The Doorway To Learning Communities

This post is dedicated to the development of my own transformation into an Instructional Designer through Walden University. As part of my journey into the Instructional Design world it is a requirement to develope and maintain a public, searcahble blog as a means to creating an online learning strategy utilizing for myself and my classmates. I ahve been struggling through this process with great anxiety as I have searced and read blog after blog in order to develop a list of potential blogs I would find useful in my own personal growth as an e-educator. With the staggering number of pssible sites I could use and cite as resources for my growth, I am growing even more frustrated. However, I was able to scan through a few sites I might find helpful in my journey.

Some examples of helpful sites are as follows:
http://www.iddblog.org/

http://ideas.blogs.com/

http://etrainertalk.com

Contained within these sites there is any number of experts and laymen alike, posting helpful and isightful articles, resources, and personal entries imparting the knowledge necessary for becoming a "better" Instructional designer. Helpful postings can provide information on better presentations to debates over cognitive learning v. behavioral learning and even what elearning in the future will look like. Also,users can find tips to designing elearning opportunities for a wide variety of audiences, utilizing the latest and greatest tools or manipulating lessons to follow accepted learning strategies.

Since I am new to this method of disseminating information, I am finding things a little overwhelmming in regards to ease of navigation from one resource to the next. Through no fault of any of the sites I have chosen to follow, but through my own naivity find the searching process a little difficult. However, I will need to "chalk" this one up to my inexperience.