Goals for the upcoming year

My personal game making goals have to do with me being much more proficient in Flash. It seems that I have forgotten everything that I used to know about Flash. I know that this is my own fault - 'if you don't use it, you lose it'; that is what has happened with me. I hope to develop my skills across the board with Flash, from drawing to Action Script.
I also plan to start out differently, students will be given highly detailed assignments and only a certain amount of time to complete them in the beginning. They will be required to post a blog at least once a week. SInce the class will be 90 minutes on alternating days. I would like to have the students complete their games by late January.
I will also post subject matter that their games can be about. That list I am still working on. Students will be in teams of two.
That is the plan so far...