Thing #7

The thing that I learned about the list of Web 2.0 tools is that I already use a lot of them.

I use Biblio to search for 1st edition psychology books for her personal library. I purchased a first edition copy of Walden 2 for her a few years ago.

I also use Craiglist, google maps, pandora, zillow, igoogle, googledocs quite a bit.

The web 2.0 tool that I explored was redit. It is an online forum that allows people to choose topics to follow and post/read articles on those topics. I set up a page with the following topics that I am following: |

• Libertarian
• -scifi
• -cogsci
• -climateskeptics
• -psychology
• -Physics
• -education
• -educationreform
• -criticalthinking
• -edpsych

One of the most difficult things to do is narrow down what you want to appear on your main page. After that it is keeping up with all of the subjects that you want to follow as nearly all of the boards are updated with new information several times a day. For school the best one that I have found is edpsych it posts great articles about the needed overlap of psychological research with teaching practices to be effective teachers. One of the great things about the redit community that I have seen so far is that the articles are almost always research articles, sometimes news articles (depending on the forum), but are always valid. This would be a great jumping off point for students to do research on certain topics. The topic groups vary a great deal from fun and games to academic topics. I also set a redit up for my wife on her computer so that she can stay up to date with the latest information in her field. This is a great website to keep in the loop on new information in your field.