Thought on Learning 2.0

My favorite comment about this new learning environment was made by Will Richardson about our kids living in an unfiltered world. I'm still very frustrated with the new Webwasher Filter and how it protects but also limits our students in so many ways. As Will points out the Internet is not all bad. Teach kids how to use, judge and evaluate myspace, rather than avoid it, so that they learn for themselves how to react to content that they will be exposed to.

Impression of Technorati

I'm amazed first of all by the sheer numbers! My directory search was the most successful of the three approaches to finding blogs because I had difficulty finding posts and tags! I did learn new things about "pings " and widgets though! When comparing the different categories and was surprised by the interest in celebrities!

Del.icio.us

What a great idea. This is a great organization and research tool. I like the "popular" category because you can quickly access good sites that others have already spent the time searching and sifting through. I am excited that I can load all of my favorites from my old laptop to this site rather than trying to reenter them all on my new laptop. I also love that you can access this resource from any where!!

I enjoyed exploring Rollyo, but found it a little frustrating when trying to do a keyword search of other rolls. Once I was able to access the available categories, it was O.K. but time-consuming to browse through such broad categories. It would be a good resource for creating lists of websites that our school district's new filter will allow access to and make available for students. My search engines are available at:

http://rollyo.com/dashboard.html

I could spend days at this site. What a wonderful resource for anyone. Even though I'm not a librarian, I love the level of accessibility, and cataloging feature. My catalog is: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/sallyth

This is a fun way to add eye-catching signs! Just click on the image to go to the site http://www.imagechef.com/ I found this site through http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/