{"id":1006,"date":"2017-04-01T15:49:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2017-11-14T16:13:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T16:13:46","slug":"your-ideas-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/your-ideas-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Your ideas matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student\u00a0ideas are an\u00a0integral part\u00a0of Partners in Learning; but your involvement certainly\u00a0doesn&#8217;t just stop there\u2026Partners in Learning gives you the opportunity to be part of actually making your ideas happen and put them into practice.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Student suggestions can turn into student\/staff partnership\u00a0projects.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, during the registration events back in September we asked students to participate in a fun poll where they would place counters in a jar to\u00a0cast their vote. The question we asked was \u2018What project appeals to you the most?\u2019, giving them 5 choices, we received 64 votes and the results are as follows;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">RED<\/span> \u2013 Developing Employability Skills \u2013 28 votes<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00\">GREEN<\/span> \u2013 Academic Development Within the Classroom \u2013 16 votes<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">BLUE<\/span> \u2013 Creative Design \u2013 10 votes<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\">YELLOW<\/span> \u2013 Building Learning Communities \u2013 5 votes<\/p>\n<p>WHITE \u2013 University Policy &#8211; 5 votes<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Developing Employability Skills\u2019 (<span style=\"color: #ff6600\">RED<\/span>) came out as the top result, with \u2018Academic Development Within the Classroom\u2019 (<span style=\"color: #00ff00\">GREEN<\/span>) as the second most popular.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to your ideas we considered how Partners in Learning puts the top two results into practice;<\/p>\n<p>The hours you put in to Partners in Learning count towards the Christ Church Extra Award; and not to mention it is a pretty nifty thing to put on your CV, to say that you were involved in enhancing the university experience.<\/p>\n<p>Bespoke workshops\u00a0are available for anyone involved with Partners in Learning, for instance there are workshops on project management &amp; professional presentation skills which could develop employability skills; the presentation skills workshop could also be particularly helpful in students\u2019 academic development for presentation-based assignments.<\/p>\n<p>The opportunity\u00a0to be involved in\u00a0faculty and school specific projects based on student suggestions could enhance your student experience and academic development within the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>We continually work alongside students to develop and enhance the university experience; what you\u00a0are thinking, many others may be thinking the same thing \u2013 it\u2019s about collaborating and working together to make your ideas into a reality.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any project suggestions (something you may wish to develop or enhance within your faculty or school) please email <a href=\"mailto:partnersinlearning@canterbury.ac.uk\">partnersinlearning@canterbury.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student\u00a0ideas are an\u00a0integral part\u00a0of Partners in Learning; but your involvement certainly\u00a0doesn&#8217;t just stop there\u2026Partners in Learning gives you the opportunity to be part of actually making your ideas happen and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75942,"featured_media":1010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-partners-in-learning"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Georgia Horsley","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2016\/12\/ideas-matter.png","postExcerpt":"Student\u00a0ideas are an\u00a0integral part\u00a0of Partners in Learning; but your involvement certainly\u00a0doesn&#8217;t just stop there\u2026Partners in Learning gives you the opportunity to be part of actually making your ideas happen and [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}