Schedule for CPD23 2012

Here are the Things that we will be exploring during the 23 Things for Professional Development course this summer.  There is real a mixture of stuff: some web 2.0 and/or social media gadgets and gizmos, and some  ways of developing your career by more 'traditional', less technology-focussed, means.  Throughout the programme will be emphasising how these Things can help your professional development, although you're likely to find lots of tools useful in other ways, too! We are taking the Things at a slightly slower pace this time around, although the original posts from last year will remain in place if you prefer to go at your own pace.

The Plan

Week 1 (7th May) - Blogging

• Thing 1: Create your own blog, write about what you hope to get out of the programme. (If you already have a blog, then you're welcome to use that.)
• Thing 2: Explore other blogs and get to know some of the other cpd23-ers.

Week 2 (14th May) - Online presence

• Thing 3: Consider your personal brand

Week 3 (21st May) - Current awareness

• Thing 4: RSS feeds, Twitter, Storify

Week 4 (28th May) - Reflection week
A bit of a breather to think about what we've covered so far.

• Thing 5: Reflective practice

Week 5 (4th June) - Online Networks

• Thing 6: Online networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, LISNPN, LATNetwork, CILIP Communities)

Week 6 (11th June) - Real Life Networks

• Thing 7: National/Regional groups, Special interest groups and looking outside the library sphere

Week 7 (18th June) - Organising yourself

• Thing 8: Google Calendar
• Thing 9: Evernote

Week 8 (25th June) - Catch up week

• Guest post: CPD in your later career
  
  

Week 9 (2nd July) - Librarianship training options

• Thing 10: Graduate traineeships, Masters degrees, Chartership, Accreditation

Week 10 (9th July) - Librarianship training options continued

• Thing 11: Mentoring

Week 11 (16th July)-  Reflections

• Thing 12: Putting the social into social media 

Week 12 (23rd July) - Filesharing/Collaboration

• Thing 13: Google Docs, Wikis & Dropbox

Week 13 (30th July) - Organising your references

• Thing 14: Zotero / Mendeley / citeulike

Week 14 - (6th August) - Getting involved

• Thing 15: Attending, presenting at and organising seminars, conferences and other events

Week 15 (13th August) - Getting involved continued

• Thing 16: Advocacy, speaking up for the profession and getting published

Week 16 (20th August) - Presenting information

• Thing 17: Prezi / data visualisation / slideshare

Week 17 (27th August) - Presenting information continued

• Thing 18: Jing / screen capture / podcasts (making and following them)

Week 18 - (3rd September) - Reflection

• Thing 19: Some time to think about how you might integrate the Things so far into your workflow and routines.

Week 19 (10th September) - Catch up week

Week 20 (17th September) - Careers 

• Thing 20: Library Day in the Life and Library Routes/Roots 

Week 21 (24th September) - Promoting yourself in job applications and at interview 

• Thing 21: How to identify your strengths, how to capitalise on your interests, how to write something eyecatching that meets job specs. 

Week 22 (1st October) - Volunteering

• Thing 22: Volunteering to gain experience

Week 23 (8th October) - Final reflection 

• Thing 23: What have you learnt and where do you want to go from here?

Thing 23: Reflection - What next?

The final thing! Thank you all for following the programme and well done for getting to Thing 23.  A short evaluation of the programme is coming soon, but if you're up for a challenge maybe you could come up with a "6 word story" to sum up how you feel about the programme?

Many organisations include some kind of Personal Development Plans (PDP) as part of their staff review/appraisal processes.  The idea with these is that you identify some sort of development need, think about how you could fill that gap, and set yourself a SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-Limited) objective to help you do it.  I've put together a quick template that can be used for this, but feel free to tweak it to suit yourself or use one of the many other templates available online.

