Resource discovery - a journey inspired by the social web

It’s fascinating how a set of learning resources for a topic can come together. I’ve already written here about a forthcoming project with Year 7 groups called ‘Tomorrow’s World’. My discovery of video and image resources for those sessions was a journey through a series of enthralling websites, illuminated by a network of fellow educators on Twitter and the Vital forums, memories of sites saved into my Delicious feed, some basic Google and YouTube searching, RSS, and simple good luck. Without an extended network of connected educators on the social web, this simply would not have happened.

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