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Here is a place to post notes, comments, from the NMC Symposium on Mashups

See Mashup Discussion Draft comment directly on it! And the section on Data Mashups in the 2008 Horizon Report.

Full recordings posted at http://www.nmc.org/2008-spring-symposium/program

Flickr photos http://flickr.com/photos/tags/nmcsymposium08/show/

1 Cole Camplese: Mashing It Up in Big University
2 Wayne Hodgins: The Future is a Monstrous, Marvelous Mashup
3 Jared Bendis: Learning From the Mashup: Are We Blending Our Future, or Throwing Our Future in the Blender?
4 Mashup Contest at Upenn: Copyright and Free Culture
5 Susan Smith Nash: Educational Uses of Mashups
6 Information Visualization Using Mashups and Web 2.0 Tools

[edit] Cole Camplese: Mashing It Up in Big University

How much effort is running Pligg? It appears to be a fully locally installed OS application.

Pligg is an open source tool that requires PHP and MySQL. It is a very straightforward install if you are familiar with installing a tool like WordPress. It is still a bit complicated on the configuration side, but once it is running it is a great tool.

Links from the chat: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010490136
http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/02/texting
http://www.psychologymatters.org/multitask0306.html
http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/category/hot-team/
http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/category/success-story/

Link to Lessig talk: http://symposium.tlt.psu.edu/content/lawrence-lessigs-keynote-presentation-version-1

Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology

[edit] Wayne Hodgins: The Future is a Monstrous, Marvelous Mashup

Links in Chat:
http://worldwithoutoil.org
http://mashup.com/

Wayne's Blog:
http://waynehodgins.typepad.com/
Wayne's location:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=110.3+24.192222+&sll=24.20689,110.302734&sspn=22.130588,32.211914&ie=UTF8&ll=24.537129,-110.126953&spn=5.544834,8.052979&t=h&z=7

QUESTIONS FROM WAYNE'S SESSION

Would you consider the traditional news (broadcast) as a mashup in its earliest form? Rotoscope animation in movies developed by max fleischer in 1918? Lego blocks and lincoln logs?

How will the semantic web affect mashups in the future?

How did Autodesk came up with its sustainability analysis dashboard idea: green building design tools mashup?

How can "unconference" practices be incorporated into education and business? Related question: How would this work at a conference with thousands of people?

Location based, dynamic, pull mashups - so I walk to a location and my device delivers information that I have chosen to be viewed. I dont have to look it up? Is this something that is happening now?

Not so much a question as an excited observation - I really liked what Wayne was saying about describing our jobs as a mashup of what we really do. I've personally described this as a mashup of "micro" job descriptions. I think a lot of us at this session have the same difficulty in describing our jobs in such a dynamic environment. This topic of "micro job descriptions" would be a perfect example of an unconference breakout. Lots of us connected on this single challenge and would likely have gained from exploring the topic in more depth. How do we identify the "teachable moments" in our jobs (to use an oft-use phrase for lack of a better one) and how do we connect these in a way that will be recognizable and measurable by our HR departments?

[edit] Jared Bendis: Learning From the Mashup: Are We Blending Our Future, or Throwing Our Future in the Blender?

QUESTIONS FROM JARED'S SESSION

If the remake is worse than the original, and it's not new anyway, what's the point in making it?

Could you show the assignment again, and tell us a little more about those pieces?

What is NOT a mashup> ;-)

Jared, your presentation begs the question, "Is there such a thing as originality?" And is originality always better?

Links:

MOMA Exhibit Design for the Elastic Mind

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Dread Zeppelin

TextArc

Comment: My orientation is similar to Jared’s; it’s not about being the Grinch who stole enthusiasm about creativity, but rather about being critical participants in the conversation, particularly when we’re touting creative, problem-solving skills as critical to students’ future at a time when they get little if any education to learn how to be so.

A “trained” ear/eye/mind can differentiate, analyze, evaluate and produce in a domain. There’s a materiality to that knowledge/skill base; at the very least it’s a matter of time-spent-doing-something. There’s a bit of a myth we propagate when we don’t make that materiality transparent. It’s not to discourage creativity, it’s to contextualize it for students, to make it useful and meaningful beyond simply “being creative.” To be candid, I don't get all the hype about creativity and I have a background in the creative, performing arts. Suzanne Aurilio

[edit] Mashup Contest at Upenn: Copyright and Free Culture

Notes here

Links from the chat:
http://www.free-culture.cc/
http://www.thetrailermash.com/10-things-i-hate-about-commandments-comedy/
http://wic.library.upenn.edu/about/musicvideo.html
http://www.free-culture.cc/
http://comiqs.com
http://bitstrips.com/

Comments: Fantastic examples of students using multi-media tools with a very flexible support architecture that brings together an enormous array of resources. I'd be very interested in exploring further the examples of how the student projects that replace traditional papers and reports extend the skills of the students and their educational breadth, as well as extending the learning value of the content presented in more flexible modes. -dw