Judy's+Apps

So I was reading some tweets from Will Richardson and friends discussing Evernote. I'd not heard of this before and set out to do some exploring. I quite liked what I found. I can save my screen captures or click and drag files and images into this program. It is a free download with limited monthly storage. You can access this virtually anywhere you can access the net. I've downloaded the program and have been mainly dragging or copy/paste stuff so far because my laptop doesn't have an internal camera. I have all my research papers in one place and can access them where ever I am online.
 * Evernote: **

All About Evernote - Explained by Founder (long video) media type="youtube" key="d7LiH4EfbNY" height="295" width="480" Jing: Jing is an excellent app that allows you to capture screen videos to discuss computer content. It is a free download and fairly easy to use. You can save or upload your videos to Screencast.com again for free and also keep them private. From there I link the videos with RSS feeds, or in this case, embedding the URL (with the "embed widget" button on the editor toolbar) to places like this wiki. The video captures can be screen captures with or without audio. Imagine how powerful they can be for discussing papers (feedback). A couple of pitfalls if any are that the videos can be no longer than 5 minutes long and they are saved to your computer as swf files - I think thats a macroflash which doesn't easily convert to flv or avi or wmv. I tried Super Converter, another free app that was suggested but I kept getting error messages. If anyone finds a simpler way to convert these files please let me know. Here are my first attempts at creating my own Jing videos.

media type="custom" key="3526412" media type="custom" key="3526670"

Diigo and Diigolet: Social bookmarking sites. You can place diigo right on your internet toolbar and diigolet is added and opened from "my favourites". What I love about diigo is the ability to highlight and add sticky notes to any text that you are reading online. You can make your notes private or share them publicly. I think its an interesting way to not only monitor your reading and learning, but to also discover a variety of perspectives on a single piece of text. Scan down the page and run your mouse over the highlighted text to view the hidden sticky notes. As well, you will also see bubbles with numbers inside. These indicate floating sticky notes, another way to add a sticky note that is more visible apparent. (You may not have known that the highlighted text had public commentary attached in the form of sticky notes, where the bubble with a number is like a flag to indicate something more is here). __Will Richardson's blog regarding e-reading and the potential of diigo to discuss and meta analyze__ [|click here to read Will's Blog Post]