Quoting the Ed/ITLib:

The Digital Library is a valuable online resource of peer-reviewed and published international journal articles and conference papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.

The AACE Digital Library enables users to:

* Conduct scholarly research.
* Keep current on the latest research and publications in their fields.
* Access and fully search to publications in an easy, searchable, and efficient manner.
* Maintain their academic interests in the area of information technology in education.
* Receive Table of Contents Alerts prior to publication.

Export capability is offered in the following formats:

* BibTex, compatible with LaTeX and similar TeX-based text processors.
* EndNote, compatible with EndNote and any application capable of importing references in EndNote format.

It also offers eBooks, presentations, and several featured & public collections – paperless resources! I just hope that this digital library shall also be included in my university library’s online subscriptions soon. This resource will be very handy especially in the field of educational technology.

Goals: Understand, Learn, Realize, Know, Appreciate, Be aware, Feel, Believe, Desire, Enjoy.

Instructional Objectives: Identify, Outline, Operate, Compute, Name, Detect, Volunteer, Write, Construct, Support.

For example, your topic is on Web Development:

G: Learn HTML programming.
O: Create a simple HTML.

G: Understand the various frameworks used in web development.
O: Operate on a specific framework in creating a website.

G: Know the different terminologies in HTML.
O: Name the different terms or concepts used in HTML programming.

G: Appreciate the beauty of web development.
O: Volunteer to present and demonstrate your own website in class.

G: Be aware of the different strategies on web development.
O: Detect and identify the methods used in developing a website.

For more examples, check out these references:

Portals, HTML5, learning objects, courseware development, short courses, workshops – name them all! This year’s going to be a very challenging one and exciting as well! So let’s welcome this year with a bang!

Happy New Year! Cheers to 2010!

Sadness? Well, I’ll just have to deal with this reality of paying for my tuition for the next 3-4 years. On the lighter side, I’ll just have to keep in mind that “everyone remains a student forever”.

Wish me good luck.

Here’s a sample of my presentation:

Surprisingly, delivering the talk was somewhat easy for me because I only have to illustrate and compare the transition of education’s components from the 1.0 to its 3.0 counterparts. Although it’s just my first year in my graduate studies in the College of Education and my first time to take up Educational Technology, I’ve been doing a lot of research already on such technologies and its usage in the academe. However, the hard part in it was the research process on getting the established definition for Education 3.0 because based on what I had found so far, the term can only be defined by describing the sum of its parts.

Also, here are the questions raised by my audience:

What will happen to the schools in Education 3.0? What are their roles then? Is there a standard criteria existing to evaluate if a school is using Education 3.0 already?

…well, what do you think?

I used to bookmark a lot of articles or links about computers, technology, open source, programming, etc. but now, another tag – education has emerged as I traverse another path as an educator and a graduate student of education. The same was true for my Twitter account; I’ve gained a lot of contacts that were also educators. In fact, most of the links I post on my Del.icio.us came from their updates on Twitter. This simply means that we can really use Del.icio.us for collective intelligence through websites and perhaps share them via Twitter.

Although I have a rich collection of bookmarks on my account already, there were still lots of bookmarks stored locally on my browsers that were not yet organized. Such bookmarks were considered as my “to read later” articles due to lack of time.

Well, perhaps sometimes it’s just so hard to keep up with the pace of the development of technology and the doubling of the exponential rate of information explosion. Here’s another take about the role of del.icio.us in education:

So, what do you think?

“Good teachers plan and they plan well” was the quote from EdTech that had really struck me. It was only at this point that I got really convinced that planning is not only a 1-time process but rather, planning includes rehearsing and rethinking of the overall instruction. Learning is not only a change in perception; it also promotes the formation of connections that makes a clear evidence of the processing of knowledge. These are taken in mind while getting more focused and more efficient to cover more topics in class. However, almost always, less is more. It’s always a matter of quality over quantity. I was enlightened that having more lectures doesn’t necessarily equate to good teaching because lecture may be the most used method but it is the very least effective method of instruction. Thus, I have to begin with the end in mind.

As a new teacher (and a new graduate student of Education), it was very challenging (and fascinating at the same time) to apply all of the lessons learned from my study loads into my teaching loads. Now I always remind myself that I have to be an inspiring teacher and model for my students. I have to induce active learning to transform my students and making them to learn to interact with others, with the learning materials, and with themselves. Why? Because change and transformation are what the education revolution’s all about.

Change is indeed inevitable and constant. In this new blog, I shall be writing my ideas and reflections on the field of education and technology that I will be learning from my experiences not only as an educator but also as a student. I also hope that starting with this very new post, I will not be encountering the so called blogger’s block ever again.

It’s now or never.