I honestly first went to yahoo and started to type in assistive technology...and then I remembered that we had learned a new way of pulling up sites on things we're researching. Sooo..I went to delicious.com! There I signed up for my own membership-thingy! I then typed in assistive technology...looked at the first few things that came up. I ended up bookmarking 2 of them. One that I looked at had a huge list of products used for assistance, and the other had more information type things about it - what it is, what it's used for, how it fits in with IDEA, etc. I also found a wiki that was all about assistive technology.
After browsing around on sites that I fould through delicious.com, I then went back to yahoo.com to see if I could find anything there. I found one site that was worth my while, and the rest was just a waste of my time!
I am easily frustrated with technology sometimes, like if it doesn't want to work, I just give up or find a way to get help. With searches on yahoo or google I find myself looking at things that are a waste/garbage, so I quite looking on there.
So, I think it's safe to officially say that I'm digging delicious.com and might find myself starting all my research/searches there!
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Searching is tricky... I find that I have to put a long phrase in when I use Google so I don't get overwhelmed with irrelevant sites.
ReplyDeleteI also had much better luck with delicious.com than I had with yahoo or google. However, I also had problems with delicious.com confusing "assistive technology" with just plain technology websites like Pandora or Wordle.
ReplyDeleteI like using delicious also but still find myself using Google search since it is part of my homepage. I think there is a definite art to searching. Even the folks that do it all the time seem to have the attitude of: If you don't succeed the first time... try , try again.
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