Module 6 Day 1 - Tuesday, September 18 EARLY

Module 6 begins today and is due on Monday.  We are almost to the halfway point of the semester (Module 8) -- you got this!

USE ARCHIVED ANNOUNCEMENTS TO HELP YOU CATCH UP ON ANY MISSING WORK FROM LAST WEEK.  FOLLOW THE ANNOUNCEMENT DIRECTIONS IN ORDER. COMPLETE MODULE 5 BEFORE YOU MOVE ONTO MODULE 6.

Hurricane Florence Update - Thank you to all who replied to my texts last week to let me know you were safe.  As experienced by Floyd, Matthew, and so many other hurricanes, the aftermath is can be worse than the storm itself.  My goal is to be flexible.  I will not count Module 5 or 6 work as late.  If you missed school and could not work, do your best to catch up this week.  If you are still out of school and checking Canvas from your phone or by some other means, please know that I will work with you.

Module 5 Group Work - Reach out to your group members again.  If you are all able to, complete the group work activity together this week - remember there will be no late penalties.  If not, add your name and your ideas to the template and post it.  Keep in mind that what you post shows up as a post by all of your group so it is very important that you put your name on your template as well as initial each contribution.  Go back and review last week's announcements for help.  

Be sure you read my feedback in the grade book for your assignments.  Feedback is designed to do the following:

• make connections to your ideas
• offer tips for improvement
• share resources to extend your learning
• help your leadership journey
• encourage dialogue with your teacher and your classmates

Important Due Dates:

• Progress Report September 18  CANCELLED
• Module 6 Communication in Leadership Due September 24
• Module 7 Effective Decision-Making in Leadership Due October 1
• Progress Report October 4
• Module 8 Leadership at Home and Abroad Due October 8
• Catch-Up Week October 15

Got Resources?  NCPVS provides lots of resources outside of our course to support you.  For virtual help from a peer, go to the Peer Tutoring Center. For technology issues, issue a help desk ticket with the Virtual Support Center. To learn more about the world around you, attend a Culture Cafe session. Click on the visual below to explore all of the resources NCVPS provides to you:

Module 6 is Communication in Leadership. In Module 5, you learned about effective communication in groups. This week you will continue exploring communication and see how it affects the ways you speak informally and formally to others.

Today's Assignments:

• Module 6 Pre-Assessment 
• Module 6 Lesson 1 Notes and CYK Quiz
• Module 6 Lesson 1 Practice Activity

Module 6 Pre-Assessment
Take a few minutes to complete the pre-assessment so that you get a feel for how much you understand about the module topic. When you access your prior knowledge of a topic, it is easier for you to learn new ideas about it.
Module 6 Lesson 1 Notes and CYK Quiz
Complete your guided notes so you have them ready to use as you do your assignments.  Lesson 1 is Talk, Text, Social Media, and Face to Face.  The notes include the following topics: Antagonism, Protagonist, Audience, Communication, Face-to-Face Discussion, Email, Texting, Social Media. After you take the CYK, be sure to screenshot enough of your quiz so that I can identify which quiz you took.
Module 6 Lesson 1 Practice Activity - Types of Communication
Using the information from the notes and from your life as a leader, compose a well-developed response to the prompt. Then post your response to the Types of Communication discussion board. Once you post, read and reply to one or more of your classmate's posts.

Tips for Your Post

• Discussion board activities are designed to help you grow in our ability to look at the world through different lenses and understand concepts from other perspectives. I encourage you to embrace this opportunity and take the time to think about your reflections before you write them.
• Be sure to answer all parts of the prompt.
• Explain your ideas in detail. For each idea, state it in one sentence and then explain it in a second sentence.  
• Remember to address communication as it relates to being a leader and not just communication in general.  Use the lesson notes - they are your "textbook."
• Refer to the notes in your post so that it is clear you understand the lesson. Some students find it helps to highlight key terms and/or ideas from the notes that they use in their post.
• Abide by the 150-word count.  Word counts are in place to ensure you fully explain your ideas.  If you are explaining your ideas well, you will write more than the requirement anyway.  If you need help expanding your ideas, use the following questions:  did you address all parts of the prompt? did you explain your ideas fully? did you connect your ideas to the lesson? did you address how the prompt relates to your life and your leadership journey?
• Remember that questions/prompts do not count in your word total.  When you write an essay, the prompt is not part of the word count -- the questions/prompts are not part the word count here either.

Tips for Your Reply

• Just as you do for a post, take time to read other classmates' posts and think about your reply - you do not have to respond to the first one you read.  Just like a discussion/dialogue in a face-to-face class, online dialogues (i.e. discussion boards) are designed to help you learn by "listening" to other perspectives.
• Be sure your comments to classmates are specific -- "I like..." is too vague and does not offer your classmate anything constructive.
• Offer your classmate affirmation about what he/she posted and explain why you agree/disagree with his/her ideas.
• Address content in your reply just as you address it in your post.  The strongest replies affirm confidence as well as understanding.
• If you have to reply after I have graded your post, remember to send me a course message - Canvas does not notify teachers when replies are posted to graded discussion boards.

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