Thankfully, our digital age provides some pretty cool answers.... (thanks Michell and Andrew!)
Diigo is one of my favorite online sources that I have used for a long time to help me with part of this daunting task. Currently I have over 120 bookmarks for my own personal favorite sites which I can access on any device online ... and... I have every one of my classes (students) involved with it in one capacity or another. It allows my classes to share topics, points of interests, even their portfolio site URLs, which makes for a streamlined, engaging class.
An app I was not aware of that is quickly becoming my favorite to use is Flipboard. I like it! One of my main complaints is the same one that Chris Radtke mentioned on his blog Getting Organized on the Web... "the information can be overwhelming and quite difficult to process".... (http://cjradtke.blogspot.com/2012/10/getting-organized-on-web.html). I had been searching for just such a tool to use to save me from drowning in all this stuff. The moment I learned about Flipboard I immediately began to tie the things I used together with it. Now my Diigo, Google reader, Facebbok, (and many more) are all right there... organized and ready to view. And the interface of reading like a magazine is super cool.
I can truly say that this connected journey has a lot of promise for me now. The new tools and strategies available will definitely "grease the wheels" of my continued consuming and contributing to society and my students. My only concern is the still the one I blogged about previously (Learning in a Networked World), that there could be consequences not yet imagined.
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