Journey of Words

Apture: Another Tool to Use

I have added Apture to Journey of Words and look forward to using it on my classroom website come the fall.

What is Apture? In their words it “provides the first rich communication platform allowing publishers and bloggers to easily turn flat pages of text into multimedia experiences.”

What this means is that I could write a post about Sylvia Plath and through the use of Apture (see the icon next to her name) I am able to link to relevant multimedia material about her and her work.

Two other examples are in this post where I use Apture to link to a video of John Medina, author of Brain Rules and this post where I link to a Wikipedia article about Robert Frost.

I can see this being an great tool to use with my students in the classroom and can be easily used to make my class website even more relevant to both my students and their parents.

My one complaint, that I found today, was that the Apture dashboard does not work properly in Firefox 3 but works just fine in IE7. Go figure…

(As you can see from above, it is quite easy to link to various material…if not used judiciously, Apture could be overused.)