Technology for Teachers

In preparing for an upcoming workshop I was again reminded how diffifult it can become to organinze, maintain, and remember multiple websites. Now creating a bookmark on your machine will suffice for most, but what do you do when you have to travel or aren’t at the machine where the bookmark is?

Enter web-based bookmarking tools.

In the past I’ve used www.IKeepBookmarks.com and del.icio.us but now find myself using www.furl.net. I was a huge user of IKeepBookmarks until certain features stopped working (searching), some never came to fruition (dead-link checker), and tech support wasn’t up to par. I’ve also passed on del.icio.us for now as Furl allowed for folders and more organization, which I need. Who knows, maybe in a month I’ll be using another….

So why use online bookmarking tools? Simply put, they’re kept online. It doesn’t matter what machine you are at you have instant access to your bookmarked files.

I think social bookmarking tools like del.icio.us have the most promise but it may depend on your needs.

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I start my website of the week with “Dangerously Irrelevant” by Scott McLeod.

I catch more his site through the podcast but find myself checking in more and more often.

Scott quotes Gwynne Dyer in an explanation for the title of the blog, “Our intelligence tends to produce technological and social change at a rate faster than our institutions and emotions can cope with. . . . Innovation is cumulative and the rate of change accelerates. We therefore find ourselves continually trying to accommodate new realities within inappropriate existing institutions, and trying to think about those new realities in traditional but sometimes dangerously irrelevant terms”.

More about Scott: http://www.scottmcleod.net/about
http://scottmcleod.typepad.com/dangerouslyirrelevant/

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Well, let’s just see how ambitious I can be. I’m starting a website of the week posting. I’ll gather these links from professional resources I subscribe to, websites I visit, and those other educators have recommended to me.

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