By: Lisa M Lane

Lisa M Lane — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:42:07 +0000

I did try Vuvox first, and One True Media, but… if you have to scroll, I stroll.You are so right about creativity within the limits – I argue that myself all the time. And after reading your comment, it occurred to me that the assignment was to play with a tool, let it inspire me, rather than try to force a tool to do what I had in mind.I confess to having a great deal of trouble coming to a tool without an idea of some kind, and just fooling around. So although I am not a typical historian, perhaps I am indeed stodgier than I’d like to be.

By: Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:02:17 +0000

I do like the wall of video effect- there’s probably some web tool to achieve that, though it might not exactly be a story tool. Gloster really is a fixed canvas and not really the kind of thing you want or can embed easily. I’d push back on the ” Web 2.0 tools are intended to be liberating.” which suggests you want it to do everything you want to. That’s not the sense of liberation you describe, of course.What is more interesting to me is being creative within the limits. Glogster is a fixed canvas as opposed to the infinite canvas of prezi. You might be able to window it by limiting parameters in the embed code, but it is best viewed directly on the site.Vuvox Collage keeps you above the fold, but makes the infinite a horizontal scroll.Darn, you historians are tough crowd!

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