Omnivorous Surfer

Among the webinar casts mentioned in a Classroom 2.0 email was one entitled "Can You Digg It Web Applications for Research: Alternate Search Engines and Media Repositories" which I watched and found to be very useful (to view it, click here). I have since watched another of her webinars, one on social bookmarking, which introduced me to the wonderful world of diigo (subject of a future post). I highly recommend both of these webinars, as I found them to be of outstanding caliber and packed with good information.

In searching for more on the presenter, Rochelle Rodrigo, I found Can You digg It, a wiki she created for her own purposes, but which presents a lot of information valuable to others as she documents some of her resources and processes related to various projects.

One of my favorite aspects of the wiki is the MultiModal Research Matrix, a full matrix showing how different technologies (alternate search engines, blogs, forms and surveys, maps, mind maps, etc.) can be used for each of the steps in a scaffolded research project. You have the capability from there of choosing any of the technologies (by clickin on the column heading/technology for more detailed information. From the left pane of the window, you can choose to see the steps in more detail.

I haven't plumbed the depths of this wiki yet, but I will be doing more exploring as I search it for even more information to use.