In the next few months, The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments on the subject of affirmative action. The case surrounds Abigail Fisher’s quest to remove the blindness from varying colleges and universities that prevents her... more
In the next few months, The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments on the subject of affirmative action. The case surrounds Abigail Fisher’s quest to remove the blindness from varying colleges and universities that prevents her from attending the University of Texas. I have read some amazing journalism the past few weeks, like Rawstory by Nicole Hannah-Jones (with posted permission from ProPublica) which outlined their two cents of what is at stake. In another piece published by Slate (by Jamelle Bouie), it stated, “The Supreme Court might destroy affirmative action because this white woman’s grades weren’t good enough.” Another amazing published piece on this subject was done by Shaynah Danielle called, “College Reject Abigail Fisher May Ruin Affirmative Action For Everybody.” Let me examine the critical words used by these writers to voice their anger and frustrating viewpoints, like ruin and destroy are just some of the headliners captioned in their work. First and foremost, their articles were awesome to read and I applaud them for taking the time to highlight such an important element to the American culture.
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Because today’s digital information is diverse, interactive and advertising-based, critical thinking is an essential part of students’ 21st century skills. Simultaneously, technology is widening the boundaries of traditional storytelling... more
Because today’s digital information is diverse, interactive and advertising-based, critical thinking is an essential part of students’ 21st century skills. Simultaneously, technology is widening the boundaries of traditional storytelling by allowing each and every one of us to become active participants in the consumption and production of online stories. It is therefore crucial to recognize how digital storytelling impacts audiences, as emotions play a critical role in eliciting the various cognitive processes that are important for recall, comprehension, inference, and empathy during storytelling. This presentation thus explores how technology influences individuals’ emotions, understanding, and critical reasoning in storytelling, and highlights how this process underlines relevant implications for teaching critical thinking skills through media and information literacy.
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US/475 Week 2 Strategic Plan, Part I: Conceptualizing a Business Business Created: Confection Connection Word Count: 1,860 Write a 1,050 to 1,400-word paper in which you explain the importance of your selected business’s vision,... more
US/475 Week 2

Strategic Plan, Part I:

Conceptualizing a Business

Business Created: Confection Connection

Word Count: 1,860

Write a 1,050 to 1,400-word paper in which you explain the importance of your selected business’s vision, mission, and values in determining your strategic direction. Include the following:
Define your business (Your own start-up or an existing business), products or services, and customers by developing a mission statement. Ensure that you are differentiating your product or service.
Create a vision for this organization that clearly demonstrates your decision on what you want your business to become in the future.
Define your guiding principles or values for your selected business considering the topics of culture, social responsibility, and ethics.
Analyze how the vision, mission, and values guide the organization’s strategic direction.
Evaluate how the organization addresses customer needs and critique how they achieve competitive advantage.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Learning Team

Value Alignment Paper

Word Count: 1,191 words = A+

Discuss with your Learning Team an existing organization with which you are familiar that is different than the one you used for the Conceptualizing a Business paper.

BUS/475 Week 3

Strategic Plan, Part II:

SWOTT Table and Environmental Analysis

BUS/475 Week 4

Strategic Plan, Part III:

Balanced Scorecard

Learning Team

Communication Plan Outline

Develop a generic communications plan and template. This template will be used to develop a communication plan for your Final Strategic Plan.

BUS/475 - Week 5

Final Strategic Plan

Business Created: Confection Connection

Includes Week 2, 3, 4, and Week 5

Word Count: 8,281 words = A+

Write a 700 to 1,050-word section for your strategic plan in which you add your strategies and tactics to implement and realize your strategic objectives, measures, and targets. Include marketing and information technology strategies and tactics. Develop at least three methods to monitor and control your proposed strategic plan, being sure to analyze how the measures will advance organizational goals financially and operationally. Finally, recommend actions needed to address ethical, legal, and regulatory issues faced by the organization, and how they can improve corporate citizenship.

Combine your completed strategic plan. This includes the vision, mission, values, SWOTT analysis, balanced scorecard, and communication plan. Your consolidated final strategic plan should be 2,800 to 4,200 words in length.

