My head is full of ideas about elearning at the moment. The growth of the internet gets faster and faster as seers have always predicted. I got into this by looking at lots of the sites which are really blogs, such as Jane Knight's Jane's Link of the Day, Will Richardson's Weblogg-ed and Tony Karrer's eLearning Technology.
Will writes an education blog and most of his ideas and enthusiasms are practical and classroom related. Jane and Tony both come from a business perspective. Jane regularly has items of interest in her daily pick - I enjoyed Cappuccino U last week for instance. Hers is a good starting point. Tony has a very clear way of writing his blog, simple but inspiring.
I was very taken with the idea from Will, picked up on (here) that teachers must be users. I have widened the range of Web 2, collaborative, things I have been doing on the web, because this is where a big part of the future of elearning must be. As well as blogging, I have been using Moodle, to which my college is migrating from Blackboard, a great step forward if teachers can grasp the opportunities for collaborative learning it offers. I have been using RSS feeds, and would like to add one to the What's New page. I have been playing with del.icio.us and browsing Utube, Myspace and Flickr.
Some of this must get reflected in posted links. I am trying to rejig the ILT page but haven't found the formula yet.
I am finding it hard to punctuate elearning properly: it could be e-learning, elearning, eLearning, Elearning and others.
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Hi Chris I like your Skills for Life Blog. I know what you mean about punctuating e-learning(which is my preference). A colleague from Bolton University who is looking at social networking in conjunction with CPD e-portfolios also introduced me to del.icio.us this week. He is also using the social networking browser http://www.flock.com/
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