Notes from Millie D

Well I was wondering how long it would take before I received a meme to complete and my answer is today. Skip Zalneraitis (twitter: skipz) tagged me this evening and I wanted to oblige as this meme is something near and dear to my heart, 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:

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.

Here are my goals:

1. Take away at least one usable concept, idea, process, or a-ha moment from EdubloggerConEast and BLC in July.
2. Read Brain Rules, Wikinomics, and A Whole New World.
3. Revisit K12 Online Presentations and implement change in my school.

I Tag…

• Alice Barr
• Cheryl Oakes
• Bob Sprankle
• Liz Davis
• David Trask
• Maria Knee
• Mark Spahr
• Richard Byrne