MashED Up: Mashups and Higher Education

Attendees at this summer’s EduWeb conference in Chicago will have a great roster of speakers to choose from, including our own Doug Gapinski and Laurel Hechanova. Doug and Laurel will be discussing the use of mashups in higher and secondary education.

Here’s an abstract for the presentation:

With the proliferation of gigantic media repositories such as Flickr and Youtube, social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook, and new ideas about open source data, mashups that allow people to repurpose data on one site for use somewhere else are becoming more and more common.

We’ll look at several examples of what mashups are used for, including changing context of data, resurfacing content, visualization, way finding, entertainment, and more. We’ll even look at how some institutions are using mashups to support their brands. Specific examples will be shown inside and outside of higher education, and we will touch briefly on a couple of common tools for creating mashups.

Look for more about the EduWeb conference, which is scheduled for late July.