This assignment consists of both an interview and a PowerPoint (PPT) presentation.

Assessment/Interview

Select a community of interest in your region. Perform a physical assessment of the community.

1. Perform a direct assessment of a community of interest using the “Functional Health Patterns Community Assessment Guide.”
2. Interview a community health and public health provider regarding that person’s role and experiences within the community.

Interview Guidelines

Interviews can take place in-person, by phone, or by Skype.

Develop interview questions to gather information about the role of the provider in the community and the health issues faced by the chosen community.

Complete the “Provider Interview Acknowledgement Form” prior to conducting the interview. Submit this document separately in its respective drop box.

Compile key findings from the interview, including the interview questions used, and submit these with the presentation.

PowerPoint Presentation

Create a PowerPoint presentation of 15-20 slides (slide count does not include title and references slide) describing the chosen community interest.

Include the following in your presentation:

1. Description of community and community boundaries: the people and the geographic, geopolitical, financial, educational level; ethnic and phenomenological features of the community, as well as types of social interactions; common goals and interests; and barriers, and challenges, including any identified social determinates of health.
2. Summary of community assessment: (a) funding sources and (b) partnerships.
3. Summary of interview with community health/public health provider.
4. Identification of an issue that is lacking or an opportunity for health promotion.
5. A conclusion summarizing your key findings and a discussion of your impressions of the general health of the community.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment,

In this assignment, you will evaluate three digital sources in preparation for the Project Proposal, which is due in Week 7. This means learning to identify good sources and not-so-good sources. In a world abounding in fake-news, one of the most important skills you can learn in order to be a good citizen is how to tell a good source from a bad source. This is not about politics; there are good and bad sources on the right and the left. It is about ensuring that your arguments are based on solid evidence.

The Objective: Demonstrate your mastery of Course Goals 1, 2, and 3 by:

1. Accurately and effectively communicating ideas, information, arguments, and messages to present material in a historical context.

2. Investigating and evaluating historical information from global, social and ethical perspectives to guide decision making.

3. Applying historical precedent to contemporary roles, responsibilities, and relationships in order to advance the goals of a community or organization.

Delivery: Submit your assignment as a .doc, .docx, or .rtf file via Source Evaluation in the Assignments Area. No .pdf or other file types are acceptable. You may submit this assignment before that date if you wish. Make sure you include your name on your assignment.

Late submissions will be reduced 10% (10 points) for each week or portion thereof late. 



Your assignment heading should look like this:

(Your Name)



HIST 125 — Technological Transformations



Prof. (Your Professor’s Name)



Source Evaluation


Monday, 29 July 2018 (Today’s Date in Your Preferred Format)

You may either place this at the top of your first page, or you may place this information on a title page. There is no need for a title page, but if you like the tidy flair of a title page, you are most welcome to use one.

Instructions:

Step 1: Briefly state in 2 or 3 sentences what you intend to explore in the Project Proposal. (This will require exploring the Project Proposal instructions under Week 7.) Your decision does not have to be firm, but your direction should be clear enough that your work in the Source Evaluation will help you differentiate credible from non-credible sources for your Project Proposal. In other words, this assignment should help you succeed in the Project Proposal, and it should help you in your efforts to be a good citizen.

Step 2: Read the UMUC Library guidelines for evaluating Web resources, “Is My Source Credible?:” http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/webresources.cfm

Then View their Video “Evaluating Websites:” https://sites.umuc.edu/library/libhow/websiteevaluation_tutorial.cfm

or Read the Transcript for the Video: Transcript of UMUC Evaluating Websites Video.html

Step 3: Using the UMUC Library and a search engine of your choice (e.g., Google or Bing), find three (3) websites related to the research for your Project Proposal. At least one source must some from the UMUC Library database. The UMUC Library source is worth 1/3 of the grade for this assignment. These may include digitized books. Your sources do not all have to be credible. It is important to be able to identify a source as a good starting point or as not credible.

Wikipedia is an excellent starting point, so you could use a Wikipedia page related to your Project Proposal topic, but you should identify it as a good starting point rather than as a highly credible source. Wikipedia is not bad; in fact it is as accurate as encyclopedias like Britannica. However it is crowd sourced rather than edited by professionals in the field, so it is not suitable for citing as a definitive and credible source. Where Wikipedia is useful is in its overview to give you a general idea of a topic and in the footnotes at the bottom of the page. Though not always, these footnotes are usually chock full of solid sources.

K-12 educational sites are not bad starting points but are not generally peer reviewed. University level .edu sources and .gov sources tend to be credible (Think NASA or the Library of Congress.) as do many museum sites, but even the Smithsonian has been known to be wrong on their websites. Likewise government agencies exist for a specific purpose, which will help you determine in which direction bias may fall. This process is an art rather than a science. The more you do it, the more skilled you will become.

