Thursday, March 29, 2007

Innertoob

Yesterday Vicki Davis pointed to a podcast by Wes Fryer about cyberbullying. It's always interesting to listen to Wes. But today, we'll consider the tool that Vicki used to post the podcast, Innertoob. If I'm understanding it properly, Innertoob allows podcasters and vodcasters and their listeners to place annotations within a pod/vodcast through which a listener can specifically point to the annotations and listen to that specific part of the podcast.
In her blog, Vicki explains that one problem of Innertoob is that it completely copies the pod/vodcast from the place where it was originally posted and does not list a source.

Questions for Discussion:
1. What does it mean to be the owner of information? Is it important to think about ownership of information? Why/why not?
2. Sources typically tell individuals how to find where information was originally posted. If information is completely copied is it important to know where it was originally posted? Why/why not?
3. Should a listener/viewer/reader be able to take something created by somebody else and change it by including new ideas and information? Why/why not? (Imagine the consequences if people did not do this. Imagine the consequences if people did do this?)
4. Vicki Davis slightly changed Wes Fryer's podcast by adding in new annotations. Who's the creator of the podcast that Vicki placed on Innertoob, Vicki or Wes? Does it matter? Is there a certain point at which the product ceases to be Wes's and becomes Vicki's?
5. Innertoob is relatively new. What services will the next podcasting tool offer? How could Innertoob be improved?

1 Comments:

At 5:34 PM , Blogger Dee Martin said...

The very tools that are making it easier to collaborate are also giving us an entirely new set of value questions to deal with aren't they? I absolutely love your posts and the questions that you come up with have me in awe! Thanks so much for sharing with all of us.

 

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