Prepare three to five Microsoft PowerPoint slides, in which you briefly outline the vision, mission, values, and balanced scorecard that you have developed for your business. Share your  presentation with your classmates and provide substantial feedback by commenting on the work of your classmates.
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Kudler Fine Foods is in the process of developing a new frequent shopper program. Details of this program are described in the Service Request SR-kf-013 and on the Sales & Marketing page of the Kudler Fine Foods intranet website. Create... more
Kudler Fine Foods is in the process of developing a new frequent shopper program. Details of this program are described in the Service Request SR-kf-013 and on the Sales & Marketing page of the Kudler Fine Foods intranet website.
Create a 5- to 7-slide narrated Microsoft PowerPoint presentation describing the potential legal, ethical, and information security concerns related to the development of the Kudler Fine Foods Frequent Shopper Program.
Discuss any specific costs related to these issues that are relevant to your review. These could include fines and other costs related to problems in these areas.
Keep your analysis focused on the requested concerns, not the project. Your presentation should focus on making management aware of the issues that must be addressed in the new system and not directly cover the implementation process.
Include how this information system has an effect on the organizational structure.

BSA/310 Week 3

Accounting with PeachTree

Assignment: Using PeachTree on Toolwire, Do not open an existing company or create a new company. Go to Explore a Sample company. Choose Stone Arbor Landscaping. Close the Window that pops up called "What's new in Peachtree 2010". You are now ready to begin.
Add one new customer using your First Name followed by LLC. Take a screenshot of the result.
Add one new vendor using your Last Name followed by INC. Take a screenshot of the result.
Receive one new payment of $1,111 from the customer. Take a screenshot of the result.
Make a deposit of the above customer payment. Take a screenshot of the result.
Record one new expense of $888 for lunch. Take a screenshot of the result.

BSA/310 Week 4

McBride Marketing Pitch
McBride Financial Services wants you to come up with a great marketing idea that can be used to expand McBride's customer base.

Create a 5- to 7- slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (with speaker notes included) that presents your idea. Include the following information along with a detailed description and justification of your idea.
What is the current approach McBride is marketing?
What target market does that approach reach?
How could McBride use the internet to improve its reach to a broader market?
Why would that approach appeal to your new market?
What costs would be reduce from their current budget and transferred to the new internet budget?

Your Learning Team has been hired as consultants for Bubble Films, a Hollywood, California-based company that produces documentary films. The company has 150 employees located in three states. Roughly 20% of the employees work virtually from home. Bubble Films has 200 personal computers, five servers, and one mainframe
computer. Your team is charged with making recommendations for the following categories of software:

• Collaborative software: groupware
• Financial software: accounting and cost analysis
• Marketing and sales software: customer relationship management
• Business intelligence software

