Undercover Professor Episode V – First LEGO League Robotics Competition
MIT Club of North Florida board member and MIT graduate Gabe Farra is interviewed by Undercover Professor Dr. Jose G. Lepervanche about his role as robotics mentor of the First LEGO League Competition. Dr. Lepervanche is VP of Communications of the MIT Club of North Florida (www.mitclubnf.org)
Evaluation of the External Environment
This is the expanded graphic used in our Strategic Management course to evaluate the external environment. Current trends in globalization, political conditions, emerging technologies, environmental issues, and social responsibility are added to the components of this macroenvironment.
Glo-Bus Simulation Global Top 100 Ranking
Congratulations to Fall 2011 Capstone in Supervision and Management team on their first-place finish as the overall best-performing company in Glo-Bus global digital camera industry simulation. In recognition of this company’s industry-leading performance, Glo-Bus (www.glo-bus.com) sent a certificate as Industry Champion to team members.
In addition, as an Industry Champion this company is eligible to compete in the next Best-Strategy Invitational. Within two weeks of the start of the BSI competition, they will receive an official invitation by e-mail.
They also earned a Global Top 100 ranking for their company’s GLO-BUS performance during the week of 14-Nov-11 through 20-Nov-11. The co-managers of HPicture Perfect Inc (Company H) earned a Global Top 100 ranking on the following performance criteria: Earnings Per Share – Their Earnings Per Share of $12.73 was the 47th best Earnings Per Share performance of the week, worldwide!
View the Global Top 100 lists for the most recent week. View the Global Top 100 lists for the week of 14-Nov-11 through 20-Nov-11.
Undercover Professor – Management Challenges – Episode 4 – Environment
Undercover Professor Dr. Jose G. Lepervanche interviews Jason Milton, Senior Environmental Scientist @ Environmental Resource Solutions. Mr. Milton talks about skills needed in environmental projects. They include field work, writing skills, graphical skills for maps and presentations, client relations, and agency relations. They help private companies to comply with environmental regulations to limit the impact to natural resources. He shares how he learned on the job to improve his project and management skills and provide recommendations to future managers.
Star Wars, a cappella tribute medley
Originally posted in Management Adventures blog on 11/06/2008
Here is a good example of a combination of skills, music, lyrics, and several technologies to produce a short video. YouTube has provided a way to deliver videos via Internet. It also provides the HTML code to embed this video in this blog. Have fun!
A Star Wars-themed, four-part a cappella musical tribute set to cinematic themes from composer John Williams.
The Machine is Us/ing Us
Social media management in online education
Wired Scoutmaster or Wireless Porfessor?
During FSCJ Open Campus convocation some professors mentioned the benefits of social media networks in online courses. As you may notice, I do not enforce nor strongly suggest to use Facebook or Twitter outside online learning platforms such as Blackboard. I am testing with Twitter in courses discussions and announcements and I do not see enough comments. In the past I have seen comments when I offer extra credit. Maybe this is the reason. What do you think? I am also testing several pages in Facebook and you do not have to be “friend”. 1. “Learning Edge Management” page is about technologies and online learning. If you wish, please “like” it. 2. “Next Manager” page is about Management and Leadership. I usually share interesting tweets or Facebook posts inside regular online discussions to improve topics and demonstrate how easy it is to find useful information in social media that can be used to add current events to our courses.
If you volunteer to participate in these pages, you just have to “like” them. Participation for students is optional. Again, you do not have to “friend” anyone and I do not ask you to be “friend”. If you ask to be “friend” I will accept as I also share other pages to students and graduates. Facebook pages or groups are a good place to keep in touch after graduation and improve networking for potential jobs. Some of our college advisory board graduates were selected because their active participation in courses and social media networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn.
Managing social media requires a good time balance between personal and professional social reading and interactions. You have to decide how social media will benefit you in life or work. We are providing resources to find this benefit without overloading our screens. This is our dynamic lab where emerging technologies are tested for personal and professional use. Thank you for participating on this lab. More soon in www.webmedialab.org.
