Building Bridges in Fiji - Work Integrated Learning | RMIT University

WIL Stories is a series of one-minute YouTube videos sharing success stories and best practice to inspire and lead the desired behaviours across the staff and student populations.

Hamish’s story, produced by Samatha Lee and Adam Carroll, both graduates from RMIT’s School of Media and Communications, show how this student’s WIL experience enabled him to establish an internal sense of career direction.




Some of the awesome students and recent graduates from the RMIT Media Communications School have been working with us on the WIL (Work Integrated Learning) Project to produce a series of videos where we ask students to reflect on and share their WIL experiences with us.

You can check these short videos out on YouTube now. 
I think these are great stories and if you like them too why not hit the 'share' button and spread these stories. We are linking these videos back to the student's Linkedin pages so when you re-share these you are also promoting these great students.
Enjoy the videos, let us know what you think.

Thanks to Sam Lee and Adam Carroll for putting these together.

Locating files you have save in Google Drive....somewhere

Its easy enough to find files in Google Drive by just searching for a word you know is in the title  - but sometimes you want to locate where the file is located in your G-Drive folder structure. Here's how...

1. Type in the File name to G-Drive's Search box to locate the file
2. Select the file in the search results. Right Click on it.
3. Select '_Locate in My Drive_
4. The Folder path is then displayed at the top of the search screen.

If you now click on any of the Folders > Displayed > Above the Folder menu at the left will open up at that sub-folder.

WIL Skills Community at RMIT

Rapidly growing valuable connections

RMIT has about 50 staff across 23 Schools who coordinate Work Integrated Learning (WIL). These ‘WIL Practitioners’ connect RMIT to over 5,000 industry partners who are currently registered in the WIL system.

The WIL Skills Google+Community is where RMIT WIL Practitioners connect with each other to share ideas, opportunities and support one another to meet the challenges of building industry relationships, finding placements for students, navigating the regulatory processes and learning how to use the new WIL Software we are rolling out.

Benefits of using Google+ Communities

We use a Google+ Community to rapidly build engagement between the project team and the dispersed WIL Champions. We find most people either are familiar with Google+ Communities or otherwise quickly become confident. Early adopters help ‘newbies’ to learn how to get the most out of the tool and this in turn engenders a stronger sense of community and connectedness. We have experimented with different engagement techniques along the way, keeping what works and leaving behind what doesn’t.

Analysis of the activity by members of WIL Skills indicate the following benefits:  

• provides a central forum for WIL Champions, Practitioners, and other staff members with an interest in work integrated learning, to communicate and share best practices
• provides greater visibility to content and discussions shared in the community
• allows people to easily connect with WIL Practitioners across all RMIT schools and disciplines
• encourages members to build networks and share WIL opportunities and industry connections
• encourages people to seek help or advice from WIL experts and answer each others questions
• facilitates collaboration and sharing of knowledge on WIL business processes and InPlace system functionality

Come and find out more?

Any staff with an RMIT gmail account are welcome to join.

Here is the location of the Community - you will need to ask for access when you get there but we have an open door for people who want to find out about the community...

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117494846982431685544

RMIT Global WIL System Deployment

The WIL Project is delivering student employability in ways we can see and measure

Video Testimonials of Advertising students - all about WIL

These are worth watching - hear from students, employers and staff what WIL is about for them.

#WILSkills

WIL Media Communications students produce video testimonials of their own WIL experiences

Check it out here

#WILSkills

Stream 2 completing soon

Just as we wrap up our celebrations for the end of our Stream 1 WIL System deployment we can see the completion of Stream 2 fast approaching.

Here comes Stream 3.

Simon