Most of the time, when you are logged into LWPS, you will be creating, reviewing, reflecting upon and revising your lifework/career planning posts in your personal blog. In the beginning, we will encourage you to view posts in the "New member!"² community to learn about the features and functions of LWPS, and to consider recommendations for posts we think you should create.

As your blog develops, we hope you will see how important it is for you to periodically review and revise key posts in your personal blog so they reflect who you are at that moment so you are prepared for those inevitable unplanned events³ and transitions⁴ in your life.

Soon after you join LWPS, we will recommend that you explore the Seven (7) life stages of CD⁵ community to read about NCDA's policy about age-appropriate career development (CD). Next we will recommend that you explore the LifeWork Planning process⁶ community to learn about an eight (8) step decision-making model. As your blog matures, we will then ask you to review the Dreams; Visions; Bliss; Your Voice⁷, and Destiny, and Spirituality communities.

Below is a little more descriptive information about each of the superscripted links above. (Each core community is under development and the per-centages (pp%) indicate their approximate level of completion. My posts that are less than 40% complete are private while I develop them.)

After you click each community link below you will notice changes in the right sidebar. The "Brief Description" box under "Profile Owner" and the list of "Members" will be different and unique to that community.

1. If you want to see Sally's, Ed's and my communities, just click on each name, then look in the right sidebar under "Owned communities".


2. New member!: (40%) Learn about the features and functions of LWPS, and consider recommendations for posts we think you should create. (See "LWPS help" link in upper right corner.)


3. Plan for and make your luck: (20%) Organized around Dr. Krumboltz's and Dr. Levin's book "Luck Is No Accident". Be prepared and "make the most of happenstance in our life and career." Study the ten (10) myths about planning your life and career.


4. Transitions: (20%) Share with other LWPS members your experiences of considering a transition, starting one, being in a transition and completing one.


5. Seven (7) life stages of CD: (20%) The development of any person's career takes place over most of his/her lifetime in seven (7) life stages according NCDA's policy about age-appropriate career development (CD)..


6. LifeWork Planning process: (20%) This is a variant of several well known multi-step decision making processes. This is probably the most important community in LWPS.


7. Dreams; Visions; Bliss; Your Voice: (20%) The motto of LWPS is "Make your dreams your LifeWork". Most of us got a glimpse of career planning when someone asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. Soon, we found oursleves imagining what we would do if we had all the money we needed and we began to dream of the perfect job. This community will take that dreaming thru developing our passions into visions and finding our voice and following our bliss until we discover our LifeWork and our destiny (20%). See also Dr. Ed Colozzi's community on Spirituality (40%).
   

You may also be interested in these communities.

1. LifeWork Portal: (20%) - Your LifeWork Portal post is where you collect of links to ALL of your posts so you can easily find them.


2. National Career Development Guidelines: (20%)


3. Career Information Delivery Systems (CIDS): (20%) When you start your job exploration, you will want to spend some time here learning the state-based Career Information Delivery Systems.


4. ePortfolios: (20%)


5. Career Development Forums: (20%)


6. Homeschooling: (20%)


7. Questions: (20%)

• Site Map of posts related to the three (3) seeded webspaces created when someone registers.

A blog is a collection or concentration of posts. (More about posts.)

As an LWPS member, you have your own personal blog. No one but you can add a post to your personal blog, except an LWPS administrator.

You and others can create community blogs which will have a specific purpose or focus. (See this post for guidelines.)

Most community blogs are public and any LWPS member can post to them. You can create restricted community blogs and limit who can read it or add posts to it.

Go to the next milepost of A blog is a collection of posts or return to this milepost you were in the Roadmap.   

Please read the following before you decide to register.

LifeWork Planing Services (LWPS) is ...

1. a one-of-a-kind free (for basic services) e-learning social networking community blogging platform


2. where you will record, review, reflect upon and revise private, semi-private and/or public posts that contain key information about yourself (like "My values", “My interests”, “My accomplishments”, “My Functional Transferable Skills”, “My …”, etc.) that you will use in career/lifework planning activities to make considered and informed career decisions that will make your dreams your LifeWork. We will encourage you to link all of these posts you create into your most important post that we call your "My LifeWork Portal" (LWP). Here is mine. You will start off creating a much smaller and simpler LWP. 

Everyone should find LWPS to be useful and valuable, but it is only attractive (and therefore useful) to you if ...

