I thought I'd start off with a statement of intent (with thanks to @fgraver - see my third specific step). So here it is:
I want to be better able to to use digital media to engage with the students of my profession whatever their apparent distance from me (geographical, temporal, cultural) and to have a deeper understanding of the links between education and digital culture so I have the tools to learn effectively from future experience.
To achieve this I will:
- participate as fully as I can with the course, contributing at least two blog posts a week and also using Twitter - but specifically engaging directly with other participants.
- focus my participation on achieving my goal.
- steal shamelessly (but of course with acknowledgment) the great ideas of my fellow MOOC members (and of course faculty!)
- produce a final digital artefact that is relevant to the themes of the MOOC but is also reusable for my wider goals