Thank you for visiting my blog! This blog was first created in the fall of 2008 for my COML 509 class titled “Social Dynamics of Communication and Technology”. I simply used this forum to cut and past my paper into. The realization that my blog could become more then just a place to cut and past papers into came to me while exploring a presentation option for my COML 511 Module 2 Paper Project. Since the focus of my second class paper is forms of e-learning, I thought further development of my original blog could become a great forum to share information on the technical side of communication.
As you view my blog, I would like to draw your attention to items on the home page. First, if you scroll down, my second paper for Module 2 titled “Blending Technology into a Training Program” can be viewed. Next, on the right hand side of the screen are interactive links to better engage the people visiting the site. Currently there are four polling questions related to the topic of active e-training. Below the polling questionnaire is a list of communication blogs that interest me. Listed last is my video bar that is linked to YouTube. To me, YouTube is an amazing way for people to communicate with the outside world.
My goal in the set up of my blog’s main page is to illustrate different active e-learning options. For example:
1) Forms of Independent e-Learning are found throughout the blog. Currently, this is in the form of instructional learning via YouTube and my individual paper posted in the body of the main page. If the instructor has a way to record their lecture and download onto a computer, it can be uploaded to YouTube and shared with the participants.
2) Group-Based e-Learning is harder to demonstrate on the blog because everyone has to be interacting at the same time, but can happen. For example, if a group of people visited my blog at a specific time, and we wanted to discuss recent developments in the field of training and consulting, at least two things can happen. First, the poll on the right hand side can focus on questions to trigger the skill level of the participants. After participants answer the questionnaire, we can interact in the virtual chat room. I can also have video clips and/or a slide show on the blog that supports some of the discussion topics.
3) A Virtual Classroom can be organized similar to Group-Based e-Learning, except that not everyone has to interact at the same time. Participants can explore the blog on their own time.
4) Blended Learning can take place only part of the time through the use of a blog. Since Blended Learning alternates between virtual training, and onsite classroom sessions, the virtual training part can be organized to support the onsite classroom, or vise-versa, through quizzes, questionnaires, webcasts, and posting reading material and instructions
Once you have a chance to view my blog, I would appreciate your feedback! Please post your comments and let me know what you think. Thank you for your time!
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