Second Post

It's been a while since I have posted on here, so I figured it needed an update. Since my last post, we have done the ADDIE model Instructional Design project. This project was pretty time consuming and took quite a bit of thought, but I think it actually gave me some good practice at designing an instructional unit by using this model. I do think the ADDIE model is an affective way to plan a unit becuase it really makes sure that you take a lot of things into account in plannin every phase of the unit. I just hope I can make myself look into this many details when planning my units in teh future.

I have spent some time today looking at different theorists for my theorist paper. There were only a few on the list of choices that I had actually heard of, or at least remember hearing of. I knew who Benjamin Bloom was, of course, since Bloom's taxonomy has been drilled in my head throughout my education classes. I had also heard of B.F. Skinner and his behavior research in some of my educational psychology classes. I ended up choosing Skinner becuase I was somewhat familiar with him and it seems fairly interesting to me. After doing some more research, it is possible that I could change, but we will see.

I will be posting more on this week's reading assignment later. I am especially interested in looking more into the chapter about motivation.

First Post!

This is my first post on my first blog, right now I'm just trying things out to see how it all works.