This Trailfire plugin caught my attention because although I often identify specific sites for my students to use with inquiries, they do not always successfully retrieve the requisite information. To be able to leave pointers, suggestions, questions and guides along the way is brilliant.
While the web is the ultimate resource for finding stuff, it is very hard to sort through it all. You start at your search engine and click around to different pages until you come across just the right collection — the pages that make sense of the search. But a Google search on “digital camera” returns more than 100 million results. It’s overwhelming.
Trailfire rewires the web to your interests. It guides you as you browse, suggesting where you can find information related to any page you’re on at anytime. It also lets you make your own connections on the web – to link pages that relate to a topic from your own point of view.
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