Saturday

It is a quiet, rainy Saturday morning here in Simpsonville.  The house is bustling with Saturday morning chores, laundry, vacuuming, picking up clutter and getting ready to go to the mountains (my son and girlfriend). I have several things I must do today, yet I find myself in front of the computer reading about various Google apps (note the lower-case "a" as opposed to the upper-case "A" of Google Apps, which is the domain version purchased by schools or districts in order to house and control their own information). I began with the Google we all know, google.com and went to Google scholar, custom search, books, patents, copyright, news timelines, article searches, searching text of books, text of articles, full-text books online, abstracts, and the ever present "more" and "even more" at the bottom of almost all things Google. I went to my Google Certified Teacher Group and perused the postings about searches. Then I opened our resources from the GTAUK (Google Teachers Academy, United Kingdom) and flipped through the presentation on search. There is so much I want to know, so much to learn, and so much to share. I realize the enormity of available information and the impossibility of absorbing even half of it. The best thing I found this morning was on the search page for Google Scholar, "Stand on the shoulders of giants" a reference near and dear to my subject area, yet so applicable to everything in our world.