The Doorway to Professional Learning Communities

This is my virgin voyage when it comes to blogging.  I have to admit, I am so far quite fascinated at the wealth of information that is out there!  I am pretty sure I have run across blogs when doing research in the past, but had no idea what their purpose or their function was.  Without a doubt, these blogs will be helpful in my current occupation.  In this post, I will highlight and discuss one of the blogs I have come across.  Links to the blogs I have discovered are listed below in My Blog List.

Out of all of the blogs I read through, I found the Minute Blog to be most helpful for my current occupation.  Because a portion of my job is developing eLearning materials, I am always looking for new ways to present my ideas to administration, new tools to design my materials, and ways to make learning fun.  This blog had all of those components.  In addition, it had a link to an interesting article about learning styles called “Think You're An Auditory Or Visual Learner? Scientists Say It's Unlikely”.   This gave information about how they are finding teachers should not target student’s learning based on a learning style.  Because I deal with such a wide variety of learners as a corporate trainer, this has always been a question I have had.  This article intrigued me because I have always thought of myself as a “visual” learner. 

In addition to some great free tools, the blog also gave some information on the ADDIE model.  Recently, I have been asked to lead the implementation of a new software program for internal use.  I have been battling how to approach this.  The blog gave a link to Creating e-Learning from Inception to Evaluation.  This pdf file provides a quick glance at the ADDIE model.  I am still, however, unsure if I will be using this approach.  If you have any ideas that would be helpful instead of using the ADDIE model to get me started with a project plan, please let me know!    

All of the blogs I have listed in My Blog List have good information.  I found it very useful that one blog led to another blog, and so on.