November 2023 – Portfolio

Week 12 Reflections – Peer Feedback

Catherine November 26, 2023 0 Comments

Thanks to those of you who were willing to go on the peer review assignment journey with me - This is one of the exercises that I continue to modify. The course used to have people review the presentations AFTER they were submitted, and I feel that this approach misses the opportunity for students to learn from others as well as submit a better work product. If we connect this exercise with...

Week 11 Reflections – Discussion on Climate Change

Catherine November 18, 2023 0 Comments

I find last week’s topic on climate change to be fascinating from the risk perception/risk communication/risk appetite perspective. Climate change is a great example of an extended risk as opposed to an immediate risk. I’m not sure I see the difference in how people prepare for natural disasters in their own communities vice how we prepare for something that has much more of an extended...

Week 10 reflections – the conundrum around risk matrices!

Catherine November 18, 2023 0 Comments

Can you believe it's almost time for Thanksgiving? Wow, this semester has flown by... Week 10 is one of my favorite risk communication topics – the conundrum around risk matrices! I’ve mentioned this in several individual comments, but it bears repeating as a class comment. The consequence table (as well as the likelihood table) can absolutely be modified to reflect the size of your...

My reflections on Weeks 6 and 7 Discussion Board/Hypothesis Assignments: Introduction to AI in the course

Catherine November 18, 2023 0 Comments

Class, Nice work as you work through these modules. As always, I enjoyed reading your perspectives. Not being a user of social media myself, I often wonder if I’m at risk because I’m not “keeping up” with crowdsourcing. For me, I find that social media is like the dementors in Harry Potter, and I certainly don’t have time to have the life sucked out of me anytime soon. I also...