Friday, March 8, 2013

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning Blog Review

By digging a little deeper than my orignal toe-dipping into the world of blogs and wikis, with the help of ideas from Wilber's chapters from last week, I've found a really helpful blog called 21st Century Educational Technology and Learning. This blog, as you can tell from the title, explores an ernomous amount of information on technology as it applies to the classroom. What is truly exceptional about this site is that it very well organized, unlike many sites I ran into, and covers so much information.
First off, the organization is superb. Each post is rather clearly labeled, and many are a part of a multiple post, more general topic. This allows you to get at the information you want more easily. Also, within each post, the author is very good at breaking his rather lengthy posts up with headings and bullets points for easy reading and information locating.
Secondly, when I used the word "plethora" to describe how much information this blog contains, I think I may actually have used this overused word correctly this time. This blog is fit to burst with information, links, and ideas. Take the latest post as of the last time I looked at the blog for example. It actually lists 125 different specific uses for word clouds like Wordle. The author has another multi-part series of blogs that covers creative ideas for the digital classroom that's very lengthy and full to the brim with ideas and links to other sites and even one to a web seminar the author was hosting.
In all, if you can get over the author's frequent overuse and misuse of ellipses, you can find a lot of great, well-organized information on digital educational tools and ideas for using them in your classroom on the 21st Century Technology and Learning blog.

1 comment:

  1. Tyler,

    Thanks for sharing this blog. I think there are so many out there that it's hard to pick and choose. And some are just a mess to look at that they distract. I, too, liked the organizational pattern that this blog took. I will definitely follow.

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