What are virtual teams, and how do they help to improve an organization’s capabilities?

Review Questions

5-1. What are virtual teams, and how do they help to improve an organization’s capabilities?

5-2. What are mashups? How do they enable social media applications?

5-3. What capabilities will define the web of the future?

5-4. How can social software help harness the wisdom of the crowd?

5-5. Why is using social media an important factor for attracting and retaining employees?

5-6. How can social software enhance communication?

5-7. How can social bookmarking and social cataloging help in an organization’s knowledge management efforts?

5-8. What is a wiki? Why would an organization want to implement a wiki?

5-9. Explain what is meant by crowdsourcing and how the web is enabling this form of collaboration.

5-10. How can organizations use social networking to connect with their customers?

5-11. Why is organizational culture an important factor in enterprise-oriented social media initiatives?

5-12. Why can social media be both a blessing and a threat for organizations?

5-13. How can organizations plan for social media disasters?

Explain why students with EBD are less successful on academic tasks than their peers. How does student motivation influence both instruction and learning?

This assignment has three parts. All parts should be submitted in one document.

Part 1: Explain why students with EBD are less successful on academic tasks than their peers. How does student motivation influence both instruction and learning?

Part 2: Defend your position on the following statement: When curriculum and instruction are adapted or modified, it dilutes, or “dumbs-down,” the curriculum. Cite at least three peer-reviewed articles to help support your position.

Part 3: As a special education teacher, discuss some instructional modification options for students with EBD. In your response, choose any grade or content area ensuring to describe the classroom environment, your interactions as the teacher, and specifically how you would modify/adapt the curriculum, materials, classwork, and homework.

Length: 4-6 pages, not including title and reference page.

How did the era of New Imperialism (1750–1950) differ in motive, method, and philosophy from the first imperial age (1400–1715)?

Answer following 4 questions. Use following book as reference:

Strayer, R. W. (2013). Ways of the world: A brief global history with sources (2nd ed., Vol. 2). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

1) How did the era of New Imperialism (1750–1950) differ in motive, method, and philosophy from the first imperial age (1400–1715)?

2) In light of their relationships with European powers, what ways were the histories of China and the Ottoman Empire similar during the nineteenth century? How did they differ?

3) Complete both parts of this discussion board for full credit.

What is your opinion of this course? Did it meet your expectations? What suggestions can you offer for improvement of this course for future students?

Consider the Visual Sources between pages 1025 and 1033 in the Strayer textbook. What messages are sent in these images about war and peace? Can these posters and paintings be compared to such materials regarding war and peace in our own time?

Explore the legal rights and responsibilities of the tenant and the landlord.

Landlord-Tenant Law

Larry Landlord has recently renovated an apartment and has put it on the market to be rented for $800.00 a month. Larry Landlord has been in business for approximately five (5) years and has had both positive and negative experiences with tenants. Larry Landlord is hoping to find a good, long-term tenant for his apartment. Roger Renter saw Larry’s sign for the apartment for rent and thought the location and the apartment would be perfect. Roger met Larry to look at the apartment and Roger fell in love with it. All of the interior fixtures had been replaced and the unit had a nice large closet. Roger noticed that although newly painted, the exterior of the apartment did show a little bit of wear. Because of the condition of the exterior of the building, Roger asked Larry about any roof leaks. Larry stated that he had never had a leak and was not aware of any leaks.

Roger and Larry entered into a valid contract for the rental of the apartment. (Note: The issue of whether or not a contract exists is NOT part of this question. For purposes of this question assume the contract is valid and there are no issues with the contract.)

Roger Renter was very happy in his new location; the apartment was quiet and the neighbors were friendly. Larry Landlord was also very happy because Roger Renter was a model tenant. Roger Renter paid on time and was quiet and respectful to other tenants.

The part of the country where Roger rented was rainy in the summertime. Roger rented and moved into the apartment in October. In June, a tremendous rainstorm occurred and Roger’s roof began to leak. The leak was minor at first and Roger merely put a trash can under the leak and had no other issues that month. When handing over his monthly rent check, Roger told Larry about the small leak. Larry thanked Roger for letting him know about the leak and told Roger he would have it fixed.

The next month the rains came again and the leak grew larger in Roger’s apartment. Roger was not home at the time of the rain and therefore the leak damaged some of Roger’s furniture. Roger called Larry to let him know that there was a leak and asked when it might be fixed. Roger also stated that he thought Larry had fixed the roof. Larry curtly stated, “When it rains, sometimes it pours. When it pours, sometimes it leaks”. Roger did not like Larry’s tone or response and called back to ask when the roof might be fixed. Larry stated, “When I get to it.”

The following day, Roger sent Larry a note about the roof leak and asked Larry to please address the issue.

The week before the rent was due, another rainstorm occurred and the leak was even larger. This time the leak damaged Roger’s clothing, furniture, and some precious items he had inherited from family members. Roger called Larry and asked Larry to fix roof immediately.

Larry responded in a similar and condescending manner. Roger hung up the phone and threw his baseball bat against the wall, damaging the drywall and knocking out an electrical socket.

