SIM Professional Development Leader Public

Purpose Statement for SIM Professional Development Leaders (PDL)

The University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning’s (KUCRL) International Professional Developers Network is led by the Director of Professional Development and supported by a core group of SIM Professional Development Leaders, who are certified SIM Professional Developers, grounded in the Partnership Principles and dedicated to the following leadership responsibilities: (1) engage in reciprocal guidance, feedback, and collaboration with KUCRL, (2) form the foundation of workgroup membership for continuous improvement, scaling up, and sustaining SIM, (3) facilitate PPDI and support apprenticeships, (4) serve as local leaders to expand and grow SIM regionally (5) provide shared leadership and collaboration opportunities among SIM network (Professional Developers and Specialists) within their state.

Before beginning this badge, review the PDL requirements in the Guidance Document on SIMville https://simville.ku.edu/becoming-pd-leader to consider if you would like to become a SIM Professional Development Leader (PDL). Then, review the evidence requirements and reflect on which knowledge and skills you need to gain prior to becoming a PDL. Have a dialogue with your mentor for this process to create a plan of action to gain these knowledge and skills.  After this, you will return here to Badgelist to begin uploading your evidence for this micro-credential badge.

How to earn this micro-credential badge

• Click the green “join this badge” button and sign up/sign in if needed.
• Post your evidence specified in the “Required Evidence” section by clicking on the blue “Post” buttons, or you can click into the Evidence section and post from there.
• Click on the "request feedback" button once you have completed entering evidence.  This will allow the committee to be notified to review your evidence.
  
• Note: Because of the amount of information posted, this micro-credential takes longer to review than others.  Please contact simpd@ku.edu with any questions you might have during the review process.

Technical Tips

Badge List provides a place to organize evidence of your work.  You may choose to type that evidence directly into a “Required Evidence” section (as when you post the name of your professional developer or a description or narrative about your work), but much of your evidence will be stored elsewhere (longer documents, video, pdf documents, images, spreadsheets, etc.) and linked into your badge.   

Video:  Upload video to a cloud-hosting site like Vimeo, or YouTube using privacy settings that provide a private link to view the video, keeping it unlisted on the public website.  You will then post the link to that video in the evidence section, along with any comments you wish to include.  

Documents, Image files, spreadsheets, PDF files, etc:  You will upload your document, image file, pdf, spreadsheet, etc. to a cloud-hosting site. You will then post the link in the evidence section, along with any comments you wish to include.  We have found Google Drive to be a really simple tool for accomplishing this, but Drop Box or File Dropper or any file storage site that gives you a link to your file works.    

To use Google Drive to post documents, images , spreadsheets, pdf, etc.: 

• Open Google Drive
• Hit the red “New” button
• Select “File Upload” and choose the file you wish to upload
• Click on “Share”
• Get Shareable Link
• Paste the link into your evidence section along with any comments you wish to include.

Communicate with other badge earners on the Badge Wiki 

Contribute to a current wiki:

• Click on the "View Badge WIki" button below this Badge Overview.
• Hit "Edit" in the upper right corner.
• Type into the Page Body.
• Hit "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page.

Create a New Wiki Topic

• Think of a one or two word title for your new wiki. Example: Hotel TIps.
• Go to the browser address bar above.
• Change current url by ERASING "wiki-instructions" and typing the name of your wiki:

From:
http://www.badgelist.com/sim/2015-sim-conference-participant/wiki-instructions
To:
http://www.badgelist.com/sim/2015-sim-conference-participant/hotel-tips

• Use a dash between words.
• Hit "return".
• "Start" the new wiki.
• Type in your message.
• Choose who can contribute to the wiki.
• Hit the "Create Page" button at the bottom of the page.

Contact simpd@ku.edu with questions.