Why I am a Educational Technology Teacher

As a part of my first assignment I have found this blog to be interesting, especially in the way the site was created.

Why I am a Educational Technology Teacher

http://ihancock.edublogs.org/

Another link I bookmarked was a Dr. Mike, who
http://drmikessteakdinner.com/

"Here’s My First Five Tips For Writing Better Blog Posts — What Are Yours?"
 from Sue Waters, who apparently helps bloggers, everywhere.

I went through the http://edublogs.org/ and was heartened at how easy it was to open a blog but not too excited about colon detoxification or some of the other ads. I wondered if I wanted to have the students of my parents sign onto it, but MSN.com has ads for tooth whitening that aren’t so wonderful, either.


http://jjortiz.edublogs.org says his purpose is to share lesson plans, and resources, as well as other things. I find that I am interested in those things, so I followed that link. I followed it, then realized that I had seen it before, I think, at Walden when we were asked to vote for a good presentation. I followed it, and realized that he was mainly interested in photography. If I can still contact him I will, because I have difficulty adding photographs to presentations. In my classroom, and in Instructional Design, knowing how to do link photographs would certainly make things more interesting.

I next visited this blog http://ihancock.edublogs.org/ 2007/10/17/why-i-am-a-educational-technology-teacher. This time I bookmarked it and added it to my blog page as a link because I found it interesting that he designed so detailed a blog site. He even had a game. If I were to put links to games on a blog or website parents could interest the children in homework and they could participate with my students and learn with them! I particularly like MathBrain.com and Starfall.com.

Following the forums for Instructional Design and Technology I found, and bookmarked.

http://drmikessteakdinner.com Dr. Mike’s site is very interesting and intimidating, because he seems to be an expert in so many things. I found him because the blog topic was following was “What’s a URL/label?” from another neophyte. I found that Dr. Mike is a volunteer who helps people navigate through technology. His is a very useful site to keep!

Most useful was that of a Ms. Sue Waters, from Australia, who seems to help people understand blogging and blog sites as well. http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org. I plan to spend quite a bit of time learning from her sites.

I am very grateful to have found three site: Dr. Waters, Dr. Mike’s , and the edublogs.org site, as well.

The most encouraging blog I visited, however, was that created by Walden student, Crystal Hill. Crystal works at Fort Gordon, Georgia, a place I visited many years ago when I was a new lieutenant in the Signal Corps. It is interesting how connections work.


Her blogging site is:
http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/

Designing For the Future

I am a student in an Instructional Design and Technology class.

I am amazed about how many elements go into IDT.  Last semester we studied organizational change and how leaders to manage changes.

I am looking forward to learning about how people learn. 

I am also looking forward to reading the discussions and blogs from my fellow students.