My Furl archive is starting to pay me back nicely for the small effort it takes to Furl sites regularly.
I’ve accumulated over 400 references already and searching my own Furl wil often give better quality results faster than starting from scratch with google.
Today for instance, I was asked to find something simple that year 1 children can use to practice mouse skills, other than paint etc. I’m not very au fait with keystage one resources so nothing came immediately to mind and I wondered how long it would take me to search and try out websites.
By going to Furl and looking at my own archive, category “school” I quickly found a link to this site “topmarks” which contained just what I wanted, checked it out and added the appropriate activity onto the intranet for this afternoon’s lesson. 5 minutes max without distractions, brilliant.
The original link was probably pointed out by somebody in the Ultraversity Community or else it was something I came across while researching another topic, or even from somebody else’s Furl, (I should have noted the source really) but I must have noticed that it may come in handy at school one day and quickly furled it. A habit well worth cultivating.
Andy Roberts is a writer who initiated DARnet. Contact me on aroberts@gmail.com or @aroberts on twitter
