Comments on: Exotic Tools

By: Karen Adkins

Karen Adkins — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:58:08 +0000

I remember hearing about a professor who had class meetings on World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft has audio capabilities as well, which makes meeting in the game much like a classroom. The students have a visual and can chime in during class discussions.

By: Kim Clevinger

Kim Clevinger — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:34:04 +0000

I agree with many others who have posted. I am not really familiar with most of these tools. I really need to research them in order to learn more about them.

By: Ashley Pelfrey

Ashley Pelfrey — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:39:53 +0000

I am familiar with very few of the “exotic tools” that are listed above. I have used Flickr to find pictures that I have used in my classes. I loook forward to trying adding more of these tools to my toolbox.

By: monica

monica — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:34:03 +0000

For me, exotic is exactly the right term. I’m not familiar with most of these tools. I plan on spending some time this week exploring some of the links. Tagging and directories - I’m all about organizing things so that they can be found later. I want to check out Furl - one of my pet peeves is to find a great site to use with particular content in class and the next time I teach the unit - the site is vamoosed!!!

By: Elizabeth Freeman

Elizabeth Freeman — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:22:08 +0000

I am familiar with some of the exotic tools and not so familiar with others. I have mentioned in a blog response before that I have played WoW and loved it. I’m not even into games and I was addicted. I think that games of this nature are very interesting and they really get me involved. I feel like I am thinking, plotting, scheming, etc instead of just mindlessly playing something.
I used Audacity for the first time in the spring and it is a very easy program to use. I thought that the sound quality and the features were wonderful, especially for a free program. I used Audacity to create my first Podcast.
I am not at all familiar with tags and directories so I am going to start this week by learning some more about them. I am particulary interested in looking at Furl.

By: lowell

lowell — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:40:00 +0000

I MUDded for part of the weekend with my 10 and 13 year old daughters. They had a ball.

The challenge is finding the right MUD I think

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:12:41 +0000

I had a horrible experience with MUDs in my gaming course. I wouldn’t use one in my classroom for anything. If I’m going to game, I’m going to use a graphically based one. There is much less of a learning curve with the visually leaning student of today, anyway, if you’re trying to get them involved in something. Television and video games have burned out what little imagination some may have had, so using their brains to read text and generate their own mental imagery may very well be physically impossible.

By: phaedrus » Blog Archive » What are “Exotic Tools”?

phaedrus » Blog Archive » What are “Exotic Tools”? — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:30:32 +0000

[...] phaedrus » Blog Archive » Exotic Tools. Exotic is probably not a good choice of term. Maybe we should call these advanced, or specialized, tools. The reality is that the numbers of tools available in online environments has mushroomed in the last five years. [...]

By: Pam Callahan

Pam Callahan — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:53:43 +0000

Agreed. The audio part of the technology is what I have very little experience with so far, and am interested in any new information you all can provide.

By: Kim Dearing

Kim Dearing — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:10:38 +0000

Maybe we could set up a thread in the discussion forum where we could del.icio.us IDs? Seems like a good way to share resources…