Reading Review: Part B

 I think I just shot down the rabbit hole. Wonderland always seemed a tich exciting, a touch terrifying, and a lot bizarre. Searching through the networks of blogs and journals and teacher websites has left me wondering why I don't do this more often. Likely time is a factor. Everything is so colourful, so positive, so inspiring. You can tell I'm still grinning like the Cheshire Cat.

I'm very excited about some of the new ideas for teaching (guiding?) student research. I've been thinking a lot about how my approach is rather archaic and hum drum and now I'm coming across articles suggesting mind maps and social bookmarking as tools students can use to organise their resources. So obvious! Here I'm thinking, or teaching, we write notes or we print the page and highlight. We write our sites and books down on a little bibliography sheet I have. Yikes! We could be doing so much more! And so simply!

Apologies for all the exclamation marks. My thoughts are shouting.

So I've been cruising around the web dibbling in this and dabbling in that. I've compiled a list in a bookmarking site called Delicious.

Check it out.

I can't wait to try out some of these new ideas, particularly the use of new search engines and popular encyclopedias such as Wikipedia. I feel as though the options around research are opening up before me into a rich and vibrant animation. Unlike Alice, I don't plan on waking up anytime soon.