Something I’ve been grappling with since Teacher Education started has been to amass and organize all of the resources I can access for teaching. For my master’s degree in history, I was also juggling keeping track of my resources and I found that Zotero worked for organizing my citations, but lacked any sorting/categorizing that I want for my teaching resources.

There are a number of technologies available to keep notes, such as One note, Notion, Pocket, and Google Keep. I have used several of these for note taking in university and found they are good for this purpose and would recommend them to my students as a tool to use as an option other than physically writing notes (although, I stress the value in hand written notes also!). What I am looking for as a new teacher is a means to organize my resources and link them together.

Right now, I have bookmark tabs and folders on my Chrome browser that lets me categorize by type, but does not have any sort of cross-reference. It is also limited to being only online resources, what about the massive list of books I am compiling?! It would be nice to find something that I could plug in websites, books, videos, and even people, and be able to search it like a database when I am looking for something. It would also be nice if it was shareable!

Google Docs is nice because of its share-ability. Someone in our cohort has made one that we call all browse (by subject) and add to. This idea of a collaborative living and growing document that I can turn to for resources will be a life saver in the future I am sure.

For now, I guess my Chrome browser, One note, and multiple Google Docs will have to do!