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Students had their laptops open on a table in front of a
poster board boldly and briefly explaining what they were showing on their
laptops. On the left, that's Admissions Counselor Lori Stucchio listening to MBA
SO president Linda Anderson.
Many students could present in more than one group. They were given the choice of the presentation that they think made them look best.
To learn more about posters, try Colorado State's web guide on Poster Sessions.
Effective instruction should be more than something "delivered" to students. Students become active learners when they increase ownership and control of their learning.
How do we know what our students are learning?
A common, time-honored method of answering that question is the
portfolio, which:
shifts the focus of faculty attention from what the faculty teaches to
what the students learn.
emphasizes the importance of higher order learning as well as
non-cognitive outcomes.
requires students' commitment to learning beyond individual
courses and course grades.
requires students to take more responsibility for their
education through a process of self-assessment, goal-setting, planning, and
public demonstration of their competencies.
helps students integrate learning from the full range of
learning experiences, including involvement in co-curricular activities.
In the Medaille MBA program, we have started using online portfolios at ParksidePlaza.net.
Portfolio development is a process. The students start them from scratch, typing HTML codes with a text editor the first night of MBA 504 class. Then they learn to make more HTML files and to link them into a web. They learn about images and visual design. Then comes the hard part -- the content.
What are they learning in this program?
These students have taken MBA 504 and are still taking Foundation courses. They are in the first year of the MBA program.
These are both beginning webs and beginning students. They now have the basic webmaking skills, aka information literacy. Before, they could read on the web. Now, they can write.
Like any adults learning a new skill, their critical powers are far stronger than their creative powers. It would be easy for them to keep their webs hidden because they "aren't very good". But they're public at Parkside Plaza and these students are willing to show you their very first efforts at webmaking. They have a lot to be proud of.
They are now facing the problem of content: the rest of the MBA curriculum. What should they put into their web portfolios to document their learning, both in and out of class?
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Linda Anderson |
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Andrea Chapp |
Jennifer Gorczynski |
Ann Geiger (above) |
These students are taking their core courses and are generally in their second year or third year in the program. They have started to organize their content and to experiment with visual design. This is a new medium -- to them and to the bosses and faculty who will evaluate them. How can they best organize and display their learning?
Is the web best used as a delivery system for printable documents in proprietary formats? Does it simply replace the copy machine?
If the content is treated like hypertext and linked, it can't be printed without losing its structure.
What should a "paper" look like online? If not black on white 8 1/2 x 11 sheets, then what? What replaces the page numbers and staple?
Invest in these business ideas.
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You just can't win without Ballz Keith Koch |
Every Sports Players Dream Les Brown (below) |
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Bonnie Cooper
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Inner Beauty First, Outer Beauty Second! Jetaun Jones |
new and used sports equipment Ed Rasinski
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Sample Books are your best salesmen Brian Panaro |
online portfolio and photographic services Jason Szwed |
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Funtime Party Planners LLC Lenita Lewis |
The Only Copy That Matters Bert Stephen |
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Jaime Galka |
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Isn't it time you start growing your own money? Nakia Franklin |
To enhance the mental wellness, functioning, and quality of life of Western New York residents. Brian Meade |
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Save a Sato Adoption Foundation Cat and Dog Rescues and Adoptions Jennifer Haines |
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adult entertainment Steve Pangallo
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Theresa Diebold
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Customized service, exceptional products Ron Kazmierczak |
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Amanda Thomann, proprietor of TheSabresSite.com
Jennifer Gorczynski - webmaster of MBASO.org
Sheila Traficante, Michelle Reiter, Kevin Connolly and Chris Rich, the "Chester" team, competed against around seven hundred teams from universities across North America. Each week was a business cycle and they consistently ranked in the top 10. They even placed first one week. Their overall ranking was in the top 4.
Michelle writes, "Each week, we were required to make decisions regarding marketing, operations, R&D, and finance. We worked as a team, not as individuals. If we didn't have a unanimous decision, we went back and went over our information again until we could reach some sort of consensus. Additionally, each week we did a statistical analysis to determine where we stood and where we were headed in order to continue to achieve our goals. Our strategy worked very well!"
About a tenth of the MBA students either come to the program with highly developed webmaking skills or develop them while they are in the program. These skills include front-end information design and visual design as well as back-end scripting and programming.
Not all of these students are able to attend the event. Six of them will show their webs and receive recognition during the awards ceremony. These webs were developed outside of the classes and are on separate servers with their own domain names.
Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of these highly skilled students.
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Nick Fitzpatrick |
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David Gram |
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Michelle Grifasi (right)
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Jone Le |
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Michelle Reiter |
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Amanda Thomann (above) |
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