In researching web sites to subscribe to, I was torn between sites for music education and sites for instructional design, seeing as I’m trying to combine both of them in my every day job. I ended up subscribing to 17 sites that I find relevant. I have listed the three that I think will be the most useful in both technology in education, and instructional design.
Emerging EdTech
Kelly Walsh is the Director of Institutional Information & Technology at The College of Westchester in White Plains, NY. Each week, he writes an article discussing a topical issue affecting the use of technology in education. He has a number of well written PDF articles for readers to use, download and share, while the post index page provides a categorized archive of all the articles he has written for his blog. www.emergingedtech.com
Ozge Karaoglu’s Blog
Ozge describes herself as "a 20+ year old English teacher and a freelance teacher trainer", but online she is becoming very highly regarded for her technology blog. Ozge writes reflections on projects she does with students, and shares a huge number of online resources that teachers would find useful in the classroom. Her content is always new and original. This site is useful to me as an educator because it provides educational resources in technology that would benefit me in my classroom. http://ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org
Making Change
Written by Cathy Moore this blog posts practical ideas to help design e-learning for adult learners. Moore posts daily on Twitter, and provides links to other sites relevant to e-learning. It has articles on learning styles (quite relevant to our first discussion), lessons on how to create innovative slides and links on the latest books in the field of Instructional Design. This will be a sight that I visit quite often, because it is outside of the realm of education and more geared towards the adult, business learner. http://blog.cathy-moore.com/category/instructional-design/
Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteLove the colors you have chosen for your blog.
You've chosen some interesting blogs to follow. I agree that technology will pose many changes in how we create various instructional designs. We'll need to understand not just how to create good content, but we will also likely need to know how to physically adapt our projects to work with different technologies.
I like the idea of following blogs of people working in the field because with the rapid rate of change we deal with today, it will probably be the best way to keep abreast of what is happening.
I look forward to following your blog, Chris.
Cindy
hello Christina: I feel you. Nice work. I abandoned my site since Dec. as well, but we are back blogging. I will be following your blog for the next few weeks.
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