Teach42

Steve, Here’s my top three

1. Google it - Obvious but needs to be considered, I throw together 3 to 5 words that (kind of a reverse-tagging system) that circle what I am looking for.

2. Email - still the stalward as you can collect ideas from the more non-savvy users, everyone has email. In the words of a colleague - you have to ‘put it out there’. Poke people with your ideas and see what you get back.

3. Personal pre-caching - Read, listen, archive - There are a large number of times I link a current problem back to previous ideas and connect the current problem to people I have read or heard in the past.

My particular area of special interest is computer science education. I have some resources linked from my own blog but the two main sources I use at the http://www.mainfunction.com community web site with its online forums and the Advanced Placement Computer Science mailing list.

Tech Savvy Ed has a forum which I find useful and we could use some more members (I am a moderator).

I don’t really know many good places for this kind of interaction except for blogs. They have really been key for me. I don’t really see google as an “interaction” maybe what you go to from there.

What are the sites you go to?

I also just google it.

For some good reading, when I need to get away from all the school stuff I check out digg.com.

Then again I try to get my info from podcasts. With a family, teaching all day, and a second job to attempt to pay some bills I listen to various shows.

Hello — I would love to be part of a group who shares ideas!! Thanks!!

I get most of my info through conferences.
I also have several blogs I check regularly and a couple I subscribe to.
I google quite a bit.
I also belong to the Ed-Tech newsgroup which has some good posts to get a topic rolling.

my blog is at http://technospudblog.blogspot.com/ but I am new to blogging so right now it is kinda primitive.

Happy New Year!
I look forward to chatting again.
Jennifer Wagner

The site Tom mentioned “Tech Savvy Educator” might be what your’e talking about and/or looking for, but since it’s already on your blogroll I’m guessing that it’s not exactly the type of forum that you’re inquiring about. “Googling” can be quite a wonderful resources, but I would strongly advise any teacher to be well versed in at least two other search engines, because there’s plenty of the web that Google just can’t cover.