Overview Group Blog and Present the plan of Assignment1-By Angie

Overview Group Blog

1. The Layout of Group Blog

In our blog, except weekly activities, there are some gadgets, such as daily calendar, search bar, useful links, and some preview modules. In “Partners”, it links our members’ individual blogs. “Recent Comments” is arranged in order of time of occurrence. The inviters can quickly read our comments. At the right, it is our “Article List”. It records our all activities. Besides, there are links to other groups, RISAL and Moodle.

2. The Article Format in Group Blog

Generally speaking, the article format about our weekly activity is that one member first post the key information about weekly activity, and then every member writes their opinions in the “comment table”. But, in the “comment table”, we can not share video and links other digital information. Therefore, sometimes, in order to embed some video or other digital material, every member would post their own “activity page” and give a clear indication of the author.

Following is my plan about our group assignment.

At first, every one will give a brief introduction about our organizations, including the history, culture, current plan, and employees. In order to compare the similarities and differences, we will choose the key words and fill out a comparing table. It is a quite useful and simple way to compare different data.

In the part two, we will use some models to interpret the specific situation about our organizations. The initial selected models include the “Diffusion of Innovation” model, Fullan’s “framework for leadership”, Senge’s “five principles for Learning Organizations”, and Newhouse et.al. (2002) framework. In this part, we will first make a brief introduction about these modules, and then give four cases about our organizations respectively. After finishing the basic statement, we will give a comparison or summary about our four organizations. I think in this part, we can also use some tables and key words to compare different data. (The outline about the basic structure of our assignment http://mainland4.blogspot.com/2011/03/outline-of-group-assignment.html)

After we finished comparison, we will discuss the key “What strategies does your organization have in place to encourage development, change and innovation”. I will answer this question as the implications of the above four models presented. The specific format is that I will itemize the concrete strategies as the displayed four models. I think it is a good way to keep connectivity and consistency.