How to make sense and share digital info with others through writing and reading and research–that is my ultimate teaching goal.  For example, how do I wrangle an information rich environment like this article about BookTubing?

I didn’t know it was a thing either, but it is and a very interesting and useful way to find out about great books.  BookTubing is a way to gather really worthwhile, pre-filtered and diverse collections of readable books, most likely ones you might not have found on your own.Here’s what I did to ‘calm’ the post down into a more legible space.

I used Linkgrabber to lasso every link on the page.  Then I copied and pasted that mess into a little Chrome tool called Scratchpad  (Look for #10 in this longer post). Or you could copy it directly to Dropbox’s Paper. (That’s what I will do next time.)

I edit and format in Dropbox’s Paper, then I embed it into my blogpost using a WordPress plug-in called Embed Any Document.

Here’s the document:

Now you have my lightly edited and formatted document that sums up the original in a checklist.  I don’t know how useful that might be to you in particular, but I can see how I might use it as an exercise in media literacy in my classroom.

I run across these “Courses-In-A-Post” every day. I wonder what to do with them so I did this.  I am sure I haven’t even begun to touch how I can seek, make sense of, and share info fire hoses in the future, but this seems like a useful start.

Let me know if this ‘connects’ with you in any significant way AND how it doesn’t.  I am obsessing over my apparent inability to use my voice and POV to connect with others.  So…help out in the comments if you can or DM me at Twitter @telliowkuwp.