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Educational Uses of Mashups

Susan Smith Nash, Ph.D.

Home is at:http://www.beyondutopia.com

The faithful corgis edublog:http://elearnqueen.blogspot.com



About Susan . About Susan .

Involved in the development and administration of online courses and programs since the early 1990s, Susan Smith Nash has

made a point to share her experience as well as her research through her websites, weblogs and podcasts. Her background is

interdisciplinary, with a Ph.D. in English, M.A. in English, graduate courses in economics and instructional design, B.S. in Geology.

The recipient of collaboration and innovation awards for her work in developing innovative and high-quality online and hybrid

programs that take advantage of the latest technologies, Nash has been involved with organizations and educational institutions

involved in online education and training. Ground-floor online program development for the University of Oklahoma and has

developed curriculum and programs for elearning (including mobile learning) for Florida Community College Jacksonville, theLiterature Institute, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Excelsior College.

Over the last 15 years, Nash has developed instructional content for textbooks, audio books (educational mp3 downloads),

simulations and serious games, video (downloadable educational video clips). Content includes Spanish and English language

materials.

Having held administrative positions at Excelsior College and the University of Oklahoma, Susan currently holds a leadership

position in at Victoria Resources, a natural resources company. Her role involves research in innovative processes.

She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and has made presentations at prominent national conferences.

Susan is involved with research into the best ways to use new techniques and technologies (Web 2.0, etc), for effective e-

learning (and training).

Her latest book, Excellence in College Teaching and Learning: Classroom and Online Instruction, was co-authored with George

Henderson and published in 2007. Leadership and the e-Learning Organization, was published in 2006. Nash is managing editor

of Texture Press, also an editor with JELLO - Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects.

Her edublog, e-Learning Queen (http://www.elearningqueen.com) has been nominated for several awards.



What are the educational uses of mashups?

a. enhanceenhance instructional content

b. engage with the material on a deeperdeeper level

c. explore and uncover previously unsuspectedunsuspected

aspects of the data d. open up new worldsnew worlds through new ways of

seeing familiar things

e. discuss, debate and shareshare insights and sources

of information f. develop analyticalanalytical skills

g. enhance computercomputer skills

Home is at: http://www.beyondutopia.com



Poll

My educational focus:

a. higher education

b. K-12 education

c. corporate training

d. not-for-profit education

e. infrastructure and/or software service

provider f. textbooks and instructional materials




How does a mashup enhance learning?

a. Engages students in deeper learning.

b. Asks students to classify and organize

knowledge. c. Connects to real-world situations.

d. Encourages collaboration.

e. Creates ideal conditions for learning(engage learner, spark interest)

f. Causes students to learn by doing




POLL:

In my educational experience,

the hardest thing to do is to get students to

a. make the connection between the

instructional content and the learning

outcome b. overcome their fear of the technology and

the unknown

c. truly interact with each other in thediscussion forums




Where / how

can mashups be used in education?

step 1. define learning goal -- what do you

want the data to tell you?

step 2. identify sources of data

step 3. determine if the data can be mined

step 4. discuss what the relationships of the

data fields can reveal step 5. identify pitfalls and problems with

assumptions




Mashups and Cognition

a. classification of knowledge

b. working memory

c. connections

d. experiential

e. emotional




Using Mashups

to develop learning organizations

Encourage self-directed exploration

Decriminalize experimentation

Learning as play: a playful setting

The organization sees itself as capable of

changing along with the innovations

(innovation-led change / adaptation / growth)




Using Mashups to enhance

learning processes andto develop learning communities

Efficient and effective collaborations

Developing schemata

Self-guided scaffolding

Informal mentoring

Distributed mentoring Communities of practice




Cultural Considerations

a. be aware of potential bias in the way that

databases are combined

b. be aware of the underlying assumptionsused in selected databases

c. gender & cultural spin in articles pulled

from news databases d. ways of sharing data and information can

vary from culture to culture




Gamer-Boomer Ramp-Ups

a. Digital natives have different comfort zones

with technology

b. Boomers have learned to learn by creatingclassification schemes

b. Team learning -- problem-solving using

each group's strengths




POLL

Question: Have you created a feed on a

service (del.icio.us, netvibes, myspace,

facebook, technorati, etc.) that filters theresults based on a tag that you have selected?

