Introduction
Jay Pfaffman (pfaffman@relax.com)
Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:05:21 -0600
Hi All. Sorry I'm late getting into the game, but it's been a busy
week, as I was away all of last week at the American Educational
Research Association conference in Chicago. I'm still not caught up,
and the semester's end is looming.
I'm a graduate student at Peabody College at Vanderbilt working
towards a Ph.D. in something like educational technology. Obviously,
I'll need some focus if I'm to finish. . .
My current project is a tool called Webliographer that is perhaps best
viewed as a mini-Yahoo or a means of sharing annotated bookmarks.
It's my view that search engines can never be efficient, and that
using the resources that your friends find useful is the best bet. A
brief description of it can be found at
http://relax.ltc.vanderbilt.edu/webliographer/notes/notes.html
I use this database: (http://relax.ltc.vanderbilt.edu/ltc/) instead of
bookmarks for the most part. I'm starting to work with teachers using
it in classrooms; initial interviews suggest that such a tool will
support the kinds of research that the students are doing in the
classrooms already, but I have yet to see this happen.
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Jay Pfaffman pfaffman@relax.com
+1-615-343-1720 (office) +1-615-460-9299 (home)
http://relax.ltc.vanderbilt.edu/~pfaffman/