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 * Welcome to HEHD 803: Creative and Ethical Leadership!**

Hello everyone! Welcome to your HEHD 803 Wiki! Throughout this course we are going to be exploring issues related to organizational leadership and management, and how these concepts are operationalized within the context of youth development organizations and systems. Online learning might seem to be an individual endeavor, but don't be misled. While individual performance counts, we place a high premium on collaborative learning efforts in the YDL program, as this coincides with the real-world of professional practice. We believe that working together to solve problems and accomplish common goals is what good youth development leaders do, and we believe this is a key competency that needs to be modeled in our curriculum.

Because we are going to be doing a lot of reading in the class, we are going to use our class wiki to collaboratively construct a summary of our readings and what we learn in class. The wiki will serve as a resource for you during the class and after the class is over (you will always have access to the information here). In addition, the wiki (if done thoroughly) will help immeasurably with your final written exam in the course.

Wiki publishing on wikispaces is easy to do and fairly intuitive. Its not always the most elegant platform for publishing (so be prepared to be frustrated with style and format), but it is a great forum for collaboration. To get you started, I'd like you to watch this short video:

Wikis in Plain English

Click on the pages to the left by topic to complete your posts each week. Remember, your group will be assigned to complete the major questions by Sundays at 11:59pm during your group's assigned week, but everyone should log on and provide thoughts, resources, and application of the materials for each topic in the Discussion Thread prior to 12:00pm on Tuesdays. Group assignments and responsibilities are below:

__Group 1__ Chris H., Chris T., Paige A., Katie S. //Topic:// Planning and Financing

__Group 2__ Sara C., Judy S., Cortney H., Chasity D. //Topic//:Organizational Structure

__Group 3__ Monica L., Jeffery D., Meghan R., Morganne C. //Topic:// Human Resources

__Group 4:__ Lauren B., Jean S., Chip R. Topic:

__Group 5__ Jef W., Cam O., Amy G. Topic:

Feel free to visit the wiki often! Enjoy. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you need any assistance.

Happy wiki-ing!