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.