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Trailfire provides a unique new method for commentary, web navigation and social discovery. By leaving “marks”, which are essentially electronic notes, on individual Web pages and adding your comments you can guide people out onto the web and help them discover what you already know.

This week I learned that you don’t even have to leave your living room sofa to attend a professional development conference!  I love that! JoAnn Mattson provided our class with a link to the K-12 Online Conference from October 2008.   Its theme was “Amplifying Possibilities”, and I certainly saw

This  Trailfire plugin caught my attention because although I often identify specific sites for my students to use with inquiries, they do not always successfully retrieve the requisite information. To be able to leave pointers, suggestions, questions and guides along the way is brilliant.

On the second day of the NYCWP Spring Tech Retreat, held this year at The Baccalaureate School for Global Education, in Astoria, Ken Stein and I delivered a workshop on using Trailfire in the classroom.

Daily Links Gmail Redesigned (by Globex Designs) | userstyles.org I like the idea of a new UI for Gmail, but I can't switch to this yet because it doesn't support the Remember The Milk extensions I am slavishly addicted to.

Where to start this post? I could point you at my earlier presentation on “Augmenting OER with Client-side Tools” to orient you to the idea the browser itself offers one of the most powerful ways for users to both customize content on the fly and interact with each other.