My quest and passion for creativity has moved me to the direction of instructional design and technology. While hunting for interesting and concise blog to read for comprehension in order to produce a descent assignment, I stumbled upon quite a few fascinating ones that are just right for my expedition. In fact, I came to love the learning design theories principles by Mike Taylor, as it relates to this course. The science center blog was another favorites of mine since creating a science center is one of my agendas for the next school year. Finally, my dilemma of either finding a job in private or public school for next school year has made a step forward after reading my third blog, grass is greener. I hope you enjoy and learn something out of these three interesting blogs.
The first blog: Learning Design Principles by Mike Tailor takes you to the world of multimedia presentation on learning design principles. It clearly and vividly discusses eight learning principles with neat explanatory visuals. These learning design principles comprise with split attention principles - don’t split elements in space or time; the modality principle - narration plus picture, text plus pictures, and text; cognitive load principle - 2-4 elements of new information; redundancy principle - no repeats; coherence principle - no extras does not add to instructional goal; signaling principle - cues directs learners attention; segment principles - chunk into learner-paced segments; and pre-training principles - give learners main concepts first. In addition, you will also have access to Mike's e-portfolio, which is one of our major components in this course. This is a hands-on mind-on presentation that you will not want to miss. Love it!
Learning Design Principles
The second blog: Elementary Science Center Blog by Mrs. Mikegel is a neat science center ideas that elementary teachers together with parents would love to have access to. It consists of various elementary science topics from the beginning to the end of the school year. Some of these topics include the 5 senses, Living and Nonliving, Life Cycle, Rocks and Minerals, Day and Night, etc. It is organized for struggle-free browsing. In addition, you will find teaching tools, lesson & planning, curriculum, professional readings, and others. In my opinion, why reinvent the wheel while it is already invented for your easy access? Teachers and parents, please take advantage of this site and utilize it for the benefit of your students/children for the advancement of our communities, country, and globally as well.
Science Centers
The third blog: The Grass is Greener by an unknown teacher in DC, is his/her view about pros and cons in public and private schools. Personally, I leaned to this blog because I am in the same predicament presently. In my mind I feel trapped between looking for a job in private schools or stay and look around the public schools. As we all know, different people have different view of public and private school systems. Considering this post, I think I have found a piece of a puzzle to one of my personal questions. According to this post, the grass is greener under the feet of teachers in private schools because he/she feels there is freedom in private schools than it is in public schools. His/her description of public schools " a beast of decentralized system". Wow!
DC Teach
