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Nortel LearniT Ambassador Team Brings Multimedia Focus to Bloordale Middle School

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A group of 6-8th graders and their teachers from Bloordale Middle School, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, recently visited Nortel's corporate campus in Toronto to learn about multimedia projects to promote learning in new ways and involve them with engaging assignments.

This is the first step in a year-long Nortel LearniT Ambassador Outreach. 

This is the first Nortel LearniT initiative for the Toronto Womens' Business Council's Community Outreach team headed by Payal Puri and Nancy Quinn. The new relationship between Nortel and Bloordale Middle School was formed after consultation with the Toronto District School Board.

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Nortel LearniT ambassadors, in a group effort, will work with the students in teams throughout the school year to capture events within the school. The students will post monthly highlights. At the end of the year they will create a digital yearbook and videos to give to the elementary feeder schools for the incoming grade 5 students to see what life will be like when they get to middle school.

Learning resource assets during this year for Bloordale Middle School will be the Nortel LearniT ambassadors themselves and Nortel-provided multimedia equipment that the ambassadors bring into the community to allow more students to become actively engaged in the projects.

Visits to Nortel facilities will be arranged so students and staff get a view of the environment the volunteers work in and the resources available to them such as state-of-the-art presentation rooms and broadcast-quality multimedia studios.

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Students' Learning Activities and Experiences

View a video of the students' first Nortel Campus visit

 

 LearniT Ambassadors' Activities and Experiences

Nortel LearniT consultant John Grandmont, who worked with the Nortel LearniT Ambassadors, planning learning activities and technology training to prepare for the first Bloordale experience, credited the volunteers for the success of day-long activities with students at corporate headquarters. "These folks had really done their homework."

Nortel Ambassadors for the recent school visit were Payal Puri,Nancy Quinn, Monique Pinsonneault, Melanie Johannik, Leanne Pellew, Jason Vetesse, Shaun Axani, Francois Simpson, Renu Indra, Annie Lu, Lilly Bissessar, Diane Brokenshire, Karen Moss and Gina Mulic.

 

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