Sample Student Annotation |
| The following is a sample annotation derived from one created by a student in a Computer Science course. |
| Appreciative Inquiry | |
| Description: | The following artifact presents my insights into the dynamics of Appreciative Inquiry -- a cornerstone of organization development practice. The artifact explains the basic technique of the appreciative inquiry process and describes how it could be implemented using teams. The artifact is made up of two reviews, each covering a different journal article about appreciative inquiry. In each review, I have created a nugget describing the main contribution of the article, a nugget describing the approach, and my assessments of both contribution and approach. This artifact emphasizes the key role that appreciative inquiry can play in the context of organizational change. |
| Reflection: | The process of creating this artifact helped me to acknowledge appreciative inquiry as a method to foresee a new and better future by exploring the best of the present and the past. In lay terms, appreciative inquiry is simply about focusing on the positive aspect of things rather than the negative. However, I believe that although appreciative inquiry sounds simple to implement, it takes a lot of research and analysis into the social system where it is to be implemented. This should be worth the effort when the inquiry itself leads toward generating the kind of change that people are looking for. |