Reflections of Survey of Emerging Technologies

As I wrote in an earlier blog post, I am currently taking a PODetc course Survey of Emerging Technologies taught by Theresa Stanley.

The course has forced me to take some time to try some new emerging technologies that I have wanted to try for some time.

The first was subscribing to Google Reader. I have been a long time subscriber of Bloglines and use it as an aggregator for various ed tech blogs that I read. I have been meaning to try Google Reader for some time to compare the two. I am absolutely loving Google Reader. One of the really nice features is that you can embedd it into your iGoogle page. I decided to subscribe to some education sections of newspapers. It has been nice having it on my home base with all of my other widgets every day.

The second tool that was new to me was Delicious. I have been meaning to get an account for some time. It was so easy to set up. My favorite part is the social part. The fact that you can share book marks with your friends is really powerful. My Delicious Account is at located at http://delicious.com/tstephens12.

So far it has been a great class and I would highly recommend it to those of you who want to carve out some time to try new tools. Theresa's next class is starting March 2nd. You can visit our website for more information.