Personal Knowledge Management

As a part of the final class for the Educational Technology MA, I had to plan and create a personal knowledge management system. This culminating project complements the web portfolio to examine our accomplishments and the multiple resources we collected over the years (in my case, five years).

As I began planning this I realized that while I have collected a large amount of education technology-related materials, I have amassed even more resources related to my day job, teaching history (specifically world history). This collection currently looks like hundreds of semi-organized links, shelves of books, gigabytes of documents, and two file cabinets full of handouts and readings.

Instead of combine these two banks of knowledge, I have created two separate systems. The first focuses only on educational technology, the second on world history.

They are both powered by Movable Type. I choose a blog engine to power this project because of the ability to categorize in mutliple categories in addition to keys words. It is easily searchable, accessable from any computer, and could easily be configured to for allow future collaboration with others. Both are obviously works in progress. With the framework now established I can easily populate the databases with