College+Presentations

All three schools (elementary, junior high and high school) have indicated they would like to collaborate with the College Horticulture students in various ways. This page lays out the questions and can be used to further plan how that can happen.

We have 70 College students and can fit the collaboration into course assessments and requirements. Beyond the elements that "fit" into a course, the College can advertise and promote voluntary participation from students for additional opportunities. College-wide outcomes include communication skills as well as citizenship, so there will not be a problem with "fit" but may need to think about the logistics and workload we add to students.

We will need to share these 70 students!

College Business Department also willing to support project - Greg L and Business Dean have spoken and will hammer out details.

Elementary School
Jackie mentioned that she would like to use the expertise from the College students to comment on the research students collect and compile using Diigo and Google.docs.
 * This opportunity may be shared with the high school students as well - What do you think Deborah?
 * Jackie - please see the discussion thread - sound like the high school students can also help here.
 * Since this collaboration can be done online, it also helps teach good digital citizenship skills for all, which can be tied into the CTS curriculum but is something that we are trying to integrate at all grade levels. It would be great to have my students work with the High School students. I will need their full names and email addresses so that I can pair them up and add them to our Google docs pages and Diigo groups. (J.D)

Junior High School
Josh mentioned that he would like the College Students to make presentations to the students. I need further details on the curriculum fit so I can determine how many courses at the College level we can pull from. Certainly the presentation skill element and working with school groups will be great experience for students who will be working with a similar population out on the job. Not sure how many students this will involve right now. Looking forward to hearing more Josh.

High School
Although not looking for classroom based presentations, Deborah has asked that the students be involved in assisting with the design of the horticulture related experiments and also work with the students / teachers in the Media Arts programs to develop a safety video.
 * Timelines? When would you see the experiment design work being done Deborah? Our students get pretty busy in the horticulture world from March - October.
 * Where does the multimedia course fit in the school timetable? We can work on the storyboard for the video now and some of the content. Some video work may be able to be shot in the College labs and other may need to wait until construction phase. Wondering how you see this evolving?
 * As Kaylea mentioned, she's not too sure any students (other than College) should be working or visiting during the construction phase. Maybe the webcam idea that Jackie suggested will work for safety considerations.