ICT blogging

information overload

June 30th, 2008 by misterel

I don’t think I am cut out for blogging.  I follow various educators on twitter and they bombard the network with so many fantastic websites, resources and ideas that I have trouble keeping up… I haven’t dared look at my google reader for fear of information overload.

I have recently been debating what ASUS to get for school.  The cheaper 701 or the 901.  I have seen both and reckon our kids would easily get on well with the 701.  I also like the fact that it boots up remarkably fast (linux version) and the battery will last for ages (especially if you don’t have the wifi on).

I have also been studying with interest the development of easy to use hand held camcorders. I especially like the new flip video .  However have had discussions with my techies who think the .mov format means that doing any meaningful editing in adobe premiere elements is difficult.

Then, there is the great website I found thanks to a tweet on twitter called wordle.  This site allows you to create fantastic word clouds and will even creat them based on rss feeds and delicious tags.  Below is my first wordle created using my delicious tags.

This may not look like an information overload, but there have also been shed loads of info on moodle, including the latest moodle book and the new games module. Amongst this melee of information, (of which I have forgotten loads or added to stumble or delicious for later), I am also trying to get my head round re-writing SoL (Schemes of Learning) for KS3 and also getting ready for the next academic year, where ICT Coordination is high on the agenda.

Going to go now, have a new toy to play with. Just got a nike+ sportsband. Now all I need to do is go for a run.

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