Comments on: Amazing Add-on for Blogs: Apture

By: Mary Ann Apple

Mary Ann Apple — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:37:00 +0000

After reading your post, I registered and added it to my blog. Also linked to Amazing Add-ons for Blogs: Apture.

By: Mary Ann Apple

Mary Ann Apple — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:51:47 +0000

I registered with Apture after reading about it in your blog. It has great possibilities. See my post where I added a link to Weblogg-ed Amazing Add-on for Blogs. Media Rich Blogs Our librarians also added it to their blogs. See Tell It Like It Is...

By: High Techpectations

High Techpectations — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:37:11 +0000

Weblogg-ed » Amazing Add-on for Blogs: Apture…

Link: Weblogg-ed » Amazing Add-on for Blogs: Apture. Just added Apture, not to be confused with Apple’s Aperture, to my blog after reading Will Richardson’s post today. If you look…

By: Claire Thompson

Claire Thompson — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:07:35 +0000

If more folks start using this, please mention somewhere in your post that you are using it. There’s no indication when reading the post from a feed reader that there are Apture links (at least not in my reader) and in this case the links only appear on the Weblogg-ed home page, not the individual post page.

By: Lucy Gray

Lucy Gray — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:34:36 +0000

Oohhhh, I love this and I agree that it’s much better than Snapshots. I use Typepad for my blog, and so all I had to do click a button to add this widget. When I went to my blog, a video tutorial popped up and I started linking like crazy. What a find!

By: lhuff

lhuff — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:43:58 +0000

Oops–here’s the link:

By: lhuff

lhuff — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:43:22 +0000

You've been tagged--only if you want to accept--no pressure!

By: Gayle Keresey

Gayle Keresey — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:52:57 +0000

Well, I think I figured out why it didn’t work for some people because I thought it wasn’t working, either. When I got to the photo of Tess and Tucker poster on Flickr, I found out why I was seeing mostly white space. The school filter was blocking sites. I can see the Wikipedia one, but not all of the Flickr ones. Good ole’ Websense strikes again.

Gayle Keresey

By: Mike Maloy

Mike Maloy — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:45:16 +0000

Not working for me either.

By: Gary Stager

Gary Stager — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:22:25 +0000

Tom,

Thanks for beating me to the punch! I was struggling to figure out why this is new or so exciting.

I was using HyperCard earlier than that By 1992 I was running workshops on using Voyager’s Expanded Book Toolkit which allowed an author to create their own dynamic media-rich books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_Books Voyager’s work was either way ahead of its time or insignificant.

Way back then there was an expectation that you would actually write something and then add media or pop-up information for purposes of clarification or annotation. Today’s mash-up tools (and the examples often cited by educators as exemplary) are better suited for collage than writing or serious expression. (I realize that accomplished artists may create exquisite collage. I am referring to the magazine photo collages we find on K-12 bulletin boards)

-=Gary
http://www.constructingmodernknowledge.com

PS: I remember reading in Bill Atkinson’s HyperCard manual how he was influenced by Logo.

By: rossisen

rossisen — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:35:27 +0000

I get a little worried about allowing a third party to run code on my site. What is their business model? Are they going to be putting ads on it? What kind of tracking do they do? I will have to think about why this is better than linking or embedding. In a funny way, it takes away the learners’ exploration of a term or person that they are not familiar with and replaces it with the author’s.

By: Paul Williams

Paul Williams — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:10:31 +0000

This looks really interesting, but I think it needs to be used judiciously to be suitable for educational purposes.

There is always a possibility of TMI (Too Much Information!), and this tools needs to be used appropriately. I will install on my blog and give it a whirl!

By: Jeff Utecht

Jeff Utecht — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:23:52 +0000

Good find! Installed and using!

Will have to rethink the way I post

Will have to rethink the way I link

Will have to rethink user experience

By: Nigel Robertson

Nigel Robertson — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:05:42 +0000

Not working here either Have checked out Apture on another site tonight and working there so not a browser config.

By: Will Richardson

Will Richardson — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:48:53 +0000

Actually, just realized it’s not working when you look at the post by itself. I’ll investigate…