January 4, 2008 4 Comments

Do We Move Through Tools Too Hastily?

I was always the one playing with the cardboard box, wonder what that says about me?

It’s a serious point though. I used to get annoyed by learning facilitators saying:

“That’s an interesting site (and/or) application - how could we use it for education?”

Now I find myself wondering the same thing, rather than just getting on and using whatever it is.

I’ve just discovered a paradox though. Although new things come and go, I’m pretty faithful to my chosen tool set :

Flickr (I’m soooo Old Skool!) I’ve had an account since Sept 2004
Blog - I’ve had blogs on Blogdrive, Edublogs and here. I’ve blogged continuously since Nov 2003 (eek that’s a long time!)
NetNewsWire Lite- my RSS reader of choice since 2004
BlogLines - RSS reader for when I’m away from the mac - since 2003
VoodooPad - my choice for a personal off-line wiki since March 2004
Furl - social bookmarking since Nov 2003 (I use del.icio.us more now but furl is still where most of my bookmarks are as it saves a copy)
gmail - for my email since July 2004
MediaWiki - for my teaching resources for usefulwiki.com since Feb 2007