Community partners are impressed by UEF members' operational capabilities

In the last week of semester 1B (January 14), UEF students participating in the course Social Networks - Interactive Media completed community service learning (CEL) activities with many positive results. 42 students divided into 6 groups taught by MSc. Pham Thai Hien - Head of Communication Technology - Faculty of Public Relations and Communications has implemented many creative communication products that contribute to promoting interaction on the Facebook fanpage channel of community organizations.

 At the evaluation of the cooperation process in the CEL subject, the UEF Community Connection Center worked with representatives of partners including: Mr. Pham Truong Son - Director of Tinh Than Foundation, Mr. Nguyen Quoc Giang - Deputy Director Soc Trang Social Science Service Connection Center (SCSE), Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong Dung - Manager of Belief organization, Ms. To Bich Phuong - Deputy Director of Center for Research on Education of the Deaf (CED) and Ms. Bui Thi Ngoc - CED expert.


During the process of accompanying UEF students in the community engagement model application course, they made many special impressions on UEF students, most notably their dynamism, creativity and as valuable respect for partners. Mr. Pham Truong Son (Tinh Than Foundation) said that overcoming the confusion in choosing effective communication channels, the group gradually improved and exchanged work more smoothly with partners. You proactively grasp information to understand the organization's needs and the organization also understands your resources to adjust needs accordingly. From here, the items were completed according to plan and with high agreement from all parties.
Sharing the same share, Mr. Nguyen Quoc Giang - Deputy Director of SCSE said: "The products of UEF students have actively contributed to the organization's communication activities, contributing to spreading professional knowledge to everyone. with the community. aIn each product, you always express your own creativity and respect for the unique characteristics of the organization's culture is valuable." Besides, Mr. Giang also reminds you to pay more attention to the contact time to facilitate the working conditions of the parties.


 

For the CED organization, through many collaborations with UEF students, the image of dynamic and professional young people has become a mark. Ms. Bui Thi Ngoc said: "She was surprised by the professional capacity of the students because even though they did not have much experience in social activities, they worked very hard to learn and understand the technical terms. used in articles are explained appropriately and easily understood. These help the organization better reach young people." Ms. Ngoc suggested that groups should have a more equal division of abilities, creating the support of ability groups so that you can progress together.



Representative of Faith Organization, Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong Dung also shared many positive feelings about this engagement activity. Being a small-scale organization and facing many difficulties in human resources, with the companionship of students, Diem Tin has more resources to spread operational information and focus more on activities. specialize. Accompanying students is the process of learning from each other, organizing the reception of students' expertise while also creating opportunities and mentoring for them to better hone their vocabulary and specialized terminology. branch.



 On behalf of the students, Ms. Pham Thai Hien also sent her sincere thanks to community organizations for wholeheartedly supporting and guiding the students to complete their course goals. With advice and suggestions from experts, the students were able to create thoughtful and unique products, contributing to spreading meaningful activities of the organization.

Some outstanding results of UEF students after more than 1 month of working with community partners: more than 46 articles were created (29 were selected to post), 89 designed images, 2 videos clip is staged. From here, the social networking sites of our partners all saw significant growth (all organizations increased by more than 300%).

The course ended with many positive results and received acclaim from community organizations. All of the students and organization representatives hope to be able to cooperate more with UEF so that students' products become more useful and closer to real life.