Week One Assignment 1 - Application: Blog

 

Hello, and welcome to my blog. My name is Antonette
Harvey and this blog was created as an assignment for my EDUC6115:Learning
Theories and Instruction class at Walden University. I have never created a
blog before however this week I did research and found three useful blogs that
I will share with you. These blogs have relevant content that will help to
develop an instructional design professional regardless of whether they are at
the beginner stage like me or they are experienced professionals.

Blog #1 -  The eLearning Coach 

I visited this website that was created by Connie
Malamed who is a consultant, an author, and speaker in online learning and
visual communication. The eLearning Coach shares eLearning strategies,
practical content, product reviews, and resources including free templates to
help new and experienced instructional designers to design, develop and
understand learning, instructional design, and visual design. Connie also
provides sound advice to professionals who are thinking of transitioning their
careers as instructional designers and her site includes a podcast where here
speaks about eLearning and instructional design with several industry
professionals.

 

Blog #2 - The Articulate E-Learning Heroes Community 

When I visited this blog I notice that it's free and
you can use information and resources found on it in any project, regardless of
the tool you’re using. The Articulate E-Learning Heroes Community helps anyone
who has an interest in eLearning, it does not only have information about
articulate products on the site. Additionally, there is a large community that
develops persons and has eLearning jobs to improve technical writing skills.
The blog discussions are active and eLearning questions are answered quickly.
This blog also has a weekly design challenge that allows instructional
designers especially novices to have a safe place to practice their eLearning
design skills and get constructive feedback and provides a free eBook on visual
design for persons like myself who are not sure about visual design techniques.

 

Blog # 3 - Instructional Design that Works  

The Instructional Design and Academic Technology team
provides services, in direct support of the teaching and learning experience at
Meredith College, through the practical application of instructional
technologies and instructional design methods. Although this blog was created
to help Meredith College faculty and staff find solutions through training and
consultations in support of instruction and office productivity. It has several
useful resources for instructional design for any user to access along with
instructional tools and recommendations, topics on this blog range from
beginner to intermediate. I also found some useful articles on gamification
that my organization has recently introduced to us and software that I can use.