Instructional Design and Development Blog of DePaul University - http://www.iddblog.org/
This blog provides information from the faculty staff of DePaul University located in Illinois. It provides information and updates on the latest technology, it's drawbacks and contributions to the field of education and how through its application can effect both student and teacher. This blog allows me to view instructional design and its effect in the field of education, which is how I primarily view instructional design to be used for. This site will help me see various models, some old and new, that are used to help students receive information and apply it towards the educational curriculum of various countries.
Instrucational Design Fusions - http://instructionaldesignfusions.wordpress.com/
This blog provides various degrees of information, examples and article references on the subject of instructional design through a different field. The blogs moderator shows the effect of instructional design in a different aspect, through the medical field, legal services and other fields that are outside of the standard classroom setting. This will provide me with information on how ID can expand almost any field that I may take my degree to.
Williams Instructional Design, LLC - http://williamsinstructionaldesign.blogspot.com/
This blog belongs to Mary Williams who is a contract instructional designer. She focuses on the different effects of technology and design and its effect seen through the changes of technology which is happening everyday. This blog would be useful for me by influencing me to stay up to date with the changes that occur all the time and how it applies to instructional design not only in the field of education but in the field of training for companies as well.
In reading a post under the Instructional Design & Development Blog, Ashanti Morgan pointed a different form of how instructors tried to make the visual aspect of learning effective for those that are trying to understand the concepts being taught to them. She refers to how professors would use theater majors to perform the subject being taught and video record these concepts so that they are better understood. Though this seems like an "old school" form of learning through visual means, I really believe this is a technique that can unify a school and should still be used today. This idea of "portraying' lessons can be "updated" by posting these videos on sites such as YouTube and it can benefit not only the class that is gaining the visual idea of the subject being taught but also improve the artistic movements or acting styles of those that are part of the theater field. This would also bring different schools from around the world together and provide them with seeing how other schools perform and in some cases apply the same learning matters just in different forms. It can help broaden students ideas and interests while maintaining a form of media that, though it could be considered "outdated", can still be modified to be applied to the different modes of media used in todays society.
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