The "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
+ Media Sharing
+ Digital Storytelling
+ Manage and Organize
+ Social Networking and Communication
+ Curriculum Sharing
+ Content Resources: Lesson Plans and More
+ Content Collaboration
Btw, you do NOT have to be a teacher, student, parent/guardian to find many of these sites extremely useful. Here are a few of the 25 that we have been fans of at ResourceShelf for quite some time.
Educational videos culled from several open-web sources and reviewed using specific criteria by info pros, educators, and others. Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, is also behind this wonderful effort. Also, MANY ways to focus in on the videos that will work best for you.
Full text books in many languages with one wonderful search interface. One point missing from the review is that the ICDL offers free apps for iPad and iPhone/iTouch.
A great place to store just about everything (web pages, texts, images) and have access to it from any web-based device. Great example of the "cloud" in action. Btw, Evernote also offers OCR (image character recognition). Example: Take a picture with your cameraphone of a restaurant menu. Now, OCR takes over and you will be able to keyword search them menu. Btw, the basic service is free.
A place to find content with various licenses that allow you to do or not to do a variety of things with the material. .In some cases, no restrictions and it's perfect to remix, mash-up, etc. The blurb doesn't mention that with Google Image Search, Yahoo Image Search, and their own search tool, it's not an engine, (including the version one in beta) you can easily and quickly find a variety of CC content.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