The Task:

1. For this last thing, we would like you to reflect on the programme in general and on what you want to do next.
2. Identify some gaps in your experience, either by looking at requirements for that next job you're aiming for or by conducting a SWOT analysis.  The Library Routes and Library Day in the Life projects might be helpful here too.
3. Think about how you can fill those gaps and put together a Personal Development Plan to do that.  You don't have to put the PDP on the blog unless you feel comfortable doing that.
4. Write about the process of putting the plan together and whether you think this is a useful way to think about your CPD in general.
5. Keep blogging and let us know how you get on!

Open Road by therefromhere

cpd23 Calendar

Inspired by a comment from Tom Roper, we've made a public Google Calendar listing all the Things and when they're happening, as well as a few events at which the cpd23 team are presenting.  You can see the calendar below, as a widget on the right-hand side of the cpd23 blog, and at the web address https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=profdev23%40gmail.com&ctz=Europe/London



Feel free to add this to your own calendar (it should work for Google Calendars and iCal), so that you don't  forget a single cpd23 Thing!

If you're new to Google Calendar and aren't sure how it works, we'll be explaining more about it in Thing 8, on 25 July.

The cpd23 Things

Here are the Things that we will be exploring during the 23 Things for Professional Development course this summer.  There is real a mixture of stuff: some web 2.0 and/or social media gadgets and gizmos, and some  ways of developing your career by more 'traditional', less technology-focussed, means.  Throughout the programme will be emphasising how these Things can help your professional development, although you're likely to find lots of tools useful in other ways, too!

The Plan

Week 1 (20th June) - Blogging

• Thing 1: Create your own blog, write about what you hope to get out of the programme. (If you already have a blog, then you're welcome to use that.)
• Thing 2: Explore other blogs and get to know some of the other cpd23-ers.

Week 2 (27th June) - Online presence

• Thing 3: Consider your personal brand

Week 3 (4th July) - Current awareness

• Thing 4: RSS feeds, Twitter, Pushnote

Week 4 (11th July) - Reflection week
A bit of a breather to think about what we've covered so far.

• Thing 5: Reflective practice

Week 5 - (18th July) Online Networks / Real Life Networks

• Thing 6: Online networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, LISNPN, LATNetwork, CILIP Communities)
• Thing 7: National/Regional groups, Special interest groups and looking outside the library sphere

Week 6 - (25th July) Organising yourself

• Thing 8: Google Calendar
• Thing 9: Evernote

Week 7 - (1st August) Librarianship training options

• Thing 10: Graduate traineeships, Masters degrees, Chartership, Accreditation
• Thing 11: Mentoring

Week 8 - (8th August) Catch-up week / reflections

• Thing 12: Putting the social into social media 

Week 9 - (15th August) Filesharing/Collaboration

• Thing 13: Google Docs, Wikis & Dropbox

Week 10 - (22nd August) Organising your references

• Thing 14: Zotero / Mendeley / citeulike

Week 11 - (29th August) Getting involved

• Thing 15: Attending, presenting at and organising seminars, conferences and other events
• Thing 16: Advocacy, speaking up for the profession and getting published.

Week 12 - (5th September) Presenting information

• Thing 17: Prezi / data visualisation / slideshare [postponed until Monday 19th September]
• Thing 18: Jing / screen capture / podcasts (making and following them)

Week 13 - (12th September) Catch-up week / reflection

• Thing 19: Some time to think about how you might integrate the Things so far into your workflow and routines.

Week 14 - (19th September) Extra catch-up week and Thing 17

Week 15 - (26th September) Careers 

• Thing 20: Library Day in the Life and Library Routes/Roots 

Week 16 - (3rd October) Promoting yourself in job applications and at interview 

• Thing 21: How to identify your strengths, how to capitalise on your interests, how to write something eyecatching that meets job specs. 
• Thing 22: Volunteering to get experience 

Week 17 - (10th October) Final reflection 

• Thing 23: What have you learnt and where do you want to go from here?

Once you've finished

• Feedback and certificates (certificate sign up ends on 30 November 2011!)
  

There are some great guest bloggers lined up to contribute to the programme - details of those to follow soon!