Your deliverable must be a 20- to 30-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. For each category, provide the following information:
Type of software
List of vendors and products reviewed, from at least three categories
Product selected
Reason the product was selected
Brief description of the software, including cost: Discuss the possibility of integrating with other software being recommended.
Advantages and disadvantages of using the software
Information about the vendor: How long have they been in business? How large are they in terms of number of employees, revenues, and so on? What is their reputation?
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Distance higher education has been growing rapidly all over the world and the importance of understanding psycho-pedagogical issues of learners studying in Distance Education (DE) has been growing too. Moscow universities have always had... more
Distance higher education has been growing rapidly all over the world and the importance of understanding
psycho-pedagogical issues of learners studying in Distance Education (DE) has been growing too.
Moscow universities have always had and are crucial to the development of education in the vast area
covering the entire territory of the former Soviet Union. In this chapter, an attempt is made to investigate
the current studies on components of individual differences like self-actualization, self-regulation, locus
of control, and motivation, and their influence in DE setting, academic views, and development visions for
Cyber U-learning model on the future of distance education in Russia and Ukraine. The current review
of the literature indicates that physical and psychological separation of learners and teachers initiate
various psycho-pedagogical issues and special attention must be given to accommodate this in content
development, pedagogical, instructional, and cyber ubiquitous learning design of DE.
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This is my 1978 Master's Thesis from the University of Florida dealing with Situationally Motivated Teacher Produced Texts (SMTPTs). The idea being that teachers who know their students and context well very often can produce more... more
This is my 1978 Master's Thesis from the University of Florida dealing with Situationally Motivated Teacher Produced Texts (SMTPTs). The idea being that teachers who know their students and context well very often can produce more relevant texts and materials than a publisher who is producing things for the masses. The thesis deals with how they can be produced and what their advantages and disadvantages are citing a lot of work from Earl Stevick.
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Despite recent calls for teachers to promote and increase students’ communication and discussion in their classrooms, prospective teachers have limited opportunities to explore issues of classroom talk during their teacher preparation... more
Despite recent calls for teachers to promote and increase students’ communication and discussion in their classrooms, prospective teachers have limited opportunities to explore issues of classroom talk during their teacher preparation programs. In this study, prospective teachers attending a mathematics methods course were encouraged to attend to and investigate their developing teacherly talk through a letter writing exchange with school students. This paper reports on their tendency to respond to the correct answers with praise and to supply the answers when students reached an incorrect result. It explores the ways in which they began to interrogate and problematize such practices and to consider alternative forms of teacher responses to students’ right and wrong answers. Features of the course's field-related experience and the teacher educators’ interventions that promoted and supported the preservice teachers’ investigations are also discussed.
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In this article we invite readers to consider using classroom photographs to extend and refine what and how they observe and make sense of the teacher and students' lives inside and outside of the mathematics classroom.
Prospective teachers are quick to notice students’ differences in the mathematics classroom. Although we discourage discourses of innate abilities, we have in the past felt unsuccessful in countering them. This chapter describes a... more
Prospective teachers are quick to notice students’ differences in the mathematics classroom.  Although we discourage discourses of innate abilities, we have in the past felt unsuccessful in countering them. This chapter describes a sequence of teacher learning experiences focusing on issues of status in the mathematics classroom that we offer to teacher preparation students and explains why we consider these experiences to be important.  It then discusses what our students claim to have learned by engaging in this work.
Prospective teachers work with a variety of representations of mathematics teaching (i.e., narrative cases, transcripts, video clips) in teacher preparation courses. Generally, they are considered the audience, not producers, of those... more
Prospective teachers work with a variety of representations of mathematics teaching (i.e., narrative cases, transcripts, video clips) in teacher preparation courses. Generally, they are considered the audience, not producers, of those artifacts. In this article, however, we focus on representations produced by prospective teachers when they were asked to generate a hypothetical classroom dialogue for the equality task: "What goes in the box: 8 + 4 = [ ] + 5 ?" We discuss the nature and quality of the representations produced by four different cohorts of teacher preparation students—prior to admission, at the beginning, middle, and end of their program. Prospective teachers within and across all cohorts produced an unexpected diversity of representations of class discussions. Of special interest to us were their hybrid representations, those that combined multiple images of mathematics teaching practices. These representations not only provide a lens into prospective teachers’ development as mathematics teachers but could also become tools to support novices as they learn more complex forms of mathematics teaching.
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Twenty-nine undergraduate pre-service teachers in the required content area literacy courses completed pre and post questionnaires about a book study group. Results demonstrate the pre-service teachers were more likely to have their own... more
Twenty-nine undergraduate pre-service teachers in the required content area literacy courses completed pre and post questionnaires about a book study group.  Results demonstrate the pre-service teachers were more likely to have their own students complete collaborative work after having engaged in the book study group.
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An investigation of what we should be aiming at in education, and what concepts of the human being and the good society should lie behind our aims. The author compares the general aims of education for which he argues, with those which... more
An investigation of what we should be aiming at in education, and what concepts of the human being and the good society should lie behind our aims. The author compares the general aims of education for which he argues, with those which can be perceived to underlie the National Curriculum.
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NCLB was a good idea, however the political agendas, the resulting greed, corruption, and fraud, waste and abuse that followed have set in to motion destructive forces in US education that will undermine the whole system.
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