We had a tweet from Donna Christopher, an e-learning marketing executive @ Blackboard Collaborate, see screenshot below!
Showing posts with label JISC Advance project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JISC Advance project. Show all posts
Friday, 8 February 2013
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Coverage on JACKfm radio station today!
The Students4webES project is being featured today (Thursday 7th February) on JACK fm in the Oxfordshire business reports. The report is aired every hour and rolls around three different stories so listen out at 11 to see if we feature then or in the next slot at 12 on 106JACKfm today!
Update: Students4webES project was mentioned at 12:04, so we expected it will be featured again around 3pm and then again around 6pm and 9pm tonight. Do listen out for it if you get a chance!
Update: Students4webES project was mentioned at 12:04, so we expected it will be featured again around 3pm and then again around 6pm and 9pm tonight. Do listen out for it if you get a chance!
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Webinar booked in with Head Therapist at the Spa at Lygon Arms
We have just confirmed another employer for a webinar this week! On Thursday 7th February students will be running a webinar with Alice Walker, Head Therapist at the Spa at the Lygon Arms, Broadway (part of the Puma Hotel group), she will be talking to students about employability skills for beauty therapists.
We will keep you posted on how it goes!
We will keep you posted on how it goes!
Photo from BETT
Ellen Lessner Students4webES Project leader presented at BETT last Friday, in the session Who are digital practitioners?
We will make the slides from the presentation available and post them on here soon!
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| This photo was very kindly taken by Robert Fekete |
We will make the slides from the presentation available and post them on here soon!
Saturday, 2 February 2013
A mention in the Oxfordshire Guardian South newspaper
The Students4webES project is mentioned in this week's Oxfordshire Guardian South newspaper. A copy of the it arrived through my letter box this morning!
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
If you don't manage to get hold of a copy, you can read it online here http://www.trimediagroup.co.uk/digital-editions/ click through and scroll down to select Oxfordshire Guardian South and check out page 14.
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Featured in the Oxford Mail newspaper
Students4webES project is featured in today's Oxford Mail newspaper on page 12!
Link to article on the Oxford Mail website
Two more webinars booked in!
We are very pleased to announce that we have two more employer webinars booked in for February 2013. Both webinars will take the same format as our first one and will be based around the theme of employability skills.
The first will be with Waitrose Abingdon, on the 11th February. In the second one, Dave Rolls, manager of The White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre, will be talking to students on February 18th.
As we book more employers in we will post details here on the blog, so watch this space!
Update: Please click on the following links to watch these webinars
Waitrose webinar
Active Nation webinar (The White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre)
The first will be with Waitrose Abingdon, on the 11th February. In the second one, Dave Rolls, manager of The White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre, will be talking to students on February 18th.
As we book more employers in we will post details here on the blog, so watch this space!
Update: Please click on the following links to watch these webinars
Waitrose webinar
Active Nation webinar (The White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre)
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Oxford Mail photo shoot
Earlier today the Oxford Mail visited the Abingdon campus of Abingdon & Witney College to take some photos after a Press Release was sent out about our JISC Advance funded Students4webES project.
Project leader, Ellen Lessner, was on hand to capture a photo of core members of the student group with Kelly Boast, Head of Staff Services, who starred in our first webinar.
Project leader, Ellen Lessner, was on hand to capture a photo of core members of the student group with Kelly Boast, Head of Staff Services, who starred in our first webinar.
Monday, 28 January 2013
Student posts - Why I joined the Students4webES Project
The reason why I got involved in the project Students4webES was because I wanted to find out more information about webinars. I found that using a webinar is cheaper and in some ways better to do meetings instead of travelling. I want to go into business in the future and this is very important for me, as it plays a critical role. The webinar project is really fun and once you get hold of the software that you will be using it becomes easy as well.
Post by Mamps Makuku
(Students4webES student)
I joined the project because I was intrigued with what a webinar was and how it could play apart in the world of work. Since I joined I have found out that as technology advances it is a lot cheaper to run webinars than it is to send people across the world for business meetings. Also it has helped me on a personal level because I now know how to make my CV and application forms stand out to an employer and how it can help me gain employability skills. These skills are now helping me in my application for apprenticeships. I would recommend the project to other students.
Post by Aaron Scott
(Students4webES student)
Post by Mamps Makuku
(Students4webES student)
I joined the project because I was intrigued with what a webinar was and how it could play apart in the world of work. Since I joined I have found out that as technology advances it is a lot cheaper to run webinars than it is to send people across the world for business meetings. Also it has helped me on a personal level because I now know how to make my CV and application forms stand out to an employer and how it can help me gain employability skills. These skills are now helping me in my application for apprenticeships. I would recommend the project to other students.
