Preparing Pitch?

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Desperation:

Man! I cannot tell you how much I am missing my tribe. I have been posting and engaging with my classmates, but I’m failing and failing to find my learning collective this semester.

I am so thankful for the couple who are still trying to work out opportunities to collaborate and help each other flesh out our ideas. Now, I’m here facing this requirement to create a podcast or long-form video discussion without all my amazing classmates who just graduated.

Observation:

I’m working through the new content and recognize that there must be some process to regularly check and update links when dealing with digital resources. I am a desperately seeking knowledge and skills kinda gal, so I went and hunted down everything with searches, and I’ll have to share this list with the course content creators because I know they are also passionate about keeping resources updated.

Reservation:

I acknowledge, based on this authentic learning environment, that the nature of the content of this course has, almost by design, asked that I step back from my sounding board and look back inside. What is the passion that ignited this innovation plan? Why would anyone want to follow and explore my thoughts and ideas (in hopes of igniting their own)? How can we create the most impactful learning opportunity for our advisees? What motivates us to do what we do (Simon Sinek’s “Why”)?

This is my opportunity to be completely vulnerable about what I’ve been building in my mind, creating with my heart, and desperately seeking collaboration with like-minded, passionate people (colleagues, campus partners, other university stakeholders, parents, and students). What beautiful communities await to be born as others consider how they could innovate their relationships.