Monday, April 28, 2008

Use technology to your advantage

This ties right in to the learning toolbox. We have fabulous resources at our disposal that we could only dream of 15 years ago. Pick a subject, and there is probably a website about it. Maybe several. Some of these sites lead you to written information on your subject, some have visual and oral presentations, and some will lead you to others who would like to discuss the subject with you. Some sites/programs I like:

  • Fave Rave – Adobe Photoshop—fun and professional quality photo editing and restoration. The learning curve is high, but I love it, love it! It allows so much more creativity than other photo editing software that I have played with.
  • Great Tech Website for general purposeswww.cnet.com Here you will find a wealth of technical information from forums to equipment reviews to blogs/news to free online courses (I haven’t taken any, but I plan to during the course of my 23 things)
  • Best Place to learn/discuss Parenting issueswww.ivillage.com Talk to other parents on a variety of topics or find parents like you on the extensive bulletin boards on this site. This is a very easy-to-use, friendly, and well-moderated site. It would be a fine place to experiment with bulletin board use. There are many other discussion topics on the site, but I am only familiar with the parenting related ones.

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