NEW TOOLS KEYNOTE
“More Than Cool Tools” Super Long!!!
Alan Levine, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Blog: http://cogdogblog.com
Brian Lamb, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Blog: http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/
D’Arcy Norman, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Blog: http://www.darcynorman.net
Description
There is no shortage of “Cool New Web Tools” out there and all three of us are guilty as charged for presenting them to teachers via the firehose effect. In our session, we will begin with a nostalgic nod to our presentation past where just 3 years ago we were talking up “Small Pieces Loosely Joined” - blogs, wikis, and a little RSS. Now there is so much more, almost too much. So we may talk about some cool tools, but more at a level of looking at the affordances which make them compelling, and why these and future breeds of tools and platforms matter to K12 teachers.
There are tools for almost any task imaginable in web 2.0
Trends- embedding content, connecting, collaborating, disrupting
Embed tag- embed technology rather than make people go to your site
50 different web 2.0 ways to tell a story
connect- API’s flickr, photobucket, picnik, photo storage, photo editing, mixercast
socialize- bokardo.com, flickr, del.icio.us, slideshare,
collaborate- google docs, a lot like word, must be on line, if not esport and then work on in word. Also zoho is a lot like google docs
share, remix- mashups, google custom search, open licensing like creative commons, flickr advanced search- 50 million images, OER commons
Taking a break…. Lots of good info, but their delivery method is super slow even on a decent dsl connection.
