Bertram (Chip)
Bruce is a Professor in the Graduate School of Library &
Information Science at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. During 2007-08, he holds a Fulbright
Distinguished Chair at the National College of Ireland
Chipbruce.wordpress.com. His research
includes contributing to a conception of democratic
education, meaning both the development of critical,
socially-engaged citizens and of learning environments
(schools, libraries, community centers, ...), which are
themselves democratic. He's also interested in the history
of technologies for learning as in
Gladys Spencer's list from 60 years ago. Chip's
home page is
www.illinois.edu/~chip
Chip's Top
10 Tools as at 19 May 2008 and 11 August 2007
Google
Search - for general searching, but also the
special features of maps, images, etc., especially important
as it indexes collections such as JSTOR
Firefox -
for web browsing, and especially, RSS feeds
Inquiry Page - home-grown system for creating
and sharing inquiry units
