News links

Draft

Purpose

Below you will some a selected list of links that will help you keep in touch with news about educational technology and related fields. Most of these have RSS feeds.

Not really complete, but most links should help you keeping in touch - Daniel K. Schneider 13:09, 7 July 2008 (UTC).

e-learning and educational technology blogs

Here is a short list of alphabetically sorted not so well documented URLs of interesting blogs. Consult the blog roll (list of links to other blogs) to find more blogs.

• A poke with a sharp stick. David Carter Tod's blog. He is a instructional technologist.

• 2¢ Worth. David Warlick's Blog.

• E4innovation. Grainne Conole's Blog. She is Professor of e-learning at the Open University.

• eLearningNews. Martin Vögelis blog/forum (in German).

• eLearning Technology. Tony Karrer's blog. He is CEO of an eLearning (and other development) company.

• E-Learning Queen Susan Smith Nash's Blog.

• elearnspace. George Siemens, Founder and President of Complexive Systems Inc.

• SocialTech. Josie Fraser's Blog. She is UK-based consultant for social & educational technologies

• Informal Learning Blog. Jay Cross's blog. He has an eLearning/technology company.

• Mohamed Amine Chatti's blog on learning management, knowledge management, communities & networks, knowledge ecology, Web 2.0, social software (social media), personal learning environments. He is a PhD student at Aachen.

• The Ed Technie. Martin Weller's Blog. He is a Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University in the UK.

• D'Arcy Norman's Blog. He is an educational technology developer at the University of Calgary

• OLDaily Stephen Downs and friend's News letter.

• Edtechpost. Scott Leslie's blog. He is an educational technology researcher and emerging technology analyst.

• ElearningPost. Maish R Nichani's Blog.

• Adventures in Educational Blogging Susan Sedro's blog. She is a tech coordinator in a Singapore school.

• Learning.Now. At the crossroads of Internet culture & education with Andy Carvin, HiTech consultant.

News from larger organizations

• JISC e-Learning Focus. News from the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The e-Learning Focus site aims to provide a route into the e-Learning Programme for the wider community.
• News Items from the Commonwealth of learning
• Thot. Nouvelles de la formation à distance. A commercial canadian service (News are free).

Social computing, technology and society

• Tim O'Reilly Radar. He is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc. Produces lots of good technical books.
• Data unbound. Raymond Yee's blog. He is a data architect, consultant, trainer. Wrote a book about Web 2.0 mashups.
• Pasta&Vinegar. Nicola Nova's mind/tech bazar from outer space. He is a User Experience researcher at the LIFTlab think tank (and an graduate of TECFA's master in educational technology. (Yes this is an advertisement - DKS).

Publications (new articles)

• Educational Research Journals, a table of contents for various educational and psychological journals
• elearning-reviews provides those interested in research on elearning with concise and thoughtful reviews of relevant publications. (RSS feed.

Humour

• PHD Comics.com (for most of us)
• MakeBeliefsComix (if you are an active person).

Software

• To post news and technology like blogs or news engines can do. There exist special "blog farms" like Edublogs.org.

Links of links

• List of journals with RSS feeds (including an OPML file).
• Top 100 Education Blogs (2006).