I did some work on my activity over the past week. I confess I was a little concerned about finding anyone to test my activity on since everyone seems to be loaded down with their own projects, work and/or family responsibilities. However, much to my relief (!!!) I did manage to pull together a small group and even delivered the lesson/activity.   It seemed to go well.  The experience was quite interesting to both myself and my learners.  I will need to spend some time this week reviewing and writing up the results.

Well, I've spent time over the past four or five days working through the steps I need to complete in order to make my activity/lesson effective for my learners. As part of my thought process I've been working through the items listed in the guidelines for this final project.  I find that conceiving an idea is one thing, actually writing it out on paper is something else!!  Dissecting and organizing in my mind what I want my learners to take away from this activity and how much detail is needed to explain it properly has it's challenging moments. I'm working through writing out the step by step instructions for the activity and also trying to determine how much time to allow for them to complete the activity. I don't want them to feel rushed or bored. If Piktochart and/or Pinterest is new to a learner, the time it takes to successfully complete the activity will be greater than for those that use one or both of them regularly. I'll get it worked out it will just take a little more time and thought.  Feedback from my learners will be helpful.  The creative process certainly is just that - a process!

Final Project Learning Activity

For my final project I would like to create an activity that would be part of a lesson on leadership. This could be applied to college students taking business, management or psychology courses as well as, to a training program for new managers.  The focus of the lesson would be on six styles of leadership. These styles are: Charismatic Leadership, Participative Leadership, Situational Leadership, Transactional Leadership Transformative Leadership and Quiet Leadership.

Due to the diversity of how different people learn, the intention of this activity would be to allow the learners to further explore the information presented in a way that will encourage and facilitate deeper thought and understanding about leadership styles.  I would like to utilize piktochart and Pinterest.

For this activity, the learners will have the option of creating a piktochart about the different leadership styles or they may select one style as the focus of their piktochart. If learners are not prone to or are uncomfortable with the artistic design feature of using piktochart they may create a board on Pinterest focusing on at least one leadership style.  The learners would be able to utilize a hand out from the lesson that has information about each leadership style and may also do further research on their own.

Testing

This is a test. I will post more later.