The Internet

I have noticed this before, but as I work on these posts and my Multigenre Literacy Autobiography, I have noticed this more . . .  you can really put almost anything into Google and find some results that are beneficial! Go to You Tube and you can see everything from official music videos, fan videos, tutorials, and episodes! You can find image databases and articles.

On the one hand this is a major plus. I can sit here and access all this information from home. I can link it to my blog easily. I can share it with others by placing the information in a power point. The possibilities are endless. In some cases they are almost never-ending too. I could be reading for a long time.

However, the ease with which I can locate, pull, and read images, movies, and information makes me a little sad too. I remember researching with books. Nothing is hyperlinked, but there was a certain thrill in hunting down books to assist with a project. I think that having to be physically involved and visit a library and interact with people in order to complete my research made the work more valued. 

So, like all technologies, there is a great advantage to accessing more information and information that perhaps I'd never access. But there is also a loss of interaction and work that made research an exciting challenge.