K12Online 2009, part 2: Wizard of Apps

I mentioned this video in a previous post, and have now had the opportunity to watch the 51 minute keynote presentation in it's entirety (don't forget to check out the backstory). I don't know if I neglected to do something, however, it was often difficult to for me to see much of what was on the screen (not the Wizard of Apps/Oz scenes) and the audio was occasionally difficult to hear. I'm afraid I might of missed important pieces, or have understood things incorrectly. I've tried to do perform Google searches on various items that I'm unclear about, however, I am not able to connect to Google this morning! Can it be that Google is "down?!" With that said, here is what I took away from the presentation, knowing I have to explore further:

• General theme, being an ethical citizen, creating a positive digital footprint.
• People search tools: pipl.com, 123people. Didn't know they existed.
• That's not cool dot com - will have to investigate further.
• Flickr storm - creating an image tray could be a great tool to use at the elementary level as the use of images can be contained to one source and students could access at home as well as school (yes?).
• Not clear on triangulation - that will be a future Google search.
• Other search tools - dulcinea. Wiki search tool. Surchur will search across social networks.
  
• GIGO - garbage in, garbage out. If your research is lacking, so will your product.
• Evaluating information - does neutral text exist? Who's the source?
• Wikis and twitter as a resource - twitter as a primary source. Now that it has been brought to my attention, I can see the logic as tweets can be created at the site, though I'm not sure I would have come to that conclusion on my own. (Twasa)?
  
• It's important to think about the audience when creating a presentation (I again refer you to the backstory).
  
• Dig tales, voice threads, xtranormal. Cool ideas shared: poetry anthology as a voice thread, trailers for books through animoto, student book reviews in glogster.