On Saturday, April 12th, you will be given 10 minutes to present your portfolio and preliminary grade to a group of 3-4 students. Plan 5 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for Q&A. Your final presentations may/may not modify your preliminary grade
On Saturday, April 26th you will submit your portfolio: You need to have a Title Page, Table of Contents, Calendar of the Semester with the Assignment Due Dates plotted, and a one page summary that documents all the assignments and the date of completion of each. Then each assignment needs to be in the binder and paginated.
Based on your methodology, you will give yourself a letter grade and as your teacher, I will review your portfolio and witness your process. Obviously, this is a model for how you will work with performance review systems in the businesses you plan to start or work in. Hopefully, your direct experience will inform your future capacities in this field in general. My purpose is to awaken you to the possibilities and challenges of any methodology of assessment, and to be able to identify effective criteria and standards that you will continue to refine throughout your professional career. (Relax…we'll talk!)
1. Identify seven areas from You Are the Message that you want to focus on for your final presentations. Cite the page numbers, your reason for choosing it, and the specifics of how you want to improve in that dimension. Submit this as a seven-paragraph paper.
2. TRIO – Develop your personal Ontology and Epistemology, as per Guba model. Interview at least three people close to you about their perspectives on your core gesture: compare and explore your earlier identification of your near and true gifts. Present as a paper and submit a sculpture or collage that reflects your ideas and impressions. The sculpture may take any form.
3. 30/60 Second Message Presentations as per Final Assignment Handouts (Tape) -
4. Interviews are due
- Handout Essays
- Complete You Are the Message
- PBR Complete
· Cradle to Cradle, all.
· Go to http://www.mcdonough.com/writings/design_for_triple.htm and read the article Design for the Triple Top Line
· Go to www.mbdc.com. Scan contents in the 3 major sections. Read the Cradle to Cradle Design Protocol under the Transforming Industry category, and read the Product Co-Marketing section under the Products and Services category.
Reading due: (Now prioritized)
· World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD): www.wbcsd.ch. "About the WBCSD": Read this section. Scan the pages for the main categories in the left margin.
· From reader, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development, pp. 12-38, 83-102.
· Go to Center for International Regulatory Assistance (CITRA) http://www.citra.duq.edu/index.htm. The intent is to get a feel for the European mindset and env. regulations driving changes in product design and packaging globally. Read “about,” “CE Mark,” “Environment,” and click on CITRA's Handbook on European Environmental Initiatives. Once there read the main page, “The Administrative Framework” (note the goals and the use of the precautionary principle) “European Environmental Policy,” “Directives Implementing the EU Environmental Policy,” then check out specific standards: Packaging Waste, Hazardous substances in electrical and electronic products (RoHS), The EUP, Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), Chemicals (REACH) / Envoronmental Liability, Eco-design, Eco-Labeling, Eco-Management and Audit System (EMAS) , The European Energy Star Program.
· Corporate Ecosystem Services Review (ESR) tool: Got to http://www.wri.org/project/ecosystem-services-review and read the brief description, then download the ESR Complete Publication or download it from BlackBoard. Scan the entire document to get a sense of the business case being made and the actual process/tool available for organizations to use.
· Agenda 21: The goal is to get a feel for the scope of international thought that has gone into creating sustainable societies. Scan the full Table of Contents for Agenda 21 at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/english/agenda21toc.htm. Download the Press Version from BlackBoard and scan it to get a feel for the depth of the initiatives.
· Peak oil: www.theoildrum.com, read Our Mission, Peak Oil Overview, Peak Oil Update
· The Oil Depletion Protocol: www.oildepletionprotocol.org, read The Protocol and scan sections in What Can I Do?
· Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare: Go to http://community.foe.co.uk/tools/isew/index.html, read: the intro: ISEW explained > See how these factors affect the value of ISEW > add item, until you get through all of them; View the Results; International Examples.
Assignment Check:
· Due dates coming up in next couple of days – Eco-matrix (4/22), final report (4/23), and presentation (4/27)!
