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Introduction
by Ron Marano - Friday, 4 June 2010, 10:07 AM
 
Please allow me to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Ron Marano, and I am the new First Nations Student Success Program Coordinator at Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN). I will be responsible for coordinating activities associated with the program.

While I currently live and work in Thunder Bay, my home community is Weagamow Lake, also known as North Caribou Lake. My mother’s maiden name is Quequish and I am fluent in Ojicree.

I have attended Lakehead University full-time for the past two years pursuing an Honours Bachelor of Commerce. Previously, I served for three years as Youth Business Development Officer at Nishnawbe Aski Development Fund.

I look forward to the opportunity to work closely with you. Please note my contact information below and not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or require assistance.

Ron Marano
First Nation Student Success Program Coordinator
Nishnawbe Aski Nation
Direct Line: (807) 625-4925
Reception: (807) 623-8228
Toll free: 1-800-465-9952
Fax: (807) 623-7730
Email: rmarano@nan.on.ca
www.nan.on.ca
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Re: Introduction
by Brian Beaton - Thursday, 15 July 2010, 01:03 PM
 

Good morning Ron ... Yesterday I posted that link to all the other FNSSP projects across in the Reference Material database in this meeting place. It would be really useful to see what resources these other projects are using for the three main goals of the FNSSP initiative, ie.

  1. Student Assessment and Retention
  2. School Success Planning
  3. Data Management systems (performance measurement).

Are you willing to start collecting this information and posting it on this web site?

Brian

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Re: Introduction
by Ron Marano - Monday, 19 July 2010, 03:00 PM
 
Hi Brian,

That is an interesting suggestion. I can start collecting this information and posting it on this website after I finish up a few other things.

Ron
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Re: Other FNSSP project materials
by Brian Beaton - Monday, 19 July 2010, 03:40 PM
 

Good stuff Ron ... looking forward to seeing what the other FNSSP projects will share with us.

Your message requesting materials produced for this FNSSP project made me think about all the different powerpoint presentations that have been made for this FNSSP project. It would be great to see all these presentations and all the reference material created for this project included on this web site.

Thoughts?

Brian

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Re: Other FNSSP project materials
by Ron Marano - Wednesday, 21 July 2010, 10:35 AM
 
Brian,

I agree that presentations and reference material would be great to have on the website.

My only thought and I could be wrong is that we should be mindful to keep the material we provide user-friendly. I think the material should be well organized, relevant to the user, and not duplicating.

I am not assuming that you would do this, but I have been on websites that looks like material was just dumped. PowerPoint presentations basically saying the same thing with the only difference being the name of the audience.

As an example, you could produce a new PowerPoint presentation and/or reference material directed at the users of the website for each subject.

That is my only thought

Ron
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