Introduction to Social Media

Week 5- Blog about collaborative Connections & intellectual standards

  • This week you will:
    • Blog about collaborative connections and the intellectual standards.
    • Practice providing feedback on other learners blogs using the intellectual standards.

This week you will create 2 blog posts. First, you will blog about the logic of the final five intellectual standards. Second, you will blog about collaborative connections.

Please remember, before you begin your activities, read and watch this week's topic summary content.

Whenever you learn, let go and have some fun, don't take yourself too seriously.

Watch/read the following content.

Collaborate to get outside Your personal bubble

Your personal bubble is the small world you live in (we all have one), where you are the center of the universe. You are concerned with your wellbeing, with not wanting to look bad, with succeeding in life, with your personal pleasure (good food, good music, good sex, etc.).

This is the bubble we all live in most of the time, and people who say they don’t are trying to prove something.

When someone tells you you look fat, this only hurts because you’re in your personal bubble. You take that statement (a colleague who says you look fat) and believe that it’s about you, and feel the pain or embarrassment of how the statement affects you. It matters a lot, because in your bubble, what matters most is how everything affects you personally.

If we can learn to get outside this personal bubble, and see things from a less self-centered approach, we can do amazing things.

Smart Leaders And The Power Of Collaboration

Meghan M. Biro ,

Collaboration is the keystone of success.

Collaboration isn’t about being best friends, or even necessarily liking everyone you’re working with. It is about putting all and any baggage aside, bringing your best self to the table, and focusing on the common goal.

Some of us are wary of collaboration because we feel threatened by it. Will I get credit for my contribution? And who wants to be one of many, just a cog in the wheel? We want to be stars, unique, fabulous. This narcissistic mindset is endemic in our culture these days, fed by media (and reality TV). Now that we can all document our daily lives for hundreds, if not thousands, to see, our egos risk becoming inflated, not based on any accomplishments but simply because we’re stars on our own Facebook page. A dangerous threat to your career if you are unwilling to work with others in a productive way.

Collaboration isn’t about giving up your individuality. Quite the opposite: it’s about realizing your potential. It’s about bringing your many gifts to the table and sharing them in pursuit of a common goal. It’s about bringing your ideas, your passion, your mind, heart, and soul to your leadership and culture.

What it isn’t about is an inflated ego, a thin skin, a closed mind. In today’s roiling, racing, collaborative, diverse, and thrilling global business economy, these are nothing less than career, leadership, and workplace culture killers.

I hope I’ve convinced you that collaboration is imperative to success. If you want to see what the potential for collaborative success looks like, look in the mirror. It starts with you.

Complete all the following tasks by Sunday 11:59pm

Important: Before you begin read/watch the content in the activities section above.

1. Intellectual Standards Part 2- blog Post- 40 points

  1. Read The Thinker's Guide to Intellectual Standards, pages 9-12.
  2. Watch the video below...
  3. In a blog post complete the following statements- always using your own words for each statement
    1. Depth
      1. I understand "depth" to mean… 2 points
      2. In other words, [elaborate in a couple sentences]…2.5 points
      3. An example of someone exhibiting depth with social media would be…2 points
    2. Breadth
      1. I understand "breadth" to mean…2 points
      2. In other words, [elaborate in a couple sentences]…2.5 points
      3. An example of someone exhibiting breadth with social media would be…2 points
    3. Logic
      1. I understand "logic" to mean…2 points
      2. In other words, [elaborate in a couple sentences]…2.5 points
      3. An example of someone exhibiting logic with social media would be…2 points
    4. Significance
      1. I understand "significance" to mean…2 points
      2. In other words, [elaborate in a couple sentences]…2.5 points
      3. An example of someone exhibiting significance with social media would be…2 points
    5. Fairness
      1. I understand "fairness" to mean…2 points
      2. In other words, [elaborate in a couple sentences]…2.5 points
      3. An example of someone exhibiting fairness with social media would be…2 points
    6. Briefly (in a few sentences) summarize accurately the concept of Intellectual Standards. 3.5 points
    7. The purpose of the assignment is… 2. points
    8. The key question at the heart of the assignment is…2.5 points
    9. To save your post without publishing it, click Save. To publish your post, click Publish.
    10. Copy and paste the link to your post to this week's ICS119 FACEBOOK GROUP. -

4 points deducted if all tasks are not completed by the deadline.

2. Collaborative Connections- Blog Post- 20 Points

  1. Choose 2 NEW questions from last time, to answer from the list below.
    1. What is collaboration and connection?
    2. What is the purpose of a collaborative connection?
    3. What do you take for granted or assume about collaborative connections?
    4. What exactly are you focused on about collaborative connections?
    5. What other information do you need to consider to better understand collaborative connections?
    6. What conclusions are you coming to about collaboration and connection?
    7. If you decided to make a collaborate connection online what would happen?
  2. Complete the following for each answer
    1. Answer the question - 2 points
    2. Elaborate on your answer in a couple sentences- 3 points
    3. Provide an example as evidence for your answer. 3 points
  3. The purpose of the assignment is… 2 points
  4. The key question at the heart of the assignment is…2 points
  5. To save your post without publishing it, click Save. To publish your post, click Publish.
  6. Copy and paste the link to your post to this week's ICS119 FACEBOOK GROUP. -

2 points deducted if all tasks are not completed by the deadline.

3. Practice Providing Feedback on week 4 blog posts using the intellectual standards -10 Points

  1. This week you will begin providing feedback to 2 different learners blog posts
  2. Go to last week' s Week 4 ICS119 FACEBOOK GROUP to find the blog posts from last week.
  3. Provide feedback for each of the blog assignments.
    1. When a standard was not well met: I am questioning the _INSERT THE INTELLECTUAL STANDARD_ of your statement ____________ because _______.
    2. When a standard was well met: Your statement had _INSERT THE INTELLECTUAL STANDARD_ when you said....
  4. Give this your best shot. If you are the one receiving the feedback, please don't take it personally. This is about getting practice in providing feedback.

5 points for each comment

1 point deducted if all tasks are not completed by the deadline.


4. Get Your GRADE: Week Five Self-Assessment - Complete By Sunday 11:59pm

  1. You MUST submit a weekly self- assessment to get a grade.

Is kindness a luxury?

Luxury goods are only consumed when we've got enough. You shouldn't go shopping for a Birkin bag with your last dollar.

It's easy to believe that kindness is like that. We need more reserves, perhaps, before we can expend some of what we've got in this generous way.

You've had a hard day, it's raining out, the world is changing, your boss is mean to you, the checking account is overdrawn, you're on deadline...

But... Does every need have to be filled, every emotion in place before we're capable of being kind?

Do we have to have enough money, enough confidence about the future and enough of everything else we crave before we can find the space to offer someone else a hand?

It turns out that the opposite is true. That kindness is a foundation for the rest. That investing time and resources in extending ourselves shifts the rest of our needs in precisely the right direction, not only putting us closer to satisfying those other needs, but enjoying the journey as well.

Kindness rewards the giver as well. By Seth Godin

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