Lesson Activities

Discussion 1: Sims' Article

Readings

• Sims' “The velveteen rabbit and passionate feelings for organizations.”

You can access the article via E-Reserves.

Discussions

Post the following:

• Four key points that you want to comment on or remember from the readings. You can point out ideas you found insightful, relate concepts to your experiences, disagree with the authors, or offer complimentary or alternative points of view. Please write your points in your own words, and reference page numbers of source material for specific points. Two to six sentences is usually enough detail for each point.
• One take-away impact to your practice, to your future practice, or for the L&D field in general. For this element, consider how the readings might influence how you do your job going forward, or the vision you have for your future self as a professional in this field.

Also, you can include your responses to the following questions:

• What did you find particularly enlightening in your reading of the document provided?
• What would you like to learn more about?
• What information can you share that would expand your group’s understanding of this week’s topics?

Teamwork

1. For each discussion, your team needs to identify the team roles: one group member who will act as summarizer, one member as researcher, and one member as facilitator. The remainder of team will be participants in the discussion. You’ll need to act as a facilitator, summarizer, and researcher at least once during the semester.
2. After everyone has participated, in the next lesson, the summarizer will post a brief (one page) summary of your discussion to the discussion, and after the team agrees with the summary, the summarizer will submit it for the instructor's review.

See the “Major Activities” page in the Course Logic module for more information on the requirements and some pointers for a good discussion.