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  image copyright: https://neuroleadership.com/your-brain-at-work/three-steps-for-communicating-better-according-to-neuroscience  As social creatures, we rely heavily on communication, both verbal and nonverbal. These methods carry significant weight in how our messages are conveyed. When we communicate, it's crucial to be mindful of our body language, tone, speed of speech, and eye contact. These subtle cues play a pivotal role in conveying important information (Stolovitch, n.d). During week 3, we were presented with a media piece, 'The Art of Effective Communication.' This piece demonstrated how the same message can be delivered in three different formats, each significantly altering the context and understanding of the message. This highlights the importance of adapting our communication methods to suit the situation.  The first method was via email. Reading the email, the message seemed as if there was a sense of urgency. While she recognized that he may have ha...

  Describe a project, either personal or professional, that experienced issues related to scope creep. What specific scope creep issues occurred? How did you or other stakeholders deal with those issues at the time? Looking back on the experience now, had you been in the position of managing the project, what could you have done to better manage these issues and control the scope of the project?                                                                              image source: Zentao Scope creep occurs when a project acquires new, unauthorized features that potentially disrupt the budget, timeline, scale, or other major points of a project (Larson, 2009). For me, scope creep occurred at the very start of the 2022-2023 school year. For context, I was starting at a public school here ...

  Money is a finite resource in most projects. Knowing where this resource is used and how it is being used is of the utmost importance for PMs. As we learned in the resources this week; suggesting, implementing, using, and tracking a budget is very important. Fortunately, there are a number of programs that exist to help assist PMs with "following the money."  According to Carrol (2022), a solid project budget and resource management tool can make managing a project go easier. PMs, should use project management software to automate budgets and report accurate data. A good program would also provide data so that PMs can make adjustments to the project.  I looked into float.com and smart sheets again this week to identify how they help with budgets. Float.com: With float, the process of tracking budgets clearly was apart of its most recent updates. According to Prator (2023), a developer at Float, the project budgets will allow users to plan, set, and track project hours a...

Navigating Projects                                                     Image source:https://trackimo.com/live-map-tracking-system/  This week we were tasked to research different online programs that would help with the management process. According to Dr. Stolovitch "Working as a PM is similar to being a traffic conductor, you have to manage people, resources, budgets, activity, and so on."  (Walden, n.d).  Dr. Stolovitch also used a similar analogy when it comes to project management, describing it as a "highway" of sorts. So to help us navigate and monitor the high traffic of our projects, we have to use effective systems, much like one would use a GPS to navigate. The overall goal of any system tool is to make work streamlined and efficient. Two tools I discovered this week are Float (https://www.float.com/) and Figma (www.figma.com). Both...

   Hi all! Hope you are doing well!      How we communicate is important and there are a ton of different things at play as we communicate information. In our resources this week, Dr. Stolovitch made the statement that it's not what we are communicating but how we are communicating. Are we paying attention to our body language, tone, speed of speech, eye contact, etc.?  These minute details come into play as we communicate important information.  There is so much research and literature surrounding this topic, even entire classes dedicated to it! So this week we were tasked to listen and receive a message in three different modalities for the assignment " The Art of Effective Communication." In the presentation, we are given the same message from the same person in three different ways.  The first method was via email. As I read the message, it felt that the person who wrote it knew Mark well enough to make a small joke while getting her intent ac...

Grade Level Culture Change-Post Mortem Review  Context : From school- year (SY) 2020 until SY 2022-2023, I was the grade level chair/ team leader for our 7th-grade team. I was in charge of a very unique task: Reintegrating 7th-grade students back into the classroom setting and establishing an overall new system of grade-level culture for both teachers and students. A very daring task for a 4th-year teacher and without support from the administration ( they had their own fires to put out and everyone on the team was new. Talk about building a plane while flying it!) In the end, we welcomed our 7th graders back through hybrid, and the first year of "new normal" instruction, and some of our work was rolled into the overall campus guide. 1. Are you proud of our finished deliverables (project work products) If yes, what's so good about them? If not, what's wrong with them? I am very proud of the work products we produced. As far as something tangible, we helped create the ...

  *Cough, cough* Welcome back! I haven't used this blog site in a year or so, but I am happy to be back online and ready to respond to assignments in my distance learning class! Week 1: Assignment 1: "...  post to your blog a 5- to 6-paragraph description of the evolution of distance learning as it relates to your own experiences. Be sure to include the following in your post: Your personal definition and observations of distance learning before starting this course. Consider what you learned about distance learning this week and how this learning has influenced your personal definition. Your revised definition, which combines your previous thoughts about distance learning with new information you learned this week. A summary of your vision for the future of distance learning as it continues on a path of evolution and change. Josh's response:  To me, distance learning used to be something technical . Media had a large part to play in the introduction to distance learning....