Reminder: Be sure to support your posting with specific references to the Learning Resources and/or current literature. Use APA formatting to cite references in your posting and responses.

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Assignment 1: Blog: Resources for Online Learners

As you begin your journey in this graduate program, it is important to familiarize yourself with resources that can help you ensure a successful online learning experience. The Walden Writing Center, the Walden Library, and other areas of the Walden website, for example, provide a wealth of resources for students who are working professionals or are working towards a new profession. For this Blog, explore the Walden University website and other reliable sources. Identify resources that you think might help you in your online learning endeavors.

By Day 4

Access the Blog Week 2 Assignment 1: Blog:

1. Click on the Blog link.

2. Click Comment.

3. On the Blog Page, add two links to resources that focus on success in online learning. One should be a Walden University resource and one should be an academic resource not already provided in the classroom. Include a 2- to 3-sentence description of each resource you post.

4. Then, explain why you feel these might be quality resources for online learners, especially yourself.

5. Click Add to save your work.

Reminder: Be sure to support your posting with specific references to the Learning Resources and/or current literature. Use APA formatting to cite references in your posting and responses.

Write: Make sure you directly and completely address the discussion forum question(s)/topic. You must respond to at least one of your fellow classmates posting explaining the reason(s) for the agreement or disagreement with their initial posting.

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Define cyberbullying. Do you know anyone who has been bullied online? Have you ever been bullied online? What are some of the psychological effects cyberbullying can have on the victim?

You will be graded on:

  • timely and proper submission of assignment
  • complete and thorough post using credible sources (no wikipedia or .com sites)
  • proper grammar, citation, and replies to classmates posts.

NOTE: Make sure you answer all parts of the discussion question.

SUBMISSION – IN DISCUSSION BOARD ASSIGNED, and be timely in order to allow your classmates to respond.

General Requirement(s):

  1. Preparation: Read the directions for the discussion board prior to participation.
  2. Write: Make sure you directly and completely address the discussion forum question(s)/topic. You must respond to at least one of your fellow classmates posting explaining the reason(s) for the agreement or disagreement with their initial posting. Make sure to use proper grammar, punctuation, and proper APA citation, when writing your initial post. When replying to your classmates don’t forget to comply with Netiquette Guidelines in the “Getting Started” area and include a salutation to your classmate(s).
  3. Grading: The number of posts and replies you need to get credit are shown in the Grading table below.

Description Details Grade1 initial post; 2 replies 100%1 initial post, 1 reply 85%1 initial post; 0 replies 70%No replies 0%

Create a 4- to 8-slide PowerPoint presentation (not including title and reference slides) to present to the board of directors for the detention center that will cover the following: A detailed outline of each of the 3 to 4 programs/strategies that you would like to put into place at the center.

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Research suggests a number of strategies to reduce intergroup conflict. To further explore these strategies, in addition to readings in your text, read the following article paying particular attention to pages 588 to 593. Hewstone, M., Rubin, M., & Willis, H. (2002). Intergroup bias. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 575-604.

You are a counselor in a detention center for delinquent adolescent boys. Your current project is to devise a way to reduce intergroup conflict that has been escalating between the boys at the center, many of whom were active in local gangs.

    • Discuss in detail the concepts that lead to the intergroup conflict, such as stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. How have these attitudes and behaviors created and perpetuated the ongoing conflict?

 

    • Discuss the different strategies to reduce intergroup conflict found in your text and the Hewstone article.

 

    • Looking back at the course discuss 2 to 3 additional concepts that could be applied in helping a person overcome these negative attitudes and behaviors.

 

  • Keeping these strategies and concepts in mind, what activities and/or programs can you create that will help these boys overcome this conflict and learn to work together, respect each other, and come to see each other’s differences as valuable. Briefly summarize each program/strategy in 2 to 3 sentences each in preparation for part 2 of this project.

Answer the above points in a 3- to 4-page paper. Your paper should be double-spaced, typed in 12-point Times New Roman font with normal one-inch margins, written in APA style, and free of typographical and grammatical errors. It should include a title page with a running head, an abstract, and a reference page.

 

Part 2:

Create a 4- to 8-slide PowerPoint presentation (not including title and reference slides) to present to the board of directors for the detention center that will cover the following:

    • A detailed outline of each of the 3 to 4 programs/strategies that you would like to put into place at the center.

 

  • Discuss for each program/strategy why you believe it will be effective within the context of your detention center.

Reading or memorizing a presentation will result in failing the assignment. However, you will be permitted to use no more than 5 3X5 or 4X6 inch speaker cards with key words on them while you speak. Points are deducted for going under or over this time limit.

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Informative Speech: Your goal for this speech is to raise the level of knowledge of your audience about an object, concept, person, policy, place, event, or process. Your topic must relate to your Broward College Pathway.This speech will teach you how to speak from note cards. A full-sentence outline with a bibliography are required for this speech. The speech must be 4-6 minutes in length. Points are deducted for going under or over this time limit. Three sources or reference material are required for this speech.  You must use supporting material linked to the thesis and material that enhances your credibility as a speaker and the clarity of the topic.  Sources and reference material are orally cited by you during the body of the presentation.  Main points of the speech should be amply supported by specific research.  Research must consist of sufficient variety (statistics, examples, comparisons, quotations, etc.).

This speech will be recorded and the link will be uploaded into the Discussion area using YouTube.

Recorded speeches do not require an audience. The speech recording must be uploaded into the discussion area in D2L.  Your recording must be recorded with you standing. You should record yourself from your knees up to the top of your head.  The professor needs to see your body gestures and posture. Do not edit the recording or turn the recorder off once you start recording.

All presentations will be extemporaneously (conversationally) delivered. Reading or memorizing a presentation will result in failing the assignment. However, you will be permitted to use no more than 5 3X5 or 4X6 inch speaker cards with key words on them while you speak. Points are deducted for going under or over this time limit.