Meetings have started up again!

Thankyou to those who attended!

We talked about the changes to the PD requirements through VIT and the reflection process. We finished off the the meeting by working together to complete Validating Professional Development paperwork together!

We also spent some of the time on the library computers setting up Google and Microsoft Passpart accounts so the attending members could post messages on the blog and access the Skydrive. Getting our members to be a little more computer-savvy and be able to keep in touch with each other will help us all to keep our PD up to scratch!

Some suggestions that were made for future meetings have been taken on board.

At each meeting we will endevour to complete a professional reading, with discussion between members at the meeting. This was planned this time of course but it was a very big meeting! In the future though, for a while at least, we will finish each session by completing a Validating Professional Development form. This will help you get a jump-start to your PD portfolio as well as make sure everyone picks up on how to do the reflections for their own research into PD.

We will put the pro-forma we used for the reflections at this meeting onto our Skydrive, as promised, but we are going to run it past Dawn Colcott at VIT first. This will make sure you have a bullet proof pro-forma to work from.