Learning Activities
General:
- Get oriented by watching the instructor welcome video, read course introduction, get familiar with assessment rubric
- Participate in determining the time we will regularly meet (weekly) via a Doodle poll (after Week One)
- Engage with each other via our first Zoom meeting (Thursday at 4pm PST)
Discovery: What is a practitioner portfolio? – Undertake about an hour of desktop research using Google and Google Scholar to discover “what is a practitioner portfolio”. Take some notes. This discovery process will reveal various purposes, formats, and sample table-of-contents for a practitioner portfolio. Be prepared to share what you discovered in our first Zoom meeting.
Writing: Blog Post #1 – this is the beginning of your practitioner portfolio. Describe a climate action leader in a “newsletter-type” article. Choose a person you admire in the field of climate action leadership and write an article about that person, and begin by describing why you choose this person. Pick apart what you can discover about them through online resources (through their LinkedIn profile, a faculty profile, evidence of their work on projects, academic or grey literature papers, etc.). In CALS 505 – Leading Change in the Context of Climate Change you were exposed to several climate action leaders – you may want to use one of these people as the basis of your climate action leader newsletter article; or you may have encountered scholar-practitioners or researchers along your MACAL journey whom you would like to profile, or you may have other ideas about who to profile. Whoever you choose, let it be someone who has competencies or a role that somewhat aligns with your own aspirations.
Concept Mapping: MURAL will be your concept mapping tool throughout the course and each week we will build on our personal concept maps to illuminate personal competencies, interests, sectoral attributes, external factors, etc. Start by orienting yourself to using MURAL by completing a small assignment, building a prototype MURAL map of “my interests and aspirations in climate action” with about 10 nodes. Example: one node might be “volunteer with an NGO in my community”; another might be “conduct adaptation planning in XXX sector”. You will briefly share your map and receive feedback from your course-mates on how to tune up/add value to your initial concept map.
Assessment each week can be found under the site’s Assessment Menu: Assessment Week 1