Media for Personal Education

1. What about sports videos? What about...what about … what about…?
2. So we have sound-only files and “movie” files with sound and movement (and color) in addition to books. Don’t forget audiobooks, which are sometimes totally original but mostly are narrated print books.
3. Historically, new materials in new forms needing special equipment to play have challenged librarians. “Libre” = book but what about a disc of Microsoft Office, a recording of Adele, an old copy of the movie “Gone with the Wind”. What about apps? How about video games and game-playing controllers and equipment? Lynn’s PhD dissertation has to do with the challenge and some of the change.
4. I think a good rule of thumb is “Put it in Google”. If you are suspicious of revealing your interests to the Googly giant, use Microsoft’s alternative Bing. Or the third alternative called Duckduckgo. If you want more alternatives for searching for anything, including good podcasts and helpful videos, try this

1. The article lists 13 alternatives to the Google search engine. If you get serious, you can subscribe to SearchEngine journal.
2. The computer program or app that you use to search is a browser, for browsing around the internet. That is the program you type what you are searching for into. I like Firefox browser but the Google browser Chrome is very popular and so is the Microsoft browser called “Edge”.
3. While making this page, I learned about the Search Engine Journal’s podcast, in case you want to get into that.

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