Comments on: Mashing Up the Open Education Conference

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:45:33 +0000

Brian — great to see you blogging!

And the thing with those tote bags, they are usually so poorly shaped that they are almost useless for anything but conference schwag.

An exception to this is an old bag from the Merlot conference back in 2003 — my friends and I are still using it as a gym bag. Very useful

By: Brian Powell

Brian Powell — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:20:08 +0000

Brian, I’ll take the tote bag. I use them for grocery shopping. Why use flimsy plastic bags?
By the way, great links on open learning content – especially the latest link to Educause.

By: John Saremba

John Saremba — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 14:00:06 +0000

I had the pleasure of attending a recent presentation at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC at which Brian presented information about the value of blogs and wikis. I quite enjoyed the wealth of insights and information passed along by Brian at that workshop. So it is with pleasure that I begin reading, on a regular basis, this interesting and informative blog. Sincerely, John “The Information Guy” Saremba.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:21:35 +0000

Susan — that party looks fun, thanks for the link.

I hadn’t thought of your theory before, but the notion of recombinant information as a tonic to overload is worth pondering. Certainly in the case of an application like aligning Craiglist rental vacancies with Google Maps is a clear win in terms of efficiency.

Though speaking for myself, the preponderance of mashups just makes me even dizzier with stuff to keep up with — but maybe that’s just a hangover from preparing for this presentation!

By: Susan Cline

Susan Cline — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:19:02 +0000

Whenever I hear the term “mashups” I can’t stop myself from referring people to DJ Adrian – throws a monthly mash-up party in San Francisco. His site is http://wwws.bootiesf.com. Although these are strictly song mash-ups and I know you are concentrating on mashups for the purpose of education I think it’s still great to see an example of “the best”.

Do you or your readers ever think that the popularity of the mash-up innovations may be driven by the fact that young people today are so over stimulated with information that we can’t even take our songs, maps, programs one at a time but instead have to mash them together for the biggest bang? Just a thought….

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:16:43 +0000

I should have mentioned in my post that some months ago Scott and I talked about doing a collaborative presentation on something like this subject — except what we were talking about doing was waaayy more whacked out than what I intend to do tomorrow. I totally screwed up the logistics in the run-up to the event — so yeah Scott I really wish you were here too.

But thanks for the good thoughts, and that post of yours I link to above was very useful to me as I began to think this subject through.

By: Scott Leslie

Scott Leslie — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:15:10 +0000

The universe is messing with my head again; this morning I thought to myself, “gee, Brian’s got that session in Utah real soon, wonder how he’s doing, I should probably mine my deli.cio.us links for some mashup examples to send him” and got some together but then promptly was deluged/ran-madly-off-in-10-other-directions. Not that I thought you needed the help or anything. That mashup+education search (http://del.icio.us/tag/mashup+education) does remarkably well (and got the ones I was going to send), though I’m still interested to find the “educational mashups wiki page” whenever someone creates it. Good luck, am jealous I can’t be there. Cheers, Scott