Intro:
The goal of my Action Research is to integrate collaborative learning technologies for humanitarian objectives among my community of practice.
1. Globally, accelerate the rate of change for humanitarian issues such as oppression of women, education of children and health & wellness initiatives.
2. Locally, increase my ability as a humanitarian/filmmaker [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Elevator Pitch:
One of the greatest and least known come-from-behind victories of all time happened in the 1972 Olympic 800 meter finals in Munich, Germany. The winner was an ordinary-looking American named Dave Wottle. His build was slim, almost feeble. His equipment seemed slightly below average. In fact, the only remarkable thing [...]
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, [...]
