What you can't live without...

From Techlearning: Here is an offer you can't refuse

In a techlearning blog post by Cheryl Oakes, re: technologies that people (in this specific instance, education doctoral students) can't live without:

"All of the doctoral students mentioned that they could not live without blogs, podcasts, wikis, chat, and that these technologies opened the doors to conversations with others teaching similar topics, in their own fields, somewhere outside of their buildings.I asked them what they struggled with while learning all about these new tools. All mentioned the following as adversities: never enough time to do it all, kids noticing and asking for more, a steep learning curve, maintaining a level of confidence while all this new learning takes place. But the following advantages really pushed the educators to continue, librarians who have been helpful, talking to other teachers outside of their buildings, the biggest advantage was that by taking a look at the outside world and finally by focusing on what kids need to be productive citizens in the 21st Century makes all the learning worthwhile."