Drafty+Outline

A Drafty Outline
Front banter:
 * "What do you want to present about?" "I don't know, what do YOU want to do" "I don't know, I asked YOU first" ....
 * We are all in higher ed, what can we tell k12 teachers?
 * We are the three Amigos, Hi Ho!


 * A look back 2004: [|Small Pieces Loosely Joined]
 * Connecting blogs, wikis etc with RSS - a vision of decentralized free tools connected on an as needed basis- still a rather technically daunting task
 * Fast Forward to 2007
 * Many, many more tools and even more ways to join (APIs, RSS glue apps) e.g. 50 web Ways to do a story/presentation
 * The RSS technology still underpins but more transparent - the type of integration done by [|hand coded / server scripting in 2004] can now be done in minutes by anyone using a free tool such as PageFlakes, NetVibes, etc
 * The rate of new tools becoming available is not slowing at all-exciting for some (geeks) overwhelming for most others
 * Rather than just look at "cool tools" we plan to go to another level and examine what the larger scale features are that make tools compelling (or not) - not about the tools themselves, but what affordances in them make them compelling and force us to ask why our Big Enterprise App X cannot do what this little free web based tool can do
 * Over-arching Features
 * Embeddness the YouTube-ification of content from one site embedded in others (of Alan's 50 web tools, 36 offered embed code)
 * Connection via APIs other tools - the ability to access media stored in other systems (e.g. images in flickr.my space, video in Youtube) and taken to the n-th degree by Facebook
 * Scaling of benefits from self to group - del.icio.us / flickr provide a platform to organize your own bookmarks/photos; at virtually no extra cost to the user, the tags applied to the content create a wider gain by being able to look at content across a large number of users, and new paths for exploring/finding new content
 * Shared creation spaces - places like gliffy, google docs that allow people to use a shared space to create content
 * Creative Commons- applied to sources of media AND to new content produced
 * "Mixing" tools that allow content from discrete sites to be pulled together
 * Star ratings to elevate "better" content (tools like Digg, Pligg, YouTube have social rating systems built in to help filter the wheat from chaff)
 * Free to use
 * Possible negative- Public sites that contain objectionable, inappropriate content, resulting in knee jerk responses to ban outright. Possible end-arounds? TeacherTube a alternative to YouTube.
 * Functionaility of RSS is more transparent, less about the tech. But it's still at the core.
 * It Just Works
 * Underpins netflakes, nevibes, etc


 * Peel Back and Look at...
 * [|Slideshare] - (Alan can start) Built on a creation of a YouTube for Powerpoints- upload media, convert to Flash format widely distributed form, embedded in other sites; has expanded with addition of social networking features- tagging, groups, favorites (I like D'Ary's presentations, and I can browse the presentations of people he likes); added ability to synchronize to audio
 * Another Tool
 * Looking past the sillinies- LOLCats- the content is goofy, but look at the value of being able to post/share media, easily annotate, and republish
 * And another