College+Collaboration

=Living Roof: Collaboration and Support from Sunnyville Community College= This section outlines the support that the Sunnyville College, faculty and students can offer the project. Please use the Discussion tab to comment on these ideas. Wiki members - feel free to use either the discussion feature or edit the page as needed.

Sunnyville College

 * College equipment and/or facilities can be used if needed for meetings, kick-off events or other purposes.
 * College could house the plants the school children plant in the greenhouses if desired once the plants have grown beyond "seedlings".
 * Horticulture program has greenhouse and other facilities that can also be requested if needed.
 * First priority for use will be for the College's horticulture students and programs.

Town of Sunnyville Garden Centre Project Contractors || E-mail || Outside individuals do not have the ability to access the College systems, so can work through me to book equipment. || Junior High School High School Funder Town of Sunnyville Garden Centre Evergreen Roofs || Scheduling using calendar tools such as Outlook || Faculty or Staff can provide an educational tour. ||
 * Task || Collaboration Partner || Tool || Comment ||
 * Book equipment as needed || Evergreen Roof
 * Tours of Greenhouse || Elementary School

Sunnyville College Staff/Faculty
DropBox Face to face Meetings Synchronous meetings - Yuuguu ||  || YouTube E-mail Calendar (schedule presentations) || Landscape Gardener Apprentice Program Faculty / Students || College Website College Social Media - blog & twitter College TV system (announcements) ||  ||
 * Lend expertise in research and publication of any case studies or commentaries on the project.
 * Write / co-write articles for submission to appropriate journals and magazines.
 * Liaise with College staff, communicate project updates using College channels, and otherwise provide communication links to/from the College.
 * Liaise with Living Roof on plant selection.
 * Lend credibility to the project and raise profile through faculty connections and reputations in the horticulture industry.
 * Consider partnerships with other College department for media development and marketing & promotion opportunities such as Name the Roof contests, operation of webcam, etc.
 * **Great news** - Greg L - The business department has agreed to do a case study on the project and will be working with us throughout the winter and spring term to develop a business plan
 * Task || Collaboration Partner || Tools || Comment ||
 * Liase with business program to develop business plan || Business Program || Face to Face meetings;e-mail || Business department will take the lead role ||
 * Give tours of College greenhouses || Elementary School students || Outlook calendars to book tours || Logistics need to be worked out so tours take place when greenhouse is operating and faculty / students available to support. ||
 * Experiment design || High School teachers || Outlook
 * Presentations on Pond ecosystem || Elementary School || Face-to-face presentation
 * Update College Community || College Marketing & Communications || College newsletter - staff & students
 * Consider dual credit opportunities for high school students || High School || Dropbox || Review and compare high school curriculum to introductory horticulture courses - providing opportunity to Prior Learning Assessment Recognition (PLAR) or provide dual credit where appropriate. ||
 * Host "Ask the Horticulturist" program || Greg W. || Twitter, blog || Provide resource to the community or an ongoing place for school students to post questions that relate to the roof or other plant science related questions. ||

Sunnyville Students
Participation through collaboration with instructors so student assignments incorporate the Living Roof project collaboration. As part of the horticulture diploma programs, students complete course work in the area of Soil Science, Plant Selection, Irrigation, Sustainable Weed Management, Pest Management, Greenhouse Operations among other courses over two years. Our Landscape Gardener Apprenticeship Program (LGAP) provides apprentices with opportunities to acquire field experience with hardscape materials such as paving stones, ponds, water gardens, construction, surveying and irrigation. They also acquire soft skills in landscape design,soil analysis and plant identification. Both groups of students would benefit greatly from the experiences available in this Living Roof project, accessing behind the scenes experts and being able to apply critical thinking and creative skills to the project. In addition, the Business students have agreed to support the project by preparing a business plan for operating the roof as a tourist attraction, thus contributing to the economic impact of the Roof.

Specifically, Sunnyville students can support the project in the following ways: Flickr / Picasa ||  || Evergreen Roof Town of Sunnyville Funder || Google spreadsheets
 * Analyze soil samples and recommend plants / development of soil.
 * Provide feedback on plans and designs suggested by Living Roof
 * Collaborate with Kaylea & Greg W on criteria for plan contest in the K-12 system
 * Skilled labour force for construction and maintenance of Living Roof - student employment grants, internships and work experience opportunities can be utilized to provide students with experience and the project with a skilled (and supervised) workforce. Recruit volunteers as needed from the boarder student population - Citizenship College Wide Outcome.
 * College students could facilitate various sessions with elementary, junior high and high school students related to horticulture (or safety) in the context of the Living Roof project to fulfill communications related program outcomes.
 * Work with Deborah on the design of horticulture related experiments
 * Work through Deborah for high school media clubs and students to develop a safety video with content and expertise on safety provide by College, Students, Kaylea and Greg W.
 * 4 Biology/Media studies students available for video creation and editing
 * Content/storyboard - college students, Greg W, Kaylea, faculty
 * Work with Josh to determine what presentations, when and how to support the curriculum for junior high
 * Work with Jackie re. elementary school on logistics of commenting on student work via google.docs or blog posts (FOIP considerations, privacy, policy, etc)
 * High School students will play lead role in commenting on the research and work done by Elementary School students
 * College students will comment, tweet student blog links to their followers.
 * Volunteers from the student body can be recruited to support the participation of the elementary, junior and senior high as needed (fulfill Citizenship College Wide Outcome)
 * Use Diigo or Delicious social bookmarking - tag created so bookmark stacks can be shared easily with other community groups.
 * Task || Collaboration Partner || Tools || Comment ||
 * Recommend plants || Garden Centre || Google.docs
 * Determine Budget || Garden Centre

Dropbox

E-mail

Meetings - face -to- face or online ||  || Living Roof Garden Centre || Drop box e-mail YouTube ||  || Junior High School || Google Calendar Twitter Outlook (e-mail) ||  || Bookmarks (Diigo) Tweet the blog links to those who follow the College ||  || Junior High || Webinar Face-to-face presenation Slideshare YouTube ||  || May be useful for the QR code links || Delicious / Diigo ||  ||
 * Create storyboard for Safety Video || High School
 * Supervision for Field Trips || Elementary School
 * Comment on research / blogs || Elementary School || Blog application
 * Presentations || Elementary
 * Bookmark websites || Shared with all collaboration partners -common tags

Sharing More Broadly
Various social media tools have been mentioned and will be used to communicate and share the Living Roof project. In addition, academics will benefit from more formal publications. Throughout the project, the College's applied research and innovation centre will support the documentation of the collaboration and support the publication and dissemination of the results. At various stages, interviews and observations will be conducted, questionnaires completed and field notes studied to collect data for analysis.

Community Involvement / Participation
The College students will also create reports and support public meetings or open house events inviting the community to share the results and experiences. Videos will be shared with seniors through partnership with Senior's Recreational programs and housing projects. Seniors who are able to visit the roof can be escorted by College students.