A blog is a personal website or
web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites. I
will be providing a critique to professional blog sites and professional
newsletter. I will be sharing my thoughts and views about each of the blog
sites and newsletter. I hoped that information that I provide will be helpful
and insightful to learners, business and instructional design users.
The
first blog site that I will be critiquing is by Cathy Moore- Save the world
from Boring Training. The site provides ideas for business to develop an
action- packed learning material for working adults. The blog site is very
active in keeping updated current events that are happening in instructional
design technology. The articles are dealing with learning styles, learning
activities that make learning fun and training ideas that provide
challengers to learners through decision- making scenarios and letting them
learn through experience. The blog site creator Cathy Moore also provides workshops
that help business in the US ans around the world with a e-learning blue print for instructional
designers. To create an action packed training: a) use visual approach to
instructional design makes collaboration easy. b) Replace dry information
with challenging activities and scenarios. c) Show how your project
creates real-world change. d) Choose media types that research shows work best.
e) Get the best results from any e-learning tool, including rapid tools. The
entire blog site was very informative in that it provideds a lot of great
learning tools that business and online learners can utilized. The workshops
are something that I will be taking advantage of in the future so that I learn
new training tools. This is a blog site that I will be visiting on a regular
basis because, it has great information that will help me in this course but
also in my future career.
The second blog is called IDDblog.
The blog is a service that is provided by the faculty of instructional technology
services at DePaul University. The sites primary goal is to provide information
on enhancing instruction through the use of technology. In my findings of this
site is that it is supposed to provide information to enhance instruction
through technology but the blog site does not provide any learning tools to
help enhance instruction. The site does not provide any new innovative
technology services that will help learners develop better techniques and
skills either for online learning or a busines. The blog site allows the instructors
from DePaul University to upload articles for students to provide them an instructor
perspective for students and other instructional design learners. The online
access the blog provides is great to the university of DePaul students where
they can have interaction with the instructors. The site does not provide
current technology tools such twitter, Facebook or an active newsfeed where you
can see daily current events that are happening in instructional design. The
site is very simple and plan and not very active. As I continue to learn and
grow in the field of instructional design technology this site is does not
provide the functionality or insight that will help grow into begin a better
designer.
http://www.iddblog.org/
The last is an instructional design
central which a professional site. The site is very inactive where they have up
to date articles that offer students, researchers, and working professional with
instructional design and e-learning related resource and information. The site provides
many resources for instructional design such as models and methods, programs
and degrees, conference, and e-learning tools. The site also is also current in
the technology though Facebook, twitter and LinkedIn where people can post
comments and apply for jobs through the professional site. I feel that this
site was very informative and provide a lot of information that I will use. A
site that I will often use because; it provides so much information that anyone
would could gain a perspective of begin an instructional design.
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