Professional Development Meme

May 28th, 2008 |

I’m a big fan of goal setting. It can provide a road map for the short or long-term and can be an effective motivational strategy. I have set a few professional development goals for this summer and have challenged a few of my friends/colleagues to do the same thing. Yesterday I realized that I could set this up as a blog meme and hopefully encourage some of my online friends to achieve a few items from their To Do Lists. There are a myriad of ways to approach this, but I’ve opted to take the short-term, easy-to-assess approach, but I’ll leave some wiggle room for you to customize it to meet your needs. The official information is below.

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.

The Rules

  1. Pick 3 professional development goals and commit to achieving them this summer.
  2. For the purposes of this activity the end of summer will be Labor Day (09/01/08).
  3. Post the above directions along with your 3 goals on your blog.
  4. Title your post Professional Development Meme and link back/trackback to http://clifmims.com/blog/archives/353.
  5. Use the following tag/ keyword/ category on your post: pdmeme.
  6. Tag 8 others to participate in the meme.
  7. Achieve your goals and "develop professionally."
  8. Commit to sharing your results on your blog during early or mid-September.

My Goals

  1. Greatly improve video skills and integrate my own instructional videos into courses.
  2. Finish redeveloping one of my courses.
  3. Submit at least 2 of the articles/book chapters in progress for review.

I Tag…


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23 Responses to “Professional Development Meme”

  1. TrevorNo Gravatar Says:

    May 28th, 2008 at 9:04 AM

    I know I wasn’t tagged in this, but I’m a goal oriented guy and have some input. Last summer Josh, who I worked at the MS World Trade Center with, introduced me to DostPost (http://www.dostpost.com/). Dost is a term that means Friend in colloquial Indian. DostPost is a great place to set goals and track your progress all at the accountability of others, as your friends can keep up with where you are. I haven’t used it much since last summer, but this post might be just the motivation I need to get back on track.


  2. Professional Development Meme | Among the Wildflowers Says:

    May 28th, 2008 at 9:12 PM

    [...] Now, he’s challenging me again.  Challenging me to set goals just like I did in college.  To set goals, to write them down and to work toward them.  Professional goals.  (Oh, wow.  Am I really a professional?  Like a grown up?)  Maybe I am.  So, here goes.  I mean, he did tag me.  On with the Professional Development Meme. [...]


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    June 5th, 2008 at 5:01 PM

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  5. Professional Development Meme | Milobo's Musings Says:

    June 5th, 2008 at 9:09 PM

    [...] my hat into the ring with this post.  What’s the challenge, you ask?  I’ll let Clif Mim’s original post give you the [...]


  6. Michelle BourgeoisNo Gravatar Says:

    June 5th, 2008 at 9:22 PM

    Clif,

    What a great idea! I was “tagged” on the second wave by Skip Z and passed the tag on to 8 others on my blog at http://milobo.edublogs.org

    Happy learning to all participants – I can’t wait to hear the results!


  7. ClifNo Gravatar Says:

    June 5th, 2008 at 9:42 PM

    Michelle,

    I’m glad you are excited about this activity and I hope you find it beneficial.


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  16. vejraskaNo Gravatar Says:

    June 18th, 2008 at 10:47 PM

    I have enjoyed reading back through everyone elses goals- we are all in different places in the learning curve, but still such common animals:)
    http://doucwhatic.edublogs.org/2008/06/18/professional-development-meme/


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