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Strategies for Online Learning—Week 4, Assignment 3

  • Create a “vision statement” for your academic and professional life at this time. Discuss how your “present reality” coincides with that vision. Where do they match? Where does the reality fall short of or exceed your vision?
  • Discuss ways in which you WILL move your present reality toward your vision.

I desire to further my education to better serve my employer as well as to learn more about emerging technologies and make myself more marketable to other potential employers.

Presently, I am employed in my field of study, and have been for the past 4 years. I enjoy my work, and am pleased that I am currently pursuing education that will better equip me to better and more efficiently accomplish the daily tasks before me. However, with more knowledge, both broad and deep, in my area of expertise, I will be able to market myself more effectively to other potential employers. It will also enable me to better serve customers in the event that my own personal business grows large enough to wholly sustain my family and me.

In some ways, the reality of what I currently do at my present job matches my expectations; I wish to work in Web design, and that is what I do. But at the same time, there are areas where I know I need improvement. It is frustrating to me to know there is a way to do something, but not know how.

I plan to move my present reality toward my goals by continuing through The Art Institute’s Interactive Media Design Program. I also plan to continue to research and learn about emerging technologies through other online sources—blogs, news sites, research, etcetera.

Continue to work on your career portfolio and post a draft of your portfolio’s table of contents or outline…

Samples of Web site design work:

Transcripts of past college work:

  • Unofficial transcripts from University of Alaska Fairbanks
  • Transcript from Frontier High School

Writing samples:

Diplomas, degrees, certificates:

  • Diploma, Frontier High School

Newsletters:

  • Company-wide newsletter mention for Web site traffic record

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