Four Ways to Evaluate a Big Decision

Four Ways to Evaluate a Big Decision.

Importance of a simulation in the capstone in supervision management program.

Simulations are used in Capstone in Supervision and Management course to practice teamwork, strategies, and decision making in a controlled fake company. Weekly decisions and results allow team members to improve profits, market share, and other areas of their company.

International Management – Globalization

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Globalization is a modern term used to describe the changes in societies and the world economy that result from dramatically increased international trade, foreign direct investment, and cultural exchange. Topics included: Global virtual management, integration of technology, management, leadership with customer service, strategies in B2B with suppliers, business customers, and B2C. Managing people and technologies in other countries. Local practices, languages, culture, and time zone issues.  Story: experience with company in Australia, time zone solutions, faxes,  and shipping solution.

HiperCase – Systems Analysis and Design Simulation

HyperCase is an interactive systems analysis & design simulation that focuses on the activities an analyst would encounter as part of an analysis team. It provides the student with a rich, realistic and entertaining experience.

Glo-Bus Simulation – Developing Winning Competitive Strategies

Business simulation used in Capstone Project in Supervision and Management

GLO-BUS is a completely online exercise where teams of students run a digital camera company in head-to-head competition against companies run by other class members. Company operations parallel those of actual digital camera companies. Just as in the real-world, companies compete in a global market arena, selling digital cameras in four geographic regions—Europe-Africa, North America, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.

Capstone Island Survivors

Congratulations to the first graduating class of our BAS in Supervision and Management. Time to find new mountains to climb. Enjoy the journey.

My 4 Hearts – Last Day Lecture of the first Capstone course – May 2010

Last lecture for the very first Capstone course at FSCJ – Kent Campus (Thursday night class), May 6, 2010.

21st International Conference on College Teaching and Learning

April 19-23, 2010 – 21st International Conference on College Teaching and Learning

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 – 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Advanced Technology Center
Making Your Blackboard Course “Pop”
Are you or your students tired of the same old, boring online look of black letters on a white background? If so, this workshop is for you. In this interactive, hands on workshop, you will learn how to add images, banners, sound, and videos to the announcements, content, and discussions in your Blackboard courses. Liven up your class to help keep your students motivated. In this workshop, resources will be shared that will help you with adding and manipulating images, sound, and video. Prior experience with Blackboard is helpful but not necessary for this workshop.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m., Players D (Macintosh Multimedia Room)
Eventoons: Experimental creative art using educational eventoons, cartoons and avatars
Cartoons and Second Life (SL) avatars have been used in management and information systems courses to bring educational current events to ground and virtual classroom. Eventoons are an experimental creative way to use art to shape current events in a drawing and/or virtual world to enhance their impact in our students. Drawing cartoons for a class is done on a whiteboard and/or posted on a website (www.eventoons.org), blog or SL virtual world. Creations are experimental because they are tested for usefulness to enhance the learning experience. (ID #143/Track 1)
Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Players D (Macintosh Multimedia Room)
Microblogging and social media groups to enhance classroom discussions topics
Microblogging and social media networks are two of the current web technologies that bring classroom activities outside the traditional ground and virtual platforms. Microblogging using Twitter is a creative way of posting comments and links that can be replicated in social groups, Blackboard announcements or inside a discussion board. Students are able to read and reply to tweets as part of a class or comment in a social group. Professors can select good responses and tweet them as a microblog in both Twitter and social media groups to expand discussions outside the classroom. (ID #139/Track 4)

Thursday, April 22, 2010, 3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m., Players D (Macintosh Multimedia Room)
Capstone course development for the BAS in Supervision and Management
The Capstone in Supervision and Management is a course that focuses on the integration of knowledge, skills and abilities learned in the BAS in Supervision and Management program through a capstone project. Integrating management knowledge was accomplished by including the core competencies and program outcomes (professionalism, problem solving, literacy skills, management perspective, information technology and teamwork), business advisory board current industry needs, students’ current workplace experience, and faculty academic and practitioner experience. The result was a matrix of course components (team project simulation, individual project, OPQ, professional development, current topics, and mentoring) that combine and integrate the above-mentioned areas. (ID #158/Track 1)

Guest Speaker: Kevin Newman @ Flagler Hospital

Flagler Hospital Guest Speaker @ Capstone

Kevin Newman, RN and Licensed Nurse Health Care Risk Manager at Flagler Hospital was guest speaker in our Capstone class. Mr. Newman talked about ethics and law with emphasis in the health care industry.