I believe there may be no Web 2.0 tool more versatile or valuable than the wiki. The range of potential wiki uses is limited only by the creative imagination of the user. Among the countless possibilities, I love the way a wiki can be used to store and showcase portfolios of student work, or teacher resources, or just about anything. Today I’m looking at an application that I think lends itself beautifully to this kind of wiki use.
embedit.in offers a convenient way of embedding web pages or uploaded documents that you wish to share on your own website, wiki, or blog. The service could not be easier to use. You upload a file or or enter the URL for a web page, and are then provided with the html embed code to paste wherever you wish. I have embedded a URL from CAST for the example below, but I could just as easily have embedded the pdf file itself.
Once a document or web page is embedded, there is a convenient slider bar to zoom in for a better look. Or, it can be viewed “full screen”. There is supposed to be a download button, but this does not seem to be avaiable at the moment. You can, however, print an embedded file. Most common file formats can be uploaded and embedded, and each file may be up to 20 Mb in size.
Although I haven’t yet had opportunity to try this, I love the idea of using embedit.in on a wiki to help create porfolios of student work.
An useful application. The document can be enlarged also by double clicking. But “full screen” doesn’t work. Maybe that’s the case only on my computer.
That is perfect! Thanks. I couldn’t get full screen to work in any of my browsers either (Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome). Will be great when it can be downloaded. Will be using that.
Mateja and Anita. Thanks for your comments. I can’t get the “full screen” button to work either. I’ve contacted site developers about this and about the download button. Hopefully they will get these features working. I believe embedit.in really does offer a useful service. –Paul
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Hi Paul
This is great!
When I get back to school the first thing I am going to do is check to see if our server blocks it. I can already think of 10 things that I would use this for.
Thanks for the great comment about our blog!
My kids really are exceptional little learners and people. 🙂
Wow! Great tool! Another one I’ve found to be useful is NexGEN gallery, which is a plug-in for WordPress. It comes with a slideshow feature, and it can be used on any machine that can display flash.