Working With Web-based Resources in Mind

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Web is a veritable resource. Its resourcefulness is expanding by the moment. These resources are globally accessible and many of them are free and available on 24/7 basis. Web resources today are assuming an stage of what might become a new language. A language is a resource that provides you with a set of means. These could be used for many activities including thinking, communicating to name a few. The means of language include words, phrases, grammar and meaning etc.

Working with language practically means harnessing these resources(means) towards certain ends. Web resources constitute something similar. A language worker- say an essayist, poet or even a teacher rarely invents a new word, but always uses an existing word or any other means to achieve a certain goal. No one ever has been honored for inventing a new word- but honored always for harnessing its potential meaning: story telling or communicating.

Here I use working as a term to denote the primary activity of a person: teaching, professional, learning. The working of a faculty is teaching, that of a student is learning. The web resources- tools and information are aimed at productive enhancement of any work, worker or working situation. Whether a worker is a student, faculty, professional or manager, the existing and emerging web tools can be used to ease the efforts and increase productivity.

Web resources also have a set of means that can be put into production. While new means of production are being always thought and are being built and made available, the scope for productive employment of existing tools is immense. It was never this high in the past. Availability of information in multiple forms- word, text, audio, multimedia and a range of tools that can be used to manipulate them into other useful forms is already exceedingly high and growing exponentially.

What does it mean to people like you and me. It is very simple: Use these resources as building blocks and design new resources, products and services by imaginatively combining them.