Sharing with Flickr Attribution Helper & Cortex for Chrome.mp4

Hi, everybody. Since this week we're talking about making learning visible, I thought I'd show a couple of my favorite couple of my favorite tools that allow me to make my learning visible and certainly in one case, actually give attribution to people who have shared their learning. The first page I have here is something called Flickr CC Attribution Helper, and it's actually an extension or plugin by Alan Levine. And basically what this allows you to do is it. If you go to a Flickr page such as this one, often we'll take CC or copy left images and want to share those on our pages. And I know a lot of people in this class use them on their blogs. But what makes this easy, say I take this photo just recently and I released it under a Creative Commons image. So if you were searching for an image and it happened to be a Creative Commons image, what this does with this extension, once you've applied it to Firefox or Chrome, there's a different extension for each, I believe what it does is on the page, if I scroll down, it actually adds a field here. So it gives you the direct HTML text or the attribution text that you can use to make sure that people who want to use that image or, or, you know, can actually go to the page and use it. If you paste the HTML into your blog post, as long as you do it in the right place, whether you're using, I know some of you are using Weebly or WordPress, if you do this in the HTML where you can actually add HTML text, it actually includes the photo, the photo, as well as all the attribution info, so you don't have to worry about separately putting the attribution. So you should try it once. It's a really great way of providing attribution. And I think that's. Attribution is one of the most important pieces of CC because it does allow people to kind of keep the lineage of ideas to, you know, not only just to give credit, but allows people to see where ideas or things came from and, you know, give proper credit, of course. But for me, attribution has always been about the origin and the lineage of ideas. So that's Flickr Attribution Helper, another one that I believe is only available for Chrome, which is the browser that I've been using for quite some time now, which I really like is Cortex. So Cortex is basically a little, if you'll notice here, it's a little extension that allows you to share instantly to things like Twitter, Facebook, I'm not even sure what this one is. Pick friends, Tumblr and a few other ones that I don't use very often. Posterous that might be. This is email. The only ones I use are Twitter, Facebook and email, I believe. But there's Tumblr. I forget what that one is. I forget what those other actually are. I think I've had them at one point, but totally forget. So on a page like this. So I'm reading post by Brian Lamb and this is one particular blog post that I think is worth tweeting. So what I could do is, all I do is I hold down my mouse button for an extra second and then I can actually share it really if you notice that thing pop up. So I can share it quickly to Facebook, email or Twitter. Those are the three that I chose. So if I want to tweet this really quickly, I just go here and I might actually do something like this. Triggers for experience. And the article is about sort of content and open access. So what I might do is just very quickly give it a hashtag, maybe type in open education and type an interaction because of some of the hashtags that I thought. And it actually, I don't have to paste a link in because it will already do that for you. I'm just describing it. So if I do that, it's automatically tweeted. I can actually view that particular post just to make sure that I actually did it. You'll notice that I just tweeted it out there. So that's a really nice way to be able to share things very easily. I don't have to go to Twitter to do it, it's just in my browser. So what I really think is one of the most important things about sharing is that we do it really easily and quickly. And it's just part of our workflow. So it shouldn't have to be something that's outside of our workflow, although you can do that as well. But for the most part, when you're reading something and you think it's worth sharing, this is just one of the tools that allows you to share really quickly with others and allows you to interact with an interface like or a service like Twitter without really being on Twitter all the time, people say, how do you ever have time to be on Twitter? Well, that only took me an extra second. And so sometimes I think it's worth just doing that sort of thing. Not that that's all you should do in Twitter, but it's a big part of what I do anyway. Personally. Anyway, I hope that's helpful. These are two of my favorite tools, and hopefully you'll maybe take a look and see how they work for you. Thanks.