Comments on: Trail Fire

By: Pat Ferrel

Pat Ferrel — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:22:02 +0000

Thanks for the post Douglas. We are certainly trying to build something different from the typical social bookmarking product. We let users connect pages and publish ideas anywhere on the web. Instead of a read-only medium anyone can now turn the web into what they want it to be. Your lesson illustration is great. Teachers (lessons and syllabi), writers (quotes and bibliographies), and bloggers (trackbacks and links) have been doing this sort of thing for a long time. It is their job to put together ideas that others have not. Now anyone can do this anywhere on the web.

Thanks for the ideas too. We are madly working on most of the features you mentioned above. The first release of any product is a guess at what users want. From then on we solicit and listen to your feedback.

By: Bud the Teacher

Bud the Teacher — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:05:43 +0000

Blazin’ a Trail…

Douglas sent me a link to TrailFire, a new tool that adds a neat wrinkle to social bookmarking — annotation. From his post on the subject: I am not usually taken in by these social bookmarking things, but I have…

By: Douglas

Douglas — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:01:15 +0000

The other thing that occured to me was that with the ability to embed some HTML into your comments, you might be able to link to an online survey tool. Students could rate the page or take a quiz or something along those lines.

By: Darren Kuropatwa

Darren Kuropatwa — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:27:58 +0000

Thanks for this Doug! As I follwed one of your trails I was thinking about ways it can be used in the classroom … the synapses are firing.