With the multitude of resources available at our finger tips via the Internet, it is so hard to keep track of everything you curate to use as a resource.
I know in the technology side, programs are always changing and updating. Keeping track of what each program does and how it would be of benefit to a classroom we created a spreadsheet of data in Google Docs. Then we shared the spreadsheet out with all of our staff with some of the following information:
Name of program
Purpose of the program (Word Processing, Ebook Reader, etc.)
Web site you can visit to learn more about the program
What version of the program we are currently running
This allows us to keep an updated listing of programs real time for our staff.
Now the trick comes back to how do we get staff to look at the document before calling the technology office the questions that are answered on this document.
We try and email out and share often the existence of this document to keep everyone looking at it first before contacting the Technology office to ask about a program. In time, I do believe that it will become a natural habit to look at the resources we post in our tech resources shared folder for our staff.
But as a teacher, I could easily see making your own online "database" of information sorted by discipline that could help when it comes to planning new lesson plans. It might require making a calendar reminder to go and visit the resource once a month or so to get into the "routine" of visiting and checking the validity of the resource because as we all know, sometimes resources that we love go away.
