1. EdITLib – This blog feed is sponsored by AACE (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education) and is an association through which many of my peers and myself are active. One of the current, primary topics of discussion on the EdITLib blog is social media. As I am currently writing a chapter on social media for our Introduction to Computer class, this site is extremely timely and relevant to my work on this project.
2. U Tech Tips – This blog feed is particularly relevant to educators working with Web 2.0 tools. I am the project leader for a new, instructional technology orientation/training project at my campus. I am hoping to use the U Tech Tips site as one of the alternative training sites for our instructors. This is much need to update the technology skills of our campus teachers. This site is full of clean and simple instructional information. It also links to many YouTube educational modules.
3. Faculty Focus – This site is designed for higher education administrators, faculty, and student affairs departments. It is published by Magna Publications with content focusing on higher education learning and teaching activities. Many of us receive the e-newsletter in our email and regularly share content and articles from it. In particular, our current interests from the newsletter center around learning community concepts. It is a concept being implemented with the new orientation/training module and is also the topic of my Action Research project.
4. Gifted and Talented in the 21st Century – This may seem a strange feed in which for me to be interested because I am a teacher of higher education and this is a site about child education; but, it is the very topic of this site that interests me professionally. As I am considering a particular type of change of venue to private, K-12 education in the future, technology and the K-12 classroom interests me significantly. It is a topic of which I keep abreast as I move along my educational pursuits. The impact of my research will be needed in my professional future.
5. Go2Web20 – This is a feed I came across during my research on social media. It is also a site I use for creating new classroom content from current and entertaining Web 2.0 environments. I have used it recently for my campus classes and will be using again for this course and in my next blog post.
I love the collaborative and collective nature of these feeds and sites.
Thanks for the Gifted and Talented link. It's a topic that I am researching more as we are configuring our program at my K-5 school.
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