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Educational Mashups 2

Posted May 12th, 2008 by Kevin Wiliarty, Wesleyan University
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Creativity often involves integrating two (or more) familiar entities in some felicitous way way. As the Internet becomes an operating system, mashups promise to be an important locus of creative development. At the recent NERCOMP SIG, "Educational Mash-ups 2," a number of presenters offered persuasive evidence that educators are already making good use of mashups, even if it is also clear that as a group we have only begun to explore what we can do with them. Over the course of the day (April 28, 2008 in Portsmouth, NH), the SIG presenters also gave participants the opportunity to reflect on the limits of what is and is not a "mashup" as well as on the question whether mashups will ever be something that the "masses" can create.

French Through Songs and Singing: Language and Culture Through Music Online

Posted February 8th, 2007 by Aaron Prevots, Southwestern University
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Aaron Prevots was looking to incorporate music more in his French language, literature and culture classrooms, and beyond that, to create a dynamic, collaborative space online in which to share this music and exchange information, articles and music-related pedagogy with others. The result: a multimedia educational Web site featuring music-related articles, streaming MP3's of primarily public domain material and annotated, downloadable lyrics. 

Assessing Learning Objects: The Importance of Values, Purpose and Design

Posted February 8th, 2007 by Diane J. Goldsmith, Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium
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Despite claims that "the learning object is dead," learning object repositories continue to grow. But how do we measure the success of a learning object?  Diane Goldsmith provides her own clear and comprehensive "assessment" of the problem.

Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta

Posted September 25th, 2006 by Rachel Smith, NMC: The New Media Consortium
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Link: 
http://www.glenbow.org/mavericks/english/menu.html

The Learning Commons at the University of Calgary has worked with the Glenbow museum to create Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta, an extensive, interactive website that introduces the legendary tales and colorful personalities who shaped and defined Alberta's history, and are the predecessors of Alberta's maverick nature.

The Physical Universe

Posted November 21st, 2005 by Rachel Smith, NMC: The New Media Consortium
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Link: 
http://www.dac.neu.edu/physics/b.maheswaran/phy1121/data/home.htm

Created to accompany the eponymous textbook (The Physical Universe, by Konrad B Krauskopf and Arthur Beiser; McGraw-Hill), this extensive site includes animations and figures for each chapter, along with study questions and exercises.  The site stands on its own with introductory text for each topic that sets the stage for exploration within subject areas such as the scientific method, matter and energy, the atom, the Periodic Law, and the solar system, among others.

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