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Learning Technology Blogs
As part of getting this new Learning Services blog going, we’ve been asked to link to a couple of blogs in our professional area, that we use a lot.
As an overview of the Learning Technology area, I’d always recommend subscribing to George Siemen’s eLearnspace blog. This is a very frequently updated record of most of the major developments in the area.
Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. It’s also the name of Dana Boyd’s blog which focusses on her work around social networks. She knows her stuff, and if you want links to some of her talks on the subject have a look at Dana’s Wikipedia page, and the best of Apophenia page.
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Two e-learning blogs I sometimes use.
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Here are a couple of blogs which I’ve found interesting and or useful over the past few months. The first is Janes e-learning pick of the day: http://janeknight.typdpad.com. Jane’s “Top 100” has signposted to unknown and reinforced known technologies and services.
The second is one I stumbled apon – and then got more interested as she wrote about virtual reality in health education – very interesting stuff: “Sarah’s Musings” at: http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/. Posts cover not only the technical aspects of using technology to teach, but also discuss pedagological issues, sometimes overtly, sometimes perhaps unconsciously. More recent discussions are around e-mentoring, and this is an area of great interest to myself in my daily work.
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My first blog post
I must admit I am rather apprehensive about using blogs, being new to the medium. I think though it will provide a useful method to promote resources and support services, and that I can use it as a means of enccouraging a closer researcher community within the University and identifying researchers needs.
