Blog Assignment: The Doorway to Professional Learning Communities

 The following sites are all sites that I think might be helpful as I continue my career in education and as an Instructional Designer. Some of the sites are from the Supplemental Resource List, but some are from the course readings or my own independent search. I will give a brief description of what I believe the usefulness of each site is and how I plan on using each site as a continue my career.


http://www.iddblog.org//
The instructional design and development blog will be a useful site that will help spark ideas on how I might incorporate technology into my career, the classroom, and in my daily life. The site is helpful because it seems to have a large amount of information that is broken into manageable pieces. The Search tool is also very helpful. I feel that as I continue learning the tools of an Instructional Designer I will be able to contribute my responses to some of the posts I find on this site.

http://en.wordpress.com/tag/instructional-design
I found the wordpress site helpful as well, but it took a little more work on my end to find what I thought was useful information. It is great that this site pulls a ton of different Instructional Design blogs together in one place, but this also makes the user do a lot of sifting to find what they need. It did seem like a lot of the blogs dealt with Instructional Design coursework. This might be helpful, since I will be going through some of the same struggles.


http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/
I love this site! I was an elementary school teacher for 5 years, and now I work for an educational publishing company. I can see myself using this site frequently in order to stay current on what is happening in schools. What are the issues that teachers are facing? How can I help them given my current role?


http://ideas.blogs.com/
The author of IDEAS is obviously someone with a lot of experience in instructional design that I can learn from. I clicked through some of the material linked to this site and found many useful topics. I watched a presentation on Instructional Design that the author created. I imagine I can use this site as a resource to learn more about how Instructional Design is shaping our world.