Thing #14

Technorati appears to have its search function down for now. I will check back later. The nice thing about Web 2.0 web-based applications is that they are easily accessible from anywhere encourage sharing, etc. but we can't control when it goes down. I believe that this is a fundamental change that we as teachers need to get use to. Dave was talking about letting go in the classroom, but it appears that we may also need to let go of our tools as well. Teachers in the past have been the ultimate control freaks. This has been easier for me than some people but I still have a hard time letting go of control when I see so many students make the "wrong" decision.

I will fill in this section when technorati gets back up.

I find tagging to be tremendously useful. I now see the value of pulling the information and labeling it from its context instead of an index based keyword search such as google. I am in the process of converting all of my bookmarks to diigo and modifying my current online assignments. I will also be sharing access to my bookmarks in the physics department and hopefully we can create an excellent section of tutorials, demonstrations, and reviews for our students correctly tagged so they can get the help they need .