Warlick - Chapter 3

The transition of the view of digital technology as "cool" to "cool and useful" and then to "cool and totally essential" is happening. It was "cool" to read this chapter and see that I recognized some of the sites listed as those that I use on a consistant basis and others that I used infrequently, and others that I had never heard of.

While this chapter was chock full of information and things to do, I decided that the best way to tackle this is just as Warlick suggests: Go try it. I am going to try to maneuver through a couple of these web based programs this summer.

I am especially interested in the Flickr and tagging information of this chapter. Many teachers at my school downplay the value of Internet literacy because there are so many visual aspects rather than text. True...there is a much larger portion of the screen dedicated to graphics and photographs rather than an exclusive page of text as one would see in a novel, but with smart maneuvering such as adding tags and using tags to aggregate useful information, we emply a much higher level of thinking than the simple delivery of information from teacher's mouth to student's ears.