One thing leads to another…..
does lead to another. I know you all have experienced that as you surf
the web looking for good resources. I want to share one that I continue
to use in so many ways. I hope you will find it useful.
is one of my favorite resources on the web. It is created by educators
for educators. Some days I feel information overload to the nth degree
but I find myself frequently returning to this wonderful collection of
key web resources, organized by topics. Recent articles can be viewed
by anyone; however if the articles are older than 3 months it requires
a paid subscription to access them. It is well worth it.You as the reader can even suggest a topic by sending a ‘research’ request to them. Then I found this concise little tutorial on Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (mcli) on How to Access and Use wwwtools.
Their latest issue is Directions from 2004, Trends for 2005.
They tuned into the fact that every
year in January pundits, experts and others share their thoughts on
what they believe will be the major IT themes during the new year.
In my “one thing leads to another” thought, as I was viewing some of
the excellent links from this issue I found an interesting quote on a
post on Trevor Cook’s blog, From the Sidelines. The post is Here Comes Everything: Can Technology Serve Information Overload? His quote about his article:
In just 2000 words it covers search engines, SEO, google bombing, podcasting,
RSS, real-time searching, bloggercon, scoble, bradbury, and more. The basic
argument is that the way to manage information effectively is to use bloggers as
your intelligent agents.
This wwwtools for educators issue opened with this quote from Alan Kay.
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Blogs can
be a vehicle to help with inventing the future. Let’s use them in
education! My
prediction, or maybe I should say my hope, is that conversations on
blogs will be used in ways to reshape many needed changes in
education.
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