How Proud I Am!

Earlier this year, I set some professional development goals for the summer. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce a status update.

I've made progress.

Yes, my friends, I can now use "actions" to make my McActiveFlipcharts more student-friendly. This skill will allow me to create documents that students can use without me hovering over their shoulders in case they get lost, making me more inclined to actually let THEM use the board instead of making it a great big wireless mouse.

I'm so proud. Do I hear applause?

Please don't ask about the whole reading thing.

I saw this post at A Math Teachers Notebook labeled: Professional Development Meme 2009 and I agreed it would be good to not only write out my plans for PD over the summer, but see what others plan to do as well.

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 2009 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
NOTE: You do NOT have to wait to be tagged to participate in this meme.

1. Pick 1-3 professional development goals and commit to achieving them this summer.
   For the purposes of this activity the end of summer will be Labor Day (09/07/09).
2. Post the above directions along with your 1-3 goals on your blog.
3. Title your post Professional Development Meme 2009 and link back/trackback to http://clifmims.com/blog/archives/2447.
4. Use the following tag/ keyword/ category on your post: pdmeme09.
5. Tag 5-8 others to participate in the meme.
6. Achieve your goals and “develop professionally.”
7. Commit to sharing your results on your blog during early or mid-September.
   

My Goals
1. Learn how to use blogs effectively. Right now, I don't know how to trackback or tag, so I can't even completely follow the directions, and I don't have the network of bloggers that are listed on other sites.
2. Learn how to develop flipcharts for my Promethean board that are more than a PowerPoint slide show.
3. Read and write about at least two high-quality books. One should relate to school administration, the other to current classroom research.

I tag:

sorry, I don't know how to do this. Someone teach me?