Thursday, January 29, 2009

Blogs of Interest

For those of you in Dr. Barbour's 6230 course, I just wanted you to know that I'll be joining you with your posts. My apologies that I'm a little late on this one, but here are 3 blogs that I wanted to share with you.

1. Tipline - Gates' Computer Tips:
Jim is my educational technology super hero! No joke! I've learned from Jim in face-to-face training sessions, daily emails, blog posts, and other forms of communication. Jim is dedicated to the educational technology field, and now that he's "fully" (yeah right) retired, he has so much more time to share things with the world. Jim tries to blog daily about a computer tip or two. It's usually a website, but sometimes it's a news item or an Excel tip, etc. You can also find the archive of his tips going back to May of 2005. Please leave him a comment to let him know you were there and what you thought of the tip.

2. Clif's Notes I've only been viewing this blog for about 2 weeks now, and just love it! Clif posts information about Teaching, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Teacher Education, Professional Development, and Educational Research. They are short, quick and to the point. Definitely worth trying out for a month to see if you find it useful.

3. And yes...our President has a blog! Stay current and up-to-date with blog postings from the White House. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/ The White House Blog has been put in place with three main goals in mind: Communication, Transparency, and Participation.

2 comments:

Andrea said...

Thanks for your tip about posting the links on my blog. I was able to figure it out myself, but I hadn't even thought of it. After reading your posting on this topic, I also subscribed to the White House Blog, so thanks for that too!

Jim Gates said...

Bless you for saying such very nice things about me and my blog. I'm not sure about anything else that I may have suggested to you, but I'm SO glad you followed my suggestion (and maybe the suggestion of others, as well) to start your own blog. What a great way to document your learning as you work towards your Doctorate.

Next time you're in the area, drinks are on me!