Since it was the rainy season, Roger knew it would rain again and therefore simply moved his items away from the leak and did nothing to help mitigate the damage from the leaking roof.

Larry came into the apartment to investigate the leak and found damage from not only the leak but also from the thrown baseball bat. Roger states that the baseball bat damage was a direct result of Larry’s inability to fix the leak based on his anger from Larry’s curt response.

Suppose you are a mediator. In five to seven (5-7) pages discuss the rights and responsibilities of the landlord and the tenant in which you:

Explore the legal rights and responsibilities of the tenant and the landlord.
Decide whether or not the landlord and / or the tenant had a legal duty to mitigate damages.
Determine whether or not Larry has legal grounds to evict Roger. Explain why or why not.
Describe whether or not Roger has a legal obligation to pay for the damage he caused and determine whether or not Larry would be liable for any direct damage.
Support each response with facts presented in the scenario.
Use proper legal terminology throughout your responses.
Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.
REQUIRED RESOURCE:

Beatty, J. F., Samuelson, S. S., & Sanchez Abril, P. (2016). Introduction to business law (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning

What are the three models that an architecture-centric process produces? Explain what these views or models describe.

Overview: In their 1999 book The Unified Software Development Process, the authors of Unified Modeling Language (UML) noted that any modern object-oriented approach to developing information systems must be use-case driven, architecture-centric, and iterative and incremental.

Prompt: Using your preferred UML drawing tool, draw your responses visually. Use any shapes you think are appropriate for your diagrams. Address the following questions:

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

? What is meant by these three basic properties of modern software development processes?

? What are the three models that an architecture-centric process produces? Explain what these views or models describe

Applying essentials of leadership, select two (2) tasks from the following list of tasks and discuss how you would exercise influence and engage support for each of your selected tasks.

A leader has the ability to combine commitment for improvement with knowledge regarding how to exercise influence and engage support (Dickson & Tholl, 2014). In the areas of nursing and public health, the focus is on improving health. Porter-O’Grady and Malloch (2015) noted several major tasks of 21st-century healthcare leaders. Applying essentials of leadership, select two (2) tasks from the following list of tasks and discuss how you would exercise influence and engage support for each of your selected tasks.

Deconstructing the barriers and structures of the 20th century
Alerting staff about the implications of changing what they do
Establishing safety around taking risks and experimenting
Embracing new technologies as a way of doing work
Reading the signposts along the road to the future
Translating the emerging reality of health reform into language that the staff can use
Demonstrating personal engagement with health reform
Helping others adapt to the demands of a value-driven health system
Creating a safe milieu for the struggles and pain of changing practice and service
Enumerating small successes as a basis for supporting staff

write a 2–3 paragraph summary of what you learned from a mock interview with a school psychologist

write a 2–3 paragraph summary of what you learned from a mock interview with a school psychologist. Based on your interview and on your readings, when should you be concerned that a child may have exceptional needs? When should you ask for help, and when should you ask for a special education evaluation?

To protect confidentiality, please do not mention the real names of those you observe or their school

develop a PowerPoint presentation that communicates your views and plans for decision-making to a potential future audience

For this task, pretend you have been assigned the role of an educational leader of personal interest, and then develop a PowerPoint presentation that communicates your views and plans for decision-making to a potential future audience (e.g., teachers, central office administrators, and board of education members). Be sure you include the following descriptions within your decision-making presentation:

A definition of decision-making as applied to your identified educational leadership role,
The difference between problem solving and decision-making,
The process of how you plan to make decisions,
Your beliefs regarding the use of others in your decision-making process with a differentiation between collaborative and distributive involvement,
How you plan to ensure ethical-decision making, and
Strategies to prevent, reduce, and overcome resistance from your decisions by others. Be sure you include sufficient reference citations within your PowerPoint slides to support the validity of your decision-making presentation.
Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists.Support your presentation with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included

develop a PowerPoint slide presentation for use as a training tool with brand new supervisors!

Topic: Teaching Effective Supervisor Skills

Instructions: This project requires you to develop a PowerPoint slide presentation for use as a training tool with brand new supervisors! You are in charge of presenting them on information on how to transition from a worker to a supervisor. There is great satisfaction in taking a brand new employee, helping them to develop their Management, Coaching, and Leadership skills, and then watching them excel! With this in mind, your presentation should have a title slide, a body of presentation slides, a conclusions slide and a references slide. You should focus the majority of your presentation (i.e., 8-10 slides) on what challenges a new supervisor may face, what makes a good supervisor (or bad one), and how to transition to becoming a supervisor. Factors to consider in all forms of communication–Who is your audience? What is your message? Are you trying to persuade? Inform?

Discuss the connection between professional dispositions and the Model Code of Ethics.

Complete the “Professional Dispositions Assessment” to inform your “Professional Dispositions Statement.”

In 250-500 words, write a reflection that addresses the following:

Your personal professional disposition statement.
How your self-assessment supports your professional dispositions statement.
Reflects on how you have grown in your professional dispositions throughout your program of study, supported by specific examples.
Discuss the connection between professional dispositions and the Model Code of Ethics.
Steps you will take to improve where necessary