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Q1

This week we are going to utilize a teaching game from the CDC and share your own results here. First, please take a moment to view this video from the CDC, titled: CDC in Action: Foodborne Outbreaks https://youtu.be/iIaKWNZhz74

Now - on to the fun stuff!

Please begin by visiting the CDC's "Solve the Outbreak" launch page: https://www.cdc.gov/digital-social-media-tools/mobile/applications/sto/sto-web.html

You can download this game to a mobile device or play it on its own webpage: https://www.cdc.gov/mobile/applications/sto/web-app.html

Please choose one of the outbreaks (unless you play around for a while you will have to choose from Level 1) and work through the scenario. (Please try to choose different outbreaks - you should title your post with the name of the outbreak you have chosen)

Once you have worked through the "mission", please begin your thread and share your results. What surprised you about the scenario? Did you have thoughts/ideas other than the actual cause at the beginning of the scenario? Did the scenario walk-through suggest investigating things you had not thought about?

Please share your thoughts about the scenario and whether or not it helped you to think critically about investigating the outbreak. 

After working through this scenario, do you have a deeper understanding about the challenges officials face when investigating a foodborne illness (or other type of illness) outbreak?

Q2

Based on your former week's readings and material review, what are some types of social media tools from across the growing universe of platforms?  What are some of their strengths and weaknesses (please be specific relative to the platforms you discuss)? Why is it important to understand the assessed strengths or weaknesses or each platform? Can platforms be specific to 'audiences' or to 'purposes' or applications?  Part 2: Everyone should have liked the Class Facebook Group by now. Everyone will be assigned a role you will be playing.

Everyone should also be following the Class Twitter channel.

The social media pages for this class are https://www.facebook.com/Dr.AlisonPost/  and  https://twitter.com/posteducational . Please make sure that you like both pages. I will be posting your roles for the exercises on both outlets.  

Do not accept 'follow requests' from students who are not in the course. EDMG321 Social Media Setup-Students.docx 

Q3

Explain at least three specific ways that you can build a sense of community within a classroom of adult learners, whether it is face-to-face or virtual.

· Explain these approaches.

· Analyze possible challenges with establishing a sense of community and possible solutions.

Q4

Topics From Which To Choose

· work and family

· elderly care

· homelessness

· teen pregnancy

· mental illness

· juvenile justice

· health care

· domestic violence

· poverty

· special education

· childcare

· education

· economy

· minimum wage

· divorce laws

· Early intervention programs  

Video clips can be a great tool to assist students in gaining that deeper understanding of content. Digital literacies and informational fluency are skills that students of all ages must learn to be successful in college and at work.

In this week's forum, go online and select a shot movie clip that illustrates one of the policies outlined below. The clip should not include inappropriate language or inappropriate content.

1. Provide the link for the clip

2. Discuss the significance of the clip as it relates to the selected policy

3. What are the implications of this policy on the family? Individual? Community?

4. Present a discussion question to your peers as it relates to policy highlighted in the clip.

Q5

 Think of a recent dispute you had with someone. If you had to mediate the dispute, would you prefer facilitative or evaluative mediation? Does it depend on the nature of the dispute? Or the disputants? Explain your choice.

 Based on your answer to #1, which of the four types of mediation discussed in the lesson (triage, bargain-based, pure, and transformative) would you prefer for your dispute? (Note that two of these types are evaluative and two are facilitative). Explain your answer.

Q6

Confidence and Self-Worth

This week we address how thoughts, attitudes and feeling influence learning and performance Compare and contrast the terms Self-confidence and Self-efficacy.

Given that the judgments athlete's make about their performance can have a significant effect on future performances, your challenge is to help athlete's appreciate and learn this concept.

Identify three key features of improving self-confidence and self-efficacy.

Describe a scenario where you apply these features to a learning and performance situation.

Q7

Think about your own organization - where you work (City of Elizabeth City Electric Company). What are the top two threats and the top two opportunities over the next five years?

Q8

When thinking of a strong brand, prominent names such as Starbucks, Nike and Apple may come to mind. These companies have not only achieved high brand recognition, but they've also managed to release multiple successful brand extensions under their names. Some brand extensions have not been as successful.

Research 

Research the topic of branding and building a strong brand image, including some research on some brand extensions that have not been successful

Discuss

· Summarize and share any conclusion that can be made from your research on this topic

· Share an example of a brand extension that could have gone better. What went wrong, in your opinion?

· What advice can you offer a company on successful branding?

Q9

1. Discuss the law enforcement hiring process. 

2. Explain what the minimum standards are to be a police officer. Do they differ from one agency to another? 

3. Compare and contrast the two basic recruit training methodologies, the academic model used by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the paramilitary model used by most police academies.

Q10

discuss/debate with your classmates your position on which factors you feel play a greater role pertaining to middle-class delinquency and its relation to gangs.

Q11

What are the pros and cons of the different types of health insurance benefit packages that someone might purchase? What is the best type of health insurance? Justify your answer.

Q12

Prescription drug costs are skyrocketing in this country. This topic continues to be a hot topic, particularly in the political arena. Please take a position on whether you support or oppose the importation of drugs into the United States, as a possible strategy for addressing the issue with high prescription drug prices.