Here is an interesting list of the top 100 Web 2.0 sites on the Internet. In viewing this list, some sites I'm interested in visiting for personal productivity reasons, while others I have no interest in accessing. What I struggle with is how many of these new tools have true education applications within them. I read a lot of different educational blogs and so many of these posts promote sites such as these in education.

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This post addresses key skill number two for students as identified in the recent Time Magazine article about the future of education. Here is what I wrote in a previous post about this skill:

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I see where the Library of Congress now has RSS feeds with updates on its online collections. This is a long overdue connection for someone like me who may not always remember to take the time to visit the site and view their new material. I will definitely be subscribing to several of these feeds.

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Click here for information on how YouTube was used to capture a criminal. What we are finding is that YouTube is moving beyond the realm of entertainm...

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I came across this article this morning about widgets and their growing use. With RSS technology and widgets such as the ones mentioned in this articl...

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I've shoveled off our 33 inches of snow (Yes -- 33 inches!) from the driveway, but I won't be able to get out of our subdivision until a plow comes through our circle, or at least until some folks with trucks and four-wheel drive vehicles carve enough ruts for the rest of us to utilize. In the meantime, here are a few thoughts on the recent Time Magazine article about the future of education.

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