The tools and information out here are never ending. I have not yet figured out best methods for managing the amount of input coming at me when I am surfing. I start with a simple peek at Twitter. I only have 50 people listed that I follow, many of whom appear to be well known bloggers in the edutech realm. Everyone has their own blog loaded with information. So now one click leads to another and another. I open in a new window because I want to be sure I go back and finish reading the content on the original page. Within a very short time I end up with 10-15-20 open windows. It's my way of managing (or shall I call it lack of managing) doing something with the open window content. This might include absorbing it, filing it, emailing info to staff at my school, posting to twitter something I find, adding to my own blog, or bookmarking. Or, worse yet, leaving them open and then finally needing to clean up my desktop and all the open windows by closing them all to start over. I need to find a better way to manage the overwhelming amount of content, ideas, blogs, website, tips, thoughts, tools and data that I am trying to make my way through. I have only recently started developing an online presence. It is addictive. I am learning constantly. I need to learn to better manage sifting through content so that my screen isn't always looking like this picture not so long after logging on. A quick peek at Twitter ends up looking like the above. Is this a good thing? If so, why does my brain feel so full but unfed? It feels like I'm eating with a hole in my stomach. I'm never satiated. I want more more more. I want to know it all. I want to read and view thoughts of everyone. I want to keep filling up. Too bad we need to sleep.
I'm going to take this bottomless pit of a brain out to my hot tub to try to get out of learning mode, for at least a couple of hours. Until I decide to take a quick peek at Twitter.....and so the saga will then continue.
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