Nortel LearniT Ambassadors
Nortel LearniT Ambassadors Bring Technology-infused Learning to Communities |
TechnologiZING Learning |
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In towns and cities everywhere Nortel employees are working to improve their communities by sharing their time and expertise. In their biggest effort to date to connect their employee volunteering with the commitment to build 21st century skills, Nortel has launched its Nortel LearniT Ambassador program. Introduced in late September 2007 during a week-long campaign known as Impact iT: Days of Service, Nortel employees have been out in their communities integrating Nortel LearniT resources into their volunteer service.
Efforts range from individual employees speaking to their families and friends about the Nortel LearniT.org resources to working as a group to train teachers, students and other citizens on how to use technology tools in meaningful ways in the pursuit of their education or training. Designed to be flexible toward where and in what way employees seek to engage, or are already involved, in community service, Nortel LearniT Ambassadors serve the groups, organizations and schools that touch the lives of the people of their home towns. This approach is producing a diverse set of ways in which Nortel employees can enhance the type of volunteering that they are most familiar and comfortable with performing. Nortel LearniT is Nortel's Signature Community Relations initiative designed to provide effective, flexible support to Nortel volunteer ambassadors and they reach out to contribute in their communities in diverse ways. Key focuses are building individual, educational and community capacities by pairing 21st century technology skills with the needs of millennial learners. TechnologiZING Learning:Each Nortel LearniT key resource section progressively "drills down" to provide practical, hands-on information and "maps to the learning territory" for volunteers, teachers, students, parents, and community leaders. Nortel LearniT's key access points of Lesson Plans and Guides; Video Tutorials - Technology Skills; and Resources and Best Practices are further organized in numerous ways, including Lesson Plans Organized by Technology and Lesson Plans Organized by Grade. Just for You Portals open Nortel LearniT pathways created especially for: |
Success StoriesNortel LearniT Ambassador Success Stories represent the diversity of employee talents and knowledge. Ambassadors' efforts crisscross the globe from Canada to Morocco to India to Marrakech to Texas. Ambassadors create learning centers; train the teachers; educate learners; build everything from wireless networks to complete learning centers to specialized learning tools to playground equipment; or volunteer virtually, creating resources and doing website translation. Nortel LearniT and Nortel employee ambassadors involve themselves in their communities in diverse ways, using their own unique talents and diverse backgrounds to begin, expand and/or increase the use of technology and technical skills to grow the personal, academic, and professional success of our community partners. Connecting with Nortel LearniTNortel LearniT aims to provide the learning leadership AND the concrete resources to help you in your ambassador outreach initiatives! Nortel LearniT supports its ambassadors' endeavors with "field tested, educator-endorsed" multimedia resources that match many interfaces of technology and education. The Nortel LearniT website offers multiple approachs of targeted technology integration to meet community volunteers, educators and the learners at point of need. For example, see the resources on important, high interest topics such as:
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Ambassadors in Technology Leadership Supporting 21st Century Learners |