Internet Learning Resources Part 2

This week we continued our exploration of Internet Learning Resources by trying some more websites that could be useful in classroom lesson plans.  My favorite of the week was a site called Noodle Tools: http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
This site had an amazing collection of links, but more importantly it also grouped the links by the type of information that they contained.  Do you need facts?  Opinions?  Media?  This site helps to organize the wealth of information that is on the internet.

That is the theme for the week, based on a quote from Tom March.  Although the internet is a great source of information, there is so much out there that an instructor will need to spend significant time to select the right resources from the pile, and to incorporate them into a lesson plan.  Other tools that we explored this week include Google Alerts and the characteristics of search engines.  Both of these are to help understand how internet search results are presented, and how to know when those results change.  These are two more strategies for finding the right information on the internet.  In short, too much information is almost as bad as no information at all.  Instructors will need to keep refining their searches, looking for new tools, and revising their lesson plans to make sure they get the most out of the information that is available on the internet.