Comments on: Top Web Tools of 2008 – Number 1

By: barrydahl

barrydahl — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:54:25 +0000

Wow Kevin, that is most excellent. Please let know how your session goes at the Guild. I wish I was attending, but can’t make it this year.

The TBR summer session was such a blast. I really enjoyed it and met so many great people. Cheers. Barry

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:41:21 +0000

Barry,

As an avid cartoonist and working in elearning, ToonDoo is a really fun and fast and effective way to communicate a message and transfer knowledge.

You introduced me to ToonBoo last Summer in Memphis, Tn at the Web 2.0 Summer Institute hosted by TBR (TN Board of Regions). I immediately began playing with it that day!

If falls directly in line with a talk I’m giving at this year’s eLearning Guild’s Annual Gathering in Orlando titled “The 5th Language.” I’ll be presenting the idea that we communicate graphically everyday already so why not use what we already know in eLearning. Part of the presentation is a quick reference (time permitting a demo) to ToonDoo.

Thanks for putting this on your top 10 list and of course for introducing it to me last year.

Kevin Thorn

By: barrydahl

barrydahl — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:22:33 +0000

Gillian, I forgot to mention. I like Plurk. Similar to (but different from) Twitter. The main reason I use Twitter and not Plurk is that I already have a network of people built up in Twitter. For me it’s very loinely in Plurk.

By: barrydahl

barrydahl — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:20:01 +0000

Hi Gillian, and thanks for the comment. Something was borked at Toondoo which is why the Toonbook wasn’t showing. I re-made the book using their new tool (they no longer use the “Toonbag”) and it appears to be working now. Still, the embed isn’t working properly but that is probably a WordPress thing since they don’t like embedded things. Just click the text link to open the book in a new window.

Still some issues at Toondoo, since my phot wasn;t showing up. I tried to change to a new photo and that didnt show up either. They’ll probably get things fixed quickly, at least they usually do.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:07:08 +0000

Barry – many thanks for such a useful Top10 series. I look forward to seeing your Toondoo Book – currently (11th Jan) showing as not ready.

Also, thank you for the Jan 9th slideshare which (toward the end) served as a useful check against something I am putting together for a specific group intro. I must look up something as dreadfully named as ‘Plurk’. Am not too keen on Twitter but Plurk?????