Prior to enrolling in Walden University’s Instruction Design Certification Program, I never took the time to educate myself on blogs. Thankfully, this week’s assignment has afforded me the opportunity to create my very own blog website. The following are brief summaries of 3 websites that I reviewed.
What a wonderful website! Educause is a non-profit organization whose mission is to further the advancement and promotion of education. The Educause website has a plethora of useful information for every imaginable aspect of learning! It even has information on fellowship awards and employment opportunities! I was particularly encouraged to see so many relevant blogs for my line of work. While perusing the website, I literally lost myself in all the information provided. Because my job involves teaching, evaluating, and developing educational materials for adult learners, I found several items of interest that would enhance my job requirements. As a result, the website has the potential of being an excellent resource and reference. The Educause website has definitely earned a place in my “toolkit” of references
IMS Global Learning Consortium, http://www.imsglobal.org/
The IMS Global Learning Consortium is a networking website that collaborates the efforts of leading institutions, suppliers, and governments in the advancement of technology and educational participation. It offers global resource sharing across through the use of various learning platforms. With so much media emphasis on the United States’ educational inferiority to other countries, I think IMS is an excellent means for bridging the gap. The website provides useful information on upcoming forums and training on pertinent modern day challenges. As an Instructional Design Specialist, one of the ongoing projects in my work setting is researching solutions for effectively delivering material to adult learners. Along those lines, the IMS website would be beneficial for me. Another point of interest is the fact that the website focuses on critical challenges concerning innovation, adoption and learning impacts. Each area is broken down into subtopics and more supporting information. I have bookmarked and subscribed to the IMS blog.
NspireD2 Learning Technology in Higher Education, http://ltlatnd.wordpress.com/
This website was created by Chris Clark, a Technology Integrationist for the University of Notre Dame. A blog is produced Mondays through Fridays. Mr. Clark’s goal is inspiring others to explore and integrate technological innovations into teaching and learning. My initial impression of the site was that it contained numerous links that opened the door to a wealth of information for me. Mr. Clark periodically posts blogs relevant to my worksetting. However, I found that only a few of the hyperlinked sources listed under his blog roll were helpful. The blog roll is linked to a newspaper columnist, a twitter page, and the blog sites of other colleagues. I’m sure that if I searched these hyperlinks long enough, my efforts would yield something. However that would not be practical or feasible. The most useful feature of his site is the archive link from which I was able to find several helpful blogs. I found one of the blogs, “2010’s Hottest Ed Tech Topics,” very useful and bookmarked it for future reference.
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