EDC 668: Managing Technology for Change

Read: Future of Management Part III

Blog: Reflect on a successful experience you had managing someone else? What made this successful? What could you have done differently?
Group meetings: Finalize project in groups or work with Melissa individually if needed.
Portfolio Activity: Post a link to your CV or resume, for public consumption

Project Activity: [...]

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RESUME CV:
FAVORITE TECHNOLOGIES:
Pandytown FaceBook Group
www.pandytown.com
www.vimeo.com
668 Change Vodcast

RESOURCES:
http://www.surdna.org/
http://us.camfed.org/site/PageServer?pagename=home_index&cvridirect=true
http://www.participantmedia.com/social_action.php
http://www.aolnews.com/philanthropy

668 WIKI

Identify opportunity for change and those participating in the project. Post to wiki. Due: 5/17

I will redesign the website for www.pandytown.com, a community off the Bay Islands of Honduras in hopes to build collaborative momentum [...]

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Assignment for the Week of June 28th
// posted Oct 15, 2009 1:24 AM by C Porter [...]

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Read:  Future of Management Part I

Website: http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/articles/matter.html
(This will give you excellent background into the dialogue that ensued in much of the IT & Education community)
Blog: How can management be innovative? Does it then become leadership? Where do the lines intersect between management and leadership?
Synchronous Session: Discuss the role of IT in change- [...]

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Assignment for the Week of June 7th
// posted May 10, 2010 7:49 PM by C Porter

Read: Drive Part Three
Blog: How does motivation translate into technology design and success? Think of an example successful technology, and share how motivation was a factor in its success.
Synchronous Session: Guest Speaker, WebEx on Monday [...]

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Assignment for the Week of May 31st
// posted May 10, 2010 7:50 PM by C Porter

Read:  Drive Part Three

Blog: What tools in the Drive Toolkit most interested you? How would you use these tools to motivate those around you? To be personally motivated?
Portfolio Activity: Identify the key organizations you [...]

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Assignment for the Week of May 24th

Read:  Drive Part Two
Reference #1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
(This is a good summary of the major theory around adoption of innovations).
Blog: Who is impacted by change? What are their characteristics and how to we use our understanding of them to best implement change?

Group meetings: Discuss your project status in [...]

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Write a one-page summary of the opportunity for change and the impact it will have on the setting within which it will take place. Post to wiki. Due: 5/24

The Change Project: My desire is to use technology to strengthen collaboration among [...]

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To avoid excessive clicking time I am going to consolidate 668 assignments in this all encompassing blog.
Read:  Drive Part One
Blog: Identifying opportunities for change. How do you know when change is needed? How do people become passionate about change?

I have thought about this question for much of my life.  As a health coach, [...]

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