A Techy Feely Approach to Life

Okay..I was overwhelmed the other day but then, when I take a minute to look at all the cool things I find and get to use, it is exciting. I keep a small text file on my hard drive called “@@THINGS TO LOOK AT”. It sits at the top of my directory and whne I have a few minutes, I look at the file and visit the site or check out the tool/technology to learn more.

From that list, there are several tools/sites that I now use on a daily basis that, less than a year ago, I didn’t even know existed. Some were around just waiting for me to find them. Some got easier to use. Some just popped up (hello, world).

Now, I’m figured out how to use them (mostly). Time to figure out how to use them well with others!

Things like

• Flickr
• Writeboard/Writely (part of Google now, hmmm)
• Frappr
• del.icio.us
• Blogbridge
• Wordpress/Movable Type and OF COURSE – edublogs.org
• Wikispaces
• Portals (we are implementing Luminis here)
• Xinhahere (cool little WYSIWYG HTML editor plugin for Firefox)

Still on the list:

• Drupal
• Blosxom
• Pachyderm
• Google Notebook
• 360 Yahoo

What’s in your list?

Filed under: educational technology, ruminations