Category: web 2.0
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Podcast River Aggregators
Several web 2.0 tools are available which can aggregate content from different podcast RSS feeds together into a single “podcast feed river.” I don’t know of that is a recognized term or not, but I think it communicates the idea well. Think of separate podcasts as smaller streams which feed into a larger river. Students…
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Bubbleshare of Climbing Popo
At the suggestion of Cheryl Oakes, an innovative Maine educator I have never met face to face but corresponded with a few times via web 2.0 technologies, I have created my first Bubbleshare photostory this evening. Bubbleshare is a free website that lets anyone upload photos, similar to Flickr, but also record accompanying voice narration.…
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Flickr via Flash and Karakorams
FlAppr is a flash-based front-end, or interface, for Flickr that requires the latest version of Flash Player (8). Think of FlAppr as an even cooler way to explore Flickr images and connect with Flickr-posting photographers than the “regular” web browsing Flicker website method. I love the flag feature: Click on a nation’s flag in FlAppr…
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21st Century Jukebox
I love living in the 21st century. And I love listening to music! 🙂 Pandora is a web 2.0 music service (available for free or with a subscription to remove visual web ads) that gives me a superb reason to not listen to my own iTunes music library constantly. Visit the site and start creating…
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Free ideas & Pedagogy
I have posted previously about the ethic, which exists and will grow in strength, for the free / open sharing of academic ideas via Internet and web 2.0 technologies (“Following the Free”). In order to be relevant in the 21st century, ideas increasingly need to be available in free digital forms. MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative is…
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Web 2.0 and conferences
How can web 2.0 technologies be most effectively leveraged to maximize interaction and participant benefit prior to, during, and after an educational conference? Thoughts that come to my mind on this question are: Sharing links and resources. (social bookmarking with a common tag could help.) Identifying issues and concerns via a blog. Sharing actual session…
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Great podcast presos on blogging
The Bloggercon III conference was held at Stanford University on November 6, 2004, and featured top notch presentations about blogging and web 2.0. Presenters included Dave Winer, Lawrence Lessig, Scott Rosenberg, Jay Rosen, Adam Curry, and many others. IT Conversations has compiled a nice webpage and podcast RSS feed of all the conference presentations. Check…
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Congressional staffers poor on netiquette
School teachers and campus principles may cringe with fearful anticipation at the prospect of their own students having free access to wiki resources like the Wikipedia, but it is doubtful the behavior of their students could be worse than that of some US Congressional staffers recently. Check out this “Wikipedia:Requests for comment/United States Congress” page.…
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Hedgehogs and Japanese Snow
This afternoon my oldest daughter and I created an enhanced podcast about her recent hedgehog science fair project. It is just 6 minutes long, and turned out well. The photographer of one of the attribution-only creative commons Flicker images we used (a cute one of a hedgehog yawning) has a Japanese Flickr contact named Tsuda.…
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Clipboard to Flickr
Clipr is a windows-only free application that permits users to directly upload the image content of their computer’s clipboard to Flickr. Anyone know of a Macintosh-compatible program that will do this?