Post by Aaron Scott
(Students4webES student)
Background Information - The Professional Futures Programme
About the Professional Futures Programme at Abingdon and Witney College
The Professional Futures
Programme is a unique and innovative ‘Vocational Baccalaureate’ spanning all
levels of the full-time curriculum at Abingdon and Witney College.
The programme
is designed to foster entrepreneurialism, enterprise and work-ready skills,
knowledge and understanding in learners through ‘live’ assignments and
cross-curricular collaboration which reflects real-world, employer-driven
demands.
‘Futures’
graduates will have more highly developed team working skills, be better
prepared for their chosen careers and more employable than those students who
have just completed an off-the-shelf vocational qualification.
The
‘added value’ of the futures programme will create ‘graduate attributes’ that
are in line with key Government agendas to widen access to HE and to support
economic growth through skills and training across industry sectors.
Fiona
Morey, Assistant Principal (Curriculum) says: "We know that in these
competitive times young people need to stand out from the rest when applying
for jobs or university, and our innovative Professional Futures Programme is
designed to ensure that they do just that."
The
Programme has been very successfully piloted on our Abingdon Campus this year,
and is being rolled out to all students based on the Witney Campus for the
2012/13 academic year.
As
part of the Programme students will have the opportunity to gain hands-on work
experience, learn to run their own business, get involved in community
initiatives and build impressive curriculum vitae.
Skills
Minister, John Hayes says: "By equipping young people with practical
skills and workplace knowledge, Abingdon & Witney College are helping them
on the path to rewarding careers in their chosen field."
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Employability skills baseline data
When we conducted our baseline assessment on for this project, we asked the students to write down three employability skills - the sort of skills they would list on their CV. We are in the process of analysing this data, but have created a Wordle to represent the 256 student responses that we received. At the end of the project we plan to compare the student responses with the skills that the employers mention in the up and coming webinars.
With a Wordle, the larger the word is the more times it was mentioned in the text, in this case the baseline assessment responses, as you can see the most frequently mentioned skills were:
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
Students4WebES Project Manager
With a Wordle, the larger the word is the more times it was mentioned in the text, in this case the baseline assessment responses, as you can see the most frequently mentioned skills were:
- Hard working
- Team work
- Communication
- Reliable
- Punctual
- Organised
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
Students4WebES Project Manager
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Steering Group Meeting - On and Offline
On Monday we had our Steering Group meeting and with lots of snow still on the ground we went with a mixture of plan A and B. Those of us that were local and able to get to college easily met in the small meeting room at Abingdon and Witney College and those that weren't able to travel joined us online via Blackboard Collaborate.
The meeting room was set up with a computer, conference speaker phone, webcam, projector and an iPad plus a couple of phones just in case. You can never have too much technology available!
With the webcam set up Artie, Eddie and Nigel were able to see everyone in the meeting including three students from the core group who attended the first half of the meeting.
We made use of some of the features of Blackboard Collaborate including using it to show the project website and blog and used the tick feature to confirm that everyone could see it.
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
Students4WebES Project Manager
Those that made it to the meeting in person got to enjoy a lovely selection of cakes made by Ellen Lessner (Project Leader) - they were delicious!
The meeting room was set up with a computer, conference speaker phone, webcam, projector and an iPad plus a couple of phones just in case. You can never have too much technology available!
With the webcam set up Artie, Eddie and Nigel were able to see everyone in the meeting including three students from the core group who attended the first half of the meeting.
We made use of some of the features of Blackboard Collaborate including using it to show the project website and blog and used the tick feature to confirm that everyone could see it.
Post by Emma Procter-Legg
Students4WebES Project Manager
Sunday, 20 January 2013
And the snow keeps falling!
Before the snow arrived on Friday morning we made a back up plan for our Project Steering Committee Meeting which is scheduled for tomorrow at Abingdon and Witney College. Our plan is that if people attending the meeting get snowed in, rather than letting our meeting be snowed off we will meet online instead in a webinar.
We have a Blackboard Collaborate session set up should we need to use it for some or all of the attendees - the agenda, project leader's report and project manager's report have all been sent out by email so we are fully ready for more snow! If we do have to go with plan B the only thing that will have to be put on ice is the cake - it might have to be a case of BYOC (Bring Your Own Cake) tomorrow!
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| View of my garden... and the snow keeps falling! Post by Emma Procter-Legg Students4WebES Project Manager |
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