Professional Learning Plan

Looking back to my Personal Growth Plan from CEP810 I answered the question below.

• Do you have any new goals? What are your plans for reaching your new goals and your long-term goals after this course is over?

I plan to continue my research on the effect of multimedia on learners and share my information with the education community.

I think it's still a bit early for any major goals, but I would say that I can better organize future goals. I also have become more confident in my interest in actually teaching. With that acknowledgment I can learn more from my assignments and projects throughout my grad program. With this mindset I will become a well-rounded professional and a knowledgeable professor in the future.


I feel as though I have continued to work towards this goal. I have contributed my own knowledge to the communities I have been introduced to. I have also realized that my peers are a huge community I can make a difference with.
I am becoming more sure that I eventually want to teach. I am passionate about helping and teaching educators about the technology available to them that can really enrich their classrooms. I am rethinking the statement "I think it's still a bit early for any major goals". 

Here are my new goals.

Continue to do great work in the remainder of my courses here at MSU. now-1 year
An action that will help me achieve my goals that I am most excited about is actually a free course or two I found online that about facilitating online learning environments. I am excited to meet the professor running the course. She has great experience and works for NASA!! I think I will learn a lot, meet and network with great people and that by having this experience it will set me ahead for job opportunities.

Possibly TA for a class to gain teaching experience. 1 month - 1 year
Continue contributing to communities of Ed Tech. now-forever
Continue learning new skills at Amway to improve my e-learning designer skills. now-August
Find a better paying job that will allow me to continue my education in this field. now-August

Another actions that will help me learn and network is actually taking place on my birthday this month. Sir Ken Robinson is speaking at GVSU about education.

I have also been watching lots of TED TALKS. They inspire me and give me great ideas for when I have my own classroom. I watched one on Flipped Classrooms and it made a lot of sense. I would like to incorporate some of the features used in that setting. I also wish I would have had the same environment when I was in grad school or even my undergrad. I think some of the key strategies would have helped me learn and taught me how to learn.