I was quite surprised and happy to have one of the authors of the article I recommended in my last post respond to my blog! Thanks for the information Darlene! I looked at Twittervision (http://twittervision.com/) and Twittermap (http://twittermap.com/) and I see the game-like qualities of those mashups. They are clearly entertaining. I now see even more potential for developing mashups that are very student-friendly and fun. I have to explore Flickr some more and I will try to work with your suggestions. Flickr, though, is blocked by the filters on my school computer system, so I will have to find some other tool to include photos in the mashups. But, you have me thinking! Thanks again for contributing!!
Melodee, you're right--creating mashups will take time (which we won't have much of until next May), but I will try to create one soon and post it on this blog. I like your ideas for the teaching/gaming aspect of this technology. Maybe we can eventually work on something together that we could both use in our libraries to encourage teachers and students to get the most out of this technology.
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Wow! I went onto twittervision and twittermap and they are really fun. I cannot wait to share this new information with my students and fellow teachers. I had never realized that we could use mashups and create games with them. I feel this technology has a lot of potential. I just need to find the time to learn how to use it, like you said Anne-Maire, maybe next May. Thanks for the website.
Ahenryst,
Thanks for the fun web site! Another technology to add to my list of Web 2.0 applications to implement when I'm a school media specialist. I think it would be great idea after graduation to communicate with each other about how we are applying this and other technologies in our libraries.
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