Y/N




What kinds of mashups work best?

From simple to complex....

a. Use igoogle to blend together applications

on a single page

google scholar and google earth: Look at thecurrent configuration of the Aral Sea (google

earth); what has happened historically?

(google scholar)




What kinds of mashups work best?

From simple to complex....

b. If you use Bebo to pull feeds tagged with

"Westminster Kennel Club" along with

"Beagle" with Flickr images tagged "Beagle" --yield? stories about Uno, who won the

Westminster Kennel Club "Best of Show" this

year.




Bebo is easy to use:

Built-in Spaces to Place your Apps




Bebo is a great place

to experiment with apps & share




Bebo is easy to use:

Customize your Feeds, AddWidgets




Virtual Tourist: Build a walking tour

for fellow students


Schmapplets: http://www.schmap.com/published/beyondutopia/1267



Schmapplet Oil and Gas Exploration

In Oklahoma





Schmapplet Oil and Gas Exploration

In Oklahoma



Learning objectives possibilities with Schmapplets

Connect geography, culture, images, history

Relate to personal experience

Discuss current events and relate to contemporary issues



Yahoo Pipes




Yahoo Pipes examples and tutorials


http://blog.pipes.yahoo.com/2007/05/02/example-pipes-that-use-the-new-geo-

features/



Popfly


http://www.smetube.com/clipshare/view_video.php?viewkey=c9c67424d369f3

414728 tutorial video



Before you mashup ...

remember there are pitfalls --


*results only as good as the data

*data can be outdated, incomplete, inaccurate... need to test

*it is helpful to think of applying the scientific method &developing multiple working hypotheses for a research

question

*interrogate your research question... what do you really

want it to tell you? *will your methodology really yield what you want from your

research question?



Example for Social Inequality Course:

Rural Poverty, Cultural Isolation


It can be useful to probe the connection between rural poverty andcultural isolation in the U.S. (assuming that the socialization processoccurs in a consumer society via consumption) -- selecting low per capitaincome towns (census data), getting zip codes, then using yahoo (orgoogle maps) to see how many WalMart, Target, McDonald's, and Burger

King restaurants, as well as "big box" stores there might be.

The idea that low income areas are typified by consumer-culture isolationwas not supported in the way we expected. While low-income ruralregions tended to not have the retail outlets mentioned above, there were"magnet communities" in the midst of low-income rural regions.

College towns tended to have low average income figures, but tended tohave numerous chain or "big box" stores.



Mashed together data for young people:

emphasis on illegal and high-risk behaviors --


The well-being of young people can be related to their behavior and socialenvironments. Mashed together data from various U.S. governmental agencies, with anemphasis on illegal and high-risk behaviors. Followed research design and methodologyrecommended by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.

Source: National Institutes of Health / National Institute of Drug Abuse:

Stats: Substance use: regular cigarette smoking, alcohol use, and illicit drug use. Breakdown: by grade and by reported ethnicity

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Behaviors: Sexual Intercourse

Breakdown: 12th grade; 9th grade

Source: National Crime Victimization Survey

Behaviors: Reported crimes involving juvenile offenders

Breakdown: Ages 12-17



Blended courses


Mashups in a Blended Program?

step one: discuss research problems in class

step two: group and individual work outside class

step three: report results and discuss in class

Step four: post to discussion forum and make a lasting

display



100% Online Courses


Mashups in 100% online

a. require students to pull together data from different sources as a part

of a research project

b. encourage sharing of the mashups and/or the process in the discussion

forum area

c. include tutorials and links to popular mashup spaces and mashup

techniques and uses



Mobile Learning


Mashups and Mobile Learning

a. mashup-type experiences can be had using

yahoo Go Y! Go (has taggable Flickr, Yahoo Maps,

News, etc.)

b. use IM services to communicate / share results

c. iTunes with iTouch, iPhone, iPod mashed withIM to share & post



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