It has been over a month now since I finished my final MA ODE module. The results are due in a couple of weeks but I'm feeling moderately confident of a pass. I have been enjoying not having to study at the weekends, having time to cook and bake, spending a bit of time in the garden and generally looking after myself and my surroundings. I am even reading some books for fun ... The Mighty Book of Boosh and Nigel Slater's Eating for England.
That said, I am starting to feel a little bit itchy for some professional development now. I have vague plans to develop some Flash Actionscript 3.0 skills and have access to some online training at linda.com but I haven't actually got past the introductory videos yet which only tell you WHY you might want to learn it and not HOW things are actually done. My attempts at learning previous versions of actionscript have been fairly unfruitful in so far as I get to a certain point in the training and then get completely lost. At some point I seem to always miss something vital and end up deeply frustrated.
I also just read a blog post reviewing a book on Drupal for Education and ELearning. At the moment I have no real need to learn Drupal but it's something I am definitely interested in. My MA sparked my interest in all things open source (and gave me the confidence to stick-it-to-the-man with a eeepc that runs linux instead of windows but that's another story really) and I think having a bit of knowledge on the subject - even if i don't actually do anything with it - can only be a positive thing.
So, the next thing I need to do is come up with some kind of learning plan. Part of that plan is a career upgrade but these things take time, especially in the current job market. I also need to make some time for Actionscript 3.0 and Drupal learning.
Time to formulate a plan ...
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