Building Digital Bridges: Episode 23
Building Digital Bridges
When you look at building a bridge to improve the flow of information and to reach learners in new ways, you don't have to build all the elements from scratch.
Harriet Wakelam takes us on a journey that starts at the Brooklyn Bridge and ends at a neighbourhood roundabout in Australia. Along the way she explores how using a blend of existing technologies and materials can create personalised teaching and learning experiences.
Make sure to have the links to the two videos in the resources section ready for viewing and pause the podcast
to watch them.
Both are amazing examples of hardware and software "mash-ups".
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Web sites, terminology and videos referenced in this podcast
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Twitter
- Twitter is a combination of messaging and blogging that gives you 140 characters or less to answer the question "What are you doing?" although many use it to share ideas and carry on conversations.
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Blogging
- Blogs are easy to use web sites that allow anyone to share their insights. Users of edna services get a free blog with their me.edu.au accounts that can be as public or private as they like.
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Mashups
- Combining programs or materials that already exist to achieve new goals, mashups empower educators and learners to customise learning. The link is to an Educause article that explains the term in depth.
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Pattie Mae demonstrates the sixth sense
- A hardware mashup from MIT that takes the notion of personalised, mobile computing and on demand information to new heights. This innovation made an audience of tech-savvy professionals gasp and applaud.
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Siftables - David Merrill
- Siftables are interactive computers the size of a biscuit that enable users to create mashups, tests and games as easily as a child moves building blocks on a table.
edna resources relating to mashups
- 7 Things You Should Know About Mapping Mashups [edna Resources]
- Breaking Down Digital Barriers [edna Resources]
- emtacl10 International conference on emerging technologies in academic libraries 2010 [edna Events]
- Horizon report: 2008 edition [edna Resources]
- Seven things you should know about [edna Resources]
- Minds on fire: Open education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 [edna Resources]
- 7 Things you should know about briefing series [edna Resources]
- MacCIT Inservice Training Day April 30 2009 [me.edu.au]
- Glogster for kids posters [me.edu.au]
- What a netbook is not [me.edu.au]
- SDD follow-up & my thoughts on aggregating all our excellent content [me.edu.au]
- Creativity and Innovation [me.edu.au]
- Information & Communication Technologies & Education [me.edu.au]
