What did you learn? What did you not learn? What surprised you? What suggestions do you have for next year? How can the professor improve? What are you taking with you? What did you use?


          What I've learned from the LEAD class is that interaction between communities and organizations can help build leadership for individuals. The class showed me the importance of communities and leadership by demonstrating through models or figures in life as well as communicating our ideals as a representation of a community. Though there were barriers between students in ideas and social statuses, but the common goal of wishing to succeed and becoming a leader created community. In this I've felt like an experimental group becoming into a community to achieve independent goals. What surprised me was the freedom of expression and the professional management of each individual vocalizing other's opinion and the reception of their responses. 

         The suggestion for next years is that I would recommend them to socialize, interact, and get to know each other very well to create study groups/ social group for fun. The professors are fine in my opinion, but it never hurts to interact more in such as ice breakers or sharing ideals.

           Though in the end, I ended up taking knowledge from the class as well as understanding the environment of the communities development and actions to accomplish its and the individual's personal goal. I personally used this in Enc 1101 when discussing discourse communities and how it came about and I personally used these knowledge to feed myself in to understanding the world and exchanging ideas to become much more open-minded. 

Blog: What have you been involved with this semester? How have you seen yourself becoming a leader in your organizations? Where do you want to lead next? How will being a member of these organizations develop you as a leader?

            This semester I have been involved in a LEAD committee(Random Acts of Kindness), wrestling team, and lots of events held by public and LEAD. I have imagined myself to be a leader in these types of communities by either being successful on the mat or to become resourceful in the committee. I personally want to lead next in the wrestling team by becoming a better wrestler. Organizations such as Random Acts of Kindness will teach me the joys of giving and help develop characteristics that reflects kindness in my character. Being a member of both organizations will help me to develop character by working together and progress even if there are discomforts or non conjoined ideas. Though in wrestling, the tough conditioning will help me become a better leader by leading through examples and toughening me mentally. It is through participating in many of these events it helps me to manage my time wisely to experience and create rich moments in life.  

                

Who do you influence? What is your sphere of influence? Can you broaden it to enact more social change? How? How can influence be dangerous and helpful as a leader?

As an individual, those who’ve kept in contact on social sites or in real life are those who the individual’s influences affect. There are two categories of influences that can be carried out by the websites, and that includes social websites and official websites. Social websites such as Facebook are personal profile or blogs than can be a personal tool to carry out one’s influence with statuses to friends/family. Official websites is a tool for carrying out specific purposes and targets a specific crowd that has a similar interest. I influence friends, family, and acquaintances of work/school mainly.

                To broaden the social influences, one has to sell their image and story to enact social change. It is the use of social media or the words of mouth to increase the influence of social change.

                Influences can be dangerous and helpful as a leader for it carries out the visions and purposes of each leader. Hitler’s purpose was to expand the country into an empire, but he did that by connecting Germany’s frustration to fulfill his purpose to expand the power of Germany. Through this he was the first elected dictator in history and created destruction in the future for mankind. On the other hand, it is through influences that Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr. carried out their visions of equality for a better future. In the end it is through influences that propels social changes and becomes a deciding factor to help these visions to become true.