I "played around" with Technorati for about 5 hours reading the commentaries and searching with terms that were meaningful to me and relevant to the courses I teach. I wanted to see what kind of material was available using those terms as tags. I used terms such as rats, albinic rats, pigmented rats, Long-Evans rats, laboratory rats and breeding rats.
I was surprised with the kind of materials accessed in Technorati by using those terms as tags. For example, the term rat elicited a comment referring to someone as a "rat bastard," which was not what I expected. Overall, the material tagged with those terms did not provide the scientific/technical information that I wanted. Then I did a Google search, using the same terms, and compared the results. I found more credible information by using Google than by using Technorati.
I shouldn't have been surprised, given that we are talking about two different types of information resources.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Friday, June 29, 2007
Yesterday in the Lab
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Messing with RSS (Bloglines)
I entered Bloglines and set up an account, which was really easy.
They listed information categories and requested preferences. I chose only from the left column and indicated books and science.
I checked each of the categories that I had chosen and the 1 category that was chosen for me. I then proceeded to edit the ones that I didn't feel were really beneficial, including the one the site chose for me.
Now I have a reasonable 3 categories. However, this may prove to be far too many categories to "keep on top of", so I may be revising in the near future.
They listed information categories and requested preferences. I chose only from the left column and indicated books and science.
I checked each of the categories that I had chosen and the 1 category that was chosen for me. I then proceeded to edit the ones that I didn't feel were really beneficial, including the one the site chose for me.
Now I have a reasonable 3 categories. However, this may prove to be far too many categories to "keep on top of", so I may be revising in the near future.
Friday, June 8, 2007
Using a Flickr Tool
I tried all of the Flickr applications that were mentioned. Some were fun and one literally gave me a headache!
I may be missing something but I don't see a direct classroom use to most of the applications I tried--at least using the photos that are already online in Flickr.
The "Warholizer" was fun and I made something that I like, but I still don't know how I'd use it in my classes. However, I could see it being used in Introduction to Psychology in the Perception & Sensation chapters.
Here's what I made, starting with a photo of my Alaskan mask:
I may be missing something but I don't see a direct classroom use to most of the applications I tried--at least using the photos that are already online in Flickr.
The "Warholizer" was fun and I made something that I like, but I still don't know how I'd use it in my classes. However, I could see it being used in Introduction to Psychology in the Perception & Sensation chapters.
Here's what I made, starting with a photo of my Alaskan mask:
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Explosion of Multiple Births
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
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