Free Culture and the Future of Search

Life had other plans last weekend , so I get to try to catch up with tech learning/playing this weekend. Haven’t added much that is new to the plate since it is overloaded anyway.

Work with class groups

Narrate Literary Criticism PPTs

Pull together some of the biotech info.

• http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/adding-new-features-to-google/

Comment on some of the class wikis - stay in the mix

Work with special interest groups

Continue to build ahsgreen.wikispaces.com

Work with Teacher / Media Specialist Networks

Build coComment etc.

Finish building 21st Century Learner products.

Work for myself - to make my future more efficient

Finally: GTD style routine worked out.

Remember Nomadic Desktops

Build more search strings, feeds, widgets etc. to manage and deliver content.

Learn

Second Review - cull from last section of Google Educators PPT

Check into the new tryouts.

Play

Get out and enjoy the spring weather with friends!

Took another glance at Moodle — glanced at it a couple of years ago. Went with Carnegie KEEP Toolkit back then, though I never developed anything. Just downloaded Microsoft’s Learning Content Development System. [Listed at Jane's eLearning Pick of the Day: 5/6/08]

Accept the nervous edge of being an unfamiliar novice - though tech can very quickly get overwhelming for anyone. How to introduce and entice extremely busy teachers to jump in, in spite of economic obstacles and time restraints, etc. remains an unanswered problem. One bit I’ve decided to do is to provide a recipe (how-tos and tech ingredients) along with each student lesson.

It remains that the learning curve is often initially steep. Also, educators are up against quality issues. We have to produce for media and tech savvy students; our market-driven competition has been developed by teams with (gasp) R&D funding.

At least with collaborative Web 2.0 projects, there’s more interaction between teachers in community spaces, and the assessment focus more often falls upon students’ production.

Does it come as any surprise that it is difficult impossible to keep personal and work-related efforts separated?  Is riding the flow of information and fitting it into your/my lifestyle an art or a science?

HAPLR: Hennen’s ratings of U.S. public libraries based upon federal data.

hmmm…There are federal stats for school library media centers, but ratings?