Your digital consultant » thinking http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org it's easy but I'm not cheap Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:08:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Webspiration now embeds! http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/02/07/webspiration-now-embeds/ http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/02/07/webspiration-now-embeds/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:45:38 +0000 Simon Robinson http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/02/07/webspiration-now-embeds/ Publishing | myWebspiration
To embed the document in a web page, blog or wiki, click the Copy Embedding Code link at the bottom of your published document.

Great news!
I have been using Webspiration since it the beta started and sent a feedback email early on requesting the embed feature. I was obviously not alone and now four months later it arrives. You have to first “publish” the document which generates a URL you can direct people to if you wish. If you go to the published document there is a button at the bottom to copy the embed code to the clipboard. It’s not the most elegant implementation but it’s a start. “Republishing” is required to update the document but (thank goodness!) the URL doesn’t change.
I’m hoping it will improve with age. Example below.

]]> http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/02/07/webspiration-now-embeds/feed/ 2 Online Inspiration http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2008/11/11/online-inspiration/ http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2008/11/11/online-inspiration/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:57:08 +0000 Simon Robinson http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2008/11/11/online-inspiration/ There are a number of concept mapping tools some free, some not so free. Inspiration is not super expensive for what you get (IMHO) but it’s not free. What it does do super well that makes it my application of choice is switch seamlessly between what they call “diagram” and “outline” views. So it goes from the concept map bubbles to bulleted list format and makes sense most of the time. What was holding Inspiration back over the last 12 months or so has been the explosion of collaborative tools such as Bubbl.us CMaps and others. Well no more. Webspiration is the Web2.0 successor of Inspiration (and Kidspiration). It’s in beta at the moment so there is bound to be a few bugs (for instance I have had difficulty uploading files) but the upside is you can try it for free. It has all the major features of the desktop version and adds the ability to track changes and collaborate with other Webspiration users. I don’t know what the business model is going to be around this product (I imagine it will be a subscriber account type thing?) but it would be great if non members could at least view the document even if they can’t collaborate. Ability to embed maps into a blog, wiki etc would also be super hot. You can be I’m putting in that suggestion.
Sign up for an account and start planning/creating/mapping/visualising. Then share it with me. I don’t have any friends you see…

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