Professional Development Meme

Michael Richards has included me in a meme based on summer professional development

Here are the directions:

Summer can be a great time for professional development. It is an opportunity to learn more about a topic, read a particular work or the works of a particular author, beef up an existing unit of instruction, advance one’s technical skills, work on that advanced degree or certification, pick up a new hobby, and finish many of the other items on our ever-growing To Do Lists. Let’s make Summer 2008 a time when we actually get to accomplish a few of those things and enjoy the thrill of marking them off our lists.

Here are the rules:

Pick 3 professional development goals and commit to achieving them this summer.
For the purposes of this activity the end of summer will be Labor Day (09/01/08).
Post the above directions along with your 3 goals on your blog.
Title your post Professional Development Meme and link back/trackback to http://clifmims.com/blog/archives/353.
Use the following tag/ keyword/ category on your post: pdmeme.
Tag 8 others to participate in the meme.
Achieve your goals and “develop professionally.”

Here are my goals:

Challenge my ideas and assess my next steps in professional development from the workshops and conversations at EdubloggerConEast and BLC in July.
Take 2 graduate level technology classes with Alice Barr in July.
Read What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee.

Commit to sharing your results on your blog during early or mid-September.

I’ve picked my 8 folks randomly from the Seedling’s Ning:

1. John Jaques
   Amanda Signal
   Frank Miracola
   Amy Kenyon
   Eric Lawson
   Kelly Rogers
   Mike Arsenault
   Robin Ellis

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