Sharing the Addiction » web2 http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org Creating one addict at a time Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:52:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 The battle of the tools http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org/2008/09/21/the-battle-of-the-tools/ http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org/2008/09/21/the-battle-of-the-tools/#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:50:54 +0000 suzievesper http://sharetheaddiction.edublogs.org/?p=128 I have been putting together a wiki for my upcoming pre-conference workshop and have been revisiting some tools that I have played with in the past as well as brushing up on the tools that I use reguarly. What I am finding is that I have become a little confused at the amount of choice that has opened up. This is nothing new in the internet world of infowhelm but I am now beginning to question things I’ve always just taken for granted.

For instance, I am a big Flickr fan. I have been advocating the use of Flickr for a long time now. Flickr has its groups, map, add note feature and direct relationship with Picnik for editing. I am still a fan but its supremacy is being erroded by some of the other tools I have played with in the last couple of days. PhotoBucket, for instance, has really grown since I last checked it out. The interface is easier to get around and you can now upload videos and it has a direct link to Scrapblog meaning you can make these from within PhotoBucket itself. Then there is DotPhoto which I hadn’t heard of before but found on the Top 10 Reviews website where it had been given gold with specific mention of the great photoshows that you can make with it.

This is just one example of the kind of exploring that I have been doing recently. All of which means that I am now getting a little bamboozled. So many options and they all have features that set them apart from each other while still having the same key functions. I don’t want to be uploading images to multiple places on the web but I don’t want to miss out on great features either. How are the rest of you out there finding the range of web 2.0 tools on offer? Are you coping?

In the meantime, here are the tools that I have documented for the workshop so far. I plan to add an extra couple in the next week or so to the wiki page.

Utterli.png Utterli external image maps_logo_small_blue.png Google Maps
Authorstream2.png Authorstream VoiceThread.png Voicethread
external image zc-logo.gif Zoho Creator external image awesome_effects_pane2.jpg Picnik/ Fotoflexor
external image glogster.jpg Glogster/ Wix external image scribd.png Scribd
external image polldaddy%255B2%255D.png Poll Daddy external image rockyou.jpg Slide/ Picture Trail
external image c9107062fc0a9199e79d8f5063acc807.jpg
 Tabblo Mystudiyo.png MyStudiyo
external image 280slides.png 280 Slides external image clustrmaps.com ClustrMaps
external image flickr_logo.jpg Flickr/ Dotphoto external image calendar_sm2_en-GB.gif Google Calendar
external image Suzie_Vesper%27s_Blog Wordle external image circavie.gif CircaVie
external image youtube_logo.jpg YouTube/ Teacher Tube external image voki.png Voki
external image lifehackarticles.jpg Bubbl.us external image Picture_3.png Mixwit
Animoto.png
 Animoto external image sticker1.png Vodpod

I would love any feedback or suggestions on where to source further examples of tools. Have I missed any that should definitely be there? I am planning to add Photobucket, Bubbleshare and Scrapblog.

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