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Digital tools in this category allow the instructor to learn from life
experiences through available electronic resources that permit access to
the wealth of humanity. These resources can be global, organizational or
local.
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The challenge of surfing the Internet goes beyond using a search engine
that works for you. It is intimately related to effectively finding the
information that you need. This requires, first of all, that you know what
you want to find and that you know the search engine that is convenient
for you to use. Beyond knowing when to use a particular search engine, it
is necessary to know how to define the search and refine results.
Refining a network search is a fundamental skill for educators and
students to have. It demands clarity about what is desired, the ability to
express multiple ways of finding it, and perseverance needed for
searching diverse sites and book marking those that appear to be
interesting. It also requires the individual to determine if what is found
adds value to what is known as opposed to diverting interest away from
the subject at hand.
General searches can be made with generic tools such as AOL search
[52], GOOGLE search [53], Microsoft’s LIFE SEARCH [54], YAHOO
search [55], or KARTOO [56], a next generation meta search engine
that displays results in a visual interface.
52 http://search.aol.com
53 http://www.google.com/
54 http://search.live.com
55 http://yahoo.com
56 http://www.kartoo.com
57 http://scholar.google.es/
58 http://images.google.es/
59 http://digg.com/
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Electronic Encyclopedias
60 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030426.html
61 http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/
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List Serves
62 http://www.enciclonet.com/portada
63 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/encyclopedia.html
64 http://encarta.msn.com/Default.aspx
65 http://www.webopedia.com/
66 http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
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RSS Channels
BLOGLINES [67] is a free service that allows you to stay current with
your blogs and favorite news channels. FEEDREADER [68] is free
software under General Publication License (GPL) that allows you to
subscribe and to classify RSS channels. The advantage is that it is
not necessary to look for news, the RSS channel brings it. The
disadvantage is that the user can become saturated with information
when you have subscribed to channels that frequently update (for
example public news) or collect information from many sources (like
the services for open news).
67 http://www.bloglines.com/
68 http://www.feedreader.com/
69 http://babelfish.altavista.com
70 http://www.reverso.net
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Educational Portals
The ICTE within type A, also include corporate portals that address the
discipline of education. They are websites that support different
educational sectors by providing access to relevant information and tools
to each group served. Instructors can find valuable educational resources
to develop their teaching, and by using these portals, they enhance
student-centered learning. The nature of the organization that is being
supported determines the set up for each portal as the following
examples will illustrate.
71 http://wordreference.com
72 http://www.visualthesaurus.com
73 http://www.bibliotecasvirtuales.com
74 http://www.educ.ar/educar/index.jsp
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PCA. Portal Colombia Aprende [77]. This website was created by the
Colombian Ministry of National Education in order to support
directives, instructors, students, families and a community of
individuals from distinct educational sectors. Each user group has its
own electronic posting platform where relevant resources are
organized. Subscribers can also use communication tools (email,
forums, chat) and private virtual space (electronic hard drive) that
stores digital resources.
PEC Portal Educar Chile [78]. This is the website of the Chilean
System of Education. It is organized by writers according to the
type of user (instructor, manager, student, family, researcher); it
depends on a variety of resources organized by desks, categories or
search engines. Individuals who register to use the portal have
access to the hard disk and free personal email. They can create
web sites that will be hosted by the portal and participate en forums
and chats.
75 http://www.eduteka.org
76 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
77 http://www.colombiaaprende.edu.co
78 http://www.educarchile.cl/home
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portal icon or the start button. A map of the web site explains its
structure and navigates to distinct places. Internal search engines allow
you to find exactly what you are searching for.
Another interesting option that extend cultural heritage are the tours of
innumerable sites of the great museums, or the site of NASA which
allows the virtual exploration of space. In places like these one can have
a "scavenger hunt” in which the participant explores a series of virtual
sites where questions can be resolved and whose solution demand that
you pay attention to details in visited sites and to use important concepts.
Listed below are some of our favorite museums and collections.
79 http://www.banrep.gov.co/museo/eng/home.htm
80 http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en
81 http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html
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82 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
83 http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
84 http://museoprado.mcu.es/index.php?id=50
85 http://www.si.edu/museums/
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