Voices for Choices
Writer's Guild of Alberta
Alberta Caregivers Association
U of A's InforLink
and U of A's Sustain SU (Formerly ECOS)
They are using their knowledge, skills and abilities, some of which they previously had and are enhancing and some of which they are developing now, from this course to assist the organizations with their communications, outreach and various other projects. The students have all been posting on their own blog of their experiences with their projects and are in the midst of all the action right now!
In labs we have been troubleshooting issues with, for example, how to deal with organizing all their social media and online tools they are using (e.g. keep the same login and password for all, but what security issues does this pose...?) as well as discussing topics related to balancing community service with school work, "work" work (we all gotta eat!) and trying to have some of a social life. They are just like grad students, I swear! ;)
This coming week we are looking forward to competing the poster activity, and seeing how creative and yet professional we can all be. A lesson learned first-hand in this was creating their professional facebook pages. They look great!
Looking forward to the conintued work these students put forward and learning as much from them as I hope they can learn from me!
Courtney :)
I'm working with the writers guild of Alberta, and have done so much tweeting! Hootsuite is really convenient to pre-schedule posts to come out in the future for events not currently taking place.
ReplyDeleteI 'm working with Canada Caregiver Association, where I realized how hard for being an unpaid home caregiver. They often suffer physical and mental stress and a to of them get burnout. The social media are extremely helpful for them, since most them can't physical leave home and most often they will go to internet at midnight since this is the only free time for themselves. A good media is a place for them to release press, communicate with other caregivers and get useful information. My project with ACGA is to help get more idea how to bring more audience into facebook discussion.
ReplyDeletehere's my blog for more information on how my placement is going! http://taniasales204blog.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteHey everyone!
ReplyDeleteI just had my first CSL placement today.
Check out more about it on my blog, here is the link:
http://ales-jamie.blogspot.com/2011/10/community-service-learning.html