Capturing Captivating Content

The Y Generation - The Silent generation - people born before 1946. - The Baby Boomers - people born between 1946 and 1959. - Generation X - people born between 1960 and 1979. - Generation Y - people born between 1980 and 1995. Why do we call the last one generation Y?

Sort Of Dunno Nothin' http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =_veIGGP1Uh4

The Old Days

ICT POWER

Where are you? "The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." -- Alvin Toffler

Infobesity

28.7% 13.7% 922 million to 1032 million : the estimated number of unique individuals who will use the Internet in 2006, all countries combined.

So how do we capture the best information?

CactiSearch http://www.cactisearch.com/

Boolean Searching http://www.boolify.org/

Cooliris ( PicLens ) http://www.cooliris.com/demo/?view=movie

Book Crossing

http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/

SlideShare http://www.slideshare.net/

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RSS - feed your mind! “ Connecting with what other people are writing”

RSS continually feeds

RSS – your own customised newspaper

Pageflakes http://www.pageflakes.com/

iGoogle

Add an RSS Feed

Bloglines

How will it help students? They can also set up RSS feeds now from some of the databases we subscribe to through UQ Cyberschool – Opposing Viewpoints and Expanded Academic http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs