I’m doing a keynote session for the Basic/Advanced Training track for the K12 Online Conference in October — themed “Unleashing the Potential” (Darren had great words of flattery, plus its a great gang to team up with). The ideas are still brewing, but I was keen to rather than talk generally about the nuts and bolts of broad technologies like blogs, wikis, RSS, to come up with a great set of discrete, neat things one could do with existing web tools, either doing something cool within a common tools (e.g. annotated images with flickr notes) or doing something creative with lesser known tools like gliffy.
So obviously, I do not have a big overflowing bag of items, so I am tossing this out to the wider net to ask others to contribute– an open wiki is posted at http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/webtricks.
What is concocted will be set up in a fascinating, loosely joined structure that is yet to be determined. How is that for vagueness?
So what is your coolest, most obscure web trick?
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Hi Alan,
Douglas, a friend of mine, emailed me about this post he had made on his blog:
http://www.douglasblaine.com/index.php/2006/09/06/trail-fire/
I’m not certain yet how I would weave its use into my teaching but it’s a cool tool with potential. ;-)
You might check out the geotagging that Flickr allows now, too. That could be a great tool to use in classrooms.
Thanks Darren for the Trails link… need to check it out.
And yes Dawn, I had in my mind to include flickr geotsgging (once I carve some time to get in there).
I ought to flesh out my examples a bit more. More than just saying, “go to flickr and geotag”, I am looking for links and descrptions of specific ways they are used… and pleassssssssssssssse, dump ‘em in the wiki!
I can’t wait to see how this works out. Just watching you navigate the process of creating a presentation like this could be a learning all of its own.