What is a Mashup? An Introduction to Mashing Web 2.0 content into BLS/WEBCT Vista Courses „ A Mashup is content that is created by linking two or more Web 2.0 applications together in a new context.

Eileen McMahon Communication Studies/Ed Tech Ellen Hume, Communication Studies Irene Yukhananov, Ed Tech/Instructional Design Gene Shwalb, Ed Tech/Instructional Design

Why is it significant? Why is it significant?

„ Mashups represent a big step away from „ Mashups leverage the revolutionary “one size fits all” applications; they allow architecture and collective chaos of the faculty to customize the presentation of internet. They are built from applications content according to their own unique designed to live on the edge of the web and interests and cognition. use a variety of different protocols that can be mixed together to harness the massive amount of real-time data that pulses through the internet.

What are Web 2.0 applications? Web 1.0

„ Web 2.0 applications are second generation Britannica Online internet applications that leverage the power Personal of the internet to harness collective Publishing intelligence. Mp3.com Directories News sites bookmarks

1 Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Mashups are dynamic!

Britannica Online Wikipedia „ The best Mashups are dynamic displays of Personal Websites Blogging real time data culled from RSS feeds, public Publishing Participation databases, or any open data source to Mp3.com Podcasting display this information in a novel way Directories Tagging „ Many states are now making their public News sites Social news databases available online! bookmarks Clouds

What are the educational Who is doing it? applications?

„ Educational Mashups used for teaching and „ Faculty and students are both experimenting learning are just starting to emmerge with and creating new applications using a „ Map Mashups are being created by students wide variety of different tools, including as class projects in geography, geology, Maps, , , community service, media, Google gadgets, AOL, Yahoo, flickr, communications, urban planning and a wide , , live journal, and variety of other subjects. del.icio.us.

How can they be added to How are they being used at UMB? WEBCT?

„ Mashups can be added to virtually any „ Let’s look at some examples page either by embedding code into HTML or by adding it as a link.

2 Mashup Examples Mashup Resources

„ Ellen Hume, Communication Studies – Map Mashup Map Mashup Guide: „ Irene Yukhananov, Ed Tech/Instructional http://prog.trincoll.edu/gis/documents/Google_Mashu Design p_User_Guide.pdf – Flickr Mashup http://fullmeasure.co.uk/mashups/ecsitemap.htm http://www.programmableweb.com/ „ Gene Shwalb, Ed Tech/Instructional Design – Google Spreadsheet Mashups

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