PROJECT NATURECONNECT Greenwich University Applied Ecopsycology/Integrated Ecology ORIENTATION COURSE  ©Copyright 1996 Michael J. Cohen

ECO 500 Elements of Global Citizenship: The Science of Connecting With the Web of Life The Art of Thinking With Nature   Part Six COURSE EVALUATION AND ACTION PROCEDURES

The following five activities provide additional global ecology citizenship insights and understandings by involving you in evaluating and communicating your experiences on this course. Evaluation Activity One: REQUIRED A. Please write and share with the interact group a short one paragraph statement that conveys what you know and feel to be of attractive value of this course for yourself and others. B. Please complete a Course Evaluation Form by copying it from this linked web page and emailing it.   REMINDER: . An Optional One Credit (transferable) is available from Portland State University Extended Studies once you have completed this course and its evaluation. Let the office know <nature@pacificrim.net> that you want to take the course for credit, get permission to do so, and then obtain a Credit Application Form by sending a blank email to <creditpsu@sendfree.com>. Closely follow the instructions on the form.   Evaluation Activity 2A: (optional) Those of you who learned to use the SUMMARY agreement indicators may find them beneficial in evaluating your growth and development in future courses and web visits. There is another helpful growth indicator that you can use to numerically evaluate your progress in mastering the Natural Systems Thinking Process: Determine your 1. Globally Balanced Thinking Score (GBT) for the first time, 2. or your GBT Score if you have determined it previously. Note if it has improved since you have taken the course. If you want to try to further improve your GBT score , do the activity study again and follow the links that are in the various study pages.   Evaluation Activity 2B: REQUIRED Write a paragraph or two as to what you find to be the value of this psychological webstring approach in helping the vast population who, along with the environment, suffer the effects of their thinking's disconnection from nature.   Evaluation Notice: Strengthen your life skills by validating them. Don't let your education go to waste. Read and react to the following: Two people apply for an educational leadership position that requires photographic documentation of the program. Person 1 is a self-trained amature photographer who does excellent work. Person 2 's work is not as good as Person 1's but their transcript includes several accredited photography courses at school. Who will get the position, all other qualifications being equal? More often than not Person 2 will get the position because they can document that they have been educated or trained. If you have a Bachelor's degree, are interested in webstring teaching/counseling and have appropriate experiences as a teacher, counselor, parent etc. you may evaluate and write these experiences up as life experience courses you have taken that will: make you eligible to go directly into to our Applied Ecopsychology online Ph.D. Degree Program, by waiving the MS requirement through your equivilent education. fulfill or waiver many graduate school Applied Ecopsychology course requirements through equivilent education that you document. This will save you time, money and energy in establishing yourself as an expert in some aspects of ecopsychology work. If interested Select Here for details and/or call Dr. Cohen at 1-888-285-4694   COURSE COMPLETION NOTE: Your schedule of implimenting the Evaluation and Action activities beyond this point depends upon how you plan to use this course. -To complete this course if you are taking it for credit and do not plan to continue on with any of the courses that follow it, complete one or more of the Evaluation and Action activities beyond this point now. Five below is required     Evaluation Activity Three: Help organize your interact group to create a shared set of evaluation and grade criteria that critically measure a student's growth and expertise in this course. Help group members apply these standards to themselves and present their self-evaluation and grade to the interact group. Help interact members consentually modify their grade and evaluation based on input from the group until a consensus for their grade is reached by all. Help involve them in helping others modify their grade and evaluation by consent.   Evaluation Activity Four: Write an attractive title and 30 word description for an introductory applied ecopsychology workshop that the student could present. Write an attractive 5 word maximum title and 15 word encapsualization of the course that the student could submit as a WWW link to the course and/or themselves on the internet. Submit your titles and descriptions to their interact group. Appropriately consider and incorporate improvement suggestions from their interact group into your workshop title and description. Help other interact group members improve their titles and descriptions so they work well Successfully select, submit, and have their WWW link incorporated in 5 appropriate internet websites of their choice on the WWW checking to first see if a link already exists.   Evaluation Activity Five: REQUIRED Write a 3 page scholarly paper relative to participating in this course in a manner that integrates, validates and contributes important concepts and ideas to the profession or general field of global citizenship psychology. Identify what to you are the most important parts of this course and, quoting some of the dialogue in your interact email group, shows how the course helps people, including yourself, become involved with these parts to the benefit of themselves and Earth. Submit the paper to your interact group and add their reactions to it on a separate page.   Evaluation Activity Six: Make Up a Test: Based on the readings and learnings from the activities, make up a final test for the course consisting of at least 10 true or false questions and 10 multiple choice questions. See if you can get some folks in your interact group to take the test and add to it or help improve it if they can. You will learn a great deal from doing this evaluation.   NEXT STEP: Take me to the Orientation Course Activities Page   Link out of order? Use the Index or the link sequence below. Course Sequence Links: INDEX | PROJECT | DESCRIPTION | GROUP PROCESS | PREREQUISITES | PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE | PART FOUR | SUMMARY | EVALUATION | ACTIVITIES | POST COURSE | RESOURCES |