WEEK 1

I will be researching 5 different sites on the web that I am interested in, and also allow me to learn something. Whether it be in the form of a tutorial, a video, or just plain text in an article like format. I will post the URLs to the five sites that I find on this blog page, so you can visit them and see what you think.

http://www.flashmint.com/I figured I would toss in a site that I use often actually that gives me ideas and inspiration at times for ideas on designing whatever site I may be working on at the time. This site gives you the oppurtunity to browse different coding languages, ways to design the look of a site using the tools offered with that particular language. From html, to Flash, to CSS, to WordPress themes. Take a look and I bet you will find some interesting ideas and come up with some cools designs for whatever site you may be building. Even though this site may not be tutorial based, or based on e-Learning, it is a way of handing out ideas to the users and offering different ways of looking at a topic. And it all begins with brainstorming!

http://tutorialblog.org/12-javascript-image-galleries/Here is an interesting web site blog that I found that has a variety of different links to different types of tutorials, that do that same thing depending on what you are looking for. In my case, just now I was browsing for simple javascript image galleries, and found this blog that has links to all sorts of different image galleries that use javascript in different ways to create different looking image galleries.

http://www.w3schools.com/Xml/We all know w3 schools most likely since we have attended AI. This site has helped me countless times. Not only do they have great explanations of how something works, but there tutorials are excellent also. They tutorials they have on their site allow the user to input their own code and see how its affected right on the page. They can interact with the code in their own way, which allows a level of comfort and understanding that a normal video, or plain text cannot offer. w3schools has all kinds of different coding languages that are offered to help users. Its easy to navigate, and find what you are looking for, and most likely, come out with a better understanding of what you are learning. I use w3schools mostly to see examples of how some code works, and then take its usability and understanding, and create it to work for me.

http://www.elearnspace.org/

This second site is all about e-Learning. It gives tons of information on what e-Learning is, and how to incorporate it into your office, school, social life etc. It also has several links to schools, or companies that have already incorporated it into thier business, and how its affecting them.Here you can read about what it is, how to use it, and see the effects on several places that have tried it out. Its a great place to get the overall feel of e-Learning, and view it in a working sense, other than just trying to visualize it by thinking of some sort of anology.

http://www.slideshare.net/epanto/elearning-opportunities-for-lifelong-learning

This first site that I found, shows the evolution of e-Learning through a slide show. There is no audio, but the text given is enough to explain how its become what it is today. The video below is about how e-Learning has evolved and the differences that have occurred from the recent past, till now.