iSean

you know, part of my job is to keep up with current technologies and try and see how these technologies might best be used in education or why they aren’t going to work in the classroom, etc. i spend a good deal of time trying various new tools and trying to find an application to my own classroom or to k-12 classrooms. i told you previously that i use listmixer to keep these resources in my short-term memory (so to speak). but, i am finding that this tool just creates more and more stuff to add to my To Do lists that i’ll likely forget about before i ever visit again.  i just don’t have the time to keep up with all of the various tools i want to explore. so, what to do? well, for one, i stopped trying to find everything on my own. i previously mentioned that i use NetNewsWire as an RSS reader. well, i try and limit the number of blogs and RSS feeds that i subscribe to; however, one that i’ve found that has been well worth including is the EDU RSS feed (from Stephen Downs). it’s a very active aggregation of a great many related RSS feeds pertaining to ed tech-type topics. i can quickly scan through hundreds of other blogs each day and only stop to read those headlines that look interesting (and, i am quite selective). this is saving me much time each day. and, maybe my little blog will someday be included in the EDU_RSS feed??? i can only hope. ;~)

Tags: stephen downs, listmixer, netnewswire, information overload