1. you understand the subtle distinction between a job, an occupation, a career and what I call LifeWork, AND


2. job satisfaction, quality of life, work/life balance, knowing your calling, and making your dreams your lifework are important to you, AND


3. you know that one of the prerequistes to achieving that is 1) developing a deep understanding of yourself (values, interests, skills, etc.) and 2) making informed and considered career decisions, AND


4. you know that writing that information down and collecting it somewhere is the only effective path to that understanding and decision making, AND


5. you know that easy access to that information is critical so you can periodically review it, reflect upon it and revise it as needed, AND


6. you will consider or you are eager to share your lifework planning knowledge and experiences with others to assist them in their lifework planning activities, AND


7. (if you started one) you will consider converting or augmenting your paper portfolio into an electronic portfolio, AND


8. you have a strong interest in the Internet and enjoy using it (or are eager to learn), AND


9. you have or are considering creating accounts on social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, etc., and you now see the need for your own personal blog for lifework/career planning activities, AND


10. you use your computer to access the Internet more than an hour a day (or you intend to soon), AND


11. you understand (or are eager to learn) a few basic html commands (hyperlinks, lists, etc.) to develop your blog including a one page summary of who you are at this instant, AND


12. you want all of this in one (free - for basic services) platform for the rest of your life, AND


13. you are willing to be patient with LWPS since it is a work-in-progress and constantly evolving, AND


14. if you are under 18 years of age 
    
    
    1. your parents approve and hopefully participate, and
       
    
    
    2. your parents are willing to let you use their e-mail address to receive e-mail notifications of comments to posts and announcements from LWPS, or they approve of you using your own e-mail address, and
       
    
    
    3. you have invited your school counselor to participate.
    
    

then LWPS may be right for you and you should check out the LWPS Roadmap where there is a link to the registration webpage.

If LWPS is not for you, we hope you will mark your calendar to visit us again in the future and we wish your the best.

If you are a registered LWPS member and have decided that LWPS is not for you, just add a comment to this post that says "Please delete my account".

Click your browser's BACK/Return arrow to return to the post that brought you here, or return to

• "lifeworkps.com" main home page


• the Roadmap Before you register.


• About LWPS


• Getting started with your LWPS account


• The four (4) most important aggregating posts in your personal LWPS blog.


• Site Map of posts related to the three (3) seeded webspaces created when someone registers.


• How to use this Homeschooling community in LWPS

Please read this message about the status of this and other LWPS posts.

Organizations

• The College of Continuing Education at the University of Minnesota, plus a two (2) page PDF
  

Individuals

• 7/15/09 - Lifework Alliance


• 7/3/09 - Jan Hively  site:www.cce.umn.edu hively lifework
  


• 6/20/09 - http://www.ronirvine.net/index.html


• yourlifework.com
  


• www.lifesworkllc.com/
  

  The mission of Life's Work is to encourage and help the motivated individual to discover his/her purposeful life, as manifested through vocation and/or avocation.
  
  One's life purpose, sometimes referred to as Calling or Destiny, is one's unique contribution to the world that uses the whole self fully and gives life passion, fulfillment and meaning. Those who elect to explore their life's calling are invited to take their unique journey.
  
  The journey itself is of supreme value and must be initiated by the individual, within an understanding, yet focused, coaching relationship.
  
  Central to the process of Life's Work is the development of consciousness and the emergence of an ethic based upon a respect for the mysteries and the vitality of the human soul (psyche).

  
  
  


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1. http://www.teachers.gov.uk/development/index.cfm?pageID=84
   

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About... series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes:



* What it is

* How it works

* Where it is going

* Why it matters to teaching and learning



Use ELI's 7 Things You Should Know About... briefs to:



* Enhance faculty development activities

* Open a dialogue with senior administrators about emerging technologies and their implications for your institution

* Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies



7 Things You Should Know About...pieces provide quick, no-jargon overviews of technologies and related practices that have demonstrated or may demonstrate positive learning impacts. Any time you need to explain a new learning technology or practice quickly and clearly, look for a 7 Things You Should Know About... brief from ELI.

The National Career Development Association (NCDA) has approved a Career Development Facilitator Curriculum which is described in this NCDA webpage.

An NCDA approved eLearning curriculum is rapidly becoming a popular option for those finding it difficult to travel to classes.

The following elearning and Distance Credentialed Counselors [1] have found the LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) blogging platform to be a useful and valuable auxiliary communication and collaboration tool augmenting their face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, and e-mail.

You will onl be able to view "public" information in the links in the table below. There are many other posts in the following personal/professional and community weblogs that are restricted and not visible to the public.

Course Title	Course community Profile, and community weblog	Instructors Profiles, weblog, mailbox and friends
eCDF	eCDF community Profile eCDF community weblog	Sally Gelardin: Profile, weblog, mailbox, friends
		Roberta Floyd: Profile, friends
Spokane GCDF	Spokane GCDF community Profile Spokane GCDF community weblog	Deb Crapes: Profile, weblog, mailbox, friends
[your-career-development-course here]

Legend:

• A community Profile is equivalent to a main webpage that describes attributes about that community.
  
  
• A community weblog is a collection of posts created and maintained by the members of those communities.
  
  
• Instructor webspaces
  
  
  
  • An instructor's Profile contains personal, biographical and ePortfolio-like information.
    
    
  • An instructor's weblog is a collection of their public, private and restricted posts.
    
    
  • An instructor's mailbox is a public post where any registered LWPS user can add a comment to begin a short dialogue.
    
    
  • An instructor's friends is a public listing of the names and pictures of people who wish to be associated with the instructor.
    
    

Pete Hubbard (Founder of LWPS and technical advisor) : Profile, weblog, mailbox , friends

If this implementation/use of LWPS interests you, please review this post to get preliminary information about using an LWPS community for your class(es).

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