hello to all...what a wonderful bunch of potential co-conspirators....
My name is Frank Fucile...at the present time I am and Educational Technologist/Instructional Designer for Vancouver Island University (formerly Malaspina University-College) located in Nanaimo, British Columbia - http://viu.ca/
PD..hmm!!...I think for me it is about continuous improvement and updating of my own skills and knowledge and I have used a variety of techniques and methods to do that...most importantly I have tried to tap myself into networks of liked minded individuals through various web technologies...blogs, wikis, etc...and I read /contribute on a daily basis and when time/$$$ permit I do attempt to attend the occasional F2F conference...just back from one in Vancouver....here is a link to the wiki - http://etug.pbwiki.com/
Also, from a practitioners perspective I find the "elearning guild" forums to be useful and practical for my day to day work - http://www.elearningguild.com/
...and also, as the memory starts to wane I have found it useful for me to keep track of the chaos by having a "protopage" setup here - http://www.protopage.com/ffstartpage
- this allows me to add/edit my bookmarks and stuff on the fly - no special software required and it is free to boot!
cheers,
frank
Hi all
Like Frank, the discussions, and more importantly the wide range of people and their experiences, fascinate me. I usually participate silently :-)
I'm currently relieving Learning and Development Manager for TAFE NSW, South Western Sydney Institute. Our professional development covers a diverse range of staff and locations, and methodologies.
For more information, see our Wiki at http://learninganddevelopment.swsi.wikispaces.net
Dear Frank: Loved your protopage. Goodlooking combo of desktop and bookmarks. I have been using Delicious http://del.icio.us/fdmillar for some of the same purposes because I have so many categories (tags), they keep changing, and I need to share them with others on my research team. By the way, Delicious tags can be shown in a tagcloud as on my blog Towards a Moral Economy lower right. Used a Delicious widget to insert the code. Google Pages could be used to create a desktop if one had less info to show than you do. On the other hand, one could just pirate your sourcecode and change the text. If one were a whiz at HTML, that is. ;-)