In the past year it’s been hard to make much time for professional development, or at least the kind of professional development you can plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like many in my position, I had a huge amount of professional development focused on keeping my organisation running in a crisis, emergency governance, financial crisis management and so forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Things are STILL extremely busy, and look like they will continue to be for some time to come, but I am making time do actually plan some CPD beyond giving talks and<\/a> attending (virtual) conferences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Most of my focus just now is on writing a book<\/a> and developing my coaching practice<\/a> on leading virtual teams. The book sets out to explore what leading virtual teams is really like drawing on years of experience captured in blog posts, podcasts and presentations as a model of open leadership. I will discuss questions such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am also educating myself<\/a> more about what I can do to help anti-racism in Learning Technology, and I recently joined the anti-racism & learning technology group. If you\u2019d like to learn more about the work of the group, there is a series of blog posts on the #altc blog which provide a great starting point:<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is also a really interesting post focused on\u00a0frameworks as a starting point for anti-racism content development<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All of this will feed into the main CPD project for this autumn, which is to update my Senior CMALT Portfolio<\/a>. I gained Senior CMALT as part of the first pilot group in October 2018, and I found the process extremely useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The portfolio has to be reviewed and updated every three years, adding sections on professional development undertaken and future plans. If you would like to have a look at the full version of my Senior CMALT portfolio, you can access the\u00a0Google doc version<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0evidence folder<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since then, the scheme has developed further and there are now Open Badges for CMALT in the offing, too, which I am looking forward to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s amazing to look back at my portfolio and reflect on how much has happened since I wrote it in 2018. Three years, especially in times of crisis, feels like a long time indeed, and it will be useful for me to take a step back and take stock. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cover image: Photo by Sa<\/a><\/em>mantha Gades<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the past year it’s been hard to make much time for professional development, or at least the kind of professional development you can plan. Like many in my position, I had a huge amount of professional development focused on keeping my organisation running in a crisis, emergency governance, financial crisis management and so forth. Things are STILL extremely busy, and look like they will continue to be for some time to come, but I…<\/p>\nLeading Virtual Teams<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Anti-Racism in Learning Technology <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Updating my Senior CMALT Portfolio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n