A source that has little credibility would be something like www.medievalfayre.com. This is essentially a Renaissance Festival resource. It is a fun source to be sure. Likewise anything that has the feel of Bob’s History Page is not going to rank high on your credibility scale – unless of course that Bob is the late Bob Scribner of Cambridge University.

Step 4: State your chosen citation style (MLA, APA, Chicago) and follow it to cite your source so that it is clearly identifiable, allowing the reader to reach and evaluate the source. Specifically identify which source is a UMUC Library source.

Step 5: Declare the source to be one of the following: very credible, reasonably credible, a good starting point, less than credible. There is grey area here. This is why the next step is so important. To justify this determination, thoroughly address all of the following:

• author or organization authorizing the site
• accuracy of information presented
• purpose of the site
• bias vs balance

You may write in paragraphs or in bullet points, whichever is more comfortable for you. In either event, use complete sentences.

For example for Step 5, let us say that you have this source as a random example. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4073139/ Perhaps you are tackling cancer, heart disease, and diabetes as associated with obesity.

Using complete sentences in either bullet point or paragraph form as I have done below, you would say something along the lines of:

This source is very credible because the authors are both highly accredited in their fields and have published in other peer reviewed journals. (Note to students for how to find this out: Simply do a quick Google search for the authors’ names. You will find that both of these scholars are with Loma Linda University and have earned their credentials.) Also since the studies on this site come from peer reviewed journals, the information would appear to be accurate. The purpose of the site is to make cutting edge, high quality medical research available to the widest possible audience. Finally, the study appears to be balanced.

Grading: This assignment is worth up to 225 points, 22.5% of the final course grade. Be sure to use the rubric to ensure that you are working toward the score you aim to achieve.

Quick Hits: 1: I know you are not a historian, so I know that there may be oversights in the assessment of accuracy. Essentially, if you can check it via Wikipedia or Britannica, your assessment should be accurate.

2: There is some grey area. You may argue with me if you do not agree with my assessment of your evaluation. If you convince me based on evidence already presented in your evaluation that I might have interpreted differently from you, I will change your score.

3: All sources are biased. It is the degree of bias and the kind of bias that matter. For a modern day example, Huffington Post tends far to the left in bias; Fox News tends far to the right in bias. Reuters strives for balance. This does not mean that you should never use a heavily biased source, but doing so requires you to balance it with another heavily biased source on the other side. It is easier and more credible simply to use a balanced source in the first place

Using the information you have learned in this unit, select either Eastern State Penitentiary or Sing Sing Prison, and describe the facility. Using terms you have learned in this unit, explain why the facility you chose is significant based on its purpose, implementation, and effectiveness within corrections.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

Discuss the evolution of the correctional system. Identify two of the reformers discussed in this unit, and describe their role in helping evolve the system.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

In the previous weeks, you explored communication, leadership, motivation, conflict management, and consensus. In Week 1, you assessed your own strengths and weaknesses, both in your leadership style and your communications style, to further develop the weak areas and take advantage of your strengths. In Week 2, you looked at several theories around motivation and selected the ones that are most appropriate for motivating your project team. In Week 3, you analyzed the causes and types of conflicts and stress that could exist for this project team. In Week 4, you used this knowledge to develop a conflict management strategy as well as determine a method for a consensus decision-making approach.

This week, you will use all of the information you have learned about yourself, the project team, and the organization as a whole to deliver transparent project communications. You will also finalize the project leadership strategy that you will utilize for the political organization challenges, preparing the stakeholders for change, and leading your project team as high-performance contributors.

The overall project deliverables are as follows:

• Update the previously completed sections based on your instructor’s feedback.
• Create the following new sections:
  • Communications Plan
    • Prepare a plan for overall project management communications with project stakeholders, including who you are going to communicate with (i.e. Sponsor, team members, government, customer and etc), about what, how often (i.e. once a week, daily, monthly, quarterly and etc), and type and via what means (i.e. monthly virtual meetings, weekly stand up meetings; PPT, Face-to-Face, email etc.
  • Project Leadership Strategy
    • Describe a leadership strategy you will use, and any challenges as it pertains to your project in terms of the organization and any politics that may exist.
    • Describe a leadership strategy you will use in terms of the project team and developing them into a high-performance team.
    • Describe a leadership strategy you will use in terms of preparing project stakeholders for the change brought about by the delivery of the selected project.
• Update the Key Assignment title page with a new date and project name.
• Be sure to update your table of contents before submission.
• Name the document “LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_MPM460_IP5.doc.”

previous KEY ASSIGNMENT ATTACHED

To complete the PowerPoint presentation, compose a cohesive presentation that includes the following:

• Title page
• Using examples from your professional career or work within your community, discuss what defining moments helped you:
  • Inspire action
  • Build trust
  • Develop leadership growth
• Discussion of your professional ethics
• Discussion of your leadership goals
• Discussion of your leadership values
• References in the form of an Annotated Bibliography in APA format
• Appendices (Optional)