I LOVE this website....

This website gives an almost whimsical look at brain-based-learning.

I especially noted:

"Traditional schooling, however, often inhibits learning by discouraging, ignoring, or punishing the brain’s natural learning processes."

After reading this I realized there is no mention of student past experience having a impact on learning ability. I do think that past experience has a very large part to play in the learning classroom whether it be traditional or e-learning. I mentioned this in my blog response.

http://www.funderstanding.com/content/brain-based-learning

Wednesday - another good blog

This blog about learning - that includes a link to this paper, http://eduforge.org/docman/view.php/7/17/Evaluation%20of%20LMS%20-%20Part%20II.pdf,
echoes what we are learning and builds on what works with e-learning and distance learning. I found both Krauss' and the link terminology a bit foreign since I am not an educator in the formal sense, so reading it and metagonitively looking up definitiions helped me greatly. This gives me a wider door to understanding pedagogies. I think some of you might like it also.



http://ideas.blogs.com/

The TIME Magazine Article

You can click on the post title or on the link below!

In my group discussion question this Week 2 I referenced an article from TIME magazine in the 1997's and found it online. Albeit a bit lengtly, but interesting.


http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985854-1,00.html

IDT Terrific Link # 3

That's me at Halloween !!!


Wowzee- This #3 website is great!! Click on my post title to go there...

I just happened on it and it's terrific -- all kinds of suggestions about clip art, creating breaks, composition, diversity, samples. I always would sweat bullets over what was PC and diversity acceptable when I would add bells and whistles in my training - I think this is terrific 'cause I like to make my training visually attractive and even a bit controversial! As a past trainer of customer service in the hospitality industry there's nothing like being a squeaky wheel about an hour after lunch when everyone wants to dose off!!

I'm still on the hunt today for more website 'treats' -- worked this Saturday morning at Walden helping prospective students who are trying to decide what MS program they wanted. I, of course, always bore them to death with my repetitious, yet true, reviews of what we do in class.

How many of you reading this who are in my class are getting your MS or your Certificate? Just wondered...


Back to discussing my newly found and almost 'fav' website -- if it doesn't come through correct, let me know -- please? I seem to want to find more information about the composition of curriculum, accompanying graphics, multi-media P-zazz and how to keep my viewer engaged. Anyone have comments as to that?

Keep thinking - but not too hard - it's Saturday. A virtual IDT hug to you all!!!

Terrific IDT site # 2

Wikipedia -- just click on this post's heading and you'll get there!

Ok...I know that Wikipedia is always looked at with raised eyebrows and a comment or two that anyone with one brain cell could post a definition! Right? Which of course in my case made me want to see what 'they' said I was going to become.

DA-DUM -- take a look. Good definition based on what we are learning and I like their terminology that we create an 'intervention' to enhance the transition from beginning to end of an instructional design model. Also appreciate the fact that they have included ADDIE!!

Oops..brain getting 'addled' -- will be posting again later...

IDT websites That are Terrific

This Instructional Deisgn websit, http://www.instructionaldesign.org/, is just chock full of a variety of useful items for future and present Instructional Designers. I've spent quite a while reading it and find that it spans a wide horizon of resources from blogs, websites, books and people. I wonder if any of you in class have read or know of any of the pictured designers and/or books feataured? Would like to know that.

I have several more links to add after this posting. I regularly read lots of blogs but actually creating one in our class is quite an amazing adventure. Even though I work at an online university - many of my colleagues are not bloggers and are quite interested in what we are doing in class.

I'll be back!!!!

RSS Added

Wow - I managed to get the RSS added. Whew! While that was certainly a learning experience thanks to 'youtube' and google reader there is more to go so I'm back to figuring other things out tonight -- and watching the Suns game on TV. Ya'll come back now, ya'hear!!!

Genesis of a blog

If you are reading this then you are probably a classmate. If you stumbled upon this blog because it has the word 'stitch' in it then welcome - and here's what's happening at 'Stitching a Blog'. I am a graduate student at Walden University in Instructional Design and Technology. This blog is an assignment. So far so good. I'm a passionate needlepointer - hence the 'stitch' idea in the title. Good blogs take time to not only build mechanically but to grow and mature with the ideas posted by you - the reader. So please feel free to post your thoughts - keep it clean, kiddos!!! Thanks for reading and WATCH THIS BLOG for new and exciting bloggy things to come!!!