Mashups have been the most flavoursome technological approach for the last couple of years, in and out of the e-learning world. i have relished the opportunity to splash music, video, slides and photostories all over the web – just by copy-and-pasting some “embed code”.
Will wordpress allow me to mash in my voice-based thoughts? (no, have to use odeo instead)
According to wikipedia, there are four main kinds of mashup: digital, musical, video and “web application hybrid”. Aha, that’s why i was getting so confused about the term.
Then there’s my sweet potato and beetroot mashup too. MMM.
For example this video from YouTube, which i found via a site called “TimeTube“. Timetube is a genuine mashup site, because it uses the youtube “API” to search and publish in its own way. i could then republish the video here (it’s a kind of mashup in itself – a South Park style homage to the simpsons).
Jo Kay’s just given a good overview of the whole mashup scene, from musical mashups to text-and-video in e-learning mashups. Great session, full of information. Relevant links include:
- Jo’s notes in her wikispace, from the session
- Coach Carole’s Live Blogging of the event, in the innovate + integrate space
- The Framework events page, where you’ll find the recording at some stage
- Jo’s colleague from Montana showed us this collaborative project between students in Au/Us, using for example Voicethread
- A huge collection of web app mashups using the YouTube API (huge!)
- Brian Lamb wrote an article last year in Educause about the whole mashup thing, which is worth a read, plus
- my own notes about RSS which is one ingredient of the mashing process.
.. and here, if i can do the mash properly, are the slides from the show:
and to finish .. this classic video mash of Star Trek meets Monty Python. It could be funny, if you’re in the mood.