Mashups

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Mashups
Instructional Technology Services of Central
Ohio, Inc. February 4, 2008

• Amy Palermo
• amy_at_itsco.org

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• Established over 30 years ago to provide
  Instructional Television Services to Ohio Schools
• Eight Agencies serve the educational technology
  needs of over 1800 Public, JVS, Non-Public and
  Community Schools in Ohio

Over 2.1 Million Students Served Over 150,000
Educators Served Over 155,000 hours of
Professional Development delivered to educators
in 2007/2008
Ohios Ed Tech Agencies
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• Instructional television programming and delivery
  
• Teacher guides and supplemental resources for use
  with instructional media
• Distribution of licensed instructional videos
• online learning resources
• Digital resources including video streaming
• Professional development and training programs
• Face-to-Face Workshops (WOSU_at_COSi, Mount Vernon
  and New Boston labs!) offered directly to
  educators,
• On-site professional development for districts
• Distance Learning, Webinars and Online Classes

Our Services
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What are mashups?

• A music track that lays a vocal from Madonna
  over guitars from the Sex Pistols. A classroom
  portal that presents automatically updated
  syndicated resources from the campus library,
  news sources, student events, weblogs, and
  podcasts and that was built quickly using free
  tools. A Web site that takes crime data from the
  Chicago Police and applies them to Google Maps,
  without being affiliated with either. Each of
  these is a product of the stunning growth in
  online materials available in reusable formats
  each is energized by the character of digital
  culture and each may be described as a mashup.
• http//connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSERevi
  ew/DrMashuporWhyEducatorsSho/44592

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What are mashups?
Mashups reuse, repurpose and combine existing
data, art and/or content to create something
new, or add value in some way

• Types of Mashups
• Musical Mashup
• Video Mashup
• Web Application Hybrid
• Levels of Mashups
• Client Presentation Mashups Live data and
  functionality is embedded on a web page (widgets,
  gadgets, badges)
• Client Service Mashups Create a mashup service
  that is customized to an individual web site
  using code such as JavaScript, Flash or Applets,
  while data protocols often include RSS, XML and
  JSON.

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Noggins Upside Down Show Schmancy Schmashup
Gamewww.noggin.com/games/upsidedown
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What are mashups?

• API (Application Programming Interface) An
  interface for letting a program communicate with
  another program. In web terms An interface for
  letting web browsers or web servers communicate
  with other programs.www.eggheaddesign.co.uk/glo
  ssary.aspx

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Mashup Benefits

• immediate benefit at little cost
• Ability to reuse existing data
• Many APIs available
• Promotes a DIY (do it yourself) culture in
  user-centered technologies
• Allows learners to connect with multiple forms of
  digital information, manipulate the information
  to form their own content and play an active roll
  in their own learning

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Explore

• http//mashups.pbwiki.com
• Existing Mashups
• Lesson ideas

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Creating your own

• Overview of Google GadgetsAdd a gadget to the
  wiki
• Overview of Google MapsAdd an item to the map
• Overview of Yahoo Pipes

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Join the mashup culture!

• Share your resources! Make your lessons, content
  and resources available to others so that they
  may reuse, repurpose and combine with others' to
  meet the needs of their own students while
  learning from each other.
• Make your resources available. Web 2.0 offers
  many opportunities to publish your content where
  others can find it. 
• Allow others to use/take/borrow/steal your stuff.
• Provide original files and use common programs.