Week 1: Insructional Design Resources

Week 1:  Instructional Design Resources

This week I am to write a blog entry providing a brief overview of three design blogs or resource sites from the additional resources for this week.  I have written one test blog in my life but so far it seems easy; the test will come in managing the blogs.

 http://edublogs.org/how-does-edublogs-compare/ is a blogging platform devoted to education. This site provides support from teachers, class blog management, and academic functionality.  Provides a very safe and secure environment with no adult content allowed and no exposure to other blogs.  There is limited access to others that limits its usefulness to those in education.

I am glad I checked out this sight after setting up my blogger account or I would still be trying to decide which to choose.  Edublogs is a powerful tool for keeping informed, searching for information, and just collaborating with others in the field of education.  In a primary or secondary school edublog would be ideal for students use.

I hope to continue working in the field of education in instructional design; edublog will be an essential tool for keeping informed of education trends and “news from the trenches”.  Knowing what is going on at all levels of an organization is important as well as keeping abreast of the changes at all levels.

The next site I looked at was http://ideas.blogs.com/ this site is on elearning strategies and instructional designs.  The title of the site is IDEAS: Instructional Design for Elearning Approaches.  I was unable to access the first two links given but when I scrolled down to Learning Object Articles I was able to open these links.

As the author, Ferdinand Krauss, states under the title of the blog this site is for reflections and insights on elearning strategies and instructional technology.  I briefly skimmed several of the links; the papers were a great resource.  I will definitely keep this link bookmarked.  I feel that I will use it a great deal as not only a resource for finding information I can see myself using it to ask questions and get answers from people working I the field of instructional design and technology.

http://en.wordpress.com/tag/instructional-design/ The title of this link is Blogs About: Instructional Design, which is exactly what you find.  A few of the Related Tags are eLearning Education, and Adult Learning.  If you know nothing about Instructional Design this is an excellent place to learn what it is and all the areas that instructional design covers. This is a forum for anyone with an interest in instructional design to share view points, papers they have written or would like to share, get new ideas, and ask questions.

I know that I will use this site a great deal in my studies and then as I start working in the field.  In fact I have gone back to the site twice and will follow one of the bloggers dilemma in her work.

Don’t bother me I’m blogging!