What it means to be “Resourceful”

Taken literally, being resourceful would mean “being full of resources” and we don’t lack access to digital resources these days. Over the weekend through a very “simple search” I found a tool on the net that I can apply to what I do.

Let it serve as a reminder that as a person in position to support faculty in the use of technology, there are times we can simply look for answers to a problem to resolve it. We don’t always need to know something, just willing to look.

Being resourceful is also an attitude. One that says, “I find it or figure it out”

If you persist with this attitude and take the time to look around as well, the next thing you know you’ve become “knowledgeable” and a resource for others.

Sounds simple right? But extemely easy to forget.

My son told me yesterday that all he needs is youtube, wikipedia and google. Although I challenged him, you can’t deny the truth to his comment if that’s where he spends 90% of his time. But being resourceful will be an ever-changing definition with this age of “untamed” creation of digital resources.

Take a look at this not so recent article and that might spin your head some more.

There’s a new web on the horizon, and it’s even deeper…here’s a blurb:

…Beyond those trillion pages lies an even vaster Web of hidden data: financial information, shopping catalogs, flight schedules, medical research and all kinds of other material stored in databases that remain largely invisible to search engines.

The challenges that the major search engines face in penetrating this so-called Deep Web…

Forget Google, put these “goggles” on………………