhance existing computer skills or learn new skills that would be useful to their business.
Business owners can learn more about social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and eBlasts (formatted email advertising). Not-for-Profit organizations can have a free website built for them and learn how to manage it. NSCC is also looking for businesses willing to take on work term placements (learners work in your business for between five and ten weeks for free, usually from mid March to late May).
The opportunities are endless and it is all FREE! You let us know what days and times are good for you and NSCC will assign a student to work with you in half hour sessions until you feel comfortable you can handle it yourself.
Marcel d’Entremont, Faculty Advisor IT Web Development, School of Applied Arts & New Media at NSCC Burridge Campus will oversee the selection and placement of students. NSCC Burridge Campus believes in giving back to the community. They are dedicated to community service and applied learning. The Reverse Mentoring Partnership will be an on-going project during the school year and will be made available to you each year.
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Community Service Learning/Reverse Mentoring Project
I had a preliminary meeting with Heather McClelland earlier today. This project would fit nicely within several courses among several programs. This is what we discussed:
Heather works with Downtown Yarmouth businesses, and some of them have asked for training. We discussed to possibility of our learners delivering this training, especially those talking Training Techniques. On the surface it looks like they are looking for:
1. Basic Computer Training:
a. Information Technology Systems (ITS) learners would have no problem delivering this.
b. It may include Mac/PC training
c. Software training
2. Social Networking Training:
a. For IT Web Development (ITW), ITS or Business Administration (BA) learners to deliver
b. Facebook
c. YouTube
d. LinkedIn
e. eBlast (Those fancy ads that come through email – email marketing))
3. Business Training:
a. For ITW/ITS or BA learners
b. Marketing (Social Networking, eBlast etc.)
c. Accounting
d. Promotion
e. Project Management
4. Web Development for non-profits
a. For ITW
b. Build static websites
c. Build Content Management Systems
d. Build Information Management Systems
e. Multimedia
5. We could even involve Health and Human Services
a. Why it is important to eat right
b. Exercise regularly
c Take breaks – burnout
These are the ideas we came up with. She is very excited and now she is going back to her clients and getting more details hammered out. I even see the possibility to involve the new (yet to come here) applied arts program!
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